Past Events

We welcome Dr. Alvaro De la Mora as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Resistance mechanisms and microbiome changes of honey bees selected for Low Varroa population Growth against Varroa destructor." Alvaro De la Mora has a Ph.D from the Honey Bee Research Centre here at the School of Environmental Sciences. He currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the Honey Bee Health Research lab, at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM), University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

We welcome Dr. Rebecca Saari as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Future Air Pollution Alerts under Climate Change: Implications for Health and Health Equity". Rebecca Saari is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health, and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

We welcome Dr. Elisse Magnuson as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Microbial life and activity in a Martian analogue". Dr. Magnuson is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Environmental Sciences working with our own Dr. Jackie Goordial. 

Ontario Agricultural College One Health Lecture Series presents Gwynne Dyer "Intervention Earth: Life Saving Ideas from the World's Climate Engineers". 

For our first seminar in collaboration with the EDI committee, we warmly welcome Dr. Marsha Hinds Myrie on October 10th, 2024, for a talk entitled "Positionality and Curriculum Violence in Building Inclusive Teaching Practice".

Indigenous Initiatives presents: Métis professor and architect Dr. David Fortin will discuss an emerging positionality in design away from human-centred thinking and instead towards the enhancement of all life. Framed as an evolution from earlier emphases in architecture focused on Critical Regionalism, or the emphasis on design informed by geography, Critical Relationalism instead asks what relationality means in design and how this can guide intentions when approaching the design process.

We welcome Dr. Rosalind Murray as a speaker for our SES Seminar series. Dr. Murray will talk about "Mating system evolution and female ornamentation in the dance flies (Diptera: Empididae)". Dr. Rosalind Murray is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. 

We welcome Dr. Joey Bernhardt as a speaker for our SES Seminar series. Dr. Bernhardt will talk about "Towards a mechanistic science of global change: from cells to ecosystems and human well-being". Dr. Joey Bernhardt is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. 

  We welcome our own Dr. Adam Gillespie. Dr. Gillespie will talk about "Soil organic matter stability – insights from analytical pyrolysis". Dr. Adam Gillespie is an Associate Professor with the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. 

The SES Department Seminar Series, is pleased to host Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi on March 8th, 2024 for a talk entitled "Picky eaters:  exploring the selective diet of marine microorganisms in past and present oceans".