5th Annual Student and Young Professional Association (SYPA) Day

TIME

ACTIVITY

SPEAKERS

7:30-8:15
Provinces I 

Breakfast 

8:30-9:00
Provinces II  

Welcome session

Angela Catford , SYPA Council Chair

9:00-10:30

Breakout sessions

AFMNet & SYPA

Rory Shott , SYPA Communications & Governance Committee

Angela Catford , SYPA Council Chair

Effective grant writing/Science Communication

Valerie Sim , University of Alberta

European exchange experience

Tony Staskevicius , University of Sherbrooke

Martin Kaatz , Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Making the Transition: Postdoctoral Fellow & Beyond

Joel Watts , University of California San Francisco

Shigeki Tsutsui , University of Calgary

Risk assessment

Mustafa Al-Zoughool & Tamer Oraby , McLaughlin Center of Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:30
Provinces II

SYPA Council Elections

Nishandan Yogasingam, SYPA Communications and Governance Committee

11:30-12:00

HQP Oral Presentations

Cryptic out-of-frame initiation of human PrP mRNA produces a novel 9 kDa polypeptide

Antanas Staskevicius , University of Sherbrooke

Prion protein interaction with Stress-inducible protein 1 enhances neuronal protein synthesis through an mTOR pathway

Glaucia Hajj, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

12:00-1:00
Provinces I 

LUNCH

1:00-2:00
Provinces II

Career Development Workshop: Interview Skills and Resumes

Marie-Hélène Mitsou & Kyli O’Connor , Career Services, University of Ottawa

2:00-3:00

Public Health Policy around VCJD and translating science for decision makers

Kumanan Wilson , Canada Research Chair in Public Health Policy

3:00-3:30

Networking Break

3:30-4:00

PrP Survivor Challenge Game

Qasim Khan , SYPA Council Volunteer

4:00-4:15

Closing session

Nishandan Yogasingam , SYPA Communications and Governance Committee