LFS Today Jan 18, 2022

 News  

LFS in the News

Frederik Noack was featured in articles about a new UBC-led study looking into the impacts that large industrial farming has on biodiversity which found that increased farm size causes a decline in bird diversity.

New Food Magazine, Science Daily, News Concerns, Phys.org, Florida News Times

Tech Tip Tuesday: LFS Learning Centre Pop-Up Studio

Polished lecture capture depends strongly on the quality and professionalism of the video and audio setup. The Learning Centre has set up the LFS Learning Centre Pop-up Studio, a recording and live streaming studio, at the MCML 266 to help instructors meet these objectives. The studio comes with professional audio/video recording equipment, streaming software setup, and assistance from a Learning Centre staff member onsite for pre- and post-production.

To book the studio, please visit the LFS Room bookings website.

 Events  

Today – Research and Teaching Seminars

Dora Zsuzsanna Simon, Candidate for Assistant Professor in  Food and Resource Economics
Teaching Seminar: Emerging tools for Data Analysis in Economics
January 18, 9:00-10:00am
Register here

Jennifer Raynor, Candidate for Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation
Research Seminar: Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation
January 18, 10:30am-12:00pm
Register here

Jan. 19 – BCFT Speakers’ Night Event with Siyun Wang

Join the British Columbia Food Technologists (BCFT) annual Speaker Night event, this year focused around how the pandemic shaped and changed research and businesses in food technology. Hear from Dr. Siyun Wang, Associate Professor of Food Safety Engineering at UBC, speaking about her research on disinfectant effectiveness of sanitizers against SARS-CoV-2. In addition, Craig and Carissa Campeotto from Trendi foods will speak on their struggles and successes with building up their business through a pandemic.

Wednesday January 19, 6:30 pm

Register here

Jan. 20 – IRES Faculty Seminar: Ilyas Siddique

Topic: Integrating agroforesters’ & ecologists’ knowledge to restore forests through agroecological production

Abstract:
Successional agroforestry offers great potential to accelerate and scale out ecosystem restoration and produce healthy food at the same time on the same land. Yet, simultaneous ecological and socioeconomic success requires detailed knowledge of management traits of diverse plants and experience with efficient allocation of labor and inputs in space and time. Traditional knowledge, contemporary practitioners and socioecological science complement one another to test and adapt know-how. Hands-on collective work sessions and interactive online database sharing help to optimize tradeoffs between cultivated biodiversity, labor-efficiency and operational viability. Spatial and temporal arrangements of polycultures seek to raise crop functional diversity sufficiently to occupy ecological niches compatible with the disturbance regime of available agricultural tools and machinery. The resulting efficient use of space, light, nutrients, water and labor reduces external inputs and facilitates permanent conservation by sustainable use of native biodiversity.

Presenter: Ilyas Siddique, Associate Professor of Agroecosystems, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)

Thursday, January 20, 12:30 – 1:30pm

Zoom Link

 Deadlines  

Jan. 21 – U of T Chemical Engineering Graduate Research Days

Every year the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at U of T hosts prospective students from across Canada for Graduate Research Days (GRD). This event gives students who are interested in grad studies the chance to learn more about their department, as well as meet with faculty and current grad students.

The next GRD will take place on February 24-25. To be considered for an invitation, please apply by January 21.

Feb. 1 – Faculty of Medicine Precision Health (PH) Catalyst Grant Competition

The PH Catalyst Grants aim to enable collaborative and innovative early stage precision health research projects (foundational or clinical research) created with intent to fuel a proposal for a larger-scale, longer-term project. To learn more about competition eligibility and to download the proposal submission form, visit the PH Catalyst Grants website.

The deadline to apply is February 1, 2022.

If you are unsure about eligibility or have any other questions about the competition, please reach out to fom.precisionhealth@ubc.ca.