The new Biochemistry website has been launched, but we need your photos! If you have pictures that highlight the exploits of our department (i.e. people, lab space, cool data, group outings, etc.) please forward them to LeAnn (ljhowe@mail.ubc.ca). Please use your name as the file name as we will be awarding $50 gift cards for the three best photos. You can also include a caption or details on the photo, if you think we need. The (extended!) deadline for submission is September 10th, 2012, end of day. (photo credit: Copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos)
New website look
We’ve been working on a new website look over the summer, moving content from the existing (previous) site and putting into the new UBC templates in WordPress. The new site will go live late afternoon Tuesday September 4. If you’re looking for something on the new site and can’t find it, or have other comments or questions, let us know by contacting Doris Metcalf. Also, we’ll also be adding more images to the site (see Photo Contest!) Thanks to the web team who met over the summer to get the content moved to the new look. (Photo credit: Gary Brayer, who has submitted several entries into the Photo Contest).
BMBDG Seminar: Grant W. Brown, Sept 4 @3:00 pm in LSC #3
Grant W. Brown, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
“Genome-Scale Analysis of Protein Dynamics During DNA Replication Stress in S. cerevisiae”
September 4, 2012 @3:00 pm, LSC#3, 2350 Health Science Mall
Alexander Wong completes MSc Thesis on PNPase Enzyme
Alexander Wong from the Mackie Lab successfully completed his M.Sc. thesis on studies of the RNA-degrading PNPase enzyme – congratulations!
Vancouver
Vancouver (pronounced /væn.ˈkuːvər/) is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch “van Coevorden”, denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.[2]
The largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, Vancouver ranks third largest in the country and the city proper ranks eighth.[3][4] According to the 2006 census Vancouver had a population of 578,041[1] and its Census Metropolitan Area exceeded 2.1 million people.[1] Its residents are ethnically and linguistically diverse; 52% do not speak English as their first language.[5][6]
Environmental Studies
Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. While distinct from ecology and environmental science, the discipline encompasses study in the basic principles of those two fields of learning as well as the associated subjects, such as: policy, politics, law, economics, sociology and other social aspects, planning, pollution control, natural resources, and the interactions of human beings and nature.
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