Thompson Rivers University

Honours presentations: Faculty of Science

January 15, 2015

Nine Faculty of Science honours students will be presenting their research findings and everyone is welcome.

Presentations are scheduled for Jan. 22, 1 to 2:50 p.m., and in room S 373 in the Ken Lepin Sciences and Health Sciences building.

The event is co-sponsored by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Presenters and talk titles

Amanda Jorgensen — The influence of host quality on Coleophora deauratella larval abundance on red and alsike clover.

Cohord Mason — Screening of cave bacteria for antimicrobial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

Laura Smylie — Protein Transplant: Purifying two NtaA proteins in Gordonia sp. NB4-1Y.

Jillian Lane — Genome surgery: editing DNA using the CRISPR-Cas system.

Cindy Lam — Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) for the detection of Clostridium difficile toxin A and B from stool samples.

Jacob Bailey — Egg colouration in mountain bluebirds: a sexually selected indicator of female quality?

Corrie Belanger — Effects of Red Lake earth on methanogenesis, microbial communities and feed efficiency of rumen fluid in vitro.

Erica Bonderud — Do female mountain bluebirds (Sialia currucoides) adjust offspring sex ratio in response to male attractiveness?

Samantha Sandee — Do Bacterial infections cause mortality in juvenile marine invertebrates?

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