UBC Science offers investigative opportunities in an extensive range of areas. Our researchers are involved in interdisciplinary research units and research support facilities across the UBC campus, and beyond. They also collaborate in several networks of Centres of Excellence and other national projects and laboratories.

Featured Centres

Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory
A premier North American multi-disciplinary research centre, AMPEL focuses on leading edge research of materials, devices and processing sciences.
» www.ampel.ubc.ca

Biodiversity Research Centre
The Centre's 50 members conduct research in evolution, fisheries conservation, population and community ecology, conservation biology and theoretical modeling.
» www.biodiversity.ubc.ca

Fisheries Centre
Research spans fisheries economics, aquatic ecosystem modeling, marine mammal research and work in aboriginal fisheries conservation.
» www.fisheries.ubc.ca

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Research spans fisheries economics, aquatic ecosystem modeling, marine mammal research and work in aboriginal fisheries conservation.
» www.ires.ubc.ca

Life Sciences Institute
The Institute is working to build an exceptional interdisciplinary research environment at the University, linking all branches of the life sciences.
» www.lsi.ubc.ca

Max Planck-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials
This premier international initiative commits both institutions to conducting joint research projects in Canada and Germany, and to increasing scholarly exchanges. The centre is only the third Max Planck Center to be established.
» www.physics.ubc.ca

Michael Smith Laboratories
Home to more than 250 researchers, MSL investigates molecular genetics in humans, animals and plants, fermentation and bio-process engineering, and bioinformatics.
» www.michaelsmith.ubc.ca

Mineral Deposit Research Unit
MDRU is an internationally recognized research group devoted to solving mineral exploration problems, and an important part of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
» www.mdru.ubc.ca

Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
PIMS promotes mathematical research and education, and works to build ties between scientists and the industrial and business sectors.
» www.pims.math.ca

TRIUMF
With a scientific user community numbering nearly 1,000, TRIUMF is Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and related sciences.
» www.triumf.ca

Alphabetical Listing

Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory: www.ampel.ubc.ca
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre: www.bms.bc.ca
Biodiversity Research Centre: www.zoology.ubc.ca/biodiversity
Biomedical Research Centre: www.brc.ubc.ca
Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research: www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org
Brain Research Centre: www.brain.ubc.ca
Centre for Blood Research: www.cbr.ubc.ca
Centre for High-Throughput Biology: www.chibi.ubc.ca
Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research: www.cmdr.ubc.ca
Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution: http://cmde.science.ubc.ca
Fisheries Centre: www.fisheries.ubc.ca
Geophysical Inversion Facility: www.eos.ubc.ca/research/ubcgif
Institute of Applied Mathematics: www.iam.ubc.ca
Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems: www.icics.ubc.ca
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability: www.ires.ubc.ca
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries: www.icord.org
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics: www.lmb.ubc.ca
Life Sciences Institute: www.lsi.ubc.ca
Max Planck-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials: www.physics.ubc.ca
Michael Smith Laboratories: www.michaelsmith.ubc.ca
Mineral Deposit Research Unit: www.mdru.ubc.ca
Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research: www.eos.ubc.ca/research/pcigr
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences: www.pims.math.ca
Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics: www.pitp.physics.ubc.ca

National and Regional Collaborations

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: www.ciar.ca
Canada's National Geoscience Project: www.lithoprobe.ca
Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics: www.triumf.ca
Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics: www.viva-viva.ca

Networks of Centres of Excellence

Graphics, Animation and New Media Network: www.grand-nce.ca
Cross-Sectorial Study of the Changing Canadian Arctic: www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca
Network in Aquaculture: www.aquanet.ca
Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics: www.nce.gc.ca/nces-rces/canvac_e.htm
Canadian Water Network: www.cwn-rce.ca
Geomatics for Informed Decisions Network: www.geoide.ulaval.ca
Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems: www.mitacs.math.ca

Support for Interdisciplinary Research

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: www.pwias.ubc.ca