Alumni Weekend 2013 at the Beaty
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum opens door to an expected large crowd of visitors at UBC’s annual Alumni Weekend on May 25, 2013.
OMBIRDS – A Beaty Biodiversity Museum initiative launched in August at the American Ornithologists’ Union annual meeting
This August, the Cowan Tetrapod Collection Curator and Assistant Curator unveiled a new avian blood bank collections protocol developed at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. The OMBIRDS acronym stands for Online Museum of Bird Images, Recordings, and DNA Samples.
Songbirds may have “Borrowed” DNA to Fuel Migration
A common songbird may have acquired genes from fellow migrating birds in order to travel greater distances, according to a University of British Columbia study published this week in the journal Evolution.