LFS Today Nov 29, 2022

News

Random Acts of Recognition

The UBC Farm team would like to recognize members of the UBC Farm Saturday Farmers’ Market and sales staff on the 2022 market season.

Nothing “beets” seeing almost 30,000 people visit our Saturday markets in one season!

Thank you to Kyne Tsai, Pierce Pimiskern, Mathilde Newman, Juliette Hardy, Mya Talan, Jamie Butts, Ayesha Carew, Jordan Jacquard, Anya Akimoff, Ciara Albrecht, William Lee, Julia Evans!

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, along with their email. We’ll send them a $6 Starbucks gift card and acknowledge their good work in LFS Today.

Events

Dec. 2 – IOF Seminar: Conservation and Livelihoods: A case study from coastal Mozambique

This presentation delves into the tensions between biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods using examples from projects TLLG (The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group) have worked on. It provides a brief historical background on how livelihoods came to be a key consideration in conservation work, how livelihoods are conceptualised in the literature and practice, and summarises some key challenges faced in developing conservation initiatives that account for and build on sustainable rural livelihoods. In the second half of the presentation, Dr. Wosu will present on how she and her colleagues from TLLG are approaching the challenge of conservation and livelihoods using project examples and some of the changes we are working to make in the conservation sector in order to put rural livelihoods at the centre of achieving environmental outcomes.

Dr. Adaoma Wosu, The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group

Friday, December 2

11am – 12pm

Zoom

RSVP here

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/)

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

Nov. 30 – Job Posting: CSFS Research Manager Position

Working in a dynamic and high-energy environment, the CSFS Research Manager will assist and support the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm with duties and responsibilities associated with facilitating academic research projects and activities at the Centre. The ideal candidate has extensive higher education research management experience with a focus on food system sustainability or agroecology and is highly skilled in research facilitation and grant writing, implementation, and evaluation.

The closing date for this job posting (https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs/job/UBC-Vancouver-Campus/CSFS-Research-Manager_JR10542-1) is 11:59pm on Wednesday, November 30. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.

Dec. 10 – UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture (Virtual Open House on Nov. 29)

Application deadline extended for the UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture! Apply by Dec. 10, and join us for a virtual open house on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 5pm to answer all your questions.

More information and registration can be found at https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/learn/practicum/

Dec. 31 – Job Posting: Assistant Professor, Functional Phenomics and Physiology of Horticultural Crops, Texas A&M University

The Department of Horticultural Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, seeks outstanding applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position in the area of Functional Phenomics and Physiology of Horticultural Crops to start late summer or early fall 2023. This is a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track faculty position with 60% research, 30% teaching, and 10% service and outreach responsibilities.

To be given full consideration, please submit applications by December 31, 2022. The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. The anticipated start date is August 1, 2023.

Full job posting