Thompson Rivers University students were very successful at the Annual Regional University Science Undergraduate Research Day at the University of the Fraser Valley on Friday, March 26.  Eighteen students from TRU  presented posters and talks at this regional event, at which students from UFV and UBC-O had been invited.  There were fourteen presentations and 47 posters in total at the conference, and TRU students won in every major category.

Best Overall Poster – Alexa Daneluk “Isolation and Screening for New Antimicrobial Agents in Cave Bacteria” Best Overall Oral Presentation – Lyssa Martin “Dwarf Mistletoe Cell Cultures: Establishment of Callus and Discovery of Endophytes”

Best Poster in the Discipline of Botany (Canadian Botanical Association Prize) – Andrew Owusu “Proteins from Dwarf Mistletoe: A Basis for Gender Differentiation”

Ron Wilen of UFV (Biology) presents Andrew Owusu his prize for Best Poster in the Discipline of Botany

Best Oral Presentation  in the Discipline of Botany (Canadian Botanical Association Prize) – Arvin Dwarka “Identification of A Gender-Specific Marker in the Genome of Dwarf Mistletoe”