News And Events

[VanBUG] Speakers Feb 9, Mar 8, Apr 12‏

Mark your calendars with VanBUG talks and networking at 6pm Thurs Feb 9, Thurs Mar 8, Thurs Apr 12. We provide feeds for Google Calendar or other iCal-based calendars at http://www.vanbug.org/calendar/ *Feb 9*, 2012 Short Presentation: Warren Cheung, PhD candidate, Wasserman Lab, CMMT Title: Biomedical Topic Profiles from Bibliographical Literature Evidence Featured Speaker: William Hsaio, […]

Best Poster APBC 2012‏

Best Poster APBC 2012‏

Best Poster APBC 2012‏ Niels won best poster at the Australian bioinformatics conference this year. Go UBC!

UPDATED!! APBC2013 The Eleventh Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference

APBC2013 The Eleventh Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference Website: APBC2013 (Temporarily down!) Temporarily back-up conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/apbc2013backupsite2013/home PROGRAM OUTLINE: APBC 2013 Final Program (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM) Vancouver, BC, Canada 21-24 January 2013 APBC2013 Call for Papers The Eleventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. APBC2013 invites high quality original full papers on any topic […]

BTP/IOP retreat 2012‏

Dear BTP and IOP student, You are invited to our annual Bioinformatics & Oncology Research Day, where you’ll have the opportunity to present your work and find out about the fascinating, interdisciplinary research presently going on around you. Highlights include guest speakers, poster sessions, lunch and dinner buffets, lightning talks, and prizes to be won! […]

Job opportunity‏

One PhD position in the field of Cheminformatics/Drug Design is available as a joint appointment between the University of British Columbia, Canada (Prof. A. Cherkasov, http://www.prostatecentre.com/about-us/people/clinical-research-scientists/dr-art-cherkasov. ) and the University of Strasbourg, France (Prof. A. Varnek, http://infochim.u-strasbg.fr/ ). The successful candidate is expected to work on ligand- and structure-based drug design in the field of […]

PhD Exit Seminar – Leon French – Friday, January 13th – 11:00 am BCCRC lecture theatre‏

EXIT SEMINAR Leon French B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Windsor, 2003 M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Windsor, 2005 Friday, Jan 13, 2012 at 11 AM LOCATION: Lecture Theatre, BCCRC Bioinformatics for Neuroanatomical Connectivity Abstract: Neuroscience research is increasingly dependent on bringing together large amounts of data collected at the molecular, anatomical, functional and behavioural levels. […]

[VanBUG] next VanBUG Thurs, Feb 9‏

The next VanBUG event will take place Thursday, February 9, 2012. Featured speaker: William Hsiao, Scientist, BC Centre for Disease Control There will be no VanBUG event in January. Stefanie Butland for the VanBUG team Cedric Chauve Bhavjinder Dhillon Rodrigo Goya Elodie Portales-Casamar VanBUG is generously sponsored by the CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program, MITACS, PIMS, […]

3 Minute Thesis at UBC

Dear CFIS Graduate Students I am emailing to encourage you to consider over the holidays whether you’d like to take part in the Three Minute Thesis competition in 2012. There is more information on the 3MT web site: Home Page Registration begins on 9 January 2012 and ends on 20 January 2012, but there is […]

Ryan Morin wins Skarsgard award

Ryan Morin wins Skarsgard award : BC Cancer Research Centre – Lloyd Skarsgard Research Excellence Award for Outstanding Graduate Student

Thesis Defence – Fong Chan: Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:30 AM‏

The University of British Columbia MSc. THESIS DEFENSE Fong Chun Chan BSc. Simon Fraser University, 2009 Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:30 AM LOCATION: 2nd floor meeting room of BCCRC Detection of Differentially Expressed Alternative Transcripts using Conventional Microarrays Abstract: Alternative splicing, alternative promoter usage and alternative 3′ polyadenylation are the main molecular mechanisms which […]