Posted on: August 15, 2013
When people hear the word bacteria, many of us think of germs. Bacteria and other microorganisms have gained notoriety in the media—who hasn’t heard of E. coli, staph infections, or the bubonic plague? And they’re everywhere, living invisibly in air, water, soil… and us. But did you know that less than 1% of them actually…
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Posted on: July 19, 2013
Canadian Society of Microbiologists honours a TRU student for the second year in a row.
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Posted on: April 8, 2013
Video screening | First-year biology students create quirky videos to answer equally quirky biological questions like Salmon in a Tree? What happened at the garter snake ball? Why do female hyenas have a penis? Why do pitcher plants like having bats sleep over?
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Posted on: September 10, 2012
Ecology major Katie Degroot is growing oats and peas this fall in the Research Greenhouse, to see if companion planting can reduce the impact of climate change on crops.
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Posted on: September 4, 2012
Timothy Crowe’s undergraduate research project asks whether cave bacteria that were able to produce new antibiotics but lost that ability when cultured in the lab could have lost the genes to do so.
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Posted on: August 20, 2012
Looking for dietary changes that might provide answers to declining Vaux’s Swift populations, Animal Biology major James Pomfret spent six months collecting and examining samples of bird poop from a chimney roost.
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Posted on: August 13, 2012
Tamara Bandet, a Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology major, is testing the susceptibility of a pathogenic bacteria that causes respiratory tract infections to the antibiotics that are commonly prescribed. “I like that research is always a surprise.”
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Posted on: August 7, 2012
Fourth year Physics student Paige Hegadoren’s UREAP project identified factors that affect the ability of infrared thermography to detect fevers in cattle. Her research was one of only three student presentations selected for the 3rd International Beef and Cattle Welfare Symposium in Saskatoon.
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Posted on: July 23, 2012
Animal Biology major Ashley Morrison is investigating whether the brightest plumage among mountain bluebirds indicates the best parents.
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Posted on: July 9, 2012
TRU Bachelor of Science student Rolena DeBruyn is studying the colouration of hard bodied invertebrates such as snails, crabs, barnacles, and mussels as they grow to determine whether there are trends at specific body weights.
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