Guelph - Some "modern-day Darwins" from the University of Guelph will be featured on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet. Thursday. Alex Smith of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) and the team involved in the Biobus program appear as part of an hour-long celebration of Charles Darwin. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and 150 years since the publication of his groundbreaking work, The Origin of Species.

The Biobus is a 30-foot recreational vehicle that serves partly as a mobile lab for collecting specimens for DNA barcoding and partly as a billboard on wheels for the BIO and the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding. After travelling to various national parks across Canada in 2008, the Biobus team will be back on the road this summer. Once the short Canadian summer is over, the plan is to take the Biobus south to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, one of the most bio-diverse regions on Earth.

The segment on Daily Planet will air on the Discovery Channel Thursday at 7 and 11 p.m. ET (check local listings).

Wednesday, Prof. Elizabeth Stone, dean of the Ontario Veterinary College, will be a guest on the CBC Radio program, Ontario Today. Stone will chat with show host Rita Celli, and take calls from listeners, in a light-hearted look at dogs and what we love about them.

The live segment will air between 1:15 and 2 p.m. Ontario Today is a news and phone-in program linking people across the province. It airs daily between noon at 2 p.m. on CBC Radio One.