The annual Biology Graduate Symposium will take place virtually on April 29, 2021.
Keynote Speaker:
Public Science Engagement in the Life Sciences: Principles, Strategies, and the Latest Research
By David Shiffman, PhD
Symposium schedule is listed below. The session links, along with the abstracts, will be sent out to all registrants on April 27.
Schedule of speakers
9:00 am: Opening & Welcome – Dr. Moira Glerum & Isabel Hilgendag
| Time | Session 1 - Chair: Julia Sunga | Session 2 - Chair: Alexander Douglas |
|---|---|---|
| 9:15 |
Adam Grotolli Declining mercury concentration with age in the fur of an insectivorous terrestrial mammals (Myotis lucifugus) |
Alex Umbach Skin archaea are rare and uncommon members of the mammalian skin microbiome |
| 9:30 |
Isabel Hilgendag Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) food web mercury biomagnification in the inner Frobisher Bay, NU |
Elaine Novik The Microbiomes of North American Freshwater and Marine Algae |
| 9:45 |
Bronte McPhedran Use of otolith microchemistry in a study of heavy metal contamination in fish from a natural tundra wastewater wetland: a case study in Baker Lake, NU, Canada |
Ghadeer Aljoudi Identification and Detection of Microbial and Cyanobacterial communities in The Glenmore Reservoir |
| 10:00 |
Nicole Gauvreau Neurodegenerative impacts of wastewater effluent pharmaceuticals in Darters (Etheostoma spp.) in the Grand River |
Ellen Cameron Evaluating Diurnal Trends in Cyanobacterial Communities – Implications for Monitoring Protocols |
| 10:15 |
Dongchang Yang Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Environmental Analysis: Solvent Effect |
Timothy Shardlow Identification and characterization of toxic cyanobacteria in two maritime watersheds within forested regimes in North America |
| 10:30 |
Joseph Varga Characterizing the antibacterial, antiviral and immunomodulatory roles of a novel antimicrobial peptide, rainbow trout tripartite motif-related peptide (rtTRIM) |
Lisa Johnson Microbial function and diversity in biofilms obtained from a landfill gas capture system |
10: 45 - Break
11:00: Keynote Speaker – Dr. David Shiffman
12:00: Lunch Break/Meet Dr. David Shiffman
| Time | Session 3 - Chair: Britney Firth | Session 4 - Chair: Brian Dixon |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 |
Cory Savage Application of artificial substrate samplers to assess enrichment of metals of concern by river floodwaters to lakes across the Peace- Athabasca Delta |
Huming Guo The Effects of Water Temperature and Selective Breeding on Vaccine Efficacy and Immune Response in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) |
| 1:15 |
Kathleen Brown Evaluating the effects of local climate change on lake-water balance at the Peace- Athabasca Delta using paleolimnology |
George Heath Development of protein-level assays to assess immune status in salmonids |
| 1:30 |
Mia Stratton Investigating the role of an upstream watershed on ice-jam flood regimes at the Peace-Athabasca Delta |
Saeer Adeel A genetic approach to decipher the phenotypic abnormalities of 5’- methylthioadenosine toxicity |
| 1:45 |
Caleb Girard Upstream ‘trigger tributary’ influence on temporal variation of ice-jam induced flooding at the Peace-Athabasca Delta using paleolimnological reconstructions |
Alyssa Overton A Study on a Protein Candidate for the Novel C-Terminal Transit Peptide OEP Targeting Pathway |
| 2:00 |
Anita Ghosh Delineating a zone of hydrological change at the Peace-Athabasca Delta associated with upstream regulation of Peace River flow using paleolimnological records |
Lucia Liao Characterization of protein S-acylation in autophagy |
| 2:15 |
Wathiq Mohammed Use of artificial-substrate samplers to identify relations between periphytic diatom community composition and hydro- limnological conditions in shallow thermokarst lakes of Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory (Canada) |
Teshager Kefale Efficient production of mannitol and amino acids using Yarrowia lipolytica |
| 2:30 |
Anna Jewczynko Structural and Enzymatic Comparison of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii α- glycosidases and Sucrase-Isomaltase |
2:45 pm: Break
| Time | Session 5 - Chair: Julia Sunga | Session 6 - Chair: Alexander Douglas |
|---|---|---|
| 3:00 |
Erika Burton Assessment of remote Patagonian riverine fish communities using environmental DNA |
Adeline Suko Three-dimensional modelling of the avian crystalline lens |
| 3:15 |
Madison Brook Using air temperature to predict the age at maturity of Asian Carp |
Richard Do α-parvin in Xenopus laevis |
| 3:30 |
Keith McAllister Assessing invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) impacts on native benthic fish communities in two Great Lakes tributaries |
Emma Collington Identifying unique domain fusions of redox proteins in parasitic worms |
| 3:45 |
Khawlah Hawsawi Cryptic species complex Hyalella azteca in The North American Great Basin |
Bradley D’souza Characterization of Mrc1 Origin Timing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 4:00 |
Megan Jordan Examining the Seed Banks of Invaded Coastal Wetlands |
Manjot Hunjan Facilitating point of care diagnostics through rapid real-time pathogen and host biomarker detection |
| 4:15 |
Evan Balzer Anthropogenic Roost Selection and Body Mass Phenology of Bats in Eastern Canada |
Isaac Ellmen Automated analysis of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater sequencing data |
| 4:30 |
Brittney Lato Investigating multiplexed mutations in Drosophila |
4:45 pm: Closing Remarks – Dr. Moira Glerum & Isabel Hilgendag
5:00 pm: End of Symposium