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Themes in Biology: Types of

Biology/Biologists

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Types of Biology/biologists

Taxonomy Microbiology/virology Zoology Botany Anatomy Morphology

Histology Molecular Biology Cell Biology Embryology Physiology Genetics

Ecology (^) Evolutionary BiologyEvolution / Bioinformatician Immunology Marine Biology

Microbiology/microbiologist

• Environmental, medical, etc
• Microscope, culturing technique
• Lots of overlap with genetics
• Microbes are important in many aspects of biology
• Dr Mazen Saleh, Dr Vasu Appana
• Related courses, BIOL2026, BIOL

Zoology/Zoologist

• Animal biologists/Wildlife biologist
• Usually specialize in a group of animals.
  • Birds: ornithologist
  • Reptiles/amphibians: Herpetologist like Dr. Jackie Litzgus!
  • Dr Mery Martinez, marine reproduction
• They look at many things behavior, physiology, conservation etc
• Related courses… so many (see zoology program courses.

Anatomy/Morphology

• Morphology is the gross structure, size, colour etc and anatomy examines the cellular or organ biology.
• Often subdivided by organ system: ex neuroanatomy
• Famous anatomist: Leonardo Davinci.
• Research in the School: Myself (gastro- intestinal anatomy/morphology), Dr Dotta Neuro.
• BIOL2105- Human Anatomy and Physiology,

Physiology/ist

• Study the mechanisms of

function in organisms or cells

• Many sub-disciplines in research

(gastrointestinal physiology,

renal physiology), and medicine

(gastroenterologists,

nephrologists, etc).

• Famous: Claud Bernard

(pancreatic digestive enzymes)

• BIOL-3756 vertebrate

physiology

Molecular Biology/ist

• Study of small molecules including protein and nucleic acids
• Molecular biologists carry out DNA sequencing and gene expression work.
• Good with micropipettes ;)
• Famous: Watson/Crick
• Many faculty carry out molecular biology work in their research labs (myself included)
• BIOL 2126 cell biology, CHMI- 4226EL - Recombinant DNA Technology

Cell Biology/ist

• Broad field of anything to do

with Cellular processes (both pro

and eukaryotic)

• Cell biologists can normally carry

out cell culture studies, cytology

work, and biochemistry studies

on cellular components

• BIOL2126 Cell Biology

Ecology/ist

• Characterize environmental interactions. Ex. Humans and wildlife, mining and lakes etc
• Good field skills, Geographical information systems(GIS).
• Our school has several ecologists. Dr Peter Ryser, Dr Albrecht Schulte- Hostedd, Dr John Gunn, Dr Jackie Litzgus.
• BIOL2356 Principles of Ecology

Evolutionary

Biology/ist

• Studies how environment influences the process of evolution - Definitely some overlap with genetics and ecology
• Darwin

Bioinformatics/ ician

Applying computer science to

biological questions

• Developing programs (programming)

Often applied to genome

sequence analysis

Working with big data

• Gustavo Ybazeta (HSNRI),

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