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January 24, 2019: the "register now, attend later" edition
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You're invited to a special event to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
- Posters by ICORD women
- Keynote by Dr. Lesley Shannon, NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (BC & Yukon)
- Panel discussion with Dr. Shannon, Dr. Gail Murphy (VP Research & Innovation, UBC), Dr. Zena Sharman (Director, Strategy, MSFHR), and Dr. Mali Meibod (former ICORD trainee, now working at Astrazeneca), moderated by Faydra Aldridge (Director of Stakeholder Relations, VCHRI)
- Networking & socializing, with refreshments
Everyone welcome • No charge, but registration is required and space is limited
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Trainee Seminar Series
Tuesday January 29 , 4-5pm in the Lecture Hall
Everyone welcome!
Brian Hayes (West Lab) The effect of simulated orthostatic hypotension on cardiac function in experimental SCI
Shane Balthazaar (Krassioukov Lab) Cardiac outcomes following SCI: acute and chronic stages
Following the seminar the ICORD Trainee Committee will be hosting an informal trainee social at the Storm Crow Alehouse (1619 West Broadway) for some post-trainee seminar board games. The dice start rolling at 5:45pm, see you there!
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Register for ICORD's Annual Research Meeting
We're looking forward to another day and a half of exciting research at our Annual Research Meeting this March 6 and 7. Our meeting starts in the late afternoon of March 6 with our first plenary talk , followed by our first poster session and opening reception. On March 7 we will have a full day starting with a plenary talk, followed by research talks, lunch, our second poster session, more research talks, and the presentation of poster awards at the end.
Our plenary speakers will be:
Dr. Amy Latimer-Cheung (Queens University), who will talk about knowledge translation and disability
Dr. James Grau (Texas A & M Institute for Neurosciences), who will discuss adaptive and maladaptive plasticity after spinal cord injury
If you want to participate in the annual research meeting, you must register.
This applies to all faculty, staff, and trainees from ICORD and partner institutions. ICORD admin staff will only register visiting speakers. If you are not a visiting speaker, please register yourself. It's easy: just click on the button below to go to our registration page. The password is ICORDARM2019.
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Women's health after spinal cord injury
Dr. Andrei Krassioukov will host the 5th International Autonomic Symposium on February 13, 2019 at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. The symposium, Women’s health after spinal cord injury, will examine the latest advances in research and clinical management of women’s health issues after SCI (sexual health, pregnancy, breastfeeding, spasticity and aging concerns such as osteoporosis and menopause).
Click here to register or for more information.
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 This event, organized by Drs. Wolfram Tetzlaff and Karim Fouad (U of A) will take place at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. Click here for information and registration.
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PhD? Check. Adorable daughter? Check.
Former Ramer Lab trainee Diana Hunter and her husband Dave are very excited to announce to the world the birth of their first child, Lucille Verity Hunter Vanspall! She arrived somewhat unexpectedly, which is rather ironic given that she was born precisely on her due date: January 4th.
Measuring in at a perfect “tall and skinny” 7lbs, 3oz and 20.5” long, their sassy little girl has dark wavy hair and a penchant for eating that conclusively proves she is her parents’ daughter! Diana and Lucy didn’t spend too long in the hospital (less than 48 hours) because after the bit of a rocky start, Lucy passed all her tests and screens with ease (taking after her Mom already?).
Everyone is doing well: Lucy continues to have a healthy appetite, Diana is recovering, and Dave is tired and keeps having people tell him “get used to it!”
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New Faculty Supervisors Workshop
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 12:30 to 14:30
B219 BUCH (Buchanan B), 1866 Main Mall
UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is offering a workshop for new faculty members, focusing on graduate supervision.
The workshop covers the fundamentals of effective graduate supervision, including:
• Getting Started
- elements of excellent graduate supervision
- effective recruiting and selecting of graduate students
• Building a Strong Student – Supervisor Relationship
- establishing communication, discussing expectations
- preventing and solving problems
- negotiating concerns, issues and conflicts that may arise
• Maintaining Momentum
- the work plan, identifying and achieving milestones, assessing academic progress
- dealing with crises and program interruptions, maintaining motivation
• Preparing for the Future
- career mentoring, professional skills development, the future relationship
The Workshop will also outline the range of resources available at UBC for faculty and students related to supervision.
RSVP by March 5 here.
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Need a coffee fix in North Van?
Annette and her team from our local Bean Around the World are opening a second location in Lower Lonsdale tomorrow. This BATW will be open on weekends, too.
Visit them at 506 Chesterfield Avenue North Vancouver.
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 New paper in Neurology
Congratulations to Tom Nightingale, Matthias Walter, Ali Williams, Tania Lam, and Andrei Krassioukov, on the recent publication of their paper Ergogenic effects of an epidural neuroprosthesis in one individual with spinal cord injury in the high-impact journal Neurology.
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Will be back soon...
In the meantime let us know who you want to know!
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Volunteer to be profiled! Or nominate someone. You don't even have to know them (that's the whole point of this column!) Send ideas to Cheryl.
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Vancouver Cantata Singers presents
Musica Universalis
Saturday February 23, 7:30pm
BSCC Atrium
Musica Universalis, or ‘universal music’, refers to an ancient philosophical concept that the movement of celestial bodies create their own music based the mathematical proportions and vibrations of their inter-relational orbits. This idea, that the universe and galaxies have their own celestial music, has inspired many composers to create choral music of both sacred and secular texts.
The Vancouver Cantata Singers brings you a concert of 19th century and contemporary works, exploring the poetry and music of the planets and heavenly spheres. The concert features works by internationally renowned classical choral composers such as Erik Ešenvalds, Ola Gjeilo and Vancouver-based composers, Stephen Chatman, Craig Galbraith, and Larry Nickel. Plus an arrangement for choir of Bjork’s Cosmogony by local composer, Kristopher Fulton.
If you've never heard the VCS singing in the BSCC Atrium, check out this video for a special treat!
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Meet some new people, make some connections
The next D.R.I.N.K.S. (Discussions Relevant to Inspiring New Knowledge & Science) social will happen on February 22 from 4 to 7pm at Mahoney's Stamps Landing. The purpose (if you need an excuse to stay a little later!) is to bring together faculty, clinicians, scientists, residents, trainees, staff, entrepreneurs, bio/pharm staff/execs/veterans, lawyers, VCs, journalists/editors, sabbaticals, and others with common interests in biomedical/translational research & discovery/commercialization once a month to casually interact and meet new people over a beverage of their choice and/or appie. It's also becoming a great way for people who have just moved to or are visiting Vancouver, or looking for collaborations, jobs, networking/socializing, to meet others in research/biomedical field/industry.
Future dates: Mar 28, Apr 18, 4-7pm
All are welcome to sign up for the LinkedIn page
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GF Strong Research Day: May 8, 2019
Plenary speaker: Dr. Eva Widerstrom-Noga, a pain researcher with the Miami Project.
Preliminary schedule:
0930 - Registration
0945 - Podium Presentations: Session 1
1145 - Lunch
1215 - Lunchtime Session – Medical Marijuana in Rehabilitation: What do clinicians need to know? Dr. Zeid Mohamedali MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
1300 - Poster Session
1445 - Podium Presentations: Session 2
1630 - Plenary Session – Pain after spinal cord injury – a multidimensional problem Dr. Eva Widerstrom-Noga, Professor Neurological Surgery University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
1715 - Closing remarks and award presentations
Ottawa-Gatineau, ON, May 29 - June 1, 2019.
Niagara Falls, ON, October 17-19, 2019.
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ICORD Seminar Series Lecture: Dr. Monica Perez, February 28
Women's Health after SCI: Autonomic Symposium: February 13
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Trainee Talks: January 29
4-5 pm in the Lecture Hall
Brian Hayes (West Lab) The effect of simulated orthostatic hypotension on cardiac function in experimental SCI
Shane Balthazaar (Krassioukov Lab) Cardiac outcomes following SCI: acute and chronic stages
Loay's interesting workshop picks-of-the-week
UBC Sustainability Scholars Program (Info Session), Jan 31 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5556
Volunteer for Aboriginal Experience UBC 2019, Feb 19-20 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5555
Workshop series on Research Synthesis and Critical Appraisal (Jan 8, 15, 22, 29)| community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5531
Intro to SPSS workshop, Jan 16 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5534
Choosing the Right Citation Management Tool (Beginner Workshop), Jan 17 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5535
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 Applying for funding?
Assistance is available with ICORD boilerplate, infographics and illustrations. Contact Cheryl Niamath by email or call 604-675-8844.
Need signatures?
Unfortunately ICORD no longer has a grant facilitator. Lowell McPhail can help you get the Centre Director's signature on your application. Please request this at least 7 working days before the deadline.
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MSFHR Health Professional Investigator Award
LOI Deadline - February 11
The MSFHR Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program is intended to help close the gap between health research and its implementation. It does this by supporting practicing health professionals who wish to conduct and apply research that leverages their practical knowledge in patient care in order to improve the patient experience and outcomes. The HP-I Program achieves this by contributing to the award recipient’s salary in order to protect time for research, and/or by defraying the cost of research personnel directly associated with the award recipient’s proposed research, if applicable.
Click here for more info
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Craig H. Neilsen Foundation announces funding opportunity for improving bowel and bladder function after SCI
The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation is preparing a Request for Applications (RFA) on SCI Bowel and/or Bladder research. Cross-disciplinary, collaborative teams will have an opportunity to submit applications for funding consideration. Further information on this opportunity will be forthcoming, interested parties should note the following key dates:
February 1, 2019 – How to request application materials
March 1, 2019 – Application guide release
May 1, 2019 – Application deadline
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CIHR Spring Project Grants
Registration Deadline: February 6
Application Deadline: March 6
UBC SPARC is offering a variety of support services for this grant competition. Check out SPARC's CIHR Project Grant page.
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 MSFHR Health System Impact Fellowship
MSFHR is partnering with CIHR on their 2019 Health System Impact Fellowship program to help develop BC’s health policy research talent and build capacity for the integration of policy into decision-making. For health system organizations this is an opportunity to have a policy fellow contribute their research and analytic talents to a specific health policy challenge. For researchers, it is an opportunity to apply their research expertise and develop their policy skills.
BC had great success in the 2018 competition with 13 CIHR Fellows placed in BC health organizations to address pressing policy issues in our province. You can see the list of 2018 BC institutions and projects here.
The 2019 Health System Impact Fellowship competition is now open for applications. If you have any health researchers with an interest in applying their skills to a local health policy issue at either the PhD or post-doctoral fellow level, they can find more information on the MSFHR website and ResearchNet. On both sites you will find a list of health system organizations that are interested in hosting an embedded scholar. Applicants are also welcome to apply with a host organization that is not listed.
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Working on a grant application?
SPARC can help!
UBC's Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity (SPARC) offers comprehensive reviews for competitive funding applications, as well as workshops and tutorials to streamline the application process. Learn about the different services they offer, get to know their team, or contact them with any questions that you have about research support at UBC.
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Up for some sport-phishing?
Google, and Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Alphabet, have put together a little quiz to see how adept people are at spotting nasty scam emails, and you can try it too. If you happen to have difficulty determining which of the 8 emails you're subjected to are legit fear not, after completing it the quiz also helps you sharpen your email awareness based on what caught you off guard.
You've got your videogames in my paleontology
A newly discovered species of prehistoric shark, which lived about 67 million years ago in the company of species like the iconic T.Rex has been named after a 1980s videogame because of the shape of its teeth. The Galagadon nordquistae was given its name because its teeth very much resemble the protagonist spacecraft featured in the arcade smash Galaga, published by Namco and Midway Games in September of 1981.
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What is the BICP?
You've likely seen the badge in our newsletter and the posters around the atrium, telling people about the Blusson Integrated Cures Partnership, but do you know about all of the different kinds of research and activities being supported by the BICP? ICORD and the Rick Hansen Institute have created a webpage to inform you about the work that we're doing together with the Rick Hansen Foundation through this unique collaboration.
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Looking to buy pipette tips? VWR has you covered!
Please contact Clare or Nadia for more information and promotional offers.
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Do you recruit participants for research studies?
If you do, and you want your studies to be posted on the ICORD website, you can submit your study information online.
Just log into the members section of the site (scroll down to the bottom of any page and click on ICORD user: login (contact Matt if you need a reminder of the login ID and password). Complete the form, and the ICORD communications team will create a new study page using the information you've provided. We will also forward your study to the SCI-BC recruitment coordinator if you request this.
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Need logos?
Click the images to download full-size .png versions. Other logos and other file types are also available by contacting Cheryl at the ICORD Admin Office.
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Useful BSCC contacts
BSCC Access: contact Matt or Nadia in the Admin Office
Bookings (meeting rooms, AV, temporary parking requests): bookings@icord.org
Maintenance work requests + reports: bscc-maintenance@icord.org
MedIT: 1-877-266-0666 or medit.servicedesk@ubc.ca.
Lost+found: Paladin Security 604-677-3734
After-Hours emergency maintenance: 604-875-4111 x62601
After-Hours emergency cleaning: 1-844-372-1959
Paladin Security Urgent: 604-677-3672 (from an inside line: 88)
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