2021 HLI Research Week
Date: August 16 – 20, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom Conference – details below
Note: Please make sure your mic is muted during the presentation.
For more information, please email HLI Trainees
A full schedule including guest speakers, student presentations, and abstracts for all student posters is below, as well as an instruction booklet for using the online Gather platform.
Don’t miss our Bruce McManus Lecture (Monday, August 16th, 11 am) by Dr. Sam Wadsworth, CSO of Aspect Biosystem and HLI alumnus, or our Dr. Peter Paré Lecture (Friday, August 20th, 10:45 am) by Dr. Mireille Ouimet, Director of the Cardiovascular Metabolism and Cell Biology Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. These guest lectures are generously funded by the St. Paul’s Foundation.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69061741344?pwd=RENmSCt2Y1dJdGR4R3BjYnU3a3VVdz09
Meeting ID: 690 6174 1344
Passcode: 725102
Call In: 778-907-2071
All aspects of HLI Research Week 2021 can be accessed from Gather, an online platform which allows you to converse with other attendees, view posters, and ask questions of student presenters! Our Gather space is accessible NOW, so please feel free to take a look around.
You can attend our Gather Trial Run from 12:30-2pm on Monday for some extra practice: Organizing Committee representatives will be present to answer your questions.
Gather Link:
https://gather.town/app/rM4c6pHIIDazqSb1/HLI%20Trainee%20Research%20Week
** Please use your full name when you sign into Gather – that way we can moderate any unwanted users just in case anything happens **
Don’t miss the student poster session, Thursday, August 19th at 1-3 pm, on Gather!
We look forward to celebrating all the exciting research happening at HLI. Please come and support our summer students, graduate students, and postdocs as they present their work.
Thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible: St. Paul’s Foundation, Providence Health Care Research Institute, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and of course, HLI and the HLI Trainee Association.
Please contact HLI Trainees with any questions.
Regards,
Katrina Besler
On behalf of the Research Week Organizing Committee and HLI Trainee Association.