LFS Today Aug 23, 2022

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Watch for events celebrating the Animal Welfare Program’s 25th Anniversary

The Animal Welfare Program is turning 25! Faculty and staff in the AWP are putting together a number of webinars and in-person events to celebrate this milestone. Tune into their upcoming webinar series where all aspects of animal welfare will be discussed by AWP alumni. The launch is Sept. 12 on the topic Achieving Change in Academia. Speakers include alumni now working in academia:

– Cassandra Tucker, Professor and Director of the Center for Animal Welfare, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis

– Kathryn Proudfoot, Associate Professor, Director of the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre

– Becca Franks, Research Scientist Department of Environmental Studies New York University

Webinar details:

Topic: Achieving Change in Academia

Sept. 12, 2022

12 pm PT

For more information and to sign-up visit: https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/webinars/

Events

TODAY Aug. 23 – Dr. Guodong Zhang, Candidate for Assistant or Associate Professor position in Food Science – Research Seminar

How to reduce the risks of colonic inflammation and colon cancer? Development of dietary strategies and identification of dietary risk factors.

August 23, 9:30-11:00 am

Food, Nutrition and Health Building, Room 60

Or

Register here:

https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ipd-mvqjMtH9FVdSuDn9Wx9clf1esHuKGZ

TODAY Aug. 23 – Gurcharn Singh Brar, presenting on Wheat Blast: An emerging and spreading disease threatening global wheat production

Gurcharn Singh Brar is hosting a presentation on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. Everyone is invited.

Topic: Wheat blast: An emerging and spreading disease threatening global wheat production

Presenter: Pawan K. Singh, Head, Wheat Pathology, GWP, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, MEXICO

Tuesday, August 23, 2022
9:30 – 10:30 AM PDT (including Q&A period)

In person: Forest Sciences Centre (FSC) Room 1611 – Please note the new location for the presentation

Via Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/67337851384?pwd=Y2Z1OVhwZzkzcHI4OFdMVTNiUkVHdz09

September 13 – Training, Regulatory Enrolment Process: Veterinary Drug Submissions

The Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD) will be moving to a fully electronic submission environment with the Regulatory Enrolment Process (REP). Use of the REP will be mandatory as of October 1, 2022 for veterinary drug submissions that are within scope. Learn more about REP here.

To facilitate and support this transition, VDD invites you to join a training webinar to go over this process and any questions you may have. This session will also be recorded and made available to support broader access.

Click here for the Microsoft Teams link. Please add the link to your schedule on September 13th.

Deadlines

Aug. 31 – Canadian Mountain Assessment Call for Reviewers

The Canadian Mountain Assessment (CMA) provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about Canada’s diverse and rapidly changing mountain systems. The assessment is based on insights from both Indigenous and Western academic knowledge systems, and represents a unique effort to enhance understanding of mountains through respectful inclusion of multiple bodies of knowledge.

We are calling on mountain researchers from Canada and abroad, Indigenous Peoples in Canada and other regions globally, and decision-makers with responsibilities pertinent to mountain areas in Canada to provide feedback on the CMA draft. The review period will take place from mid-September to the end of October, 2022.

We invite interested reviewers to complete the short survey below by August 31, 2022. We will contact eligible reviewers to provide further details and access to the draft document in mid September, 2022. https://forms.gle/zhDNFbTcc3M6G7uFA