Biology University of New Brunswick

Overview

The Biology program of University of New Brunswick offers opportunities for terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine, and marine research, with diverse and dynamic field sites in our back yard. The faculty is also diverse, from chemists through ecologists, with expertise in these ecosystems.

Our graduates are well prepared for careers as researchers, program co-ordinators, research managers, consultants, data analysts and policy advisors in universities, governments, industry and environmental organizations; many become professors at universities. We have close collaboration with several research centres: Canadian Rivers Institute, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, and the New Brunswick Museum.

Research areas

Marine biology: 

• Ecology and conservation of marine birds

• Roles of dispersal and behaviour in regulating marine bird populations

• Ecophysiology and biochemistry of seaweeds

• Ecophysiology of fishes

• Aquaculture (integrated multi-trophic aquaculture)

• Suspension feeding in marine invertebrates

• Recruitment and early post-settlement processes in marine invertebrates

• Evolutionary ecology of coastal marine invertebrates

Environmental biology: 

• Effects of multiple stressors on aquatic systems

• Effects of habitat loss and degradation on populations, communities and ecosystems

• Environmental physiology of fishes

• Chemical contamination of aquatic food webs; aquatic toxicology

• Impacts of anthropogenic effects (low oxygen, effluents, elevated temperatures) on fish metabolism and swimming abilities.

• Effects of forest management on biodiversity (plants, amphibians)

Natural products chemistry:

• Marine & terrestrial chemical ecology

• Endophytic fungi and their bioactive/antimicrobial properties

• Secondary metabolites and novel drug leads

Genetics:

• Aquatic molecular ecology

• Ecological genomics

Cancer Research:

• Pre-clinical and clinical studies of novel therapies and biomarkers in:

• Multiple Myeloma

• Lymphoma

• Lung Cancer