A Celebration of Research Collaboration in North America with a Public Lecture by Dr. Rita Colwell
Posted on Wed, Sep 01 2010 15:58:00
Photos and videos of the The public lecture by Rita Colwell, Climate, Oceans, and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm, and following talks, can be viewed here.
Schedule for Saturday, September 25th, 2010
3:00 pm MDT: A Public Lecture by Dr. Rita Colwell
Place: Max Bell Auditorium, The Banff Centre
Title: “Climate, Oceans and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm”
Introduction by: Dr. Tom Brzustowski
Reflections on Dr. Colwell's lecture: here
4:00 pm: Funding Announcement for BIRS
Place: Max Bell Auditorium, The Banff Centre
- Master of Ceremonies, Dr. Nassif Ghoussoub
- Mr. Lee Richardson, MP for Calgary Centre on behalf of the Government of Canada
- Mr. Greg Weadick, MLA for Lethbridge-West, on behalf of the Government of Alberta
- Dr. Suzanne Fortier, President of NSERC
- Dr. Sastry Pantula, Director of DMS, National Science Foundation, USA
- Dr. Jose Antonio de la Pena, Deputy Director, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico
- Mrs. Mary Hofstetter, President of The Banff Centre
- Dr. John Hepburn, VP Research, UBC
- Dr. Rose Goldstein, VP Research, UC
- Dr. Arvind Gupta, CEO, MITACS
