LFS Today Feb 25, 2022

 News  

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

Thank you to Candice Rideout, Christine Scaman, Dan Naidu, Roxana Quinde, Xinyan Fan and Bette Shipman, who facilitated break out session for the LFS ACE event, “Connect with LFS Majors”. Their team would like to express their appreciation for your time and contribution! Your insight has guided and prepared students in their decision making progress as they select their majors. Once again, they thank you for taking the time to participate.

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.

 Events  

Today – Lunch & Learn Series: Discussing Burnout with Nicole Adoranti

Our next session will be held TODAY at noon. Nicole Adoranti (Embedded Counsellor, LFS/Forestry) will lead the session this week.

In this Lunch & Learn session Nicole will discuss the basic signs of burnout, what it looks and feels like, and how to manage stress symptoms that may lead to burnout.
Join Nicole and the Learning Centre Team this Friday over Zoom to understand burnout. To register for this session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Follow LFS Learning Centre’s Lunch & Learn Series on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage.

Feb. 28 – Research Seminar

Leluo Guan, Candidate for Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Agricultural, Food or Nutritional Science
Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta
Research Seminar: Systemic Omics and Implications in the Sustainable Agriculture
February 28, 9:30-11:00am
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wufuysqjwsH9LaPr7Kzg23MhDksQztznL3

Mar. 1 – Info Session from Genome BC on Partnership Program

The latest round of the Genome Canada Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP) has launched. GAPP funds downstream research and development projects that address real world opportunities and challenges identified by industry, government, not-for-profits and other “Receptors” of genomics knowledge and technologies. GAPP projects are collaborations between academic researchers and Receptor organizations and are funded by Genome Canada and co-funded by Receptors and other stakeholders.
Genome BC staff will deliver a brief presentation on the competition followed by a Q&A session. Interested applicants will have the opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with Genome BC staff to help develop ideas.

• Tuesday, March 1, 10-11:30am
• A Zoom link will be sent to registrants before the session

Full session details and registration: https://sparc.ubc.ca/announcement/genomic-applications-partnership-program-information-session

Mar. 10 – UBCO Diversity in Biology Speaker Series

The Biology Department at UBC Okanagan is pleased to present our next speaker in the Diversity in Biology Speaker Series on Thursday March 10th, at 11am on Zoom. For this event we will be hosting Dr. Yaxi Hu, whose talk is titled “Application of ‘Omics Tools for the Analysis of Food Integrity”. Note that advanced registration is required for this event. The abstract is as follows:

To safeguard consumers’ health and rights, food professionals have committed to ensuring the integrity (i.e., safe, high quality and authentic) of food products along the supply chain from the farm to the fork. Among the different approaches, analytical tools that can identify defective food products serve as the last barrier to prevent those products from contaminating supply chain. Involving complex sample matrices, analytical tools for food integrity analysis need to be sensitive and have high resolution. Omics tools, originally developed to analyze collection(s) of chemicals in biological samples, have attracted attentions of food researchers due to their excellent performance in analyzing complex sample matrices. My presentation today will focus on how we applied omics tools to solve a variety of food integrity related challenges.

For more information, or to register to attend, please see the event link: https://events.ok.ubc.ca/event/diversity-in-biology-speaker-series-application-of-omics-tools-for-the-analysis-of-food-integrity/

For information about the Diversity in Biology Speaker Series in general, or to learn about future speakers, please contact Robin Young at robin.young@ubc.ca

Apr. 7 – Activate your entrepreneurial mindset: Powered by PechaKucha

Do you want to enhance your performance at work, be valued by your employer, and develop skills essential to today’s economy? One way to do so is to think like an entrepreneur. At this virtual event, you’ll hear from Shahrzad Rafati (BSc’07), who is the Chairperson and CEO of BroadbandTV (BBTV). Her media-tech company is one of the Top 10 Tech listings of all time on the TSX – and a quadruple bottom-line business that measures its success by impact, not just financials.

Following her conversation with a moderator, six speakers, including LFS alumni Mauricio Lozano (MFS’09), will present their stories — including challenges they’ve overcome and lessons learned, accompanied by visuals — in a PechaKucha format. In these talks, the speakers — ranging from UBC alumni and students to community members — will share their experiences and expertise in everything from elite athletics to breweries to personal care products. This is your opportunity to learn how they benefited from having an entrepreneurial mindset and how you can continue strengthening this skillset.

Thursday, April 7, 2022
2:00pm–3:30pm PT

Learn more and register here.

 Deadlines  

May 3 – Weston Foundation Homegrown Innovation Challenge

The Weston Family Foundation has launched its $33-million Homegrown Innovation Challenge to spark creative solutions and encourage new ideas to boost the sustainable production of fruits and vegetables in Canada.

The Challenge centres around a competition to generate solutions that enable domestic food producers to grow berries out of season, sustainably, competitively, and at scale. Funding will be awarded in stages over a six-year period to eligible teams developing tools and technologies that solve the interconnected challenges of growing produce out of season in Canada.

Please see the webpage for further information on how PI’s can apply. Application forms will be available in March with a deadline of 12PM ET on May 3, 2022 for the first phase of funding.