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World’s Largest, Most Complex Marine Virus is Major Player in Ocean Ecosystems: UBC Research
October 25, 2010
UBC researchers have identified the world’s largest marine virus--an unusually complex ‘mimi-like virus’ that infects an ecologically important and widespread planktonic predator.Cafeteria roenbergensis virus has a genome larger than those found in some cellular organisms, and… read more
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Government, Industry Support to Help 'De-Noise' Seismic Data
October 19, 2010
A new five-year, $5 million government- and industry-funded project at UBC will see researchers in the departments of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Computer Science and Mathematics designing the next generation of seismic imaging technology.The Dynamic nonlinear optimization for imaging in seismic… read more
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$3 Million in Health Funding Targets Microbial Impact on Immune System, Asthma
October 14, 2010
UBC microbiologist Brett Finlay has been awarded $3 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Genome British Columbia to investigate the impact intestinal microbes have on the human immune system.The support is part of seven grants totaling $15.5 million… read more
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Always Room for Jello in Science Education
October 14, 2010
Tony Yang has always had a passion for science education. But even he couldn’t have guessed that his love of teaching would one day involve jello.After graduating from UBC with a General Science degree in 2008, Yang is now pursuing his PhD. His UBC experience has enabled him to couple his… read more
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'Incoherent Excitations' Govern Key Phase of Superconductor Behaviour, UBC Research
October 14, 2010
New research by UBC physicists indicates that high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides is linked to what they term 'incoherent excitations'--a discovery that sheds light on the electronic response of these materials before they become superconducting.The study marks the first time… read more
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UBC, Max Planck Formalize Partnership Among World’s Top Quantum Physicists
October 4, 2010
UBC has forged a formal partnership with the Max Planck Society, Germany’s foremost basic research institution and home to 32 Nobel prizes.UBC President Stephen Toope and Max Planck Society President Peter Gruss were joined in Munich today by Thomas Marr, Germany’s Minister-Counsellor… read more
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Charting a More Detailed Family Tree for Blood Cells
September 28, 2010
UBC researchers have mapped what is likely the most comprehensive profile of microRNA expression across the hematopoietic hierarchy--the collection of primitive and differentiated cell types that develop from a common blood-forming stem cell. Hematopoietic stem cells--found in bone marrow--are… read more
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UBC Science Professor Carl Wieman to Take Up White House Post
September 23, 2010
The United States Senate has confirmed University of British Columbia professor and Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman for the position of Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Wieman joined UBC’s Faculty of Science in 2007 as Professor of… read more
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Genomic 'haircut’ makes world’s tiniest genome even smaller
September 21, 2010
The world’s tiniest nuclear genome appears to have “snipped off the ends” of its chromosomes and evolved into a lean, mean, genome machine that infects human cells, according to research published by University of British Columbia scientists. Until recently, E. cuniculi, a… read more
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UBC Plant Evolutionary Biologist, Inorganic Chemist Elected to Canada's Royal Society
September 16, 2010
UBC Science's Loren Rieseberg and Chris Orvig are among six UBC researchers elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) this year.Rieseberg, Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics, has made fundamental advances to our understanding of how species arise. He established hybridization… read more