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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 the option […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CMM Talks Seminar Series – April 14, 2023

The next Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) is Friday April 14th at 3:30 pm PST.   You can join the seminar via this link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62043965228?pwd=MTcvWUVFbXJXb2xieWFyWTZ5ZWJPZz09 (Meeting ID: 620 4396 5228, Passcode: 392317) Bethany Adair (MSc student, Simpson Lab) will be presenting: ”CRISPR Base Editor corrects Pax6-aniridic variant in humanized mouse ESCs and via LNPs in ex vivo”,     Neel Mehta […]

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 […]