CMM Talks Seminar Series – April 26th, 2024
The next Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) is Friday April 26th, 3:30 PST. Chan Centre for Family Health Education at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute 938 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Room 3113. Join Zoom Meeting https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69216940283?pwd=TDZlR1MzNUNES1h4VVlGOTNyQ2s2QT09 Meeting ID: 692 1694 0283 Passcode: 060914 Hayley Sowards – Medical Genetics Graduate Student (Dennis Lab) “Integrative […]
CMMT Newsletter March 2024
Dr. Jessica Levesley: The Hayden LaboratoryMy path to a world-renowned Huntington disease lab A biology enthusiast from her high school years at home in South Africa (SA), Jessica Dawson is now living about as far away from her native Johannesburg as a person can get. In a strange twist of fate, it wasn’t her passion […]
CMM Talks Seminar Series – April 5th, 2024
The next Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) is Friday April 5th, 3:30 PST. Chan Centre for Family Health Education at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute 938 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Room 3113. Join Zoom Meeting https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62563610585?pwd=Yk5JTEd2NGlwdjFCVjIzbmpCVU0xUT09 Meeting ID: 625 6361 0585 Passcode: 766654 Dr. Carol Huang – Assistant Professor, Center for Genomics and […]
CMM Talks Seminar Series – March 22nd, 2024
The next Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) is Friday March 22nd, 3:30 PST. Chan Centre for Family Health Education at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute 938 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Room 2108. Join Zoom Meeting: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64800040116?pwd=Rktxd1BLN1BkSFJlWDBHZjAzUkpHUT09 Meeting ID: 648 0004 0116 Passcode: 770304 Dr. Jeffrey Carroll – Associate Professor Department of Neurology, University […]
CMM Talks Seminar Series – February 23nd, 2024
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. Ben Life, BSc (Hons) (PhD Candidate Leavitt Lab): “Progranulin function and regulation in brain disease”. Hannah-Ruth Engelbrecht, MSc Med (PhD candidate Kobor […]
University of Cape Town announces Dr. Michael Hayden’s honorary degree
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Michael Hayden on his recently awarded degree of Doctor of Science in Medicine (DSc(Med)) (honoris causa) by the University of Cape Town. Read more: https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2024-02-20-uct-to-confer-honorary-doctorates-on-six-remarkable-individuals This award is in recognition of his contribution to biomedical research and inspirational leadership as a clinician-scientist, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. Michael has been the recipient of numerous […]
CMM Talks Seminar Series – January 26th, 2024
Casual Meeting of Minds Talks (CMM Talks) Friday January 26th at 3:30 pm PST. Rui Wang (Kobor Lab): “Explore the impact of SNCA overexpression on mouse hippocampal DNA methylome and transcriptome during early and midlife”. Maggie Fu (Kobor Lab): “Accounting for variability in DNA methylation: application in patients with rare diseases”.
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 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 […]
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 […]
Mark Wang
Research Technician
Emily Harvey
Lab Manager & Neuropathology Technician Officially I am the Neuropathology Technician in the lab. I am from Surrey, I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta in Molecular Biology and Genetics. I have a masters degree from the University of Calgary, where I studied neurodevelopment related to Autism Spectrum Disorder using mouse models. I […]
Wendy Lin
Research Technician I had a personal commitment to biomedical research and its promise of improving the quality of human health. I was equally concerned about the importance of ensuring the health and well-being of animals used in biomedical research. As animal care professional, my main concern is that animals are being treated humanely and fairly […]
Robert Tiszolczi
Finance Manager 3024-950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4 604-875-3844
Qingwen Xia
Research Technician 950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Jessica Shum
Research Coordinator Jessica is the research coordinator for Dr. Michael R. Hayden, Hayden Lab. She manages various research administration projects and communication functions related to collaborations and research grants. Jessica graduated from the UBC MSc Experimental Medicine program and has over 10 years of research experience.
Betty Nguyen
Research Technician 950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Dawn Ng
Executive Assistant to Dr. Michael R. Hayden
Neel Mehta
Postdoctoral Fellow I am a Post-doctoral fellow working under the supervision of Dr. Michael Hayden and Dr. Colin Ross at the University of British Columbia in the Dept. of Medical Genetics. I am currently working on utilizing and optimizing adeno-associated virus (AAV) as safe and efficient tools for targeted delivery of genetic material for the […]
Jessica Levesley
Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica is an early career Medical Scientist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human Genetics with a keen interest in exploring modifiers of neurodegenerative disease and genetic diversity. Jessica’s research has focused on the allele sequence diversity and genetic modifiers of Huntington disease and its phenocopy Huntington disease-like 2 in an understudied population. Jessica […]
Yun Ko
Research Technician 950 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Chris Kay
Research Associate Dr. Chris Kay is a geneticist and molecular biologist working to understand the pathogenesis of Huntington disease (HD). He earned his doctorate in Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia under the guidance of Dr. Michael Hayden, leading target discovery of genetic variants for therapeutic silencing of the Huntington disease (HTT) gene. […]
Dr. Michael R. Hayden
Dr. Hayden is a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia, the highest honour UBC can confer on any faculty member. Only 4 such awards have ever been conferred in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Hayden is also a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, UBC. Dr. Hayden was the […]
Nicholas Caron, PhD
Contact: ncaron@cmmt.ubc.ca Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an accessible biofluid whose molecular composition reflects structural and functional changes in the brain, making it a promising biofluid for biomarker discovery in neurodegenerative disorders. My primary research interests focus on the identification and validation of molecular biomarkers for Huntington disease, which offer the potential to monitor cell-type and/or […]
Stephanie Bortnick
Huntington Disease (HD) Biobank Manager Stephanie manages the collection, storage, and sharing of biological samples from the HD community to facilitate research into more effective treatments for HD. Stephanie has worked with gifted patient samples for the past decade. Sample integrity, clinical comprehensiveness, and donor privacy are the cornerstones of research excellence, and Stephanie reflects […]
Dr. Jessica Dennis receives Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award
Dr. Jessica Dennis has received a 2022 Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar award. Dr. Dennis’ research focuses on the genomic mechanisms underlying the prenatal and early childhood origins of mental illness in children. Her research is critical and timely; the last decade has seen an explosion of genomic and health-related data. Health Research BC […]
Hayden Lab Staff Directory
This page contains the staff profiles of Hayden lab members.
Staff Directory
This page contains the staff profiles for all members of CMMT. For lab specific lists, please see the following:
Dr. Michael Kobor awarded the 2022 Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship
Dr. Michael Kobor has been awarded the 2022 Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship. The former, and inaugural, director of the Healthy Starts Research Theme at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), senior scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) and professor at The University of British Columbia (UBC) was nominated for his pioneering research, visionary leadership, and dedication to mentorship. […]
Parker Lab
One of the main areas of research within my group involves identifying and characterizing specific transport proteins that are required by cells to fulfill their metabolic needs. Within this objective, we aim to understand what drives selective transporter expression in disease, how transporters function in specific physiological contexts, and how we can target the unique […]
CMMT Newsletter July 2022
CMMT Newsletter July 2022 The Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics would like to welcome four new faculty members. CMMT Newsletter July 2022 Welcome New Members! We have EXCITING news that we would like to share with you! The Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) would like to welcome four new faculty members. […]
2022 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium
The Vancouver Gairdner High School & National Symposium is held each fall to give students, teachers, and the academic community the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities. Click here to watch a recording of the Gairdner High School Symposium Watch the 2022 Vancouver Gairdner […]
2021 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium Recordings/VOD
These are the recordings of the 2021 Vancouver Gairdner Symposium, held on Oct 25, 2021. High School Symposium – Morning Session UBC Gairdner Symposium – Afternoon Session
Virtual: 2021 Vancouver Gairdner National Symposium
The Vancouver Gairdner High School & National Symposium is held each fall to give students, teachers, and the academic community the opportunity to hear from two Gairdner award-winning scientists and learn about the BC Children’s Hospital’s research facilities. Virtual UBC Gairdner Symposium Monday, October 25, 2021 Time: 2:00 pm-3:35 pm PST Join via Zoom: Open […]
CMMT Newsletter June 2021
Big Picture Thinking It’s hard not to be impressed by Dr. Michael Kobor. At once down to earth with a good sense of humour, he is a scientist known for his out of the box thinking. He began his career studying chromatin biology in model organisms (specifically S. cerevisiae) and has since expanded his research program to answer […]
Dr. Michael R. Hayden – University of Alberta Dean’s Lecture on Precision Health
Title: From Mutations in a few to Drugs for Many – Journey of a Physician-Scientist Objectives: To understand how rare mutations can give insights that have relevance for many To understand the process of drug development To define how precision diagnosis can lead to improved approaches therapy
CMMT Newsletter March 2021
The Man Behind IT Jonathan Chang is the CMMT’s Information Technology (IT) specialist. In fact, he’s the only IT person at the CMMT, a one-man shop for all things IT, and he loves it. But becoming an IT specialist was not the path he expected to take. A self-confessed computer geek, Jonathan began tinkering with […]
Core Facility Forms
Internal Sales Delivery Authorization Form The Internal Sales Delivery Authorization Form replaces the ‘standing JV’ that was used before Workday implementation. Please use this form to provide authorization for CMMT Core Facilities (and BCCH Biobank) to charge your UBC grants for your use of their services. Please click here or on the form image to […]