Department of Biology

Jan. 6, 2012 - McGill research team creates "super soldier" ants
Researchers, led by McGill biology professor Ehab Abouheif, have found ants that are biological anomalies with supersoldier-like characteristics in unexpected regions. More importantly, researchers have discovered they can induce supersoldiers in Pheidole ant species that never had them before.
>>READ MORE: McGill Newsroom, Montreal Gazette, CBC News, Scientific American
>> SEE MORE: Video on Global National

Nov. 2011 - Award Announcement:
The Schlamadinger Prize in climate change: forestry, land use and bioenergy was awarded to Jordan Isenberg and Catherine Potvin for their article entitled: Financing REDD in developing countries: a supply and demand analysis".
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Sept. 2011 - What songbirds have to 'say' about human speech
Sarah Woolley and Jon Sakata, two professors in the biology department, are hoping to gain some insight into the neural basis of human communication by studying how songbirds, such as zebra and Bengalese finches, learn how to sing.
>>READ MORE (McGill Newsroom)

May 2011 - Rethinking endangered plants
Research conducted in South Africa and the U.K. by an international team of researchers led by McGill biologist Jonathan Davies and Vincent Savolainen from Imperial College London and Kew Gardens, suggests that the criteria for assessing risk of extinction in plants should be revisited.
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>> CBC Interview (May 2011)