• Three Minute Thesis: UBC Medicine Heat

    Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Support UBC Medicine graduate students and learn about their research at the Faculty of Medicine's Three Minute Thesis heat. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition that assists current graduate students with fostering effective presentation and communication skills. Participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to […]

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  • Dietary Biomarkers in Nutrition and Cancer Research: Application of Metabolomics to Develop Objective Measures of Diet

    Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Metabolomics, the measurement of hundreds to thousands of metabolites in a biologic sample, is a promising approach to characterizing dietary exposures and metabolic responses to them. At the same time, differences in human and gut microbial metabolism results in substantial variation in biomarker measures across individuals. This talk will address efforts to develop biomarkers of […]

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  • Dietary Biomarkers in Nutrition and Cancer Research: Application of Metabolomics to Develop Objective Measures of Diet

    Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Metabolomics, the measurement of hundreds to thousands of metabolites in a biologic sample, is a promising approach to characterizing dietary exposures and metabolic responses to them. At the same time, differences in human and gut microbial metabolism results in substantial variation in biomarker measures across individuals. This talk will address efforts to develop biomarkers of […]

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  • CBR – LSI Research Day

    Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    CBR Research Day is an opportunity for students to showcase their summer research projects, hear an inspirational keynote talk, and celebrate the end of the CBR Summer Studentship Program in August. The event provides an excellent opportunity for students to practice their presentation skills in front of an audience, and share their work with their […]

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  • Centre for Blood Research Seminar – “Leveraging the gut environment for functional biosensor probiotics”

    Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    From the lab of: Dr. Carolina Tropini, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UBC. Presented by: Carolina Tropini and Alice Hong. The human gut is a complex, dynamic ecosystem characterized by a diverse community of microbes that play critical roles in health and disease. Physical factors such as osmolality, pH, and oxygenation profoundly influence microbial growth, […]

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  • The 21st D. Harold Copp Lecture: Dr. Noboru Mizushima

    Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The D. Harold Copp Lecture is a UBC Faculty of Medicine sponsored lectureship that arose in November 1996 through donations from the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Wolfe and Gita Churg Foundation. Named after the late Doctor D. Harold Copp, the Copp Lecture is hosted each year by the Faculty of Medicine and […]