Norman Bethune Symposium 2024: Poster Gallery

This gallery showcases the posters that were presented at the 12th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium on April 18, 2024, at UBC Robson Square. These individuals include undergraduate students, graduate trainees, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and research associates.

If you have questions about the Norman Bethune Symposium 2024 posters, please contact Kaitlyn Chuong (kaitlyn.chuong@ubc.ca).


Posters

Posters will be added as they become available!

Authors: Aleksander C. Lazarski, Liam J. Worrall, Natalie C.J. Strynadka

PI: Dr. Natalie Strynadka

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Alexandra Witt1,2,3, Scott Meixner2,3, Ed Pryzdial1,2,3

1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC

2 Centre for Blood Research, UBC, Vancouver, BC

3 Canadian Blood Services

PI: Dr. Ed Pryzdial

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Aron A. Shoara1,2, Kanwal Singh1-3, Henry T. Peng3, Katy Moes3, Colin A. Kretz4 and Andrew N. Beckett1,2

1 Canadian Blood Services Centre for Innovation, Ottawa, ON

2 Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

3 Defence Research and Development Canada

4 Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

PI: Dr. Andrew Beckett

Role: Postdoctoral Researcher

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Authors: Colton Strong1,2,3, Jerry Leung1,2,3,4, Katherine E. Badior5, Madelaine Robertson1,2,3,4, Xiaowu Wu6, Michael A. Meledeo6, Emma Kang3,7, Yusuke Sato8, Hideyoshi Harashima8, Andrew P. Cap6, Dana V. Devine2,3,7,9, Eric Jan2, Pieter R. Cullis2,4, Christian J. Kastrup1,2,3,5,10

1 Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC

2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

3 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

4 NanoMedicines Research Group, UBC

5 Blood Research Institute, Versiti Wisconsin, Milwaukee

6 Blood and Shock Resuscitation Program, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, Houston

7 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC

8 Laboratory for Molecular Design of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

9 Centre for Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver

10 Departments of Surgery, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

PI: Dr. Christian Kastrup

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: David Thiam En Lim1,2, Michaël W. Kulka1,3, Sreeparna Vappala1,3, Suzana K. Straus2, Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu1,2,3,4

1 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

2 Department of Chemistry, UBC

3 Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC

4 School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC

PI: Dr. Jay Kizhakkedathu & Dr. Suzana Straus

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Debajeet Ghosh1,2, Fang Wang2, Aly Karsan1,2

1 University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver

2 Genome Sciences Centre, BCCRC

PI: Dr. Aly Karsan

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Dipon Saha1, Eliot Mar1, Yu Chen2, Filip van Petegam2, Dieter Bromme1,2 

1 Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Biological & Medical Sciences, UBC

2 Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC

PI: Dr. Dieter Bromme

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Elyn M. Rowe1,2,Marcus Shew1,2,4, Noor Ali-Mohamad1, Mindy Goldman3, Dana V. Devine1,2 , James Johnson4

1 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

2 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC

3 Medical Affairs & Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON

4 Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, UBC

PI: Dr. Dana Devine & Dr. James Johnson

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Emma Kang1,2,3, Colton Strong1,2,4, Jerry Leung1,2,4,5, Katherine E. Badior6, Madelaine Robertson1,2,4,5, Nicolas Pereyra2,4, Elyn Rowe3, Amanda Wietzny6, Brenda Ma2,4, Zechariah Noronha2, Dana V. Devine3,4,5, Eric Jan4, Pieter R. Cullis4,5, Christian J. Kastrup1,2,3,4,6,7

1 Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC

2 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

3 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC

4 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

5 NanoMedicine Research Group, UBC

6 Blood Research Institute, Versiti Wisconsin, Milwaukee

7 Departments of Surgery, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

PI: Dr. Dana Devine

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Fateme Babaha1, Nathalie Tijet1, Erin Burnett1, David Lillicrap1

1 Queen's University, Kingston, ON

PI: Dr. David Lillicrap

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: GS Butler, HC Ramos de Jesus, M Vlok, Y Machado, I Pablos, R Kappelhoff, N Solis, PA Bell, L Nore, JP Nguyen, QT Cao, PM Grin, JC Vederas, J Hirota, C Lindskog, E Jan, CM Overall

Centre for Blood Research and Departments of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, UBC, Vancouver

Uppsala University, Sweden

McMaster University, Canada

University of Alberta, Canada

PI: Dr. Chris Overall

Role: Research Associate

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Authors: Helena Sverak1, Timothy Craven2, Jaeyong Lee1, Liam Worrall1, Andrew Alexander1, Scott Foster1, David Baker2, Natalie Strynadka1

1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & the Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Life Sciences Centre, Vancouver, BC

2 Institute for Protein Design, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Engineering and Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

PI: Dr. Natalie Strynadka

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Henry E. West2,3, Bryan H. J. Lin2,4, Michael R. Sutherland1,2,3, Cindy Lam4, Ivan Sadowski4, Marc Horwitz5, and Edward L. G. Pryzdial1,2,3

1 Canadian Blood Services, Medical Affairs and Innovation

2 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

3 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC

4 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

5 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UBC

PI: Dr. Ed Pryzdial

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Iryna Liubchak1,2, Alex Pieters1,2, Paul Juralowicz1,2, Tanya Bennet1,2, Tara M. Caffrey1,2, Karen Cheung1,2,3

1 School of Biomedical Engineering

2 Centre for Blood Research

3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC

PI: Dr. Karen Cheung

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Jeffrey S. Tang1, Asees Singh1, and Amrit Singh1,2

1 Centre for Heart Lung Innovation

2 Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, UBC

PI: Dr. Amrit Singh

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Jerry Leung1,2,3,4, Asel Primbetova5, Colton Strong1,2,3, Brenna N. Hay1,2, Han Hsuan Hsu5, Andrew Hagner5, Leonard J. Foster1,2,3, Dana Devine3,6, Pieter R. Cullis2,4, Peter W. Zandstra1,5, Christian J. Kastrup1,2,3,7,8

1 Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC

2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

3 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

4 NanoMedicine Research Group, UBC

5 School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC

6 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC

7 Versiti Blood Research Institute, Milwaukee

8 Departments of Surgery, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

PI: Dr. Christian Kastrup

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: John Perrier1,2, Henry West1,2, Michael Sutherland1,2,3, Ed Pryzdial1,2,3

1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

2 UBC Centre for Blood Research

3 Canadian Blood Services

PI: Dr. Ed Pryzdial

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Joyce Teodoro1,2, Jeffrey Chiu1,2, Jeong Hyun Lee1,2, Kerryn Matthews1,2, Simon Duffy1,2, Hongshen Ma1,2,3,4

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC, Vancouver

2 Centre for Blood Research, UBC, Vancouver

3 School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC, Vancouver

4 Vancouver Prostate Cancer, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver

PI: Dr. Hongshen Ma

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Julliet K. Zama1,2,3, Izabella Gadawski1, Hélène C.F. Côté1,2,3

1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver

2 Centre for Blood Research, UBC, Vancouver

3 Women's Health Research Institute, Vancouver

PI: Dr. Hélène Côté

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Kiran Toor1,2, Audrea Chen1, Kelly Brown1,2, David Cabral1,3, Cherry Mammen1,3, and Kimberly Morishita1,3

1 Department of Pediatrics, The University of British Columbia

2 BC Children's Hospital Research Institute

3 BC Children's Hospital

PI: Dr. Kelly Brown & Dr. Kimberly Morishita

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh1,2, Olga Mykhailova2, Jason P. Acker1,2

1 Innovation and Portfolio Management, Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton AB

2 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB

PI: Dr. Jason Acker

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Kelly Marie Johns1-8, Giorgia Caspani1-8, Chaahat S.B. Singh1-8, Maria-Elizabeth Baeva1-8, Wing Yan Leung1-8, Cheryl Pfeifer1-8, Anne Haegert8, Stephane Le Bihan8, Robert Bell8, Colin Collins8, Wilf Jeffries1-8

1 Michael Smith Laboratories

2 The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

3 Centre for Blood Research

4 Department of Medical Genetics & Genomics

5 Department of Microbiology & Immunology

6 Department of Zoology

7 Department of Urologic Sciences

8 The Vancouver Prostate Centre

PI: Dr. Wilfred Jefferies

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Mingming Zhang1,2, Scott J Tebbutt2,3,4, Amrit Singh1,2

1 Genome Science and Technology, UBC

2 Heart and Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital

3 Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF) Centre

4 Department of Medicine, UBC

PI: Dr. Amrit Singh

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Nicolas Pereyra1, Helen Chen2, Kai Yu2, Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu2, Dana Devine1

1 Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC

2 Department of Chemistry, UBC

PI: Dr. Dana Devine

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Clara Wenjing Xia1-5, Iryna Saranchova1,4,5, Pablo de Lucía Finkel1,3,4,5, Stephanie Besoiu1,3,4,5, Cheryl G. Pfeifer1,2,4,5, Wilf Jefferies1-8

1 Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC

2 The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital

3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UBC

4 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

5 The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, UBC

6 Department of Medical Genetics, UBC

7 Department of Zoology, UBC

8 Department of Urologic Sciences, UBC

PI: Dr. Wilfred Jefferies

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Steven Jiang1,2, Kalyan Golla1,2, Hugh Kim1,2,3

1 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

3 Faculty of Dentistry, UBC

PI: Dr. Hugh Kim

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Taylor Da Silva1,2, Yu-Hsuan Huang1, Ahmed Kabil1,3,4, Michael Hughes1,3,4, Kelly McNagny1,3,4, Tillie Hackett5, Hugh Kim1,6,7

1 Centre for Blood Research, UBC

2 Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC

3 Biomedical Research Centre, UBC

4 School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC

5 Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, UBC & SPH

6 Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UBC

7 Faculty of Dentistry, UBC

PI: Dr. Hugh Kim

Role: Graduate Student

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Authors: Zoya Tawhidi1-3, Ulrich J. Sachs5, Christopher Khoury2-4, Lazaro Gil-Gonzalez3,4, Akash Gupta1, Nadine Shehata2,6, Lani Lieberman1,2,7, Heyu Ni1-4,8  and Alan Lazarus1-4, 9

1 Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Toronto, ON

2 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON

3 The Canadian Blood Services, Centre for Innovation, Toronto, ON

4 Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Toronto, ON

5 Institute for Clinical Immunology, Transfusion Medicine and Haemostasis, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany & Department of of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Giessen University Hospital, Giessen, Germany

6 Division of Hematology, Sinal Health System, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, ON

7 Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Health Network Hospitals, Toronto, ON

8 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

9 Division of Advanced Therapeutics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, ON

PI: Dr. Alan Lazarus

Role: Graduate Student

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