Agenda for CAMTEC Annual Symposium
Agenda
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8 - 9 am (MAC lobby) |
Coffee and networking Poster Setup (Dr. Loveleen Sharma) |
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9 – 9:30 am (MAC A144) |
Territorial Acknowledgement (Mami Schouten)/ Welcome! CAMTEC Director, Dr. Rishi Gupta (Memory of Dr. Ian Manner, Acknowledge: Sponsors, volunteers, exec and steering committee) Welcome from UVic: Dr. Lisa Kalynchuk Welcome by Dr. Fraser Hoff, AVPR |
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9:30 – 9:50 am (MAC A144) |
Keynote 1: Uniform, 1D polymer nanofibers for therapeutic delivery to bacterial and mammalian cells. Hayley Parkin, PhD student, UVic Moderators: Drs. Magdalena Bazalova |
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9:50 – 10:10 am (MAC A144) |
Keynote 2: Detection and remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (forever chemicals) in the environment. Dr. Fuhar Dixit, Post Doctoral Fellow, Berkeley Moderators: Drs. Laura Cowen & Jeremy Wulff |
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10:10 – 10:30 am (MAC A144) |
Keynote 3: Building BC’s Bioeconomy: Transitioning the forest sector from high volume to high value Gustavo Oliveira, Executive Director, Strategic Initiative, Bioeconomy and Indigenous Opportunities at Government of British Columbia Moderators: Drs. Rishi Gupta and Loveleen Sharma |
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10:30 – 11:00 (MAC lobby) |
Coffee break/ posters/ displays |
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11:00 – 11:20 (MAC A144) |
Keynote 4: RNA Strategies and Applications in Drug Discovery. Dr. Brock Schuman (CEO, Azor Biotek) Moderators: Levi Smith |
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11:20 – 11:40 (MAC A144) |
Keynote 5: Building materials from unstable building blocks: studies of collagen. Researcher, Dr. Nancy Forde, SFU Moderators: Dr. Devika Chithrani and Nick Allan |
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11:40 – 12 noon (MAC A144) |
Keynote 6: TBC Rob Niven, Carboncure technologies Moderators: Drs. Rishi Gupta and Loveleen Sharma |
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12:00 - 1:30 pm (MAC lobby) |
Lunch / Poster Session / Exhibits |
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1:30 am – 3:30 pm |
Parallel sessions (four) |
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(MAC D101) |
Theme 1: Nanotherapeutics/ Nanomedicine Co-chairs: Drs. Steve Street and Amanda Orr Drs. Stephanie Willerth Presenters: Amanda Orr, Willerth Lab / Nanotherapeutics Cluster, Nolan Jackson (Devika Chithrani Group), Medical Physics, UVic, Mohsen Akbari, BME, UVic; Dr. Liam Macfarlane Senior Research Scientist, Eupraxia), Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals; Paige Allard (Katherine Elvira Group), Chemistry, UVic; Charlotte Ellis (STEMCELL), STEMCELL Technologies; Victor Allison Da Silva (Stephanie Willerth Group), BME, UVic; Julian Lum, BC Cancer / Biochem, UVic |
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(MAC D103) |
Theme 2: AI and Quantum computing (QUALITY), Co-chairs: Drs. Thomas Baker, Marianne Black, Makhsud Saidaminov, Reuven Gordon
Presenters: Irina Paci (Department of Chemistry; Ulrike Stege (Department of Computer Science); Thomas E. Baker (Department Physics & Astronomy; Department of Chemistry); Tao Lu (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Homayoun Najjaran (Department of Mechanical Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Teseo Schneider (Department of Computer Science); Two other members from various departments TBA |
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(MAC D105) |
Theme 3: Materials for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESVIC/ACET) Co-chairs: Drs. Curran Crawford/Andrew Rowe
Presenters: Presenters: Jason Lee -" Ionomer-free Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolyzers"; Bosco Yu - "Architected materials: redesigning foams into sustainable composites”; Rustom Bhiladvala- “Nanowire Chaining for Transparent Conductive Electrodes”; Ray Brougham, Rainhouse Manufacturing - "From Waste to Watts: Revolutionizing Energy Storage with Repurposed Batteries"; Dr. Sravya Tekumalla - "Designing lightweight magnesium alloys for sustainable transportation" |
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(MAC A144) |
Theme 4: Avenues for research funding (UK Research & Innovation, Innovate BC, Genome BC, NSERC, MITACS, Pivot-RP) Co-chairs: Brent Sternig, Chris Flores, Jessica Worsley
Presenters: UK Research & Innovation – Sonny Rathod, Head of Canada Partnerships (virtual);NSERC – Reinack Hansen (virtual);Genome BC – Zsuzsanna Hollander, Director, Data Science (virtual);Innovate BC – Marcelo Mora, Senior Advisor; MITACS - Nolan Beise, Senior Advisor; Pivot-RP – Cara Pearson, Associate Director, Research Grants |
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3:30 - 4:30 pm (MAC lobby) |
Coffee: Poster Session & Exhibits (Judges: Drs. Joaquin Trapero, Mohsen Akbari, Reuven Gordon, Colin Bradley Sardar Malek, Dennis Hore) |
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4:30 - 5:00 pm (MAC A144) |
Poster Awards- Drs. Mina Hoorfar & Peter- Loock Closing- Final thoughts: Dr. Rishi Gupta |
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5:00 pm- onwards (Meet in MAC lobby) |
Networking and light refreshments
Tour of CAMTEC facilities (Dr. Milton Wang, Alex Wlasenko, Dr. Cristina Cardoba, Andrew MacDonald; Charmaine Wetherell) OR
Young Professional event (including ECRs) (Drs. Sravya Tekumalla, Bosco Yu, Samira Gharehkhani, Jason Lee |