SCHEDULE
Overview
Detailed Schedule
Registration + Coffee + Breakfast (8:00 - 8:50 AM)
Location: Atrium 1
Check-In at the Front Desk! Remember to have the QR codes from your registration ready!
Welcome Remarks & Musical performance (8:50 - 9:00 AM)
Location: LSC 1001
MC - Annalena Renner
Opening Remarks: Dr. Paul Pavlidis
Keynote (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
Location: LSC 1001
MC - Annalena Renner
Keynote Speaker - Cancer Early Detection, Classification, and Monitoring through Plasma Cell-Free DNA Methylomes - Dr. Daniel de Carvalho
Alumni Talks (10:30 - 11:15 AM)
Location: LSC 1001
Tangled Arrows: Navigating the Complicated PhD path - Dr. Emilia Lim (BIOF Alumni) - 10:30 - 10:45 AM
When Will my Work “Translate” into Healthcare? - Dr. Zeid Hamadeh (GSAT Alumni) - 10:45 - 11:00 AM
Crossroad? Research in Academia and Industry - Dr. Joseph Lau (IOP Alumni) - 11:00 - 11:15 AM
Poster Session #1 (Evens) (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
Location: Atrium 2
*Posters should be removed by 2:30 pm
Lunch and Sponsor Booths (12:15 - 1:15 PM)
Location: Atrium 1
Concurrent Sessions (2:30 - 3:45 PM)
Location: LSC 1001, 1002, 1013
Novel Techniques and Limitations - LSC 1001
Unraveling the Phenomenon of Lineage Plasticity in Prostate Cancer: Insights and Implications - Dr Amina Zoubeidi
The Future of T cell Engineering - Dr. Robert Holt
Clinical Translations and Patient Experience - LSC 1002
Cancer Diagnostics in the Era of Molecular Advances – The Long and Short of It - Dr. Stephen Yip
Challenges and Rewards of Clinical Research - Dr. Theodore Steiner
Professional Development - LSC 1013
Career Paths for Science Grads - Dr. Christine Genge
Designing your Grad School/Career Strategy - Jacqui Brinkman
Workshops (Student and Industry) (4:45 - 5:30 PM)
Location: LSC 1001
A Roadmap for Navigating Paper Writing, Peer Review, and Publication as a Graduate Student in Science - Cameron Herberts
Optics and You - Illuminating the Inner Workings of Microscopy - Eric Brace
Social Mixer (6:00 - 9:00 PM)
Location: Atrium 2
Musical performance from UBC Jazz club (6:30 - 8:30 PM)