Research Projects

Genetics of Rare Obesity and Overgrowth Disorders; Epigenetics of Body Weight and Body Composition; Genetics of Familial Intracranial Aneurysms.     Please note that recruitment is extremely competitive. Applicants with external scholarship/fellowship funding are strongly preferred, as are applicants who already have an MD or MBBS degree, or who are applying to UBC's MD-PhD program.... Read More

The introduction of information technology in medicine has enabled a transformational change in recent decades. The coronavirus pandemic further accelerated the introduction of virtual care and digital health solutions. Thus, most of my work focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating ways that leverage technology to improve patient-relevant outcomes.

Clinical... Read More

Most projects centre on the neural circuits underlying taste processing and feeding in the fly brain. Potential projects include looking at circuit mechanisms underlying taste integration, hunger, feeding, taste memories, chemosensory integration, and taste circuit development.

I am looking for post-doctoral fellows. Trainees will be actively involved in the translational research effort pertaining to understanding the physiological and/or pathophysiological role(s) of the serine protease family, granzymes, in the context of skin or vascular inflammation regeneration, in aging, autoimmune and/or chronic disease. Granzymes are a family of 5 serine proteases in humans... Read More

Understanding the inequality of the economic impacts of Human Wildlife Conflict in India and Africa---especially snake bites. 

Evaluating the impact of behavioural and economic interventions in reducing human bear conflict in British Columbia.  

Mathematical analysis (e.g. energetics, stability and dynamical behaviour) of topological solitons in ferromagnets.

Mathematical analysis (e.g. energetics, stability and dynamical behaviour) of solitons of nonlinear Schrodinger equations.

Mathematical theory (e.g. well-posedness, long-time behaviour) of geometric dispersive equations.

Currently my research focuses on supporting older adults and their caregivers as then engage in managing cancer treatment and survivorship. I am looking to develop patient-oriented research partnerships in BC.

Global Surgery (multiple topics)

Health Professions Education (multiple topics)

Surgical Education (multiple topics)

Healthcare Simulation (multiple topics)

Materials innovations have sparked most of the major technological advances across the millennia – from the stone, bronze, and iron ages through to the current silicon age. Science now stands on the precipice of a new era: the age of quantum materials – materials with extraordinary electronic and magnetic properties that rely on quantum mechanical effects. In the Hallas group, we use state-of-... Read More

Our work focuses on the early development of moral cognition and action in infancy.

Please see www.edges.ubc.ca and www.watergoveranance.ca for ongoing research efforts. There are currently funded research opportunities with the decolonizingwater.ca project on Indigenous water governance issues (in Canada and elsewhere) and there may be upcoming support for analysis of non material dimensions... Read More

See https://phas.ubc.ca/~hearty/ 

• Analzying the impact of diversity policies on gender and race workplace diversity
• Case studies of employment discrimination and human rights complaints

Computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery

Ultrasound image acquisition and processing

Surgical navigation systems

My research group is working with Ministry to develop, implement and evaluate a new provincial medication safety information technology we have developed. This work will provide multiple opportunities for graduate students to be involved in. With the implementation of this technology more robust data will become available on adverse drug events experienced by patients. Future projects include... Read More

Our research interests include:

• Integration of metabolomics with other ‘omics’ (epigenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) data for the systems-level interrogation of biological problems
• Application of state-of-art metabolomics technologies in various biological challenges, such as mechanistic understanding of cancer metabolism and disease biomarker discovery... Read More

• Cultural impacts and barriers of decarbonization
• Sociological study of emotions and polarization over climate change
• Understanding how engagement in environmentalism is related to social class, political ideology, and gender

I am particularly interested in students who are developing projects on LGBTQ+ politics, especially in the Global South and on transgender rights. I am also interested in students working on issues in Bolivia.

global migration, occupational science, francophone minority communities

Please see: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~irwin/irwinlab/

Projects include

• elucidating virus host interactions such as antiviral innate immunity and viral proteins that modulate cellular processes
• identifying host protein substrates by viral proteinases
• non-canonical protein synthesis mechanisms used by viruses and cellular mRNAs
• mRNA therapeutics

Approaches include biochemical, molecular and cell... Read More

1) New finite element analysis techniques for advanced structures;

2) Development of optimization algorithms for structural optimization; 

3) Machine/deep learning methodology for reduced order modeling of mechanical systems.

New ways of assessing hearing aid outcomes; encouraging older adults to seek and use hearing health care services; acoustic and behavioural assessment of hearing aid processing.

Communication between audiologists and patients.

I am looking for graduate students (MSc or PhD) to contribute to the development of the Lifetime Exposures and Asthma outcomes Projection (LEAP) model. LEAP is a whole disease model of asthma in Canada, which is currently being developed to evaluate the impact of climate change-related increases in air pollution and the value of climate-adaptation measures. This project has been supported by... Read More