MSL Seminar Series: Kickstart Report

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Kickstart Project Presentations Download Event: PDF Zoom Event Registration: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EtdeCoqjMoGNLntd0C8jmjEztq7-Bj_MKG Project 1               Daniela Yanez, Haney lab & Foster lab Project 2              Jerry Leung, Kastrup lab  Project 3              Peter Rahfeld, Withers lab & Morito Sakuma, Tokuriki lab Project 4              Sarah Grasedieck, Hirst lab & Nikolay Stoynov, Foster lab Project 5              […]

MSL Seminar Series: March – Trainee Talks

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Event details: Wednesday March 17th, 3-4:30pm Host: Dr. Robin Turner Zoom registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YkfuyvrTorHdcoMgd5IkWe97Q-jlFCFRn9 Seminar Schedule: Trainee Talk 1: Avril Metcalfe-Roache - Finlay Lab MIND Your Microbes: the role of diet and the gut-brain axis in Parkinson's disease Trainee Talk 2: Lola Akinlaja - Foster Lab Characterizing the Honey Bee Interactome Trainee Talk 3: Solveig van Wersch - Li […]

Black Underrepresentation in Leadership Administration

Dr. Carry and Professor Williams will draw from their rich experience and expertise to share insights on the issue of underrepresentation of Black people in academic leadership administration.

MSL Seminar Series: April – Invited Speaker, Dr. Linda Griffith

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Speaker: Dr. Linda Griffith - School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, Biological Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)   Talk Title: Humanizing Drug Development: From Organoids to Organs – on – Chips Abstract: “Mice are not little people” – a refrain becoming louder as the strengths and weaknesses of animal models of […]

Black Women in STEM

Description: Dr. Anderson and Dr. Andrade will speak from their experience and expertise to share insights about the underrepresentation of Black women in STEM fields. Registration: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rzxT8Cn1Skuif23rfrWVjw Speakers: Dr. Natoshia Anderson Award-winning STEM educator and STEM advocate, STEM leadership consultant Dr. Maydianne Andrade Canada Research Chair, Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs and Equity, University of Toronto Scarborough More information about this event series: https://events.ubc.ca/where-are-all-the-black-people/ Sponsors: Office of […]

MSL Seminar Series: April – Invited Speaker, Dr. Aviv Regev

Speaker: Dr. Aviv Regev - Chair of the Faculty and Core Member, Broad Institute --Director, Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute -- Professor, Department of Biology, MIT -- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Talk Title: Cell atlases as roadmaps to understand and treat disease Talk Abstract: Cells are the basic unit of life, and form a […]

MSL Seminar Series: May – Trainee Talks

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Event details: Date: Wednesday May 19th, 3:00-4:30pm Host: Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki Zoom registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wtfuCvrz8rGd3k7SHbSm-7zpjxejrdFrPt   Seminar Schedule: Trainee Talk 1: Anthony Oppedisano - Hieter Lab Analysing Structure-Function and Dominant Synthetic-Lethal MUS81 Missense Mutations  Trainee Talk 2: Axel Hauduc - Hirst Lab  Assessing the impact of personalized reference genomes on ChIP-seq alignment Trainee Talk 3: Yale Michaels – Zandstra […]

MSL Seminar Series: May Invite Speaker – Dr. Debora Marks

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Dr. Debora Marks is an Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard University, as well as an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Talk Title: Prediction and design of biological sequences with neural machines What can we do with billions of genomes and immune repertoire sequences? There’s now an amazing opportunity to develop machine learning […]

MSL Seminar Series: June Trainee Talks

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Event details: Date: Wednesday June 16th, 3:00-4:30pm Host: Dr. Christian Kastrup Zoom registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EodOmppzMpHNZ8H5vzZ017BC7ZSrpXH38d   Seminar Schedule: Trainee Talk 1: Matthias Kretschmer – Kronstad Lab Mixed carbon sources trigger hallmarks of biotrophic growth in a pathogenic fungus  Trainee Talk 2: Danielle Jeong – Miller Lab  Characterization of the neural stem cell response to demyelinating injury in […]

Black Women in the Academy

Dr. Fynn Bruey and Dr. Daniel will speak from their journey and rich experiences as Black women in the academy, offer their insights about the challenges, and share their wisdom on the important topic.