Event recordings
We invite you to enjoy videos and audio from our Masterminds lectures, International Day of Older Persons lectures, Colloquium Series, and other events. The files are listed in reverse chronological order, and grouped by event name.
Check out our Insitute on Aging and Lifelong Health YouTube channel for additional event recordings and more!
From Data to Impact: Exploring the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
This forum for local participants of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) was presented on April 25, 2024 at the University of Victoria with an option for participants to join the livestream. The forum showcased some of the studies being conducted with data provided by study participants to the CLSA, presented by University of Victoria faculty and graduate students.
Brain Art 2023
In the Spring of 2023, IALH’s Brain Health Research Cluster hosted a Brain Art competition that was open to faculty, post-doctoral fellows, undergraduate and graduate students, research assistants, and staff from all departments at UVic. The goals of the event were to bridge science and art and to encourage creative approaches to visualizing what brain health means.
Submissions needed to be: a) focused on the brain; b) inspired by research; and c) original. However, they could focus on the whole brain, a favourite brain structure, brain cells, mental health, brain changes over the lifespan, or the aging brain.
A showcase of all entries can be found at https://youtu.be/OMtwhw5meTc.
Masterminds 2023
The 2023 Masterminds Series was presented by the University of Victoria Retirees Association and the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health.
- April 12: You Are What You and Your Gut Bacteria Eat by Ed Ishiguro **This talk was not recorded.
- April 19: Exercise IS Medicine: A Broad-Spectrum Prescription For All by Kathy Gaul
- April 26: Physical Literacy Empowered by Environment by PJ Naylor
17th Annual Lafayette Health Awareness Forum: Our Planet, Our Health (October 2022)
The 17th annual, and final, Lafayette Health Awareness Forum entitled Our Planet, Our Health was presented October 6, 2022 at Christ Church Cathedral, and via livestream.
After nearly 20 years of bringing top experts in all fields of health to the Victoria Community, this culminating evening explores our existence and the connections of our health and that of our precious planet.
The members of the Lafayette String Quartet proudly host Katlia Lafferty, Canada’s first Poet Laureate in Climate Change; Dr. Valeria Stoynova, one of the first proponents of “nature prescriptions” and one of the top researchers on the effects of Climate Change on human health; and Dr. Suzanne Simard, author of “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest”, a great researcher and voice illuminating the powerful and collaborative connections of trees and other living things. In this last year of their career as an ensemble, The Lafayette String Quartet performed several times throughout the evening. On this timely topic as was the initial inspiration for this forum, we are better together as “What affects one of us – affects us all”.
Using Telomere Length and Telomarese Activity as Markers of Cellular Aging for Evaluating Lifestyle Interventions: Experience Sharing (August 2022)
Presented by visiting scholar, Denise Cheung, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong - August 2022
Presentation description:
Telomere and telomerase are hallmarks of cellular aging, which is believed to be involved in the onset of numerous age-related diseases. Lifestyle interventions are known to modulate the aging process and age-related diseases. Thus, they might also have potential to affect telomere length and telomerase activity. In this presentation, Dr. Cheung summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding the association between lifestyle interventions and the telomere/telomerase system, and shares her experience of using telomerase activity in a randomized controlled trial of Qigong in abused women. The presentation is mainly based on Dr. Cheung’s manuscripts published in Psychoneuroendocrinology and JAMA Network Open.
About the speaker:
Dr. Denise Cheung is a registered nurse and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at The University of Hong Kong. Her research focus is on complementary and alternative therapies, with particular emphasis on populations in need of symptom management, such as survivors of intimate partner violence, cancer patients, and caregivers. Dr. Cheung visited the University of Victoria for a collaborative research study on physical activity in cancer survivors with the Digital Health Lab, led by Dr. Sam Liu, and Behavioural Medicine Lab, led by Dr. Ryan Rhodes.