Bioinformatics Student Club renewal‏

This is regarding a request for affiliate membership from our bioinformatics trainee group to the Graduate Student Society (GSS) at UBC. This club is not a ‘replacement’ or such for the current bioinformatics social team, but can be used as a source of money for organizing large scale events within our group this year. I […]

PhD studentship‏

PhD Student, ISD, 15.03.16   I am a new faculty in LMU (http://www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de/Institut-fuer-Schlaganfall-und-Demenzforschung/en/) and I am starting my own group after finishing my postdoc in Stanford with Thomas Sudhof’s and Steve Quake’s groups which focused on single cell RNAseq and qPCR. I plan to apply single cell analysis approaches to stroke and dementia related questions. […]

Call for Applications – UBC Sustainability Scholars (Paid Internship Opportunities)‏

The UBC Sustainability Scholars Program is pleased to be offering more funded internship projects for summer 2016 – open to UBC graduate students from all academic disciplines. Further information on the 17 available internship projects can be found at our website: http://bit.ly/1QmnQxw Applications close 11:59pm Tuesday 22nd March 2016.

Exit seminar -Lauren Chong – March 18th‏

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Dinner & Karaoke: Socializing after the research festival‏

Just an update on the restaurant. The venue is gonna be The Pit, which is a pub in the basement of the Nest ( i.e. in the same building as where the B.I.G is).  We have reserved a long table and a couch area, enough for 30 people, and the manager is giving us happy […]

A UBC Centennial Session: Symposium on Health Informatics‏

To Program Contacts:  Please distribute this e-vite to all students, trainees and learners in your units. Event:  A UBC Centennial Session: Symposium on Health Informatics Date:  April 5, 2016 Time:  8:30 am to 4:30 pm Location:  LSC3, Life Sciences Institute, UBC, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver Registration ·         Registration fee is $25 ·         General registration […]

Tuition Payroll Deduction/Fee Deferral for TAs and RAs‏

Please find attached information regarding the 2016/17 Tuition Payroll Deduction/Fee Deferral Application available to graduate students employed as Teaching or Research Assistants.   For graduate students interested in applying for 2016 Summer Tuition Payroll Deduction/Fee Deferral the deadline is March 31st.   If you have any questions you may contact me directly, maria.mannella@ubc.ca. 2016 Tuition […]

ISMB conference‏

This is kind of last minute, but just in case you didn’t know yet and you want to travel for conferences in the summer, there’s a cool conference happening in Orlando in July. https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016  The early poster submission deadline is tomorrow. After that you’d have to pay $50. This conference is one of the biggest bioinformatics […]

REMINDER: B.I.G. Research Day reminder – Posters

The B.I.G. Research Day is this Friday, March 11th! Here are a few reminders: – If you are printing your poster with our sponsor Save On Stitch, please contact Sulin Cao (sulincao1982@gmail.com) by Wednesday, March 9th at the latest. Check out the website for further instructions (note that, if you choose this option, your poster […]

[VanBUG] Doctor on Demand: Telemedicine in the 21st Century‏

Doctor on Demand: Telemedicine in the 21st Century Imagine having a patient see you from the comfort and convenience of their own home. Having a doctor available at your bedside 24/7 without leaving the house. Through emergent telemedicine technologies, this type of futuristic idea is becoming reality today.This event will bring together a clinician, a policy expert, and an […]