Highlights

With thanks to the CIHR INMD for inviting our team to the Institute Advisory Board Meet & Greet at UBC

With thanks to the CIHR INMD for inviting our team to the Institute Advisory Board Meet & Greet at UBC

Niklas Tappauf, PhD Candidate, and Dr Yvonne Lamers attended the CIHR-INMD Institute Advisory Board Meet & Greet and Poster Session organized by the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD)  and are thankful for the networking opportunity and excellent discussions we had with the Director Dr Norman Rosenblum and the Institute Advisory Board Members […]

Congratulations to Hannah, Joy, and Ayasha for their excellent Directed Studies projects!

Congratulations to Hannah, Joy, and Ayasha for their excellent Directed Studies projects!

Term 2 of 2024/2025 kept us on our toes with three highly committed, engaged, and reflective Directed Studies students working on their FNH 497B projects. Hannah and Joy contributed to the systematic review on folate status and Ayasha developed community engagement and outreach strategies for the knowledge translation piece of the toddler intervention study our […]

Congratulations, Niklas, for being awarded 1st Place Poster Prize at the UBC LSI Symposium!

Congratulations, Niklas, for being awarded 1st Place Poster Prize at the UBC LSI Symposium!

Congratulations, Niklas Tappauf, PhD Candidate, for scoring 1st place in the Poster Award category at the 2nd Annual Life Science Institute (LSI) Symposium, Vancouver BC. Kudos to your reflective thinking and excellent communication skills! Niklas presented findings from a longitudinal multi-omics cohort study with pediatric patients with intestinal failure and receiving parenteral nutrition. This study, […]

Excited to welcome and host Prof Mary Ward from Ulster University at UBC!

Excited to welcome and host Prof Mary Ward from Ulster University at UBC!

As part of our faculty’s LFS Scholar Seminar Series, the Human Nutrition faculty team had the honor and pleasure to invite and host Prof Mary Ward as international speaker for the March 2025 LFS Scholar Seminar. Dr Ward is a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) […]

Niklas’ multi-omics paper on metabolites linked to intestinal adaptation in pediatric patients is out!!

Niklas’ multi-omics paper on metabolites linked to intestinal adaptation in pediatric patients is out!!

Congratulations, Niklas Tappauf, PhD Candidate, for your outstanding work in spearheading the data analysis, data interpretation, and manuscript writing for this longitudinal multi-omics cohort study with pediatric patients with intestinal failure and receiving parenteral nutrition. This study, funded by a BCCHRI Healthy Starts Catalyst Grant and co-led by Drs Hannah Piper and Yvonne Lamers, was […]

Congratulations, Adrianna and Niklas, to their travel awards!

Congratulations, Adrianna and Niklas, to their travel awards!

Congratulations to Adrianna Greco and Niklas Tappauf to their outstanding presentations at the BCCHRI Healthy Starts Research Day 2025! Adrianna’s abstract on food-derived nutrient intake and dietary patterns in Canadian toddlers was selected for oral presentation, which she delivered in an excellent way and for which she was awarded a $500 travel award! Niklas did […]

Niklas’ research findings highlighted at the 13th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium

Niklas’ research findings highlighted at the 13th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium

Niklas’ PhD research on the Longitudinal Assessment of Blood Biomarkers and Intestinal Microbiota in Children with Intestinal Failure as They Wean from Parenteral Nutrition, co-led by Dr Hannah Piper, pediatric surgeon, and Yvonne Lamers, was selected for Oral Presentation and will be highlighted at the 13th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium in Pittsburgh […]

Congratulations, Amy, to an engaging poster presentation at the FASEB SRC on B-Vitamins and One-Carbon Metabolism!

Congratulations, Amy, to an engaging poster presentation at the FASEB SRC on B-Vitamins and One-Carbon Metabolism!

Amy Tan, PhD Candidate, and Dr Yvonne Lamers travelled to the US side of the Niagara Falls to attend the FASEB Summer Research Conference (SRC) to share findings from the EpiBrain project and network with our international colleagues in the folate, B-vitamin, and one-carbon metabolism research area. We greatly enjoyed meeting up with our EpiBrain […]

Celebration time in the Lamers Lab!

Celebration time in the Lamers Lab!

Lots of great things to celebrate in the Lamers’ Lab this summer, with gratitude for the land on which we gathered, laughed, and chatted. With the initiative to celebrate Gloria’s MSc thesis defense and completion, we launched a lab picnic at the beautiful Jericho Beach! Congratulations again, Gloria, for your stellar work! We also had […]

Congratulations, Gloria, for an outstanding MSc thesis defense!!

Congratulations, Gloria, for an outstanding MSc thesis defense!!

We are excited and proud sharing the news about Gloria’s MSc thesis completion and excellent defense. With COVID-related delays and a full-time call into the clinical workforce, Gloria had unexpected hurdles but remained dedicated to her research project and our team and we are thankful and thrilled she successfully passed the finishing line and contributed […]