July Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the July 21, 2015 meeting are now available here. 

Grad Hosted Speaker 2016 - List of Nominees

Hi Grads,

Thanks to everyone who submitted a nomination for our 2016 Grad Hosted Speaker. We have a really outstanding list of candidates for Grad Hosted Speaker. I encourage everyone to carefully read through the summary for each nominated speaker, as well as visit their websites for more information.

Voting will commence from July 3 to July 17, after which we will rank the speakers based on your votes. The top ranked nominated speaker will then be contacted to gauge their interest and availability, in the event they are unable or unwilling we will proceed to the second ranked candidate, and so forth.

2016 Grad Hosted Speaker Nominees:

Dr. Elizabeth Adkins-Regan (http://reganlab.cornell.edu/elizabeth-adkins-regan/)

Dr. May R. Berenbaum (http://www.life.illinois.edu/entomology/faculty/berenbaum.html)

Dr. Jeff Hutchings (http://myweb.dal.ca/jhutch/)

Dr. Ellen Ketterson (http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=ketterso)

Dr. Jane Lubchenco (http://gordon.science.oregonstate.edu/lubchenco/)

Dr. Forest Rohwer (http://coralandphage.org/people_forest.php)

Make sure you vote...

Cheers,

Dan

June Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the June 23rd, 2015 meeting are now available here. 

TSSU Strike Update

On Wednesday, June 17th, the TSSU escalated its job action and stated that grade withholding will commence on Friday, June 19th at 11:59pm.

Graduate student TAs can find more information about how this affects them here: http://strike.tssu.ca/marking-for-education/

General grade withholding FAQ can be found here: http://support.tssu.ca/grade-withholding-faq/

Anyone with questions or concerns can contact the TSSU by the following means:

email: tssu@tssu.ca 

helpline: 604.652.6202

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TSSU.ca

Or you can contact your Biology TSSU Stewards below: 

Adrienne Berchtold: aberchto@sfu.ca

Leon Li: leonl@sfu.ca

Fauve Strachan: fstracha@sfu.ca

Josh Pol: jpol@sfu.ca

Nominations for 2016 Grad Hosted Speaker

The time has come for nominations for the 2016 grad hosted speaker!

Suggestions are welcome for both academic and non-academic speakers. Speakers may discuss their research or career and teach skills/share wisdom in workshops on topics broadly relevant to grad students, including science communication/journalism, project management, career advice, science policy/advocacy, etc.

To give you an idea of the speakers chosen in the past here is a list from recent years:

2015 - Tyrone Hayes
2014 - Marc Mangel
2013 - Nancy Baron
2012 - Daniel Pauly

Nominations will be open until July 1, 2015, followed by a vote on the nominees.

If you wish to nominate someone, please email Dan Greenberg with a brief synopsis of your nominee in .pdf form; being sure to include their name, contact information, and a brief paragraph on what they do, their interests, and why you think they would be a good speaker for the grad students in the department.

Bear in mind that if you do choose to nominate a speaker, you will be expected to serve on the grad hosted speaker committee.

May 2015 Update

Minutes

The most recent minutes (May 19, 2015) are available here.

Results of Caucus Elections

The results of the 2015 SFU Biology Grad Student Caucus elections can be found here. 

February 2015 Update

Minutes

The most recent minutes (Jan 20 2015) are available here.

Caucus Handbook

The Caucus Handbook from the GSS is now downloadable from the right hand menu (or click here).

Publishing Demystified Workshop handouts

You can still download all the handouts from this workshop here.

October 2014 update

Caucus Handbook

The brand new Caucus Handbook from the GSS is now downloadable from the right hand menu (or click here).

Comparative Physiology Seminars schedule

You can find the Fall 2014 schedule of the Comparative Physiology Seminars taking place at UBC here. Thank you, Leslie Saunders!

Publishing Demystified Workshop handouts

You can still download all the handouts from this workshop here.

Upcoming event: Beyond the ivory tower: Non-academic careers in the life sciences 

The Graduate Studies Committee in Biological Sciences is organizing 2 events on ALTERNATIVE CAREERS TO ACADEMIA that we have titled: Beyond the ivory tower: Non-academic careers in the life sciences 

These events are open to all grad students and postdocs in all Departments and Faculties.

The first (Nov 19, 7-9pm at IRMACS at SFU) will be geared for those involved in cell and molecular biology/chemistry.

The second (Nov 27, 7-9pm at IRMACS at SFU) will be geared for those involved in ecology/evolution/conservation.

More info will follow.