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visit to laboratories
Sign-up for afternoon laboratory tours will be on-site. The options are listed
below. Additional tours will be added as needed, groups
will be limited to max. 12 students. Tours will leave
MSL at 2:30pm.
Tour A
Prof. Lorne Whitehead (Hennings 111)
Our research involves the development of new lighting and display systems.
Prof. Kirk Madison (Chem/Phys A023)
Ultra-cold atoms: Laser trapping and cooling.
Tour B
Prof. Jeff Young (AMPEL 347)
Our lab designs, fabricates and measures the properties of semiconductor
nanostructures that strongly couple light and electrons.
Prof. Sarah Burke (AMPEL 145)
Our lab peers into the nanoscale with scanning probe microscopy.
Tour C
Prof. Vesna Sossi (Koerner Pavillion, G343 - Nuclear Medicine)
The UBC-PET Group uses Positron Emission Tomography to study neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, with a multi-disciplinary team including physicists, chemists, and neurologists.
! warning 5-10min walk involved
Prof. Andre Marziali (Boreal Genomics, 2386 East Mall)
See the commercialization of a new technology developed at UBC for detection and identification of rare DNA in environmental and clinical samples. Boreal, a UBC spinoff company, is developing the method toward applications in early cancer detection.
! warning: 10min walk involved
(Note: Availability of the laboratories may vary depending on enrollment numbers.)
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