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CMM Talks Seminar Series – December 15th, 2023

Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) Friday February 23rd, 3:30pm PST.   Chan Centre for Family Health Education at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute 938 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Room 3113. Rachel Spencer (Taubert Lab): “Transcriptional coregulator Med15 is required to maintain function in matured pancreatic beta cells”. Mia Frier, MSc (PhD Candidate, […]

CMM Talks Seminar Series – November 17th, 2023

Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) Friday November 17th, 3:30pm PST.   Chan Centre for Family Health Education at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute 938 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Room 3113. Meingold Chan (Kobor Lab): “High interindividual heterogeneity of cell type proportions in pediatric saliva & how to handle it in DNA methylation […]

Dr. Bruce Verchere, recipient of the Diabetes Canada 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Verchere, recipient of the Diabetes Canada 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award. Announcement: https://twitter.com/DiabetesCanada/status/1716862360084754802 DIABETES CANADA AND CIHR-INMD EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER PARTNERSHIP AWARD LECTURE & LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD LECTURE Thank you for those who joined us at Vascular 2023 on October 26th to hear Dr. Verchere’s inspiring lecture about diabetes research. Vascular 2023 […]

Dr. Michael Kobor appointed as Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging (ELCHA) Inaugural Director 

Michael S. Kobor, PhD Edwin S.H. Leong UBC Chair in Healthy Aging – a UBC President’s Excellence ChairCanada Research Chair in Social EpigeneticsProfessor, Department of Medical Genetics, UBC Faculty of Medicine Dr. Michael Kobor is a renowned biomedical researcher studying how our social environments and life experiences get “under the skin” through biological embedding to […]

OnTarget: in silico design of MiniPromoters for targeted delivery of expression

Abstract MiniPromoters, or compact promoters, are short DNA sequences that can drive expression in specific cells and tissues. While broadly useful, they are of high relevance to gene therapy due to their role in enabling precise control of where a therapeutic gene will be expressed. Here, we present OnTarget (http://ontarget.cmmt.ubc.ca), a webserver that streamlines the […]

CMMT Newsletter September 2023

Dr. Daniel Goldowitz: Bringing it together  Dr. Daniel Goldowitz has made many significant contributions to the field of developmental neurogenetics over the course of his extensive career. And he is by no means done yet. Through his research at his lab at the CMMT and BCCHRI, he has spent the past 15 years studying the […]

CMM Talks Seminar Series – September 22nd, 2023

Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) Friday September 22nd, 3:30pm PST.   Chan Centre for Family Health Education at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute 938 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Room 3113. Cindy Zhang (Kobor Lab): “Identification of Pharmacogenetic Variants Influencing the Likelihood of Developing Treatment-Induced Mucositis in Pediatric Oncology Patients Using Pathway Analyses”. […]

2023 Gairdner High School Symposium – October 23, 2023

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. ELIGIBLE STUDENTS WILL BE CONTACTED SOON. Grade 10-12 students, teachers, and the academic community have the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities this Fall! Hosted by Drs. Michael Hayden & Bruce Verchere, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British […]

2023 Gairdner High School Symposium

Student Registration ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- All Grade 10-12 students are eligible to participate in the Gairdner High School event. Registration is required. Before registering you will need to: Method of Participation ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- In-person Monday, October 23 | 8:45 am – 12:15 pm Arrange to miss class and plan your own transportation to BC Children’s Hospital. You have […]

CMMT Newsletter July 2023

La Dolce Vita Costanza Ferrari Bardile arrived in Vancouver during the Covid 19 pandemic, in January 2021. She was relocating from Singapore, where she had done her PhD and then worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi’s lab. Dr. Pouladi had subsequently hired Costanza to continue her work investigating white matter pathology in […]

2023 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium – October 23, 2023

Students, teachers, and the academic community have the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities this Fall! Monday, October 23, 2023 @ 2:15pm-4pm IN-PERSON & ONLINE LSC 1002 LT2 Life Sciences Institute, UBC, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 2A1 Zoom: Meeting ID: 665 […]

CMMT Newsletter March 2023

The Space in Between Seth Parker, an Assistant Professor in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UBC, arrived at CMMT to set up his own lab in 2020, on the heels of Covid 19. Fresh from New York, where he was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Parker […]

Dr. Michael Kobor – Setting the Stage for Healthy Aging

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Michael Kobor who has been appointed the inaugural chair of the new Edwin S.H. Leong Healthy Aging Program at UBC. The Edwin S.H. Leong Chair in Healthy Aging is a UBC President’s Excellence Chair. With Dr. Kobor’s substantial expertise on the epigenetic impacts of environmental factors, he will build […]