Café Scientifique is a series of informal discussions connecting research to important issues of interest to the community.
The latest event is March 15 in New Westminster.
Enjoy light snacks and refreshments while engaging with cutting-edge, award-winning researchers from Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Science.
In March, join Dr. Glen Tibbits as he discusses how his lab specializes in making stem cells (human induced pluripotent stem cells or hiPSCs) from the blood of children and adult patients who have inherited cardiac arrhythmias which have the potential to lead to sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Tibbit's lab differentiates these hiPSCs into beating heart cells in order to use a “Disease in a Dish” approach to understand better the basis of their arrhythmias and to find personalized treatments for these patients.
Dr. Tibbits is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology and Senior Scientist at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. He has been studying electrical function and dysfunction in the heart for many years. He is excited about new tools that allow scientists to make hiPSCs from somatic cells and then to genome edit them using CRISPR as they have opened doors into previously unimaginable personalized medicine.
EVENT DETAILS
Boston Pizza (private room), 1045 Columbia St., New Westminster
(2 blocks from the New West skytrain station)
7:00-8:30pm (doors open for registration at 6:30pm)
Reserve your free seat by emailing: [email protected]
