Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University. This series probes the questions of the value for humans of medical research on nonhuman animals, the value for nonhuman animals, and the role of culture and corporate interests in discourses on human disease and security. Each speaker will speak for 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of discussion. This talk features: Fabio Rossi, Canada Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine, Medical Genetics, UBC; Bill Milsom, Zoology, UBC; Nelly Auersperg, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC; Dan Weary, Animal Welfare Program, UBC.
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Nelly Auersperg is a pioneer of gynecological cancer research who has focused her career on advancing the medical community’s ability to detect ovarian cancer at its early stages. In 1974, when she received the first of many research grants from the Canadian Cancer Society, few others were studying the disease. Nelly’s work continued long after her official retirement from UBC in 1994. In fact, she held research grants and carried out experiments for another 15 years, and published her most recent article in early 2011. She remains an honorary professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UBC, a trailblazing figure in ovarian cancer research, and a trusted mentor to a new generation of researchers.
Dr. Bill Milsom is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. His research involves determining the physiological basis of biodiversity in vertebrates. He studies respiratory, cardiovascular, thermoregulatory and metabolic adaptations for life in environments with low / high levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, food and water. He is also particularly interested in the neural control of these processes and their function in unanesthetized, freely behaving animals.
Dr. Fabio Rossi is currently a faculty member in the Department of Medical genetics and a member of the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests at The Biomedical Research Center span embryonic and adult stem cell physiology, and in particular how multiple types of stem cells coordinate their actions to regenerate complex tissues.
Dr. Daniel Weary is a Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair at The University of British Columbia. Dan co-founded UBC’s Animal Welfare Program and co-directs this active research group now consisting of over 25 visiting researchers, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers. Dan’s research focuses on developing behavioral measures for the objective assessment of animal welfare and developing practical methods of improving the welfare of farm animals, lab animals and wildlife. He has published hundreds of articles and is one of the most highly cited authors in animal welfare science.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Auersperg, N. (2011). The origin of ovarian carcinomas: a unifying hypothesis.International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology, 30(1), 12-21. [Link]
Joe, A. W., Yi, L., Natarajan, A., Le Grand, F., So, L., Wang, J., Rudnicki, M. A, & Rossi, F. M. (2010). Muscle injury activates resident fibro/adipogenic progenitors that facilitate myogenesis. Nature cell biology, 12(2), 153-163. [Link]
Porteus, C., Hedrick, M. S., Hicks, J. W., Wang, T., & Milsom, W. K. (2011). Time domains of the hypoxic ventilatory response inectothermic vertebrates.Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 181(3), 311-333. [Link]
Schuppli, C. A., & Weary, D. M. (2010). Attitudes towards the use of genetically modified animals in research. Public understanding of science,19(6), 686-697. [Link]
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