LFS Today Feb 10, 2021

LFS Virtual Townhall – Today

All LFS faculty and staff are invited to the next LFS Virtual Townhall, today at 1:00pm.
 
Agenda:

  • Message from Dean Rickey Yada
  • Supporting Students in Distress and Using The Early Alert Program: a guide for staff, faculty and TAs – Brian Barth, Manager, Student Support Services, VP Students Office
  • EDI Working Group update – Will Valley
  • Mid-course feedback – Adrian Granchelli
  • Updates on UBC initiatives related to COVID-19
  • Questions & Answers

To submit questions in advance or during the Townhall, please use Slido:

  1. Go to the website www.slido.com;
  2. Enter event code LFS to post a question or vote for an existing one.

If you need the Zoom meeting link, contact Eric at eric.skalij@ubc.ca.

 

Wellness Wednesday

Your Mental Health Tip of the Week:

Choose colourful or crunchy foods.
They tend to be healthier, are nice to look at, and that crunch can be a subtle stress-reliever.

Check out some of these upcoming events and workshops:

 

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

Elena Donskikh for her good spirited dedication to sorting out complicated research and other finance questions on Workday for many projects, staff and faculty!

Joana Pico, a staff member from Dr. Castellarin’s lab, who has been doing an extraordinary job! She has been helping people from other labs on running GC-MS and other experiments, despite being super busy already. She addresses everyone’s questions with patience.

Kaiwen Mu, a Ph.D. student with Dr. Kitts. Although busy with her own research, she is always willing to help others with their laboratory work and project outlines.

To nominate a faculty member, staff or graduate student that’s been doing an outstanding job or has gone above and beyond in some way, send an email to lfs.recognition@ubc.ca and tell us why this person should be recognized. We’ll send them a $6 Starbucks gift card and acknowledge their good work in LFS Today.

 

LFS Seminar on Synchrotron Imaging Techniques in Agriculture Research – Today

Title: Advancements in agriculture research using synchrotron imaging techniques
Speaker: Dr. Chithra Karunakaran, Science Manager, Canadian Light Source

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
10:00-11:15 am PST
See this poster for more info.

All are welcome!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69754097016?pwd=VnJPa2wrTU9Pdjh4TmRlU3dhS0w2dz09
 
Meeting ID: 697 5409 7016
Passcode: 686880

Questions? Contact gurcharn.brar@ubc.ca.

 

FNH Graduate Seminar – Today

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 – 4:00 p.m.
  
FOOD
Speaker 1Amelie Huiying Zhang
Supervisor: David Kitts
Proposal Seminar Topic: Effect of pulsed light (PL) on curcumin stability and antioxidant capacity
Chair: Drew Sanders
Link for feedback for Amelie Zhang:  https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bfQxuFJ62oOIhmt

Speaker 2Lennie Cheung
Supervisor: Rickey Yada
Open-Topic Seminar Topic: Identifying potential food-sourced inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease through in silico analyses
Chair:  Amelie Huiying Zhang

Link for feedback for Lennie Cheung: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TM7S5uEUeGQmi1

Zoom Info for FOOD seminars:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68700450283?pwd=alY0UUZiSE5nSWRscXI5T0ZETkx0UT09 
Meeting ID: 687 0045 0283
Passcode: 429423


HUNU
No HUNU speaker scheduled this week.

Please check the FNH Graduate Seminar Series webpage for general information and for the full schedule.

 

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) Seminar Series

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm
More info.

Speaker: Joanne Nelson, IRES PhD Program
Topic: Visualizing Urban Indigenous Water Knowledge

Speaker: Kyoko Adachi, IRES MA Alumna (July 2020)
Topic: On the Acceptance of Intergenerational Legacies: A Comparison of Canada and Japan

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61607880398?pwd=dVduVHNMbGM5b1ZuRWp1SnBENWk5UT09
 
Meeting ID: 616 0788 0398
Passcode: 097853

 

Workshop: Managing Orchards for Climate Friendly Outcomes

Join UBC Okanagan researchers on February 16 – 18 for a three-part webinar workshop series titled, ‘Managing Orchards for Climate Friendly Outcomes.’

The Okanagan Valley has some of the most amazing orchards in all of Canada, but how can we manage them with an eye for climate change mitigation? What are some of the key components to healthy, productive soils? In this series of workshops, the results of 5-10 years of research at UBC Okanagan on the management of orchard and vineyard soils will be explored.

Find out more info and register here: https://bcfoodweb.ca/events

 

Industry and Research Collaborations: Making Them Work for Food Loss and Waste (FLW) Solutions

Meet fellow academics and industry specialists to consider how researcher-industry collaborations can best operate, secure funds, find solutions to FLW challenges.

Tuesday, February 23, 11:30 am – 2 pm PST
Register here!

This event is hosted by the National Zero Waste Council in collaboration with Vancity and SFU’s Food Systems Lab.

Keynote: 

Breakout presenters: 

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