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- Nelson et al. show that show predator-prey cycles result from juvenile-adult interactions.
- Bonier wins Young Investigator Award at International Symposium on Avian Endocrinology
- First example of regulatory monoubiquitination by Glen Uhrig (MSc) & Bill Plaxton
- Biology Station research on moth colour and predators.
- Smol wins Flavelle Medal from Royal Society of Canada
- John Casselman wins American Fisheries Society 2008 Award of Excellence
- Aarssen teaches new human ecology course.
- Aarssen shows that coauthoring with big name pays off.
- Jeziorski (PhD, Smol lab) and colleagues reveal new, insidious threat to lakes.
- Ruhland and Smol find striking changes in temperate zone lakes
- Davies (Biochem/Biology) and colleagues uncover novel mechanism for inhibition of calcium-activated protease
- Aarssen edits new open access ecology & evolution journal.
- QUBS part of long-term climate monitoring project.
- Montgomerie and colleagues show that promiscuous fish species evolve faster sperm.
- Casselman wins award from Ontario Commercial Fisheries’ Association
- Allen Keast, long-serving Queen's Biology professor, passes away.
- Hodson study shows that oil spill clean-up kills more fish than the spills themselves.
- Proceedings Series B paper by Smol and colleagues reveals varying size structure of diatom communities in different aquatic ecosystems.
- Shai Sabbah wins Vanier Scholarship
- John Smol wins prestigious 2009 Killam Prize 2009 in the field of natural sciences.
- John Smol wins Premier's Discovery Award for Life Sciences and Medicine
- Article by Laura Keating & Lonnie Aarssen shows that small is better in the competitive world of plant communities.
- Biology Grad student Vanya Rohwer co-authors a paper in PlosBiol that explains why larger birds take longer to replace their flight feathers.
- Ann McKellar (grad student, Queen's) and Andrew Hendry (McGill) find that humans vary much less than most animals in terms of body height.
- Queen's prof Bill Plaxton's work underpins Canadian Food Inspection Agency's guidelines on phosphite content in fertilizers.
- Pete Marra, Adjunct Professor at Queen's, comments on destruction wrought by free-roaming domesticated cats on wild birds.
- Study by international research team including John Smol, Neal Michelutti & Cheryl Wilson of arctic lake sediment core reveals dramatic effects of human footprint.
- Sarah Brisbin (M.Sc. Chin-Sang Lab) et al. show that antagonism between receptor & repressor genes in C. elegans influences both germline and longevity-related functions.
- Biology prof Virginia Walker is one of 5 Queen's professors nominated as best Ontario university lecturer for 2010.
- New study reveals that an Arabidopsis calcium-binding protein (CML42) plays critical role in regulating trichome branching pattern.
- Biology graduate student Vanya Rohwer and his co-authors discover dual breeding ranges for at least 5 species of North American migratory songbirds.
- Adam Jeziorski (Ph.D. candidate PEARL) wins won the 2010 Peters Award for best student scientific paper published in Canadian limnology.
- Queen’ Genetically Engineered Machine (QGEM) team recently received a bronze medal for their inventive work in synthetic biology.
- Peter Hodson (Biology & Env. Studies) and colleagues show a link between pollution in the Athabasca R. and nearby Tar Sands operations.
- PEARL students Rouillard and Griffiths win awards at International Paleolimnology Symposium.
- New research shows how migrant & resident birds use Bayesian processes for assessing predation risk.
- Climate shown to limit range of invasive purple loosestrife.
- New study lead by PEARL researchers shows transport of metals by Arctic seabirds.
- Kathryn Stewart (PhD candidate - Lougheed lab) receives a Rosemary Grant Award at the recent SSE meetings in Portland.
- Queen's - Fudan (Shanghai) - Southwest (Chongqing) Aquatic Biodiversity & Environmental Assessment with 25 participants course successfully completed.
- Katharina Bremer (Moyes lab) wins prize for oral presentation at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in Prague.
- PhD student Brendan O'Leary (Plaxton Lab) wins award for best student presentation at the "2nd Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism".
- Wayne Snedden wins the prestigious C.D. Nelson Award from the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists.
- Global biodiversity patterns of soil bacterial communities appear fundamentally different from those of plants and animals say researchers from Queen's and the University of Colorado.
- Biology professor John Smol wins the 2010 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science.
- John Smol co-edits a revised and greatly expanded edition of book on application of diatoms to environmental issues.
- Colleen Greer (M.Sc., Biology) receives award from the Fisheries and Oceans for service to Canada's Gulf Oil Spill response.
- Vanya Rohwer (Ph.D. Biology) wins student award at Cooper Ornithological Society meeting.
- Ann McKellar (Ph.D. Biology) wins Mewaldt-King Student Research Award.
- Troy Day and Peter Taylor (Math & Stats), Bob Montgomerie (Biology), postdoc Andy Gardner and others respond to criticisms of inclusive fitness theory in journal Nature.
- Bob Montgomerie wins the prestigious Elliott Coues Award from the AOU 2011
- MSc Student Kyle Lauersen wins PhD scholarship for Bielefeld University in Germany.
- Roz Dakin (Ph.D Biology) and Bob Montgomerie publish article that clarifies the role of the peacock's amazing tail.
- Queen's-Carleton University research team finds destructive impact of storm surges caused by rising sea levels.
- Kristin Spong (supervisor: Robertson) wins Helen Battle Award at CSZ meeting.
- Celia Symons wins prestigious Canadian Northern Studies Trust Award
- Two Queen's grad students receive honours at the Plant Canada 2011 Meeting.
- Katie Griffiths (Smol lab) wins best student poster prize at 2011 Canadian Quaternary Association meeting.
- Virginia Walker wins 2011 Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision.
- In an article in Proc Roy Soc, Jennifer Korosi (supervisor Smol) and co-authors show algal blooms caused by reduced calcium and loss of grazers.
- Jennifer Korosi (supervisor Smol) wins the 2012 Peters Award from Society of Canadian Limnologists.
- Three Queen's scientists part of a team to win the Cowles Award.
- Peter Hodson wins inaugural Biology grad teaching award.
- New study shows chimney swift decline associated with DDT usage.
- Anne McKeller wins Holohil Prize for an Outstanding Presentation in Ecology and Evolution of Wildlife at Evolution Congress
- A new study by Tara Zamin and Paul Grogan reveals how Arctic warming results in increased vegetation growth.
- Research led by Queen's biologists reveals profound impacts of drought.
- New study by Queen's Biology researchers reveals wide-ranging impacts of oil sands devopment.
- New field biology web site presents a portal to field courses and research.
- Queen's Biology is part of a new Sino-Canada Network for Environment and Sustainable Development.
Claims of inadequacy on inclusive fitness theory are challenged by a multi-authored communication in Nature that includes Queen's faculty and postdoc.
A recent paper published in Nature (M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson. Nature 466, 1057–1062 (2010)) claimed that inclusive fitness theory has done little to enhance our understanding the natural world, and particularly the evolution of eusociality. A number of researchers including Troy Day and Peter Taylor (Math & Stats; cross-appointed to Biology), Bob Montgomerie (Biology), and postdoc Andy Gardner are co-authors on a Nature paper that takes Nowak et al. to task on their assertions in a riposte published in a recent Brief Communication in Nature .