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• Job Title: Coordinator
• Department/Faculty (BU): ORU-Bee Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
• Affiliation: YUSA 2 PT
• Job Details: Casual (up to 24 hours per week)
• Compensation: Hourly Rate:$29.18
• Job Category: Research Administration
• Job Location: Canada / Ontario / Keele Campus

Purpose:
Under the direction of the BEEc Director, the Coordinator supports the planning and coordination of the ORU's operational activities, including events, communications, financial administration and providing administrative support to the Director and the Centre's research projects. The Coordinator is responsible for the planning, delivery and maintenance of a range of activities associated with research projects, fundraising and BEEc outreach activities including developing and updating BEEc's website and social media presence across platforms. The Coordinator supports the ORU in the promotion of the Centre's research to both the campus and external community, including collaboration and engagement with the community. BEEc is an interdisciplinary Organized Research Unit that strives to advance research in the fields of bee ecology, evolution and conservation.

Education:
Completion of a university degree in a Science field related to research carried out by the BEEc.

Experience:
Minimum 2 years of related work experience in an academic or related research focused unit or NGO environment. Graduate research in an area of related to BEEc would be an asset, as well as experience in project management, financial and/or administrative functions.

Skills:
- Excellent and written communication skills in English, both oral and written to elicit and interpret information from a variety of sources.
- Ability to communicate in various registers (formal, academic, technical, plain language)
- Strong interpersonal skills, including tact, diplomacy, consensus, building, and sensitivity to diversity and inclusion.
- Comprehensive field-specific knowledge and background to engage in effective outreach and knowledge mobilization.
- Familiarity with knowledge mobilization strategies to support researchers in effective outreach and dissemination of research results
- Strong financial management skills for budget monitoring and attention to detail.
- Excellent organizational skills to schedule, prepare and distribute agendas. attend meetings and take minutes.
- Demonstrated ability to organize events with a wide array of constituent groups including small meetings, large conferences
- Ability to deal with confidential material including personal information, payroll details, grant proposals and other intellectual property.
- Strong project coordination and administration skills.
- Strong time management skills and excellent ability to multi-task.
- Understanding of research procedures and the grant application process to support the administration of research funding.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
- Ability to develop and maintain websites using WordPress, including the ability to navigate/migrate/enter data into online forms.
- Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team and independently to identify and accomplish project(s) objectives.
- Ability to create content and engage with followers on social media- Ability to draft/prepare clear and concise correspondence, documents, newsletters, annual reports, and PowerPoint presentations

Learn more or apply for this position .

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1. BeeCSI: Our group is leading a national Genome Canada-funded initiative called BeeCSI ( to develop stressor-specific biomarkers for honey bees. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow with experience in transcriptomics and interest in honey bee biology to lead the analysis of a large RNAseq dataset consisting of 43 laboratory and 12 field experiments where honey bees were naturally and experientially exposed to a large number of relevant stressors, alone and in combination. The RNAseq datasets have been fully assembled and the successful candidate will be able to initiate the bioinformatics analyses immediately after starting the position. The goal of our research is to characterize the molecular machinery underlying the honey bee’s response to multiple stressors, and to discover diagnostic transcriptional signatures that can be used to predict exposure to stressors in the field.
2. Genomics of Coral Resilience: A new research direction for the lab! The Postdoctoral fellow will use several ‘Omic tools to study the genomic basis underlying symbiont shuffling and tolerance to thermal-stress in reef-building corals, in collaboration with the Coral Resilience Lab at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit a cover letter outlining their expertise, a CV, reprints of relevant papers, and contact information for 3 referees to honeybee@yorku.ca. We will evaluate the applications as they are received, with an application deadline of August 31st, 2023.

In addition to the honey bee lab, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ is home to the Center for Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (BEEc, ). Successful candidates will have a chance to interact with the diverse faculty, fellows and students at BEEc, and participate in BEEc activities and training initiatives.

Start Date: Fall 2023

Salary: Starting from $50,000 and Commensurate with experience.

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The call for abstracts is now open at /bees/beecon-proposals/.  The deadline to submit your abstract is Friday, August 4, 2023.  

Registration is also now open at /bees/beecon-2023-registration-page/.  The deadline to register is Friday, September 29, 2023.  

There is no cost to register thanks to our sponsors: the Faculties of Science and Environmental and Urban Change and the Office of the VPRI.

Please note that this event is intended to be for researchers actively involved in a field related to bees. Subscribe to our  to watch some of the videos after the event.

Hope to see you there online or in-person.  For more information, visit /bees/beecon-2023/.

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Presented by Dr. Laurence Packer, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Dr. Victoria MacPhail, BEEc Coordinator.

In this Scholars’ Hub Presentation, learn about the research undertaken by the Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (BEEc), a network of faculty, staff, and students based at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ investigating topics related to bees on the genetic through ecosystem level.

A particular focus of the talk will be on bee diversity: why and how York has one of the world’s best collections of bees on the planet.   Register in advance for the Zoom link:

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Maria Stea was the Associate Director of Advancement for the Faculty of Science at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, and a big supporter of BEEC, when she died in 2019 after a short illness.

To honour her passion for advancing research and her interest in bees, her family is hoping to set up an endowment fund to fund future research.

Please help us reach this goal by attending a fundraising cocktail reception on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 () or by donating at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ.

Highlights of the May 17 evening will include:

• Delicious hors d'oeuvres and beverages
• Silent auction, including:
  • Naming rights to a bee!
  • Books by YorkU bee researchers
  • A bee painting by artist Myriam Rousseau
  • Artwork from a live painting competition
  • Many other items
• “Battle of the Brushes" event, featuring 3 students from York's School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, who will paint - in real time – cityscapes of some of Maria's favourite places
• Guest speakers such as Distinguished Research Professor Laurence Packer of BEEc

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Volunteers are also going to breathe some new life into the Native Plant Garden by removing invasive species and adding more flowering native plants, as well as doing some other general maintenance work.  This will help to support pollinators and other wildlife, and increase the overall biodiversity and beauty of the site. The event will run rain or shine, and no experience or equipment is needed to participate. If you are interested in helping with this part of the event (or at the outreach table itself), please RSVP by May 12: . 

Thanks to World Wildlife Fund Canada for providing funding for this event.

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Systematics is the study of the variety of living things and of the relationships among these organisms across evolutionary time.

Biogeography studies the present and past distribution patterns of living things and their underlying environmental and historical factors.

The Bee Biogeography and Systematics Talks (BeeBST for short) will bring together bee researchers from across the planet to discuss different groups of bees, how they're adapted, and the factors that have influenced the patterns of distribution that we see today!

Learn more about the series and find links to register at:

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We have openings for grad students in select bee-related research areas, such as systematics, evolution of social behaviour, disease modelling, biogeography, conservation genomics and more!

Check out our Future Grad Students page for more specifics and to find links to lab groups.

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