Francine Darroch

Applied Sciences

2017-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Francine Darroch is examining the social construction of physical activity with expectant and new parents with a specific focus on the role fathers play in supporting leisure time physical activity.

Caroline Ritter

Animal Welfare Program

2017-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Caroline Ritter's research aims to describe farmers’ networks and identify the most influential social referents on farmers’ dairy health and welfare management.

Kieran Campbell

Departments of Statistics & Pathology

2017-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Kieran Campbell is researching high grade serous ovarian cancer, the hardest to treat with around 2800 cases in Canada each year.

Sarah Moore

Medical Genetics

2017-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Sarah Moore's research set out to answer the question: To what extent, and how, do our early environments mold our personalities and abilities?

Mayuri Sengupta

Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Mayuri Sengupta explores the power hierarchies and gender dynamics at work in local forest management in Tripura, India.

Nicholas Weilinger

Psychiatry

Edema is the leading cause of death in stroke patients. Neuroscientist and 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Nicholas Weilinger is studying edema with the goal of finding drug compounds that could help reduce the severity of this condition.

Jelena Kolic

Cellular and Physiological Sciences

By understanding variations and molecular mechanisms associated with the development of Type 2 diabetes, 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Jelena Kolic, aims to make the implementation of personalized preventative and or therapeutic intervention strategies for T2D patients a reality.

Gonzalo Saldías

Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

As a 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Gonzalo Saldías research on modelling ocean flow over submarine canyons focuses on the Barley, Juan de Fuca, and Quinault canyons of the Vancouver and northern Washington ocean shelf.

Brianne Kent

Medicine- Neurology

2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Brianne Kent is seeking innovative treatments for Alzheimer's disease, a disorder that is projected to affect 1.4 million Canadians by 2013.

Laura Vang Rasmussen

Faculty of Forestry

Can agricultural intensification and expansion lead to lower food security among local people? That's what 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Vang Rasmussen is trying to discover.

Jonathan Rolland

Zoology

Why are there more species in the tropics than in temperate regions? Zoologist and 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Jonathan Rolland is working to find out.

Daniel Anstett

Botany

2016-2017 Banting Postodoctal Fellow Daniel Anstett considers adaptation to drought across an entire species range and throughout multiple years.

Travis Salway

School of Population and Public Health

Travis Salway is a 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focuses on the mental health services needs of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) Canadians in sexual health clinics, and how these needs can be supported.

Benjamin Freeman

Zoology

Evolutionary and 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Benjamin Freeman researches evolution, ecology and conservation, when he's not out birding at Vancouver's sewage ponds.

Jennifer Sunday

Zoology

Dr. Jennifer Sunday started her postdoctoral fellowship at UBC in 2013. Her postdoctoral supervisors in the zoology department are Drs. Christopher Harley and Mary O'Connor.

Derek Gladwin

English

Dr. Derek Gladwin received his PhD from the University of Alberta and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the English department in the Faculty of Arts.

Natalie Zeytuni

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Natalie Zeytuni is a recipient of a 2015-2016 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and studies antibiotic resistant Tuberculosis (TB). Zeytuni’s research focuses on understanding the molecular structures that the TB bacterium uses to invade and infect cells in our bodies, with the goal of finding ways to stop its spread.

Nathaniel Sharp

Zoology

Nathaniel Sharp, postdoctoral fellow with the Biodiversity Research Centre, is one of this year’s Banting Postdoctoral Fellows.

Jessica Metcalfe

Department of Anthropology

Jessica Metcalfe is a recipient of a 2015-2016 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research uses isotopic techniques to examine bison remains at the Promotory Caves site in Utah.

Aaron Phillips

Aaron Phillips, 2015 Killam Postdoctoral Fellw Research Prize winner, studies strokes and other cerebrovascular conditions in people with spinal cord injury.

Becca Franks

Land and Food Systems

Do fish get bored? That's one of the questions Becca Franks, one of two recipients of the 2015 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, investigates in her research.