The 3rd Annual Tri-Cluster Research Day

The 3rd Annual Tri-Cluster Research Day

When

26 November 2021    
9:00 am PST - 12:30 pm PST

Event Type

JOIN US FOR A RESEARCH DAY FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE OF HEALTH

Discover various research activities conducted by students and trainees from some of UBC’s Research Excellence Clusters. Students from the Data Science and Health, Women’s Health and Biomedical Imaging and AI clusters will present posters that address the Future of Health.

Join us for a virtual morning of multi-disciplinary exploration as our students address pressing questions around the future of health.

The day will include:

  • Virtual Poster presentations exhibiting students’ work
  • Virtual Lightning-Round presentations by the top 10 abstracts
  • Brainstorming Session for collaborative team grants

Why should you participate?

The goal of our Tri-Cluster Research Day is to provide a setting for faculty and students to identify current research projects that relate to their work and facilitate the co-creation of new research ideas.

Research Day will:

  • Provide an opportunity for you to explain your research and gain valuable feedback;
  • Hone your skills in writing an abstract and strengthen your presentation skills;
  • Give you a chance to practice communicating your research to a diverse group of people;
  • Let you meet potential collaborators and network with peers.

Presentations

Abstracts will be judged by professors from all three clusters. The top 10 will be invited to present their research in a 5-minute lightning talk. Abstracts are due October 24th, and successful applicants will be notified by November 12th, 2021.

Lightning Round Talks
10:15am – 10:20am Minnie Tang, Medicine / Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy

“Healthcare Students’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: a Canadian National Survey”

10:20am – 10:25am Greta Jang, Psychology

“Bringing Sexy Back: A 3.5-minute Psychoeducational Intervention that Improves Sexual Well-being”

10:25am – 10:30am Weina Jin, CS at SFU

“Evaluating explainable AI on multi-modal medical imaging task: can existing algorithms fulfill clinical requirements?”

10:30am – 10:35am Erin Fitzpatrick, Psychology

“What to expect when you’re expecting? Access to perinatal sexual health information is linked with higher postpartum sexual well-being”

10:35am – 10:40am Marta Kolbuszewska, Psychology

“Greater sexual desire, not matching in desire, is associated with higher relationship and sexual satisfaction postpartum”

10:40am – 10:45am Olivia Sullivan, Neuroscience

“Characterizing the effect of early life gut inflammation on brain microglia and neurodevelopment”

10:45am – 10:50am Yuheng Wang, School of Biomedical Engineering

“Incorporating Clinical Knowledge with Constrained Classifier Chain into a Multimodal Deep Network for Melanoma Detection”

10:50am – 10:55am Vince Bacarac, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

“Assessing the “two-hit” hypothesis: How does a two-hit immune activation affect microglial gene expression in the rat brain?”

10:55am – 11:00am Rohit Singla, School of Biomedical Engineering

“AutoKV-Net: Calculating Single Kidney Volume in Two-Dimensional Ultrasound Automatically by Mimicking Sonographers”

11:00am -11:05am Zoe Hu, 

“Automated Placental Disease Prediction in Ultrasound with Neural Networks”

Program Schedule

9:00 am Welcome Remarks
9:15 am Virtual Student Poster Session
10:15 am Lightning Round Presentations (Top 10 abstracts to present)
11:15 am Q&A with Lightning Round presentations
11:30 am Break
11:35 am Best Student Poster Award Presentation
12:00 pm Brainstorming Session for Collaborative Team Grants

Abstract Instructions