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Invited Speaker: Dr. Sheng Luan: Chancellor's Professor and Chair, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology – University of California, Berkeley This seminar will be presented in a hybrid format. Audience members are welcome to attend either in person at the MSL lecture theatre (room 102) or via the zoom link. Those connecting via zoom will be […]
Speaker: Dr. Karen Miga Assistant Professor – Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Associate Director – UCSC Genomics Institute Co-Founder – Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium Project Director – Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) Production Centre at UCSC Dr. Miga is offering this talk in addition to the Michael Smith Distinguished Lecture that will follow later […]
The annual Michael Smith Distinguished Lecture is organized in partnership with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Michael Smith Laboratories. This event honours Nobel Laureate Dr. Michael Smith, whose academic career was deeply rooted at UBC and where his legacy continues to inspires young generations of scientists. The first Michael Smith Distinguished […]
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Basics is our first workshop of a six-part series. During this workshop, we will facilitate two activities: 1) a team-oriented exercise to build a mobile and 2) an individual reflection activity of identity mapping. Through these activities, we will explore and start a conversation around relevant EDI concepts and their direct application. The workshop will be facilitated by MSL EDI Committee members, Dr. Marissa Lithopoulos, Lucía Quesada-Ramírez and Sophie Sack.