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New Group Content: Call for Applications: Mackenzie King Scholarships

Please forward the following competition announcement to your students: Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships The Open Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded each year. The Traveling Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study […]

Nominations: Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships – deadline for receipt of application to grad office is Feb 1, 2016

Internal deadline for complete applications to be received by me is:  Monday, Feb 1, 2016 Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship The University of British Columbia offers multi-year fellowships to Master’s and doctoral Aboriginal students. Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through an annual competition, administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies […]

Sohrab Salehi exit seminar‏

Title: dd-PyClone: Clonal Subpopulation Inference from Single Cells and Bulk Sequencing Data Location 11am at the BC cancer agency’s lecture hall ​Abstract Improving our understanding of intra-tumour heterogeneity in cancer has important clinical implications, including an opportunity to understand mechanisms behind relapses and drug resistance. Next generation bulk sequencing is a mature tech- nology that […]

Andrew Roth – PhD exit seminar‏

What     BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR When    Friday, November 6th, 2015              11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Where   Gordon & Leslie Diamond  Family Theatre   Who     Andrew Roth Topic    “Probabilistic models for identification and interpretation of somatic single nucleotide variants in cancer genomes.”              Next      2nd Pivotal Training “Insights from Pivotal Hadoop Training: Part 2”                  This presentation will be available from the […]

Karaoke‏

Hello Boings, A few of us from yesterday’s BIOF social are planning to go karaoke (again) next week! Date: Friday, November 6th at 6pm (to 7pm/8pm depending the number of people we have) Place: Fantacity 1133 Robson St, Vancouver, BC Please let me know if you plan to join us. Sorry for those interested but can’t make […]

Halloween and Thanksgiving party – October social‏

Hey guys, Just a reminder that the event is tonight, at around 6pm at Mike&Emily’s (6229 Elm St.). 5pm if you want to help out with cooking and take the first bites of the food. We didn’t get a turkey, but food we are having are still pretty awesome: lentils soup and rice chicken drumsticks […]

VanBUG] Next VanBUG Seminar: Dr. Leonid Chindelevitch Nov 5th 6pm‏

Vanbug_poster_2015_11 Please join us for our next VanBUG seminar with Dr. Leonid Chindelevitch from SFU Dept of Computer Science, who will give a talk titled “Modelling infectious disease epidemics” on November 5th, 2015 at 6pm. Abstract: Infectious diseases continue to affect the lives of millions of people around the world, but we still understand relatively little […]

Teaching a module in PBL‏

Hi All, Dr. Jones has asked me to let you know he is open to a student or student(s) teaching a module for PBL.  If you are interested in doing this, please send me a title of the module and a one or two sentence description of it. Due to me by Monday, Nov 2. […]

TA required for PBL course (Problem-based Learning in Bioinformatics BIOF 505/MBB530) – CVs due Nov 2

Hi All,  Dr. Steve Jones is looking a TA for his course that starts Jan and runs until April 2014.  Part of the duties will include teaching a module, as well as other specified duties, such as marking assignments, depending on who applies for the position. If you are interested in this position, Please send […]

Halloween and Thanksgiving party – October social‏

Hi everybody! The most popular day was Friday October 30th, so that’s when we will be having this. One small change, however. The common room at Apt-living was already booked for the 30th, so we’ll be having it at Mike (my) and Emily’s place instead. While it isn’t as swanky as Apt-living, we will have […]