HQP Summit – MAUD MENTEN INSTITUTE

Topic

Maud Menten Institute HQP (Highly Qualified Personnel) Summit and Working Group Meetings

Details

The first MMI in-person meeting will take place at UBC Vancouver, scheduled from September 26th to September 29th. The schedule is as follows:

Thursday Sept 26 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM – UBC Iona Building (IONA), Room 301 (5:00-8:00):

5:00 PM Arrival
5:15 PM Introduction and welcome (Mark Lewis, Dan Coombs)
5:30 PM Dinner and ice-breaker activity
7:00 PM Research talk – Anotida Madzvamuse – “Analysis and simulations of bulk-surface reaction-diffusion systems”
7:30 PM Research talk – Eric Foxall – “Paths to extinction: diffusion, rare events, and the role of
criticality”
8:00 PM Finish

Friday Sept 27 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM – (meet at Iona building, room 301, for 9am start)

9:00 AM Research Communications Activities in groups,
- Chris Balma, Communications Director, UBC Science
9.30 AM Research Communication part 2
- Alex Walls, Media Relations Specialist, UBC Science
10 AM – Group Photo
10:05 AM – walk over to Earth Science Building, 4th and 5th floor
10:15 AM Debrief sessions (in groups, ESB 4th and 5th floor)
- Group 1: ESB 4133 (PIMS lounge) Facilitator: Chris Balma
- Group 2: ESB 5104 Facilitator: Alex Walls
- Group 3: ESB 5106 Facilitator: Krysten Casumpang
- Group 4: ESB 5108 Facilitator: Dan Coombs
10:45 AM Coffee break (ESB 5th Floor)
11:15 AM Research Communication part 3
- publishing your work (in groups, ESB 4th and 5th floor)
- Group 1: ESB 4133 (PIMS lounge) Lead: Mark Lewis
- Group 2: ESB 5104 Lead: Rebecca Tyson
- Group 3: ESB 5106 Lead: Alexey Shevyakov
- Group 4: ESB 5108 Lead: Dan Coombs
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM Research Communication part 4
- the elevator pitch (in groups, ESB 4th and 5th floor)
- Group 1: ESB 4133 (PIMS lounge) Lead: Mark Lewis
- Group 2: ESB 5104 Lead: Marc Roussel
- Group 3: ESB 5106 Lead: Eric Foxall
- Group 4: ESB 5108 Lead: Gerda de Vries
2 PM Pacific Spirit and/or beach hikes or Museum of Anthropology
- Meet up in ESB 1st floor lobby at 2.05pm
6:00 PM Dinner at restaurant (in groups – sign up sheet available Friday, or self-organized groups), not paid for by the conference

Saturday Sept 28, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Earth Science building)

9:00 AM Poster session, ground floor – ESB Lobby
10:30 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM Elevator pitch performances (two groups)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Working groups, session 1
- Environmental & Ecological Forecasting
  - Invited Speakers – Stephanie Peacock (Pacific Salmon Foundation), Andrew Bateman (Pacific Salmon Foundation) and Martin Krkosek (Salmon Coast Society)
- Heterogenous Disease Modelling
  - Invited Speaker – Mike Irvine (BC Centre for Disease Control), Betsy Varughese (Institute of Health Economics), Rebeca Falcao (BC Centre for Disease Control)
- Quantitative Medicine & Physiology
  - Invited Speaker -James Chen (AMGEN Canada)
on or around 2.30 PM coffee break
3:00 PM Working groups, session 2
- Environmental & Ecological Forecasting
  - Invited Speaker – Eliot McIntire (Natural Resources Canada)
- Heterogenous Disease Modelling
  - Mini-modelling project on onchocerciasis (river blindness), organized by Julien Arino (UManitoba)
- Quantitative Medicine & Physiology
  - Invited Speaker – Manu Madhav (UBC)
5:00 PM Dinner (working groups to self-organize), not paid for by the conference

Sunday, Sept 29 (Earth Science building)