LFS Today Apr 27, 2021

LFS Scholar Series – Plant Science is today!

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Moscou, Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia

Topic: Multiple Pathogen Recognition by Plant Immune Receptors

Matthew is a Research Group Leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory. Matthew’s career started at the University of California, Riverside, USA where he studied Pure Mathematics and Physics (BSc), working as a programmer and molecular biologist in the laboratory of Prof. Timothy Close. Matthew conducted his PhD work at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, with his work focusing on gene expression and regulation during the interaction of barley with different obligate biotrophic fungal pathogens. Matthew joined as a post-doctoral scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory in 2010 in the newly formed 2Blades Group under the supervision of Dr. Eric Ward. Matthew became a group leader in 2014 with a focus on understanding immunity to non-adapted pathogens of grasses.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
9:30-11:00 AM PDT (including Q&A period)

Please register to get Zoom details:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cqfuqprDoqEtI_MG4hrBysQniwyBFIJd_U

Co-host: Dr. Gurcharn Singh Brar

Decolonial Futures, Higher Education and Sustainable Food Systems Education

Another Sandbox Webinar Series designed for Sustainable Food Systems educators to provide professional development opportunities to gain, enhance, and share knowledge and skills regarding Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) and Online Teaching.

DATE: Tuesday, May 04, 2021, 12pm-1:30pm (PT)
* 3pm (ET) / 2pm (CT) / 1pm (MT)

TITLE: Decolonial Futures, Higher Education and Sustainable Food Systems Education

SPEAKER: Dr. Sharon Stein, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

DESCRIPTION:
Join us May 04 for a webinar led by Dr. Sharon Stein for a broad introduction to decolonial perspectives and critiques of modernity, and how they relate to recent efforts to include justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in sustainable food systems education programs. Dr Stein will guide participants through activities she uses in her own teaching practice that invite participants to face our implication in the problems we critique, engage responsibly with alternative possibilities, and support us to “stay with the trouble” rather than to seek immediate resolution or reassurance.

Dr. Stein’s research brings critical and decolonial perspectives to the study and practice of internationalization, decolonization, and sustainability in higher education. Through this work, Dr. Stein seeks to interrupt common colonial patterns of educational engagement, including: uneven, paternalistic, and extractive relationships between dominant and marginalized communities; simplistic solutions to complex problems; and ethnocentric imaginaries of justice, responsibility, and change. Dr. Stein is a member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective and is increasingly focusing on work with faculty and practitioners in STEM and Health Sciences fields.

ZOOM INFO:
Topic: Decolonial Futures, Higher Education and Sustainable Food Systems Education
Time: May 4, 2021 12:00 PM Vancouver

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64859181324?pwd=Zm1Mb09LOFlZRTFiekdFQUVpbmViZz09

Notice for UBC Microsoft 365 Users

This is a friendly reminder that starting April 30, 2021, UBC will be implementing a 90-day data retention schedule to the MS Teams instant messaging feature.  This will impact personal chats in the context of one-to-one and group chats. The retention schedule does not impact conversations hosted within a Teams channel.

Why are we doing this?
The implementation of Data Retention Schedules is required in compliance with UBC Records Management policies and requirements (https://recordsmanagement.ubc.ca/schedules/). A Data Retention Schedule provides guidance on how long records must be kept and ensures records are not indefinitely stored if they are no longer needed.  This will reduce risk related to data breaches and maximize the usage of storage space.

In addition, MS Teams’ Chat feature is intended to be used as a communications platform for casual conversations.  It is not meant for exchanging confidential or sensitive data, or for critical/formal decision making.

How will conversations and files be impacted?
Any conversations in your chat history of the Chat feature that are beyond the 90-day period since creation will be deleted from the system.  This will include conversations that are over the 90-day period once the schedule is implemented.

The following types of conversations impacted include:

One-to-one chats
Group chats (including meetings) that are hosted outside of a Teams channel

Please note that links to the files shared in conversations will also be removed at the 90-day mark; however, the actual files can be found in the MS OneDrive of the original sender.

If files and information are required to be referenced past the 90 days, consider hosting them in a Teams channel or MS OneDrive.

We recommend reviewing your chat history for conversations that will be older than 90 days by the time this schedule is implemented (on April 30) to ensure that you have the links and/or files that you need.

Where to go for information and help?
For more information, please visit the MS Teams page on the UBC IT service catalogue (https://it.ubc.ca/teams).  Please contact the IT Service Centre (https://it.ubc.ca/helpdesk) if you have any questions or concerns.

Cascadia Innovation Corridor Virtual Forums

Accelerating Connection and Recovery

Speakers: Rep. Seth Moulton (MA 6th District) and Rep. Suzan DelBene (WA 1st District), co-sponsors of the American High Speed Rail Act

Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PT)
Free to join
Register: Click here

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Cascadia Innovation Corridor (CIC) will examine the vision and prospects for responsible growth patterns in the Cascadia bioregion in this compelling virtual series. The Next 5,000,000 refers to the striking number of people that will call Cascadia their new home by ±2050. Opportunity-seekers, lifestyle-chasers, immigrants, domestic migrants and climate refugees will flow into Cascadia, putting even more pressure on the I-5 corridor. We have a unique chance to prepare for this by fostering an equitable, intelligent, well-connected megaregion, from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia to the Portland Metropolitan area.

The CIC’s recent study, CASCADIA VISION 2050, is the point of departure for this speaker series. Only by fully engaging local jurisdictions, businesses, and residents, can the report’s initial assumptions and proposals be explored and fashioned into tangible strategies and actions for natural resource preservation, affordable housing, job creation, and infrastructure investments.

Call for proposals: The Trans-Atlantic Platform Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World

The Trans-Atlantic Platform Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World (RRR) is now underway, providing an opportunity for social science and humanities researchers from both sides of the Atlantic to collaborate on at least one of five key aspects of COVID-19 recovery:

  • reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities
  • building a more resilient and sustainable society
  • fostering democratic governance and political participation
  • advancing responsible and inclusive digital innovation
  • ensuring effective and accurate communication and media

Deadline: 14th June 2021

Please see more information and apply here.

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