Schedule for Second MITACS Semi-Annual Team Meeting
Monday, April 19, 2003
Room 240 WMAX (near PIMS), 1933 West Mall, UBC
The goal of this meeting is to bring together team members, students,
and visitors to report on progress and to plan for the future.
We welcome participation by all who are interested in this event.
- 9:00 Introductions
- 9:05 Molecular Biology projects
- Introduction Leah Keshet: (5 min)
- Adriana Dawes: Signalling and the cytoskeleton (20 min)
- Sasha Jilkine: Interactions of small G-proteins (20 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- 10:00 Coffee break
- 10:35 Epidemiology and Alzheimer's Disease
- Alicia Shim: Vaccination and disease (20 min)
- Carol Huang: Amyloid-beta in Alzheimer's disease (10 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- 11:15 Stem cells project
- Jamie Piret: Pancreatic bioreactor (20 min)
- Clive Glover: Gene expression of stem cells in culture (20 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- Further discussion of morning projects
- 12:20 - 1:30 Lunch (included)
- 1:30 Diabetes Projects:
- Introduction (Diane Finegood 10 min)
- Brian Topp: Type II Diabetes (30 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- 2:25 Short Bio-break
- 2:30 Diabetes continued
- Richard Kublik: Type I diabetes (20 min)
- Dan Coombs: Overview of Future planned work (20 min)
- Discussion (10 min)
- Further discussion of afternoon projects
- 3:30 End of formal session
(Adjourn to Grad center for drinks)
- Management committee meeting (ends by 5:00pm)