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?
