Seeing Is Believing Part 3, “NanoSpace Invaders: Seeing into the subcellular world”

On May 29, 2012, the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) at the University of British Columbia hosted the 10th LSI Café Scientifique. Over 50 interested community members, students and faculty gathered for an informal and participatory dialogue with LSI experts for the third session in the “Seeing Is Believing” series. The topic of the session was […]

Seeing is Believing Part 4, “Viewing the Biological World with X-rays and Magnetic Fields”

On Nov 14, 2012, the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) at the University of British Columbia hosted the 11th LSI Café Scientifique. Over 70 interested community members, students and faculty gathered for an informal and participatory dialogue with LSI experts for the fourth session in the “Seeing Is Believing” series. The topic of the session was […]

Seeing is Believing Series – Super-resolution Microscopy: Breaking the Diffraction Barrier

On April 30, 2013, the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) at the University of British Columbia hosted the 12th LSI Café Scientifique. Over 60 interested community members, students and faculty gathered for an informal and participatory dialogue with LSI experts for the fifth session in the “Seeing Is Believing” series. The topic of the session was […]

Oct 1st – Walking the tight-rope between Bleeding and Clotting

On Oct 1, 2013, the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) at the University of British Columbia hosted the 13th LSI Café Scientifique. Over 60 interested community members, students and faculty gathered for an informal and participatory dialogue with LSI experts for new series of Cafes focused on Disease. The topic of this session was “Walking the […]

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Ken Harder Lab

Publication appearing in Mucosal Immunology

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Sean Crowe Lab

Publicaton appearing in Nature

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Jim Johnson Lab

Publication appearing in PNAS

Start an Evolution

UBC generates ideas that start evolutions. Ideas that change the way people think and the way the world works. Read about current LSI projects.

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Enhanced Undergraduate Experiences

This handout is designed to introduce and promtoe the outreach activities happening within the LSI Research Groups.

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New Breakthrough in Diabetes

A team of Researchers lead by Tim Kieffer used stem-cells transplants to reverse diabetes in diabetic mice.