The Annual Celebration of Pathology Day | May 25, 2012
| Conference Location | Paetzold Health Education Centre, 1st floor, JPPN, VGH
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| 8:30am - 5:30pm | View preliminary program or poster |
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HIGHLIGHTS |
PATHOLOGY DAY 2012 |
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| James Hogg Lecture | Katerina Dorovini-Zis, MD, FRCPC | Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of British Columbia, & Health Sciences Center
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"Cerebral malaria in children: a neurovascular disorder" |
| Science Bytes | Highlights of Poster presentations by Residents, Graduate Students, Fellows, Trainees and other departmental members |
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| Keynote Lecture | Marco A. Marra, PhD, FRS(C), FCAHS, OBC |
Director & Distinguished Scientist, Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency;
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia;
Adjunct Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU;.
UBC Canada Research Chair in Genome Science
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"Decoding Cancers" |
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Abstract Submission
| Deadline | Event | 2012 |
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| Abstract selection for oral presentation has now closed. |
If you are interested in a poster presentation, please contact event organizers at pathologyday@pathology.ubc.ca | Abstract form |
Annual Awards Nomination
| Deadline | Event |
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| Annual Awards Nomination has now closed. |
Annual Awards Nomination Form 2012 [pdf] Annual Awards Nomination Form 2012 [word document] |
Complimentary admission to VanDusen Botanical Garden
Event Organizers
- Jacqueline Quandt
- Assistant Professor and PathDay Chair
- Michael F. Allard
- Professor and Head
- Michael Nimmo
- Clinical Associate Professor and Residency Program Director
- Adeline Chan
- Executive Assistant to Department Head and Director
Pathology Day 2011
James Hogg Keynote Lecture: Dr. James Hogg, Professor Emeritus
"Centrilobular emphysematous destruction in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)"
Pathology Day Keynote Lecture: Dr. Dario VignaliPhD, Vice Chair and Member,
Department of Immunology,
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
"Immune Regulation, T-regs and Inhibitory Receptors"
- Abstract Book 2011 - May 27, 2011
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The resident oral presentation award winners are:
- 1st Place: Anna Lee "Loss of BAF250a (ARID1A) is frequent in high-grade endometrial carcinomas"
- 2nd place: Tyler Smith "Using evidence and expert consensus to clarify the clinical confusion surrounding heritable thrombophilia testing"
- 3rd place: Titus Wong "Community and hospital rates of group B streptococcus resistance to penicillin, erythromycin and clindamycin in Vancouver, Canada"
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The graduate oral presentation award winners are:
- 1st place(tie): Clara Westwell-Roper and Kevin Yang
Clara Westwell-Roper "Blockade of interleukin-1 signalling improves human islet amyloid polypeptide-induced pancreatic islet graft dysfunction"
Kevin Yang "Small molecules to inhibit prostate cancer proliferation by targeting androgen receptor" - 3rd place: Jennifer Choo "An immunohistochemical survey of biomarkers for basal-like breast cancer against a gene expression profile gold standard"
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The poster presentation award winners are:
- 1st place: Jasmine Hamilton "Novel macromolecular iron chelators: an innovative approach to the treatment of transfusion associated iron overload"
- 2nd place: L. Apel-Sarid "Non-immune hydrops fetalis in Vancouver: are we different?"
- 3rd place: Amanda Vanden Hoek "Identification of a novel coagulation factor X compound heterozygous mutation associated with differential initiating clotting pathway function"
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Faculty Recognition Awards
- Dr. Haydn Pritchard: Most Valuable Player
- Dr. David Walker: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu: Award for Excellence in Research and Discovery
- Dr. Carol Park and Dr. Morris Pudek: Award for Excellence in Education
- Dr. Katherine Chipperfield: Award for Excellence in Service
- Ms. Sabine Hutchinson: Staff Service Award in the Technologist/Technician Category
- Mr. John Garratt: Staff Service Award in the Administration Category
Pathology Day 2010
James Hogg Keynote Lecture: Dr. Steven Narod, M.D., FRCPC, Canada Research Chair in Breast Cancer, Women's College Research Institute, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
"Update on Hereditary Breast Cancer: Prevention and Treatment"
- Abstract Book 2010 - May 2010
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The resident oral presentation award winners are:
- 1st Place: Titus Wong "Evaluation of real-time PCR tcdC gene detection assay for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection"
- 2nd place: Arwa Al-Riyami "Octaplex usage one year after implementation at a tertiary care hospital"
- 3rd place: David Schaeffer "Absolute increase in endocrine cells in pediatric gastric biopsies following long-term proton pump inhibitor therapy"
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The graduate oral presentation award winners are
- 1st place: Lisa Ang "Serpin A3N reduces abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture in mice by inhibition of extracellular granzyme B"
- 2nd place: Clara Westwell-Roper "Macrophage recruitment and TNF-alpha release: a pro-inflammatory role for human islet amyloid polypeptide"
- 3rd place: Xin Ye "microRNA(mir)-126 promotes coxsackievirus B3 replication by enhancing ERK signaling pathway"
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The poster presentation award winners are:
- 1st place: Sophie Stukas "The role of brain high density lipoproteins in facilitating beta-amyloid degradation"
- 2nd place: Maite Verreault "Lipid-based formulation of irinotecan (Irinophore C), vincristine and doxorubicin target tumor vasculature in glioblastoma multiforme"
- 3rd place: Amal El-Naggar and Jessica Kalra
Amal El-Naggar: "Y box binding protein-1 is a major contributor to sarcoma cells motility and aggressiveness" Jessica Kalra: "Suppression of Her2/neu expression through ILK inhibition is regulated by a pathway involving TWIST and YB-1"
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Faculty Recognition Awards
- Dr. Deborah McFadden: Most Valuable Player
- Dr. James Hogg: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. John Brunstein: Award for Excellence in Research and Discovery
- Dr. Amanda Bradley: Award for Excellence in Education
- Dr. Catherine Halstead: Award for Excellence in Service
- Ms. Jenny Tai: Staff Service Award
- Mrs. Florida Pelingon: Staff Service Award
Pathology Day 2009
James Hogg Keynote Lecture: Dr. Jay Levy, University of California, San Francisco
"The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: How Science Faces the Challenge"
- Abstract Book 2009 - May 2009
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The resident oral presentation award winners are:
- 1st Place: Terry Jefferson "NTRK2 Expression Predicts Improved Survival in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung"
- 2nd place: David Schaeffer "Insulin-Like Growth Factor-2 mRNA Binding Protein 3 (IGF2BP3) Expression May Be a Marker for a Unfavorable Prognosis in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma"
- 3rd place: Tony Ng "The Anoikis Stress Response Induces the AMPK Energy-sensing Pathway to Promote Survival in Transformed Cells"
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The graduate oral presentation award winners are
- 1st place: Tie between Varun Saran and Agatha Jassem
Varun Saran: "Control of Glycolysis in Cardiac Hypertrophy: Interaction of Hexokinase and Voltage Dependant Anion Channel" Agatha Jassem: "Outer Membrane Mediated Aminoglycoside Resistance in the Burkholderia Cepacia Complex" - 2nd place: Henry Stringer "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Depletion and Deletion in Statin-Induced Myopathy"
- 3rd place: Marissa Jitratkosol "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Mutations in Infants Exposed to HAART in utero"
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The poster presentation award winners are:
- 1st place: Paul Hiebert "Granzyme B in skin aging and extracellular matrix degradation in apolipoprotein E deficient mice"
- 2nd place: Sara Giesz "Practical solutions in biobank facilitation: The BC Biolibrary initiative"
- 3rd place: Lisa S. Ang "Extracellular activity of granzyme B contributes to abdominal aortic aneurysm and rupture"
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Faculty Recognition Awards
- Dr. Rusung Tan: Most Valuable Player
- Dr. Phil Clement: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. Louis Wadsworth: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. Blake Gilks: Award for Excellence in Research and Discovery
- Dr. Diane Roscoe: Award for Excellence in Education
- Dr. Bonnie Massing: Award for Excellence in Service
- Ms. Penny Woo: Staff Service Award
Pathology Day 2008
James Hogg Keynote Lecture: Dr. Deborah Nickerson, Professor of Genome Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington
"Genome-Wide Quantitative Trait Analysis"
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The resident oral presentation award winners are:
- 1st Place: Tony Ng "High-throughput identification of suppressors of anoikis reveal a possible role of the arrestin-domain containing gene family"
- 2nd place: Jefferson Terry "Isolation of putative cancer stem-like cells in synovial sarcoma"
- 3rd place: Cheng-han Lee "Molecular characterization of 31 novel sarcoma cell lines"
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The poster presentation by graduate student award winners are:
- 1st place: Ciara Chamberlain "Granzyme B contributes to aortic dissection and aneurysm pathogenesis through the cleavage of extra cellular matric proteins"
- 2nd place: Peyman Tavassoli "TATA binding protein associated factor 1 (TAF1) can bind and differentially enhance androgen receptor transcriptional activity via ubiquitin activating/conjugating and N-Terminal Kinase Domains"
- 3rd place: Tie between Ivy Tsui and Meredith Hamilton
Ivy Tsui "Clonal evolution of the multi-focal development of oral carcinogenesis" "Meredith Hamilton "Role of the toll-like receptor signaling molecule TRIF in b-cell function"
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Faculty Recognition Awards
- Dr. Carol Parks: Most Valuable Player
- Dr. Bruce McManus: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. Wan Lam: Award for Excellence in Research and Discovery
- Dr. Jason Ford: Award for Excellence in Education
- Dr. Brian Skinnider: Award for Excellence in Service
- Ms. Joanne Wouterse: Staff Service Award
Pathology Day 2007
James Hogg Keynote Lecture: Dr. Polly Matzinger, Head, T-Cell Tolerance and Memory
Section Senior Investigator, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD
"Conversations Between Tissues and T cells"
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The award for Best Oral Presentation by Graduate Students:
- Jerry Wong "ClassIII PI3K is required for intracellular shuttling of coxsackievirus"
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The award for Best Oral Presentation by Resident:s
- Suzanne Vercauteren "Stem Cell Cultures as a Diagnostic Tool in Myelodysplastic Syndromes"
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The award for Best Poster Presentation by Graduate Students:
- Leah M. Prentice "The KiSS-1 and GPR54 ligand-receptor pair are associated with favourable prognosis and clear cell subtype in human ovarian carcinoma". Leah M Prentice, Christian Klausen, Steve Kalloger, Ashish Rajput, Martin Koebel, Steven McKinney, Ken Swenerton, Jennifer L. Santos, C. Blake Gilks, Peter Leung, Ken Swenerton, David G Huntsman and Samuel AJ Aparicio
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Faculty Recognition Awards
- Dr. David Walker: Most Valuable Player
- Dr. Jiri Frohlich: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. Ian Mackenzie: Award for Excellence in Research and Discovery
- Dr. Kate Chipperfield: Award for Excellence in Education
- Dr. David Owen: Award for Excellence in Service
- Mr. Andrew Leung: Staff Service Award
Pathology Day 2006
2006 keynote speakers were: Dr. Julia Levy, PhD, DSc, FRSC, OC, Founder and Former President and CEO Executive Chairman,
Scientific Advisory Board, QLT Inc.
and Dr. Richard N. Kitsis,MD, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, The Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros
Chair in Cadiovascular Disease, Chief, Division of Cardiology, Director, Cardiovascular Research Center,
Albert Eintstein College of Medicine
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The awards for Best Oral Presentations by Residents:
- Carol Lee: "Right ventricular lipomatosis and fibrous tissue in cases of non-cardiac death"
- Billy Teng: "Presence and distribution of dendritic cells in inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system"
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The awards for Best Oral Presentations by Graduate Students:
- Gavin Tansley: "The cholesterol transporter ABCG1 modulates the proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein"
- Lindsay Brown: "Amplification of EMSY, a novel BRCA2 interacting protein, in a population based series of breast carcinomas and known BRCA1/2 mutation carriers"
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The poster presentation award winners
- Bradley Coe: "Disruption of different biochemical pathways between small and non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines". Bradley P. Coe, William W. Lockwood, Luc Girard, Raj Chari, Calum MacAulay, Stephen Lam, Adi F. Gazdar, John D. Minna, Wan L. Lam
- Jerry Wong: "Proteasome inhibition in protection of coxsackievirus-induced murine myocarditis". G Gao, J Zhang, X Si, J Wong, BM McManus, H Luo
- Hoa Le: "Reduced NMDA receptor tyrosine phosphorylation in PTPa-deficient mouse synaptosomes is accompanied by inhibition of four src family kinases and Pyk2: An upstream role for PTPa in NMDA receptor regulation". Hoa T. Le, Lola Maksumova, Jing Wang, and Catherine J. Pallen
- Leah Prentice: "Expression of KiSS1 and GPR54 in human breast cancer". Leah M Prentice, Michael Peacock, Dmitry Turbin, Sam Aparicio and David Huntsman
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Faculty Recognition Awards:
- Dr. Gillian Lockitch: Most Valuable Player
- Dr. William Godolphin: David Hardwick Lifetime Acheivement
- Dr. Cheryl Wellington: Award for Excellence in Research and Discovery
- Dr. Amanda Bradley and Dr. Vicky Monsalve: Award for Excellence in Education
- Dr. Jiri Frohlich: Award for Excellence in Service
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