LFS Today Nov 23, 2022

News

Halloween Costume Contest Winner: Anna Brisco

Congratulations to Anna Brisco! For their spooky costume, they’ve won a year of bragging rights and trophy full of treats.

LFS Holiday Party – Register by Dec. 2

The Faculty will be hosting a late-lunch buffet on Friday, Dec. 9 for LFS faculty and staff. This is a way to thank everyone for their outstanding contributions, both over the past year and throughout the pandemic. We are looking forward to closing out 2022 together, and celebrating our LFS Service Award winners.

LFS Holiday Party

Date: Friday, December 9, 2022

Time: 2-4 pm [Please NOTE: time was adjusted from our earlier Save the Date notice]
Location: St. John’s College, UBC Vancouver campus, 2111 Lower Mall

RSVP by noon on Dec. 2:

https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3snt3OXnI5QBzIa

*Individuals who RSVP will be entered into a draw for prizes!*

The holiday luncheon is for LFS faculty and staff members, as well as LFS Undergraduate Society Executive and the Graduate Student Council.

Nominate LFS Service Award winners by Dec. 2!

Remember to recognize your LFS colleagues for their work! Categories are Shynkaryk Service Award (staff), Richards Service Award (faculty), and Graduate Student Service Award.

To make a nomination: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b1uAycvz9GZ0Klo

Events

Nov. 25 – FNH Graduate Seminar

Please note that Seminars would be offered in “Hybrid format” until further notice; Room ANGU 334 is booked for HUNU Seminars and ANGU 345 is booked for FOOD at the above noted seminar time. Please be ready with a question.

FOOD
No Seminar this week.

HUNU
Speaker 1: Raihan Hassen
Topic: “I’m gonna take care of them”; Exploring Teachers’ Tensions Related to Supporting Students’ Food and Nutrition Needs
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Black

Speaker 2: Julia Chen
Topic: The Impacts of Marketing Regulation of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages on Canadian Children’s Dietary Quality
Supervisor: Mahsa Jessri

Link for feedback for each of the HUNU presenters

Zoom info for the HUNU Graduate Students

*For general Seminar info, resources and schedule, please see the FNH Graduate Seminar Series webpage.

Dec. 8 – LFS Scholar Series: Lactation: An evolutionary model for diet and health research

Abstract

The world is facing unprecedented challenges to produce a food supply that is both nourishing, safe and sustainable. Scientists are struggling to understand how to guide the future of agriculture and food in response to these 21st century challenges. Lactation provides an inspiring model of what research and its applications could be. Lactation emerged through evolution under the relentless selective pressure to be a sustainable bioreactor secreting biopolymers with diverse functions acting from the mammary gland through the digestive system of the infant. Scientific understanding of milk yields targets of efficacy: what are the mechanisms by which diet can improve the protection, performance and success of infants; with an impeccable safety dosser: milk is all that babies eat! As just one example, milk contains free oligosaccharides. These glycans reach the lower intestine where bacteria compete. One specific strain of bacteria, Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis, is capable of taking up, hydrolyzing and metabolizing the complex glycans of human milk. Such a symbiotic relationships provides value to both the microbe and the infant: the microbe gains a food supply and the infant gains protection from pathogens.

Dr. J. Bruce German: Distinguished Professor in Food Science and Technology, Director, Foods for Health Institute, University of California Davis (http://ffhi.ucdavis.edu/). Bruce German received his BSc and MSc from University of Western Ontario, his PhD from Cornell University, joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1988, in 1997 was named the first John E. Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition and Health is currently Director of the Foods for Health Institute and professor, at University of California, Davis. The goal of his research, teaching and outreach is to build the knowledge necessary to improve human health through personal health measurements and diet. The model being used of how to proceed is lactation, the product of millennia of constant Darwinian selective pressure to produce a food to nourish, sustain and promote healthy infant mammals to be healthier http://www.imgconsortium.org/ . This evolutionary logic is the basis of the research program to discover molecular, physical, functional and nutritional properties of milk components and to apply these properties as principles to foods. Bruce and colleagues have published more than 500 papers that have been cited over 50,000 times. Together with colleagues and the University of California the research program has launched 4 companies providing products and services to the commercial marketplace.

Thursday, December 8

10 – 11:30 am

Online and in-person (SPPH B151)

This presentation will be followed by a meet and greet from 11:30-12:00.

Please register here by Dec 6.

Deadlines

Dec. 16 – Share your thoughts: Building a pan-Canadian school food policy

The Government of Canada is taking steps to build a pan-Canadian school food policy. This policy will help guide the expansion of school food programs in Canada. When more children have healthy meals at school, it helps set them up to reach their full potential. We want to hear about your experiences and views on school food programs and the most important objectives for a school food policy.

They are seeking input from all Canadians who have experience with, or an interest in, school food policy and programming in Canada.

Complete the questionnaire by December 16, 2022.

Feb. 1 – IDRC Research Awards 2023–2024

This year IDRC will offer research awards related to these development areas or themes: Climate-Resilient Food Systems, Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Education and Science, Ethics in Development Research, Global Health, Policy and Evaluation, and Sustainable Inclusive Economies.

All awards will be based in Ottawa except for the Global Health award that will be based in Nairobi.

If your research proposal is selected, you will join IDRC as a Research award recipient for a period of 12 months from 1 May 2023 to 30 April 2024 to undertake research on the topic you have submitted. You will receive hands-on experience in research and program management and support, grant administration, and the creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge from an international perspective.

The deadline for submitting your completed application is 1 February 2023 at 23:59 EST.

Apply here