The Brain, Behaviour & Development 5th Annual Research Day
2021-01-22 08:45 - 12:45 (America/Vancouver) | Online
Keynote Speaker
Advancing Psychiatric Care through Clinical Neuroscience:
Lessons from Research on Anxiety
Dr. Daniel Pine is Chief, Emotion and Development Branch in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. Dr. Pine moved to this position in 2000, after 10 years of training, teaching, and research at Columbia University. Since graduating from medical school at the University of Chicago, Dr. Pine has been engaged continuously in research on pediatric mental disorders, as reflected in more than 600 peer-reviewed papers. Currently, his group examines the degree to which pediatric mood and anxiety disorders are associated with perturbed neural circuitry function.
Dr. Pine served as the Chair of the Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration, Chair of the Child and Adolescent Disorders Work Group for the DSM-5 Task Force, and President of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Distinguished Investigator indicating stature as among the 1-2% most impactful National Institute of Health intramural scientists and has received many other awards.
Registration is now open until January 21, 2021.
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BB&D 5th Annual Research Day
This year, the annual event will take place virtually via Zoom on Friday January 2021! We aim to bring together investigators, trainees and staff across the Theme and from the broader pediatric research community in affiliated hospitals and other institutions, to share, learn and interact online. We have a great half-day planned – the program schedule will include a keynote talk by Dr. Danny Pine, lightning talks and an e-poster gallery.
We invite all members and trainees to submit a research abstract. This year, as there are no physical space limitations, we are happy to accept all abstracts for the poster session. All abstract submissions will also be considered for lightning talks.
About the Event
Presented by the BB&D Advisory Group and Administration, the Brain, Behaviour & Development (BB&D) Annual Research Day is held annually in the Fall. The annual event highlights accomplishments and advances from BB&D researchers and provides a forum to learn about various ongoing or developing projects and collaborations. The event also includes a keynote presentation given by an internationally renowned guest speaker.

LifeSciences BC Career Connect Day
2021-01-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Online
LifeSciences BC is pleased to announce our second annual Career Connect Day, presented by BioTalent Canada. This event will help connect life sciences companies and organizations from across the sector with access to talent. This event will be one of the key events in the life sciences community calendar and will feature dynamic speakers, a job fair and networking with key members of the life sciences sector. To maximize the networking opportunities, attendees will be able to connect and arrange meetings through our virtual event platform!

Mind Over Matter - Fact or Fiction: Understanding Women's Brain-Mind-Body Connections for Health and Wellness
2021-01-25 09:00 - 10:00
This workshop is part of the Women’s Health Research Cluster’s Women’s Brain Health Virtual Conference Series, which brings attention to the brain health issues women face and encourages the medical, scientific and commercial communities to address them. In this workshop, hear from Dr. Sherri Hayden and Anne Lyle from Synaptic Travels & Wellness who will debunk myths about brain health and share the clinical outcomes of mind-body practices on women’s cognitive health.

Brown Bag Series: Mapping Your Career Journey
2021-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This talk will share 4 actionable tips to “manage your career” and give you tools to move your career in a direction that makes you happy.

About this Event

Since 1981, SCWIST has made great strides in promoting and empowering women in STEM. When you register, please consider adding a small donation to support our programs so all interested women and girls can see where a future in STEM can take them.

Brown Bag: Mapping Your Career Journey
Fundamentally, “managing your career” is about being happy at work, and moving your career in a direction that makes you happy and fulfilled. This talk will focus on what *you* can do to kickstart your happiness at work, whether you are starting up, already climbing the ladder or simply looking for a change: drive your career, embrace mistakes, build resilience, and acknowledge impostor syndrome.

Kim-Adeline Miguel
Kim-Adeline Miguel (she/her) is a software engineer at Microsoft working on the Python extension for VS Code. She completed her M.Eng at the University of Technology of Compiègne (France), and worked in Singapore and in Denmark, before landing in Vancouver.
As part of her day job she supports one of the most popular free tools for all developers, along with its community. She also contributes to open-source projects during her spare time, and sometimes writes or talks about them. Other qualifications include propagating succulents 🌵, being able to hold crow pose for 3 breaths 🐦, and using emojis wherever possible 👩‍🎨.
Twitter: @kimadeline_m

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BMI AI Research Exchange
2021-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This month features members of the Multi-Scale Design Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Hongshen Ma in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. They are also part of the larger Centre for Blood Research lab group in the Faculty of Medicine.
Speakers:
Erik Lamoureux (MASc student) – Image Classification of Red Blood Cell Deformability Using Deep Learning
Samuel Berryman (PhD student) – Image Based Cell Phenotyping Using Deep Learning
Alec Xu (MASc student) – Macrophage Phenotyping Using Machine Learning
Ryan Lee (Research Assistant) – Deep Learning Based Automated Sperm Identification for Non-obstructive Azoospermia Patients

The Biomedical Imaging and AI cluster is focused on increasing engagement and collaboration between our members. As part of this effort, we will be hosting monthly research exchange lunches.
All are welcome to attend, but the focus will be on student and trainee engagement. Participants will be asked to present their research or a research question in a lightning round format (3-5 minutes). Our recurring webinar series will encourage knowledge exchange among our cluster and support research collaboration.

Shaping our Health: Microbiome in Immunity and Inflammation
2021-01-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
Gain insights and virtually interact with five of our academic and industry leaders to see how we are shaping our health with the microbiome in immunity and inflammation.

Organized by UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Discovery to Commercialization is a series of education and networking events that aim to improve awareness and knowledge of the commercialization process and provide opportunities to foster new relationships within the life sciences community.
Discovery to Commercialization brings together university faculty members, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, health care leaders, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and commercialization stakeholders who are passionate about taking innovative research discoveries through the commercialization process.
