Trainee Research Day 2020

If you are a SEC faculty member or affiliate member, we hope that you will consider to be an award adjudicator. A short rubric will be provided to adjudicators. Each session will be adjudicated by more than one volunteer. 

To adjudicate poster presentations, you will have one week prior to Trainee Research Day to complete your rubrics. To adjudicate oral presentations, you will attend trainees' oral presentations on Research Day.

If you are interested in being a volunteer adjudicator, please indicate in the registration form above, after you have selected that you are a faculty member or an affiliate faculty member. Thank you!

Presenters

Jordie Fischer 
Title: “Anemia prevalence and severity among women of reproductive age in rural Cambodia”

Melody Salehzadeh
Title: “Evidence for a local HPA axis homolog in neonatal mouse immune organs”

Emily Barr
Title: “Biological embedding of childhood adversity through the epigenome”

Karilyn Harris
Title: “The impact of prenatal stress on newborns' epigenetic profile and brain morphology”

Helena Brendler
Title: “Prenatal alcohol exposure in BXD embryonic mice induces histone and apoptosis-related chromatin changes in a strain-dependent manner”

Samantha Schaffner
Title: “Multi-omic integration reveals epigenetic mechanisms of environmental neuroprotection in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease”

Instructions and guidelines for poster presenters

We have a few instructions and guidelines that we’d like you to please follow—

1. Record your poster presentation audio recordings in PowerPoint. This should not exceed 3 minutes. You can create your recording by narrating a single slide in PowerPoint by following the instructions from Microsoft for either Windows or macOS.
2. These recordings should only include a single slide, similar in construction to what a printed conference poster would look like. There should not be animations or zooming in or out in your presentation.
3. Your poster should be accompanied by an audio recording only. Do no use video.
4. Font size on the poster should be a minimum of 14 point. Tip: Sans-Serif (e.g. Arial or Calibri) fonts have increased readability compared to Serifs (e.g. Times New Roman).
5. Optional: You may choose to use the laser pointer function in your presentation recording to direct the viewer’s attention, if you wish.
6. Optional: You are welcome to construct your poster using software outside of PowerPoint, and then import the image into PowerPoint to narrate and submit as a PowerPoint file.

What you will submit

1. The PowerPoint file of your poster with recording
2. A pdf file of your PowerPoint presentation

Where to submit your posters

• Submit your posters to Ruanne Vent-Schmidt at Ruanne.vent-schmidt@bcchr.ca.

When to submit your posters

• Submit your posters by Monday, October 19, midnight.

Where will your posters be found virtually

• You posters will be on a password-protected webpage in the SEC website, beginning on October 27. A generic password will be distributed to people who have signed up for Research Day.

Feel free to submit any other questions you have about the poster presentations to us and we’ll be happy to clarify.

Presenters

Jordan Hamden
Title “Isoflurane stress greatly increases local corticosterone levels in lymphoid organs of neonatal mice: analysis using LC-MS/MS”

JuHee Oh
Title: “Signaling pathways connect nutrient sensing, metabolism and function in primary T cells”

Maggie Fu
Title: “Identify the epigenetic signatures of pediatric rare diseases with DNA methylation reference sets”

Hannah-Ruth Engelbrecht
Title: “DNA methylation in response to HIV exposure in utero”

Gian Carlo Diluvi
Title: “Reliable statistical inference with complex, heterogeneous data”

Carly Magee
Title: “Cumulative risk of schizophrenia spectrum conditions among adolescents in B.C. and associations with neighbourhood income, gender and family migration background”

Kimberly Thomson
Title: “Examining the impact and inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic on family mental health in Canada”

Katerina Rnic
Title “Emotion regulation predicts diurnal cortisol during COVID-19”

Ellen Jopling
Title: “Internalizing symptoms and stress in youth during COVID-19”

Brock Williams
Title: “Detectable unmetabolized folic acid, and sufficient folate and vitamin B12 concentrations are evident in Canadian children with sickle cell disease”

Guidelines

Please prepare your presentations to be 6-7 minutes in length. 

The SEC is honoured to welcome Dr. Brett Finlay, Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia. He is also the co-author of the books Let Them Eat Dirt and The Whole Body Microbiome.

Dr. Finlay will be presenting:

1. The microbiome, and its role early life
2. The microbiome later in life and how we can benefit from it

September 2, 2020     Registration opens
September 2, 2020     Opening abstract submissions
September 2, 2020     Call for adjudicators 
September 25, 2020   Deadline for abstract submissions
September 25, 2020   Final day to submit your interest to adjudicate 
October 5, 2020          Oral and poster presentations announced/finalized
October 5, 2020          Adjudicators are contacted
October 19, 2020        Deadline for poster presentations + 3 min recordings
October 19, 2020        Registration closes
October 27, 2020        Poster presentations available online
November 3, 2020      SEC Trainee Research Day 2020