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November 17, 2025
UBC iGEM’s Outstanding Achievement at the 2025 Grand Jamboree
We are thrilled to congratulate the UBC International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Design Team, an active part of our cluster, for their exceptional performance at the 2025 iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris, France last month. The team earned a Gold Medal for Excellence in Synthetic Biology and…
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November 17, 2025
Marina Mehling Takes First Prize at 3-Minute Thesis Competition, Marcus Wallenberg Symposium
The MCELLS leadership team extends their warmest congratulations to Marina Mehling for winning first place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at the Marcus Wallenberg Symposium earlier this month in Stockholm, Sweden. Marina is a 2025 MCELLS Travel Award recipient and a PhD student at UBC…
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May 15, 2025
UBC BIOMOD Team Shines at 2024 BIOMOD Jamboree
We are thrilled to announce that the UBC BIOMOD team achieved outstanding success at the 2024 BIOMOD Jamboree, held in November 2024. Their innovative and thoughtful project was recognized with multiple awards, highlighting the team’s excellence in research, communication, and ethical engagement…
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October 21, 2024
Announcing the launch of our cluster!
The cluster will develop a community of practice bringing together diverse faculty from Science, Applied Science, Architecture, and Land and Food Systems to explore the development of living hybrid materials made from synthetic microbial communities including microalgae and fungi, with…
First Nations land acknowledegement
UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land on which we work and learn has always been a place where Musqueam people for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next.