PhD + Postdoc positions available

Research context The Computational Biology & Gene Regulation group has funded opening positions for a PhD student and a Postdoc. The group is part of the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), an EMBL Nordic node. We analyze the regulation of gene expression and the mechanisms by which it can be disrupted in human diseases such as cancer. […]

Introduction to R Workshop Series‏

Introduction to R Workshop Series

Postdoctoral Position Available in France‏

3-year postdoctoral fellow position in genomics University of Lorraine France

January Social – Eat you some Hon’s for great good‏

Hi All, With cauliflower at $8 a head, getting your vitamins and minerals is more important than ever.  In the interest of stretching our meager budget as far as possible and making as many of you as full as possible, we would like to get everyone together for a quantity over quality type meal at […]

February 2016 Degree Conferral Deadlines.‏

Dear Graduate Program Staff and Graduate Advisors Can you please forward this information to all Graduate Students that are hoping to have their degree granted in February 2016.  Congregation ceremony will be in May, 2016.  Please advise students that Enrolment Services will not accept any late applications for graduation, and there will be no exceptions […]

Info session on Feb 10: entrepreneurship@ubc

entrepreneurship@ubc provides a unique combination of education, mentorship and seed funding to support start-up creation by UBC students, alumni, faculty and staff. This information session will provide an overview of start-ups and the resources that e@ubc offers to researchers. 1. What is a Start-Up? 2. UBC, Intellectual Property, and Start-Ups 3. e@UBC Resources for UBC […]

PhD exit semininar – Daniel Lai – BIOF – Friday, Jan 22

PhD Exit Seminar – Daniel Lai

Software Carpentry Workshop at UBC, Jan 29 – 30‏

Hi everyone, Interested in learning how to use R and what are best practices for scientific computing? We are organizing a Software Carpentry workshop at UBC on January 29 – 30, 9AM – 4:30PM. Our focus will be on R, Unix Shell and version control with Git. Check out details here: http://lmguzman.github.io/2016-01-29-UBC/ <http://lmguzman.github.io/2016-01-29-UBC/> The workshop […]

2016 Friedman Scholars Program

I am very pleased to announce that the 2016 Friedman Scholars Program competition is now open. This program is open to any UBC graduate student or UBC Medical Resident Trainee in the health-related sciences (broadly interpreted). I ask that you please disseminate this announcement among the graduate students in your program:   2016 Friedman Scholars […]

Introduction to Watson Analytics and data science at UBC‏

Hi all, Here’s an event you may be interested. Introduction to Watson Analytics and data science (IBM), at UBC on Nov 3, 6pm: http://bigdatauniversity.com/events/watson-analytics-and-data-science-vancouver-meetup/ Cheers, Beryl