Postdoc Appreciation Week!

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Postdoc Appreciation Week is here!  From Sept 16-20, we hope you feel valued for your integral contributions to the UBC community!  This week, while mainly sponsored by the NPA in the US (http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/meetings-and-events-4/appreciation), is supported by Canadian institutions too.  Check out the link for the locations of all the events in the coming week.  See more details about Appreciation events in Canada at the CAPS facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/capsacsp

At UBC, we are excited to host 3 events during the week.  Please joins us for drinks, food, and fun!

Tuesday, Sept 17:  Orientation for new Postdocs

12:00pm – 4:30pm, Thea Koerner House

Please register here

Followed by Happy Hour at Mahonys

starting at 5 pm, Mahonys on campus, University Blvd

No registration needed, just show up!

 

Thursday, Sept 19: Moving Culture Walking Tour

4 – 7 pm, Meet us in the Rose Garden, just north of the flagpole.

At 6 pm, we will end up at the Bean Around the World for continued socializing. 

Please sign up by emailing ubc.postdoc@gmail.com

See this map, for our start and end locations.

Have you ever wondered why there is a nineteenth-century horse drawn carriage on campus? Did you know that this carriage has been converted into a camera obscura? How many times have you passed by the large blue whale skeleton kept in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum without actually going inside to see it?  This is your chance to visit and explore these sites!

 

Friday, Sept 20: BBQ and Networking event hosted by the PDFO

12:00pm – 2:00pm, GSS Ballroom – Thea Koerner House

Please register here

Postdoc Research Day 2013

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3rd Annual Postdoctoral Research Day

is only 4 days away!!!

 

Register to attend the day and subsequent reception afterwards, can be done here: http://post-doc.lsi.ubc.ca/research-day/

 

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

Life Sciences Centre on UBC Point Grey Campus

12:15 PM – 7 PM

                              

                                          Schedule

12.15-12.30 – Lunch                                         LSC 3

12.30-3.30 – Talks (with coffee break)        LSC 3

3.30-4.00 – Keynote: Dr Sid Katz                  LSC 3

4.00-7.00 – Poster viewing + Reception   LSC West Atrium

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr Sid Katz, UBC

“Confessions of a University Lifer”

Sid Katz arrived at UBC in 1975 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and almost 38 years later is still here. His career path, though, has hardly been a usual one. Not only did he pursue a parallel career as a science and medicine broadcaster on CBC Radio and CTV, he also became CEO of Science World in Vancouver and, in 1997, the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, all while maintaining his research lab at UBC. In his talk, Sid will provide insight into his eclectic career and provide a guide to survival as a University Professor/Researcher.

 

Please join us for talks, posters, and a wine and cheese reception.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at this event!

 

 

 

 

3 Minute Postdoc Slam!

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3 Minute Postdoc Slam

Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 4:00pm

Room LSC3 in the Life Sciences Institute

You have 3 minutes to present your work and your research ideas, with the help of one static Powerpoint slide! The competition will be judged (see criteria) and the top presenters will be awarded magical prizes! The presentations will be followed by a reception.

If you would like to participate, please register by sending an email to ubc.postdoc@gmail.com with:

Name:

Dept:

Faculty:

 

We will ask for presentation titles and will send out more details later.  For now, here are the rules:

  • A single static PowerPoint slide is permitted (no slide transitions, animations or ‘movement’ of any description)
  • No additional electronic media (e.g. sound and video files) are permitted
  • No additional props (e.g. laser pointers, costumes, laboratory equipment or musical instruments) are permitted
  • Presentations are limited to 3 minutes maximum.
  • Note that raps, singing, poems, dance, and creative motion are allowed.  Your slide must be static, but you don’t have to be!

Speed Mentoring Workshop: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 – 9:00am – 11:00am

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Speed Mentoring is a fun, fast-paced event in which PDFs will have the opportunity to interact with as many expert mentors as possible. Mentors from all areas of research and training will be participating, to offer brief one-on-one advice to postdocs, ten minutes at a time. With registration, the PDFO will organise the time into ten minute increments, ideally with a chance for each PDF to meet with their choice of mentor. These questions can be regarding academic or industry career topics such as:

Job search strategies
Grant writing
Interview process
Funding issues
Knowing Where You Are Going
Tenure
Skill Development
Collegiality and Independence
Life Balance
Gender Differences
Peculiarities Unique to Arts, Science and Medicine

Flyer- Speed Mentoring – Nov 27 2012

2nd Annual Postdoc Research Day, Friday September 14 at the Life Sciences Centre

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Thanks to everyone who submitted an abstract. Unfortunately we have limited time on the day, so we’ve had to select eight talks, chosen to give a feeling of the exciting and broad research at UBC. We will also have a number of posters at the reception at 4pm; we still have space, so even if you have not registered for a poster, feel free to bring one along.

1.00pm – John Whitlock, Oral Health Sciences “Rapid tooth replacement in sauropod dinosaurs: applying molecular biology to questions in palaeontology”

1.20pm – Marjorie Gonzalez, Physics and Astronomy/Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre “Novel Analysis Method for Positron Emission Tomography: Applications to Parkinson’s Disease”

1.40pm – Nina Maeshima, Microbiology and Immunology. “Identifying regions of human TLR4 important for recognition of Bordetella pertussis lipid A”

2.00pm – Wendy Adams, Psychiatry/Psychology “Chronic lithium treatment reduces motor impulsivity in rats: Potential role of cytokines” Coffee

2.40pm Ariane Noel de Tilly, Art History, Visual Art & Theory “On the Early Exhibitions of Video Art in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom: Different attempts to disseminate a new medium”

3.00pm – Wei Wei, Medical Genetics “Genome-wide microRNA and mRNA profiling in mouse liver development implicates mir302b and mir20a in repressing TGFbeta signaling”

3.20pm – Junaed Sattar, Computer Science “From the deep seas to our homes – towards a seamless interface for human-machine interaction.”

3.40pm – Michael Yuchi, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology” “Disease Mutations in the Ryanodine Receptor Central Region: Crystal Structures of a Phosphorylation Hot Spot Domain”

4pm – Posters, Wine, Cheese.