Dr. Bhupinder Mangat in 1993
February 2012
The Biology Department is sad to announce the passing of Dr. Bhupinder Mangat. Dr. Mangat was a professor in the Department for over three decades. He completed his early academic training in England, being awarded his BSc., MSc. and PhD. Degrees from the University of London. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Botany at the University of Toronto, from 1969-71 and a Research Associate at Queens University in Ontario from 1971-72. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick in 1972 and then joined the faculty of Concordia, then Loyola University,in 1973. Dr. Mangat’s area of expertise was in plant science. He carried out research in plant tissue culture and development, a field that laid important ground work for subsequent advances in plant propagation, plant genetic improvement and genetic analysis. Throughout his career, he taught courses in plant biology and plant physiology. He gave courses to the great majority of students who have completed degrees in Biology at Concordia over the last 38 years. Dr. Mangat was appreciated by his students for his enthusiasm and approachability, and for his sense of humor. He will be missed.
The recent Genomics symposium ("Integrative Genomics: from Humans to microbes") hosted at Concordia University was a resounding success. Nearly 170 registrants from numerous institutions in Montreal attended. See the story in the Concordia NOW newsletter. The symposium was organized by Drs. David Walsh, Selvadurai Dayanandan and Michael Sacher.