The Centre for Biomedical Research (CBR) is a collaborative group of scientists and clinicians who are investigating a number of important biomedical problems. The CBR is a multidisciplinary unit with an emphasis on genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology. The centre was created to promote interdisciplinary basic and translational biomedical research. There are seven important research clusters within the CBR: biological technology, infection and immunity, cell signaling, genetics, cardiovascular, neuroscience and developmental biology. Our members span several UVic departments, the UVic Division of Medical Sciences, the Vancouver Island Health Authority and the BC Cancer Agency.
Café Scientifique
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Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012
***This Cafe Scientifique is now full.***
***Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 250-472-4067 to have your name put on the waitlist, Thank you.***
Dr. Kelli Stajduhar
Death, Dying and Palliative Care
Sponsored by The Centre on Aging at UVic
All Café Scientifique events will be held at the
Strathcona Hotel - The Maple Room,
919 Douglas Street with a 6:30 start time.
Admission is complimentary and light appetizers and beverages are provided.
Sponsored by Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR)
See also Café Scientifique series sponsored by the
University of Victoria Faculty of Science
http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~pritchet/publiclecture/
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British Columbia Clinical Genomic Network Conference (BCCGN)
24 February, 2011 University of Victoria
Clinical Genomics - What you need to know
How does the nervous system coordinate the arms and legs during walking? Professor Dr. E. Paul Zehr has expanded the focus of neuroscientists studying motor control, leading to new treatments for stroke victims. More
Dr. Chris Upton bridges gap between genetics and computers with the
Dr. Jim Tanaka, a cognitive neuroscientist, is examining whether autistic children can be taught to overcome "face blindness" by engaging a part of their brains, which they use to expertly recognize other objects. More
Dr. Terry Pearson is banking on mass spectrometry to be the next big thing for antibody-based diagnosis. More
Dr. Brad Nelson thinks the time is right for T cell therapy. More
Neuroscientist Dr. Raad Nashmi found a new pathway for nicotine addiction, which also helps explain nicotine’s benefits for those prone to Parkinson’s. More
Whether he is finding a genetic cure or tracking a rare mutation, Dr. Patrick Macleod is a vital link between patients and molecular researchers at the CBR. More
Dr. Ben Koop co-founded the consortium for Genomic Research on All Salmon Project (cGRASP), an international team devoted to understanding salmon from its DNA out: its evolutionary history, its ecology, its health. More
Neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Hundza explores ways to teach people to walk again after a neurotrauma like a stroke or spinal cord injury, based on understanding the neural patterns that control rhythmic movement
The field of signal transduction is fulfilling its early promise of cancer cures. Professor Dr. Perry Howard is looking for signals to kill cancer cells. More
Subheadline for CBR front page flash: Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Clay Holroyd is rephrasing the symptom of “inability to focus” to “an inability to get the appropriate dopamine reward for focus.” More
If you can’t find the right chemical tool to suit your medical research, you could ask chemist Dr. Fraser Hof to build one. Histone experts eye up Hof’s latest: a synthetic molecule that binds histones, disrupting a gene regulation pathway. More
Forty years after Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, Dr. Caren Helbing’s work warns us that we still don’t really know how to test for chemical contaminants in the environment. More
Dr. Barry Glickman helps Health
Dr. Roderick Edwards finds patterns invisible to the naked eye, as he seeks for order in systems as complex as neuronal nets. More
Dr. Johan de Boer describes how a salmon ancestor diverged so quickly into dozens of species thanks to transposons. More
Dr. Brian Christie was one of the first neuroscientists to discover that exercise promotes the generation of new brain cells. In his latest research, he found that exercise can even reverse FAS-related brain damage. More
Dr. Francis Choy's study of inherited diseases has immediate impact on patients. More
Dr. Robert Chow is finding genes that control eye development. More
When Dr. Caroline Cameron is not studying syphilis, she’s catching snot from whales: the strange path from syphilis to marine biology. More
Dr. Robert Burke has seen developmental biology grow up and zoom in. When he helped finish the sea urchin sequence in 2006, the field took another quantum leap forward. More
Dr. Juan Ausio helped figure out the structure and nature of chromatin, which led to the idea of a histone code. More