Events

Postdoc Research Day 2026

Events, Research Day, Seminar Series
Registration is open for UBC Postdoc Research Day 2026, taking place Monday, November 30 at the Life Sciences Institute.
Details:
  • Date: Monday, November 30, 2026
  • Location: Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
  • Theme: Beyond your lab: New knowledge starts with collaboration
  • Abstract deadline: Monday, November 2, 2026
  • Cost: Free for all UBC postdocs
  • Register and submit an abstract

About the theme: Research rarely advances inside a single lab. Complex questions are answered by teams that bring different training, methods, and assumptions to the same table. Stepping beyond your own lab is often what makes the difference. Researchers have traditionally worked quite independently, and that independence can leave a gap between the questions we ask and the problems people actually face. Engaging with communities, patients, and Indigenous partners closes that gap — it keeps research grounded in lived experience and makes the resulting knowledge meaningful outside the academy.

Research Day 2026 brings both ideas together: a full day of postdoc-led presentations designed to put people from different corners of UBC in the same room, and to ask who else belongs there.
Presenting? Abstracts for poster and oral presentations are submitted through the registration form. Abstract decisions will be sent by November 9.Not presenting? Come anyway. Attendance is open to all UBC postdocs.

Wellbeing Storytelling Night

Events, Socials

Winter can be a hard time. To brighten your dark winter night, we would like to invite you to our wellbeing story telling night. Join us for tea and cookies and share your favorite story or wellbeing strategy with us. We will provide room for discussion and exchange as well as some food.

When: January 28th 2026, 4.30pmWhere: Room 1510 at the LSI

Register here.

Research Day 2025

Events, Research Day, Seminars

Get excited for our biggest event of the year. Research Day 2025 will be on Monday, 1st December at the Life Sciences Institute. Sign up here to attend or present.This is your chance to present your work to an audience from diverse disciplines, practise your research communication skills, meet like-minded people, and be inspired by the wonderful work that the postdocs do at UBC.

Weekly Write-Ins

Events

Weekly write-ins are on every Tuesday at 9 am. Bring a cup of coffee or tea and that writing project that has been looming over your head. The goal of the write-ins are to provide a supportive environment for postdocs to connect with another while carving out important time to write.

Join our slack channel #weekly-write-ins for more information! If you are not yet on our Slack workspace, email ubc.postdoc@gmail.com for an invite link!

Structure: Each write-in we will do a brief check-in to establish the goals for the day, and then we will dive into our writing blocks. We will use a modified Pomodoro method, where we set a timer to write distraction free, followed by a 5 minute break. We will use the following time structure:
9:00-   Check-in
9:05-   Block 1- Write 25 minutes, Check-in/Break 5 Minutes
9:35-   Block 2- Write 35 Minutes, Check-in/Break 5 Minutes
10:15- Block 3- Write 45 Minutes, Quick Debrief

3M Slam 2025

3MPS, Events, Seminars

Tell us all about your research in 3 minutes! Sign up to present at the 3M Slam on Thursday 2nd October, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm at the Life Sciences Institute in LSC3, followed by a reception and awards. Food and drink provided at the reception.

We will open with an exciting keynote presentation from Dr. Marissa Lithopoulos, a UBC postdoc and science communicator who founded Science, Stand-Up, & Song. Check out some of her work here.

New to UBC? No results yet? Tell us all about your project without being tempted to load it with too much data.
Been here for a while but never presented? Let us finally hear what you’ve been up to!
Presented last year or the year before? Perfect – you’ll know the drill!

Register here. Note: if you change your mind later and decide you want to present, just fill out the registration form again!