BOARD OF GOVERNORS SUBJECT Academic Presentation Strategic Plan in - PDF document

BOARD OF GOVERNORS SUBJECT Academic Presentation Strategic Plan in Action SUBMITTED TO Learning & Research Committee MEETING DATE June 2, 2020 Recommended session criteria from Board Meetings Policy: SESSION CLASSIFICATION OPEN REQUEST For information only - No action requested LEAD EXECUTIVE Gail Murphy, Vice-President Research & Innovation SUPPORTED BY Patrick Keeling, Professor, Botany, Faculty of Science; Canada Research Chair Tier 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Presentation by faculty member Patrick Keeling, to illustrate alignment to UBC’s strategic priorities as identified in Shaping UBC’s Next Century Template revised: April 30, 2020

Our concept of Biodiversity

Geological Society of America

Geological Society of America

Geological Society of America

Dinosaurs First Animals Geological Society of America

Dinosaurs First Animals Earliest fossil microbes Geological Society of America

The “Tree of Life” fungi plants “microbes” animals (invertebrates) animals Science 2012 (vertebrates) BioMedCentral

So is this Biodiversity

“ microbes are – and always have been – the dominant forms of life on Earth” Stephen J. Gould

This means evolution, but also ecology

It’s a blue planet

NOAA

Worden…Keeling Science 2015

Gawryluk et al Nature 2019 Gawryluk et al Curr. Biol . 2017

Kwong et al. Nature 2019

A lot left to exlore…