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The Al Downe Lecture

The Al Downe Lecture is funded from the Al Downe Memorial Fund which was initially established in 2007 via a generous donation from a former student in order to provide an opportunity for Queen’s students to experience the inspiration and knowledge of a high profile Lecturer.  Subsequently the Fund has attracted donations from other students, colleagues, friends and family.

Biology Career Paths
Biology Career Paths

A degree in Biology opens up a world of career opportunities! Our graduates follow a variety of paths, from careers in academic Biology to environmental law to biotechnology to medicine. Where will your Queen’s Biology degree take you?

 

Conservation Biology
Conservation Biology

The Kingston chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology  (SCB) is committed to promoting environmental and conservation endeavors in the Kingston area. The society is composed entirely of volunteers from the community who meet weekly to discuss relevant current events, host guest speakers, and organize the community outreach programs for which the SCB has become well known.

Biology GSC
Biology GSC

The Biology Graduate Student Council aims to represent the interests and needs of biology graduate students and to keep them informed about university and departmental issues. The Society provides a forum for all biology graduate students to voice their opinions on matters important to them.

Biology DSC
Biology DSC

We are a diverse science department dedicated to research and academic excellence. Our research spans a wide array of biological disciplines including plant sciences, biochemistry, proteomics, cell and molecular biology, animal physiology, limnology, evolution, ecology and behaviour. Specifically, the Biology Department Student Council is your connection to the biology department and faculty. We run events for students like Beer with Profs, BEWICS sports teams, a Biology Formal and Career Nights.

MCIB Seminars
MCIB Seminars

Our Molecular and Cellular Integrative Biology (MCIB) research group has informal meetings every Tuesday at 11:30 am in BioSciences 3110. Each week a different lab group presents their most recent findings in a 30 to 45 min seminar. followed by a discussion.

Departmental Seminars
Departmental Seminars

Departmental seminars usually take palce on Friday's at 12:30 pm in Room 1102 (or 3110) in the BioSciences Complex. The Departmental Seminar Coordinator for 2019-20 is Chris Moyes. Please contact him if you have ideas for a speaker or wish to volunteer to give a seminar.

EEB Seminars
EEB Seminars

Seminars in the Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour (EEB) research group are presented every Thursday from 12:30-13:30 in Room 4338 on the fourth floor of the BioSciences Building. Everyone is welcome to both attend and present their work at these seminars.

Queen's University
Queen's University

Queen’s University is an academic community with 170 years of tradition in teaching and research excellence, a beautiful waterfront campus in Kingston, Ontario. We are researchers, scholars, artists, professors, and students with an ambitious spirit who want to develop ideas that will make a difference in the world. 

Biological Station
Biological Station

The Queen's University Biological Station (QUBS) is one of the premier scientific field research and teaching stations in Canada. For almost 70 years, scores of researchers and students have gathered at QUBS to conduct leading-edge studies of flora and fauna and to participate in courses spanning ecology, evolution, conservation, geography, and the environmental sciences.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

It's a parts list... If I gave you the parts list for the Boeing 777 and it had 100,000 parts, I don't think you could screw it together and you certainly wouldn't understand why it flew

Eric Lander

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant

Jacques Monod

The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism

Richard Dawkins

Shall we conjecture that one and the same kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of all organic life?

Erasmus Darwin

Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it's impossible to determine the line of demarcation

Aristotle

Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love, and realize the bath water is cold

Lorraine Lee Cudmore

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history

Charles Darwin

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum

J. Craig Venter

Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made

Neil Shubin

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct

Charles Darwin

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned

Steven Pinker

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest

Rosalind Franklin

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget

Mary Roach

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine

Leroy Hood

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment"

Isabella Rossellini

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality

Thomas Cech

Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century

- Freeman Dyson

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third

- Thomas Huxley