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Coping and Pasting here a Tweet from Ben Paylor one of the organizer of this awesome event: "Our 4th annual StemCellTalks is hosted at UBC today! 100 keen grade 11/12 students from 34 Vancouver schools over 30 PhD and Postdoc volunteers and 8 faculty experts holed up for a day of Debates and lectures about Stem cell science and ethics." Many Thanks to Ben Paylor for organizing this amazing event for High School Students. And Many Thanks To Robert Judson, Christine Eisner, Varoon Mathur, Claudia Hopkins, Cindy Ding, and the rest of the Rossi Lab for volunteering their time today. Fun debate about ES vs iPS between Dr Fabio Rossi and Dr Kevin Gregory-Evans. http://www.explorecuriocity.org/Community/Symposia/StemCellTalks/Vancouver.aspx For eight months, Claudia will be joining the Rossi Lab to illustrate scientific research and findings. These illustrations will be used as a communicative tool for publications, grants, and presentations to enhance the understanding of complex biological systems. From May until August Varoon will join the Rossi lab as a Centre for Blood Research Undergraduate fellow under the guidance of Dr. Coral Ann Lewis in the Dr Rossi's Lab! During the Summer months Cindy, under the guidance of Dr. Coral Ann Lewis, will be investigating the role of microglia and blood-derived macrophages in the development and progression of EAE, the murine model of multiple sclerosis. By identifying the changes in gene expression of infiltrating macrophages and microglia that occur between peak and recovery stages of disease, we hope to find new targets for therapeutic intervention in the progression of myelin and neuronal degeneration. Dr Kelly McNagny and Dr Fabio Rossi at "Stem Cell Science & Theology w. Guest" : July 15 20144/1/2014 Few of us today explored what UBC (The Peter Wall Institute) has to offer during Lunch hour. Today we have been inspired to think about science and fashion in a different way: "Jacqueline Firkins, an assistant professor in UBC’s Dept. of Theatre and Film with the help of Scientist Dr Christian Naus, has created a collection of ball gowns inspired by microscopic photos of cancer cells and cellular systems to get people talking about the disease, beauty and body image." In this Photo starting from the left: Dr Shin from Dr Naus's Lab, Dr Rossi's daughter Angelica Rossi, Regan Heng Zhang, Lin Yi and finally Dr Firkins next to one of her beautiful dresses inspired by Cancer Cells. The talk was inspiring, seeing how Science and Fashion could fusion like this opened up a lovely debate at the and of the talk. http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/fashioning_cancer/subject.html Today Ben Paylor a current PhD in the Rossi Lab and Mike Long a former PhD in the Rossi Lab received a great distinction in the National Science Foundation's "Visualization Challenge" and are featured in the prestigious journal Science. They got honourable mention in the Video category. You can read more about this at the following links:
NSF - http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2013.jsp#video Science - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6171/600.full Congratulation Ben and Mike!!! |
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