View Draft Agenda - Men`s Health Research

Peter Wall Institute Conference Room
6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver
APRIL 27, 2015
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
DRAFT AGENDA (updated April 2, 2015)
TIME
SESSION
9:10 am
Session 1 - Research Collaborations in Health
Moderator
9:10 am
Acting without seeing: eye movements reveal visual processing without
awareness
Miriam Spering, Marisa Carrasco
8:30 am
9:00 am
9: 40 am
10:10 am
10:40 am
11:10 am
Coffee and tea
WELCOME
Dr. Nancy Gallini, Acting Director, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced
Studies, University of British Columbia
Dr. Anne Gorsuch, Deputy to the President, University Affairs, University
of British Columbia (time tbd)
Questions and Discussion
Validation of glial connexins and pannexins as alternative targets for
Alzheimer's disease
Christian Naus, Christian Giaume
Questions and Discussion
Knowledge Exchange in Men’s Health
Dr. Maria Lohan, Dr. John Oliffe
Questions and Discussion
HEALTH BREAK
"Unbending the Oak:" Music Therapy, Medicine, and Vancouver's
Universities.
Michael Silverman, Larry Frisch, Susan Summers
Questions and Discussion
11:40 am
12:10 pm – 1:30 pm
Major Thematic Grant (2011-2014)
David Speert – HIV Exposed but Uninfected (HEU) Infants
The Mother Infant Health Study: Understanding the Infectious Morbidity
of HIV-Exposed but Uninfected Infants and Measuring Father
Involvement in Infant Care
Julie Bettinger, Gareth Mercer and Amy Slogrove
Questions and Discussion
LUNCH
TIME
1:30 pm
SESSION
Session 2 - Research Collaborations in Environment
Moderator
1:30 pm
Spaceship Earth – Fellow travellers steer towards living sustainably with
the ocean
Cornelia E. Nauen, U. Rashid Sumaila
2:00 pm
Questions and Discussion
Understanding the effects of multiple environmental stressors: can we
take the surprise out of ecological surprises?
Christopher Harley, Kristy Kroeker
Questions and Discussion
Session 3 – Research Collaborations in Advanced Materials
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
Electron dynamics at the slow-motion: snapshots of the fastest “slow”
process in solids
Andrea Damascelli, Claudio Giannetti
Questions and Discussion
Major Thematic Grant (2012-2016)
Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications
Michael Wolfe
Questions and Discussion
Session 4 – Looking Ahead
From Cosmic Birth to Living Earth
Douglas Scott, Jason Kalirai
4:00 pm
Colloquium Reception in West Sage (or IDEAS)
Open to all participants
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
End of Reception
DINNER for invited speakers only (off site?)
8:00 pm
End of dinner