Held weekly, CBR seminars feature insightful scientific talks, with speakers from a range of clinical, industry and academic backgrounds.

April 20, 2022 update: Starting in June 2022, our CBR summer seminars will be held in a hybrid format in LSC3, from 1PM – 2PM PT!

• Starting June 2022: CBR seminars will be held in a hybrid format from 1PM – 2PM PT on Wednesdays, in LSC3 and via Zoom.
• Please contact kristine.ho@ubc.ca if you’re interested in attending the speaker talks.
• Know a speaker, or want to present at a CBR seminar? Contact Dr. Dana Devine (ddevine@pathology.ubc.ca) or Mira Milutinovic (mira.milutinovic@ubc.ca).

Select recordings of CBR seminars are available for viewing below and on YouTube.

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title	Abstract	Recording
September 1, 2021	Dr. Peter Schubert	UBC	“netCAD: Canadian Blood Service’s multifunctional Blood4Research facility”
September 29, 2021	Dr. Kathryn Melzak	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly)	“RBCs stored for transfusions: shape changes, hemolysis pathways, and a marker for storage quality”		N/A
October 6, 2021	Dr. Christoph Licht	UBC	“Translational research in complement-mediated research”
October 20, 2021	Dr. Paul Riley	Diagnostica Stago Inc.	“Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC): The Critical Role of the Lab”
Michael John Page Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Presentation: October 27, 2021	Dr. Alison McAfee	UBC	“Causes and consequences of honeybee infertility”
December 1, 2021	Dr. Moritz Stolla	University of Washington	“Cold-stored platelets – Back to the Future?”
December 1, 2021	CBR Special Seminar: Dr. Dicken Ko	Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University	“Reconstructive Transplantation: A slowly developing paradigm”		N/A
February 2, 2022	Dr. Dave Farrell	Professor of Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Gamma Diagnostics	“Gamma Fibrinogen and COVID-19; Who Knew?”
February 9, 2022	Dr. Jason L. Rasgon	Professor of Disease Epidemiology, Pennsylvania State University	“CRISPR tool and protocols for non-model systems”		N/A
March 30, 2022	Dr. Guinevere Lee	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine	“Do HIV-1 strains matter in the context of cure research?”
May 18, 2022	Dr. Steven Drews	Associate Director, Canadian Blood Services Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta	“COVID-19 and immunity: Where are we?”
June 1, 2022	McNagny Lab	UBC	“Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILCs) as novel and potent regulators of inflammatory disease”
June 15, 2022	Devine Lab	UBC	“Exciting research from the Devine Lab”
June 22, 2022	Hancock Lab	UBC	“The Multiple Faces of Sepsis”		N/A
June 29, 2022	Côté Lab	UBC	“Let’s talk about HIV, antiretrovirals, and other chronic/latent viruses that stay with people forever…”		N/A
July 6, 2022	Multi-Scale Design Laboratory (Ma Lab)	UBC	“New technologies to study cell function – Research in the Ma Lab”		TBD
July 13, 2022	Kizhakkedathu Lab	UBC	“Novel bioengineering approaches to improve blood transfusion and preservation of blood products”		N/A
July 20, 2022	Conway Lab	UBC	“Seeking solutions to solve thrombo-inflammatory disorders”		N/A
August 3, 2022	Kim Lab	UBC	“The many faces of filamin A in platelets: From signaling to survival”		N/A
August 10, 2022	Karsan Lab	UBC	“Role of ubiquitin system mutations in AML”		TBD