Useful information for Graduate Students in Pathology and their Supervisors.

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Graduate Program Newsletter

For the Week of  March 7, 2022

PALM Student Representatives:

Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Committee (GPSC) - Madeline Lauener

PALM Curriculum Committee - Zeshuo Li         Graduate Student Society - Saumadritaa Kar 

PALM Awards & Recognition Committee - Amirhossein Bahreyni

PALM Wellbeing Ambassador - Madeline Lauener (mlauener@alumni.ubc.ca)

Students

Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies :

GradUpdate - In this issue: Developing and Sustaining Your Academic Writing Practice, Stats: Mixed Effects Models, Public Scholars Initiative Info Session, Abstracts: Communicating Research Findings With Brevity and Concision, and more.

Public Scholars Initiative Scholarship – Call for Applications & Information Session

UBC’s flagship scholarship program to encourage and fund impactful, cross-disciplinary, multisectoral doctoral research, the Public Scholars Initiative (PSI), is getting ready to accept applications.

UBC’s Public Scholars enjoy academic support, professional development and networking opportunities, and, not least, up to $20,000 in funding over two years for research expenses and/or stipend. All Public Scholars are also required to take part in PSI’s Research Talk Series PhDs Go Public, and present their research in a public forum.

UBC’s PSI remains unique in that it supports only rigorous scholarship relevant in some fashion to the students’ core learning, and encourages integration of the research and scholarly products into the dissertation. This ensures that the work receives appropriate oversight and assessment, and ‘counts’ toward a UBC PhD degree.

We will be holding a general information session on zoom for potential applicants on Monday, the 21th of March, from 12:00 to 1:30. You can register for the session here. The zoom link will be sent to all registrants on the Friday before the session.

Deadline Reminder for Spring 2022 Graduation

Friday, March 25 – Last day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination

Friday, 22 April – Acceptance of final, approved master's theses and doctoral dissertations by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies AND last day to apply to graduate for May 2022.

Faculty of Medicine:

The Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) invites you to its first virtual symposium: “Race Ideology: Historical Perspectives, Current Realities and Re-imagining the Future.”

When: Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Time: 8:30 am – 1:00 pm

Information on registration and symposium content will be made available in the upcoming weeks.

Professional Development & Workshops :

The CBR is excited to present its 11th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium on Wednesday April 6, 2022! This full-day symposium will be held at the UBC Robson Square Theater, 800 Robson Street.

We anticipate that the event will be held in a hybrid format, with opportunities for attendees to join us in-person at UBC Robson Square or virtually. The Symposium will be followed by a reception for all attendees. Don’t miss out, as this event always reaches capacity.

Click here to register now. The registration is FREE!

PRESENT AT THE SYMPOSIUM – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

Looking to share your research and hone your presentation skills? Submit an abstract (250 words maximum) to be considered for an ORAL TALK or POSTER PRESENTATION at the symposium!

  • Open to undergraduate students, graduate trainees, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and research associates
  • Both in-person and virtual presentation opportunities for oral talk; in-person opportunity for poster presentation
  • Abstract submission deadline: Friday Mar. 4, 2022, at 5 PM PT

Learn more.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Dana Devine (ddevine@pathology.ubc.ca) or Mira Milutinovic (mira.milutinovic@ubc.ca).

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC), the largest undergraduate research conference at UBC, is looking for adjudicators to evaluate presentations! This event would be a great opportunity for you to practice and gain evaluation skills, provide constructive feedback to students, and network with other adjudicators and speakers at the conference.

The conference will be held virtually and in-person on March 19-20, 2022! If you are interested in adjudicating or know anyone else who may be, please fill out the application form by Friday, March 11 at 11:59 PM.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at murc.researchpresentations@ubc.ca.

Registration is now open for the 11th annual Bioinformatics/IOP/GSAT Research Day (BIG22)!

Click here to register by March 11, 2022 - please note that registration will be required to attend the in-person event.

The theme for 2022 will be Gene Editing & Gene Therapy - check out the website ( bigresearchday.com ) for more information about the event. 

HLI Knowledge Translation and Mobilization Training Program

The HLI has put together a great training program in Knowledge Translation and Mobilization. The various sessions are every Thursday from 12:00pm - 1:00pm and can be viewed here .

You can register at the following link:  https://forms.gle/T8SppBmaGAbEsJpc9

Announcements :

UBC Global Travel Update

The Government of Canada will ease the worldwide travel health notice encouraging travellers to avoid all non-essential travel effective February 28, 2022. In line with this guidance, UBC is happy to support student travel outside of Canada for university purposes. Students planning trips outside of Canada must follow UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Policy guidelines outlined below.

UBC values international learning and encourages students to seek out these opportunities. UBC has a responsibility (Student Safety Abroad Policy) to make sure everyone engages in safer travel practices and operates the Safety Abroad Program.

If you’re traveling outside of Canada for university activity, you’ll need to complete UBC’s travel authorization requirements. Travel for a “university activity” includes academic purposes including any activity required for academic credit, or financially sponsored or supported by UBC. Travel typically includes exchanges, research, internships, co-op placements, conference attendance, field study, and volunteering.

Pathology Day 2022

The Pathology Day Committee is planning to hold Pathology Day on Friday May 27, 2022. The event will be held in person at the Holiday Inn Vancouver on Broadway and Heather Street.

The link below will take you to the webpage to submit your Abstract for Pathology Day 2022:

https://file.pathology.ubc.ca/2022/PathologyDay2022.html#

The PALM Award and Recognition Committee has added several new internal departmental awards to be announced at Pathology Day. These include three 'Trainee Awards', additional awards for Education and Clinical Service, as well as a 'Community Engagement and Philanthropy Award'. For additional information view attached file. Conference awards information with proposed changes for 2022

The link below will take you to the webpage to submit your Award Nominations for recognition at Pathology Day 2022:

https://pathology.ubc.ca/annual-awards-nomination-form-2022/

The deadline for Award Nomination & Abstract Submission is Friday April 1st , 2022 at 5pm. Presenting at PATH Day is a requirement for first year graduate students.

Free Statistical Software

As a member of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine you are invited to use the statistical software JMPPro v16 from SAS institute. This software is made available for academic purposes only and is licensed annually. For more information on the capabilities of JMP, please see the website www.jmp.com . Interested parties must contact Steve Kalloger at kalloger@mail.ubc.ca to acquire the software.

Awards :

PALM Trainee Virtual Conference Attendance Awards 2022 - Call for cycle 1 Apps

Due to COVID, these awards have been temporarily revised to reimburse students for virtual conferences where a registration fee was paid. The applications for cycle 1 (January - June, 2022) are due by e-mail to heather.cheadle@pathology.ubc.ca by Friday, April 1, 2022 at 4:00PM.

Eligibility:

The competition is open to Pathology graduate students irrespective of citizenship or residency status in Canada who are registered in the PhD Program, and are in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th year of their program.

The conference must be identified as an international conference, but it may take place in Canada.

If you have any questions about your eligibility, please contact Heather Cheadle for clarification.

A complete application includes:

1) Completed PALM Trainee Virtual Conference Awards Application found here

2) Submitted Conference Abstract.

3) Latest Annual Report.

4) Evidence of Abstract acceptance at Conference for Poster/Podium Presentation.

Reimbursement of this award will occur by funds transfer from G+PS Graduate Awards.

Applications will be adjudicated by a Departmental Awards Committee, and the results of this competition will be announced in July 2022.

Coordinator's Corner :

We are accepting feature photo submissions for upcoming newsletters! Email Heather with your photo at heather.cheadle@pathology.ubc.ca .

If you have changed your email address since the start of your Program, please email it to me to ensure you continue to receive Program Communications . Please also be sure to update your email in SIS to continue to receive important communications including awards notifications.

 Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Student Association (PaSA )

 President: Raelyn Gallant

 Vice President: Nancy Yang

 Event Coordinator: Theodore Lam

 External Affairs Coordinator: Madeline Lauener

Upcoming Meetings & Events:

PaSA invites everyone to join us at the meetings.

The next PaSA Meeting will be held on Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 5:30pm via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63631399673?pwd=OUwrMEY3L0s0NEJjMjVqVnZhRndIZz09 

Meeting ID: 636 3139 9673
Passcode: 628541

Supervisors

PALM Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Program Awards Sub-Committee

The PALM Graduate Program Awards Sub-Committee is looking for regular members. All faculty members of the department are encouraged to apply. The committee is responsible for allocating stipends and various awards to qualified students, as well as nomination of students for provincial and national awards. It serves the important function of attracting, retaining, and financially supporting students in our department during their MSc and PhD programs.

Responsibilities for the members of the Awards Committee include reviewing of applications and ranking of the applicants. No written report is required for the reviews, the adjudicators just need to rank the applications. This significantly reduces the amount of time demanded from the adjudicators. We have about 3-4 rounds of applications per year. On average, an adjudicator spends about 2-3 hours reviewing applications per round of competition. The term of appointment is 2 years, and the appointment is renewable. We look forward to seeing enthusiastic responses to this announcement.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Dr. Chun Seow, Chair of the PALM Graduate Program Awards Sub-Committee by email at chun.seow@hli.ubc.ca by Friday, April 1st, 2022.

Supervisory Committee Composition

We want to remind you that when a PhD student is putting together their Committee, or a MSc student is transferring to PhD and must add an additional member, at least 50% of the student's committee (including the Supervisor) must be composed of G+PS members. This may influence the number of members on any given PhD Committee, especially if the Supervisor is not a G+PS member.

For non-members we need to review a CV for the approval process by the Program which is followed by an application to G+PS in order to have them serve on a PhD Committee. One application must be made for each student committee.

When identifying potential members please also try to consider diversity within the committee.

Free Statistical Software

As a member of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine you are invited to use the statistical software JMPPro v16 from SAS institute. This software is made available for academic purposes only and is licensed annually. For more information on the capabilities of JMP, please see the website www.jmp.com . Interested parties must contact Steve Kalloger at kalloger@mail.ubc.ca to acquire the software.

Student Recruitment for May 2022 & September 2022

Please email the Graduate Program Coordinator at heather.cheadle@pathology.ubc.ca if you would like to be added to our Supervisors Seeking Students page on our website. Many potential students contact us for help with finding a supervisor, and this is their main resource.

New Student Visa Template Letter

If your newly-recruited international student requires a New Student Visa Letter from you, we have a template available at the bottom of the forms page on our website here .

Student Position Advertising

In September 2020 Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) launched a new service for the advertisement of faculty, graduate student, and postdoc positions through their websites (for graduate students and postdocs), and, if relevant, external career portals.

All faculty and staff are able to post any open positions at https://faculty-staff.grad.ubc.ca/recruitment/job-ads . Student positions will be advertised on grad.ubc.ca in the project directory and embedded into the G+PS researcher profiles . Postdoc positions will be advertised in the Postdoc Career Opportunities website.

If opted for in the posting, all faculty, student and postdoc posts will also be shared with external portals via system-to-system integration, requiring no additional work. These portals are included:

Nature Careers ; EurAxess  ; Mendeley Careers ; LinkedIn  ; jobRxiv ; handshake ; Twitter

CTLT Teaching Workshops

Workshops on Teaching through CTLT can be found here , including; Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer About your Course, Teaching with Zoom, Getting Started with Canvas and more!