Ayelign Adal | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Biology, Faculty of Management |
ayeadal@mail.ubc.caResearch Interests: Study of terpenoid biosynthesis in lavender using functional genomic approaches, particularly targeting the functional characterization of genes that control the production of monoterpenes.
Phil Barker | Vice-Principal, Research | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, Research & Innovation Office (VPRI) |
philip.barker@ubc.ca | 250.807.9582 | ADM006M
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disease, signal transduction, neurotrophin biology, cell biology, fly and mouse genetics.
Davoud Heidari | Postdoctoral Researcher | Biology |
md.heidari@ubc.ca | FIP 225
Research Interests: Environmental sustainability assessment of crop-livestock production system.
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.
Soheil Mahmoud | Associate Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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.
Andrew Midwood | Research Associate | Biology |
andrew.midwood@ubc.ca | 250.462.7530 | SCI 103
Research Interests: Examining soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in irrigated agricultural systems of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.
Michael J Noonan | Assistant Professor | Biology |
michael.noonan@ubc.ca | 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)
Lael Parrott | Professor | Biology, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
lael.parrott@ubc.ca | 250.807.8122 | ASC 451
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 | Assistant 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
Tanja Voegel | Research Associate | Biology |
tanja.voegel@ubc.ca | 250.807.9965 | SCI 103
Research Interests: Effect of irrigation and fertilization management practices on abundance and activity of nitrifying and dentrifying microbial populations in woody perennial cropping systems and how changes in abundance and activity of nitrogen cycle microbial populations relate to the emission of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
Ian Walker | Professor | Biology, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences |
ian.walker@ubc.ca | 250.807.9559 | SCI 134B
Graduate student supervisor
Research 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.
Jiayu Ye | Postdoctoral Fellow | Biology |
jiayu.ye@ubc.caResearch Interests: The inflammatory crosstalk between gut and heart under high-fat diet.
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.