{"id":8937,"date":"2019-08-24T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2019-08-24T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T00:13:11","slug":"liysf-2019-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/08\/24\/liysf-2019-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LIYSF 2019: Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/7E4156D6-1014-495B-AEEF-3FCB3AE300F6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8908 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/7E4156D6-1014-495B-AEEF-3FCB3AE300F6-e1566605130179-300x208.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/7E4156D6-1014-495B-AEEF-3FCB3AE300F6-e1566605130179-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/7E4156D6-1014-495B-AEEF-3FCB3AE300F6-e1566605130179.jpeg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This morning all 500 LIYSF participants representing 77 countries gathered in the Royal Geographic Society Ondaatje Theatre for the LIYSF opening ceremony. The president\u2019s address was given by Professor Clare Elwell: a past LIYSF participant and current medical physicist. She spoke to her experiences here as a student, and the forum&#8217;s value not only as a space to develop scientifically, but also socially and culturally.<\/p>\n<p>The introductions we<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/2B51ED06-1D2D-419E-A7D1-07314516FECF.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8934 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/2B51ED06-1D2D-419E-A7D1-07314516FECF-300x237.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/2B51ED06-1D2D-419E-A7D1-07314516FECF-300x237.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/2B51ED06-1D2D-419E-A7D1-07314516FECF-768x606.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/2B51ED06-1D2D-419E-A7D1-07314516FECF-1024x808.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>re followed by an insightful key note address by Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, focusing on the role of ribosomes in protein synthesis, as well as a later lecture on living with artificial intelligence by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt. All of the speakers stressed how integral science is across all disciplines, further emphasizing this year\u2019s LIYSF theme \u2013 Science at the Interface.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle St-Martin<\/p>\n<p>July 25 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning all 500 LIYSF participants representing 77 countries gathered in the Royal Geographic Society Ondaatje Theatre for the LIYSF opening ceremony. The president\u2019s address was given by Professor Clare Elwell: a past LIYSF participant and current medical physicist. She spoke to her experiences here as a student, and the forum&#8217;s value not only as &#8230; <a title=\"LIYSF 2019: Day 2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/08\/24\/liysf-2019-day-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":8936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trips","category-science-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}