Program News

Any news that is relevant to both faculty and students

NSERC-CREATE FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT

Name: Paul Pavlidis Project title: Training Program in High-Dimensional Bioinformatics (HDB) Award: $ 1,650,000 (over six years) Project Synopsis: Technological innovation has given scientists the ability to gather and analyze huge quantities of data. This means that informatics, bioinformatics and computational biology data pools are enormous and complex. Therefore, experts who can organize, visualize, analyze, […]

MSc Exit Seminar – Sarah Perez – Friday, May 22‏

MSc exit seminar – Sarah Perez

New Group Content: Call for Nominations: Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship Bridge Competition

If anyone is eligible for this, let Sharon know by Tuesday, May 19th and she can set an internal deadline. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hello graduate program faculty and staff, Please forward the following announcement to your students, and set an internal deadline. Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship Bridge Competition The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will match funds […]

[VanBUG] Fwd: Dr. Michel Dumontier – Candidate for UBC Faculty of Science CRC Tier 1 Position in Data Science – Monday May 11, 2015 @ 11:00am-12:00pm, LSC3‏

Awards now being paid through SSC accounts – please see email to make sure your awards go to the proper place‏

To assist with this transition, it is vital that UBC graduate programs help publicise the importance of students receiving awards signing up for direct deposit via their SSC accounts. Otherwise, award holders will be issued a cheque that they will have to pick up in person at Brock Hall for any award amounts above their […]

Graduate Programs: Waitlist Registration is now OPEN for June 6, 13, 14 2015 Grad ISW‏

Waitlist registration is now open for the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) June 6, 13, 14 2015.  The ISW is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken […]

Awards now being paid through SSC accounts – please see email to make sure your awards go to the proper place‏

To assist with this transition, it is vital that UBC graduate programs help publicise the importance of students receiving awards signing up for direct deposit via their SSC accounts. Otherwise, award holders will be issued a cheque that they will have to pick up in person at Brock Hall for any award amounts above their tuition and […]

Register for the summer thesis course‏

Hi All, Please remember to register in your thesis course for the summer term, so you have continuous registration. MSc BIOF 599 923 PhD BIOF 699 923 If you are not able to do this, please let me know and I will do it for you, but you will need to give me your student […]

Next VanBUG event: Dr. Martin Hirst – April 9th 6pm‏

For our final event of this season, Dr. Martin Hirst from Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre will present his work next Thursday April 9th.  Dr. Hirst talk is titled: “Epigenetic and Genetic Collusion in Transformation”. Abstract: Mammalian genomes carry non-uniform chemical marks covalently attached to DNA bases and their packaging proteins. These chemical marks, which […]

BTP/IOP/GSAT 2015 Retreat pictures