Thu-Thuy Dang | Assistant Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
thuy.dang@ubc.ca | 250.807.9468 | SCI 207
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Discovering new biosynthetic enzymes and pathways; generating specialized metabolites structural and functional diversities; re-constituting natural products metabolism in synthetic biology chassis.
Courses & Teaching: Biochemistry
Adam Ford | Associate Professor | Biology, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
adam.ford@ubc.ca | 250.807.9773 | SCI 109
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Wildlife ecology and conservation; mammals; temperate forests, grasslands, and tropical savannas.
Courses & Teaching: Animal ecology
Deanna Gibson (On Leave) | Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology, Biotechnology, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP) |
deanna.gibson@ubc.ca | 250.807.8790 | ASC 368
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Gut health; intestinal microbiome; gut immunity; dietary lipids; susceptibility to acute and chronic gut diseases like colitis.
Courses & Teaching: Medical microbiology, virology and immunology.
Laura Grieneisen | Assistant Professor | Biology, Biotechnology, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
laura.grieneisen@ubc.ca | 250.807.8760 | SCI 208
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Host-microbiome interactions in wild systems; microbial ecology
Courses & Teaching: Environmental microbiology
Miranda Hart | Professor | Biology, Biotechnology, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
miranda.hart@ubc.ca | ASC 372
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Microbial ecology of soil microbes; the role and the applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, viticulture, and ecological restoration.
Courses & Teaching: Botany; ecology; microbial ecology; microbiology.
Natasha Haskey | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology |
natasha.haskey@ubc.ca | Internal UBC Phone #: 39206 | ASC 374
Research Interests: The effect of diet modification on clinical disease activity, the gut microbiome and immune response in inflammatory bowel disease.
Perry Howard | Department Head, Associate Professor | Biology |
perry.howard@ubc.ca | 250.807.8942 | SCI 156
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Ars2 in RNA biogenesis; RNA processing in stem cells; regulation of Pax6 by miRNA; rewiring of tyrosine pathway in cancer.
Courses & Teaching: Cell Signaling, Gene Expression, Introduction to Biochemistry and Human Health, Scientific writing for graduate students.
Robyn Irvine | Adjunct Professor | Biology |
robyn.irvine@canada.ca | 778.361.0298
Research Interests: In my work with Parks Canada, I am researching how to best incorporate different streams of evidence into carrying out effective applied restoration ecology projects. This work is based on my research background and extensive experience in quantitative ecology, fisheries biology, invasive species biology and evidence-based conservation biology. I also do some consulting work on questions of mitigating impacts of development for First Nations, NGOs, government and industry.
Isaac Li | Associate Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) |
isaac.li@ubc.ca | 250.807.8069 | FIP 343
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Single-molecule biophysics; programmable molecular devices and biosensors; cancer and immune cell biology; cell mechanics and mechanobiology.
Courses & Teaching: Nucleic Acid, Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Instrumentation, Physical Chemistry
Soheil Mahmoud | Associate Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology, Biotechnology, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
soheil.mahmoud@ubc.ca | 250.807.8752 | SCI 312
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Molecular, cellular, biochemical and environmental factors that regulate the quality and quantity of aromas and essential oils produced by herbal and medicinal plants; identification, cloning and characterization of structural and regulatory genes that are involved in the biosynthesis, inter- and intra-cellular trafficking, secretion and storage of monoterpenes in plants cells specialized for secondary metabolite production.
Courses & Teaching: Plant molecular biology and biochemistry; metabolism of natural products; plant biotechnology.
Chase M Mason | Assistant Professor | Biology, Biotechnology |
chase.mason@ubc.ca | 250.807.9189 | SCI 385
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Plant ecophysiology, plant-biotic interactions, plant secondary metabolism, genome-wide association mapping, functional trait evolution, crop biodiversity, crop-wild relatives, evolutionary ecology.
Courses & Teaching: Land Plants (BIOL 210), Plant Ecophysiology (BIOL 358)
Frederic Menard | Associate Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) |
frederic.menard@ubc.ca | 250.807.8225 | FIP 348
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Chemical biology: use of small molecules to study and manipulate biological systems; design of molecular tools to study the real-time dynamics of cellular events; using organic chemistry, natural products are modified to label proteins involved in cellular signaling; the biology questions studied focus on protein-protein interactions, astrocytes communication, synapse elimination, and neurodegeneration.
Courses & Teaching: Synthetic organic chemistry.
Susan Murch | Department Head (Pro Tem), Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI), Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
susan.murch@ubc.ca | 250.807.9566 | FIP 350
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: The Plant Secondary Metabolite Analytical Research Team (PlantSMART) researches chemistry of plants and how plant chemistry affects human health using analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, biotechnology, metabolomics and hormonomics approaches.
Courses & Teaching: Analytical chemistry; plant biochemistry.
Micro-credential in Metabolomics
Michael J Noonan | Assistant Professor | Biology, Statistics |
michael.noonan@ubc.ca | 250.807.8667 | SCI 379
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Animal movement, conservation, encounter theory, evolutionary processes, macro-ecology, and statistical ecology.
Courses & Teaching: Evolutionary Ecology (Biol 417); Statistical Modelling for Biological Data (Biol 520C); Spatial Statistics (DATA 589)
Lael Parrott | Professor | Biology, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences |
lael.parrott@ubc.ca | 250.807.8122 | ASC 401
Research Interests: Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time; incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches; regional-scale landscape modelling; social-ecological networks; agent and individual-based modelling approaches; landscape science and scenario building.
Courses & Teaching: Dynamic modelling of coupled human-environment systems.
Nathan Pelletier | Associate Professor | Biology, Faculty of Management |
nathan.pelletier@ubc.ca | 250.807.8245 | FIP 340
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Sustainability measurement and management; life cycle thinking; environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed and biomass supply chains; resource efficiency; social license and market access; trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.
Courses & Teaching: Sustainable food systems; sustainability measurement and management; ecological economics.
Zoë Soon | Associate Professor of Teaching | Biology |
zoeanne.soon@ubc.ca | 250.807.9400 (email is preferred) | SCI 158
Research Interests: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Research in Innovative Teaching Strategies designed for Higher Education
Courses & Teaching: Anatomy and Physiology, Lifespan Motor Growth and Development; Pathophysiology
Ian Walker | Professor Emeritus | Biology, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences |
ian.walker@ubc.caResearch Interests: Environmental change; chironomid palaeoecology; quaternary palaeoecology and paleoclimatology; dynamics of arctic and alpine tree-line ecosystems; aquatic insect ecology; and biomonitoring; use of aquatic insects (living and fossil) as indicators of environmental change.
Courses & Teaching: Quaternary palaeoecology; limnology; freshwater plants and animals; non-vascular plants.
Robin Young | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Biology |
robin.young@ubc.ca | 250.807.8693 | SCI 159
Research Interests: Plant Cell Biology, Organelle morphology, Plant Cell Wall Synthesis.
Courses & Teaching: Introductory Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry.