Isis – Genetics Graduate

2011 was a very productive year for Isis Carter, who gave birth to a daughter in the summer, graduated with a Ph.D. in Genetics in November and took up a new position with StemCell Technologies as a Product Manager of Heamatology. Isis is delighted that she will be able to utilize her prior marketing skills [...]

Daiana – Recent Graduate

Daiana is pictured here in Dr. Wan Lam‘s lab at the BC Cancer Research Centre. Daiana studied for her M.Sc. degree in Genetics under Dr. Shoukat Dedhar. During her Master’s studies Daiana learnt about Dr. Lam’s research and she decided that she wanted to pursue her Ph.D. studies in his lab, so after graduation in May 2011, she joined the [...]

Mark – Recent Graduate

Mark Bleackley achieved two of his goals this summer: to complete his Ph.D. program in Genetics and to move to Australia. Mark graduated in May 2011 and is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, looking at plant immunity to fungal and insect pathogens with Dr. Marilyn Anderson. Mark is pictured here after [...]

Tuhina – Recent Graduate

Tuhina graduated with a M.Sc. from the Genetics Graduate Program in May 2011. She worked under Dr. Hélène Côté in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and her masters research title was: ”Blood Telomere Length in Infants and Their HIV-Infected Mothers Exposed to Antiretroviral Therapy During Pregnancy”. Learn more about Tuhina and other recent graduates.

Genetics Graduate Program

The Genetics Graduate Program was one of the first interdisciplinary programs at UBC. First offered in 1983, it is an interfaculty and interdepartmental graduate program bringing together students and around 100 professors from 4 UBC faculties (Forestry, Land and Food Systems, Medicine, Science), 14 departments and 7 Research Institutes. Over 150 students have graduated from the Genetics Graduate Program. Graduates move on to Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Canada or overseas, to other degree programs or into industry. Further information about some of our recent graduates is available on this page. Genetics has now become a tool used by all biologists, rather than a field of study in its own right. Most students interested in a genetic approach to biological problems identify an area of biology that interests them, and work with a professor who uses genetic tools. For this reason, we accepted our last intake of new students into the Genetics Graduate Program in 2008. Students with an interest in genetics wishing to pursue a graduate program could consider the Genome Science and Technology Graduate Program, or the Cell and Developmental Biology Program, both housed in the UBC College for Interdisciplinary Studies. Other UBC programs which may be of interest are: Medical Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine, Botany or Zoology in the Faculty of Science or programs offered by the Faculty of Land and Food Systems or the Faculty of Forestry.