July 17, 2019

On July 15th, 2019 we held the first Social Exposome Cluster Trainee Research Day. The day was a big success and included 20 presentations from undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students, as well as postdoctoral researchers who gave fantastic talks on a diverse range of topics. The day highlighted the interdisciplinary nature of the Cluster and included trainees from the Departments of Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Psychology, Zoology, Chemistry, Statistics, and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, as well as the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the School of Population and Public Health. Ten trainees were awarded travel awards for their excellent presentations:

  • Ying Chen (Supervisor- Tao Huan), BSc Student, Department of Chemistry, "Global Hair Metabolomics"
  • Cynthia Ramirez (Supervisor- Angela Devlin), MSc Student, Department of Medicine, "Repeated Neonatal Oral Sucrose Treatment Affects Growth and Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 in Mice"
  • Samantha Schaffner (Supervisor- Michael Kobor), PhD Student, Department of Medical Genetics, "Effects of Exercise and Social Intervention on the Epigenome of Mice at Risk for Neurodegenerative Disease"
  • Brock Williams (Supervisor- Crystal Karakochuk), PhD Student, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, "Folic Acid Supplementation in Canadian Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Is it Time to Reassess Current Practice?"
  • Rhy McMillan (Supervisor- Dominique Weis), PhD Student, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, "Splitting Obsidian: Striking a Balance Among Precision, Accuracy, and Preservation for Archaeological Artifact Provenance Studies"
  • Jordan Hamden (Supervisor- Kiran Soma), PhD Student, Department of Zoology, "Ultrasensitive Steroid Profiling by LC-MS/MS"
  • Kate Smith (Supervisor- Dominique Weis), PhD Student, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, "Honey, Let Me Tell You About this City"
  • Alejandra Wiedeman (Supervisor- Angela Devlin), Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pediatrics, "Dietary Intakes of Long-chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Choline and Relationship to Biomarkers in Toddlers"
  • Maria Aristizabal (Supervisor- Michael Kobor), Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medical Genetics, "Sex as a Modulator of Experience Dependent Plasticity"
  • Sarah Merrill (Supervisor- Michael Kobor), Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medical Genetics, "DNA Methylation Correlations among Exposures to Early Life Attachment Environment"

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the staff, trainees, and faculty that participated and showed support to our trainees. We look forward to the next Social Exposome Cluster Trainee Research Day in 2020!

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

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