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November 17, 2022Dr. Banvillet & Dr. Su Represented UBC at Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2022
Last month, the Marcus Wallenberg Prize (MWP) Symposium took place in Stockholm, Sweden with the theme of “Wearing Wood – The World of Wood-based Textiles”...
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November 15, 2022BPI is Hiring a Business Development Manager
UBC BioProducts Institute is hiring for a Business Development Manager! This position will champion the BC Pulp and Paper Bioproducts Alliance (BioAlliance), an industry-led research consortium consisting of companies in BC’s forest sector, FPInnovations, UBC BPI and the BC government. The…
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November 4, 2022VTT's Tuuli Virkkala Wins The Boreal Alliance Award At NWBC 2022
Last week, the Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference was held in Helsinki. Congratulations to VTT's Tuuli Virkkala, the winner of the Boreal Alliance Award! The Boreal Alliance network announced an award for an outstanding presentation given by an early-stage researcher at NWBC 2022 in the field of…
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October 25, 2022Former BPI Intern Rounds Out Summer With International Karate Success
The BioProducts Institute warmly welcomed its youngest intern this past summer, secondary school student, Dylan Berretta. “The summer of 2022 was undoubtedly..
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October 25, 2022PAPER EXCELLENCE IS HIRING
Paper Excellence is hiring for a Manager of Innovation for their Richmond HQ! Reporting to the Director of Innovation, the Manager of Innovation will work with company leadership to develop and manage innovation, implementation, and funding. This role will be responsible for stimulating an…
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October 20, 2022XIAOTAO BI RECEIVES BC BIOENERGY SECTOR RESEARCHER AWARD
Congratulations to BPI's Dr. Xiaotao Bi for receiving the Researcher Award 2022 from the BC Bioenergy Sector! The recording of the ceremony is now available.
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October 20, 2022WATCH THE MARCUS WALLENBERG SYMPOSIUM 2022 PRESENTATIONS
Check out these excellent presentations on the textile and forestry industries from MWP Symposium 2022, moderated by BPI's Dr. Orlando Rojas!
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October 19, 2022BPI RESEARCHERS DISCUSS THE BACTERIAL CATABOLISM OF ACETOVANILLONE
BPI researchers reveal insights that will greatly facilitate the engineering of bacteria to biocatalytically upgrade lignin in a newly published article in PNAS.
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October 10, 2022BPI Researchers Named Among World's Top 2% Most Cited Scientists
29 BPI researchers are named among the 100,000 most-cited scientists, or among the top 2% of most-cited scientists in their respective subfields, according to a database released by a team led by Stanford's Professor John Ioannidis. This publicly-available database classifies scientists into 22…
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October 6, 2022INNOFIBRE IS HIRING A RESEARCHER IN PULP AND PAPER
Do you have extensive knowledge of applied research in the pulp and paper industry? This researcher role at Innofibre might be for you!
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September 28, 2022BPI Welcomes Dr. Maya Kleiman to the Institute's Research Family!
At the beginning of August, Volcani Center's Dr. Maya Kleiman joined BPI to do research with Johan Foster's group for her sabbatical year. We wanted to get better acquainted with Dr. Kleiman, so we asked her to give us an introduction of herself! What is your background? I started my academic…
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September 20, 2022BPI Welcomes an Exchange Student from Costa Rica!
Costa Rica is known for its ambitious economic, social, and environmental goals and agriculture sector is of great importance. BPI is currently working with researchers from this beautiful country, which borders the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. One of BPI’s Ph.D. students,…