Biochemistry and Microbiology

Name	Project Title	Supervisor
Natalie Berry	Structural and Functional Characterization of a Novel S1_25 Sulfatase	Alastair Boraston
Natalie Boraston	Developing an ATP-Assay to Detect Antibiotic Tolerance in Enterococcus faecalis	Jo Hobs
Maddy Brookall	Epigenetic Regulation of T cells by the Metabolite 1-Methylnicotinamide	Julian Lum
Jordan Cucksey	MeCP2 Variation and Isoform Composition in Different Mice Tissues	Juan Ausio
Sophie Culos	Changes to Bacterial Lipids Induced by Variable Growth Conditions	David Goodlett
Jaden Deodora	Discovering the Role of Tumour-infiltrating B Lymphocytes Antibodies	Brad Nelson
John Evans	Investigating the Regulation of PI3Kγ	John Burke
Mira Finkelstein	New Hope for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Binding of a Novel Agonistic Antibody to Tyrosine Kinase Receptor B	Stephen Evans
Breeze Gladwin	Discovering the Clonal Evolution and Antigen Reactivity of Tumour Infiltrating B Cells in Ovarian Cancer	Brad Nelson
Courtney Granger	New Discoveries of Nej1 in Alt-EJ: Implications for Cancer Therapeutics	Jennifer Cobb
Megan Greensill	SCRaMbLE in Bacillus subtilis: A Rapid Combinatorial Method for Generating Phenotypic Variation	Francis Nano
Arden Grew	The Effects of the Intrinsically Disordered Loops of Fpr4 on Mediating Protein Interactions	Chris Nelson
Ocean Han	Hacking Co-stimulatory Receptors with Checkpoint Antibodies	Brad Nelson
Isabella Kroker Kimber	Do Intravenous Antibiotics Impact the Gut Microbiome?	Lisa Reynolds
Angela Mitchell	Development of a Direct Diagnostic Test for Syphilis	Caroline Cameron
Liam Mitchell	RecQ Helicase SGS1’s Important Role in Maintaining Genomic Stability	Jennifer Cobb
Vicka Pluzhnikova	The Role of Isovalerate in Small Intestinal Barrier Maintenance During Helminth Infection	Lisa Reynolds
Andrew Rodd	Investigating the Role of Dyskerin in DNA Damage Repair	Jennifer Cobb
Mackenzie Scott	Investigating the Interactions Between PI4KA and its Accessory Proteins	John Burke
Stephanie Skalitzky	Constructing a Bacterial Tumor Infection Model in Cancer	David Goodlett
Cameron Urquhart	Lipid Identities and Spatial Distributions within Tadpole Brains	David Goodlett
Annika Weir	Characterization of Environmental Bacteria via Microbial Lipids	David Goodlett

Biology

Name	Project Title	Supervisor
Paige Amos	Crab Scars: Differentiating Crab Species-specific Repair Scars on Mollusc Prey for Reconstructing Crab Abundance Through Time	Julia Baum
Amran Aujla	Investigating the Co-expression of Acetylcholine and γ-Aminobutyric Acid in the Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus, Motor Cortex, Striatum, and Medial Septum	Raad Nashmi
Isabelle Cliche	Effects of “The Blob” on Chaetognath Community Composition off the West Coast of Vancouver Island	Catherine Stevens & John Dower
Hazel de Haas	Within-species Variation in the Elemental Composition of Threespine Stickleback within the Cowichan Drainage Basin	Rana El-Sabaawi
Nicole Fung	Assessing the Effect of Long-term Formalin Preservation on Zooplankton Biovolume Estimates	John Dower
Adam Gheis	How Do Salmon Get Past a Landslide Blockage: Investigating the Genetic Basis of Landslide Passage Ability in Chinook and Sockeye Salmon	Greg Owens
Kaitlin Griffith	Investigating the Effect of the Loss of Complement Factor D on Complement Activity in the Stargardt Disease Mouse Model	Bob Chow
Cierra Hart	Rock the Boat: An Investigation into the Effects of Vessel Noise on Rockfish Communication	Francis Juanes & William Halliday
Alistair Knox	Establishing a Breeding Program for Pteridophyta	Patrick von Aderkas
Rebecca Krohman	What Stress Sequence Will Kill Me? The Perspective of Tigriopus californicus	Amanda Bates
Bethany Robson	A Comparison of Drought Tolerance in Two Conifers with Contrasting Mycorrhizal Associations	Barbara Hawkins
Kirsten Suesser	School of Hard Knocks: Young Adult Concussions (Repeated mTBI Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity in Female Rat Hippocampi)	Brian Christie & Nicole Templeman
Angus Townsend	Two Separate Strategies, or Sequential Age and Life-history Connected Reproductive Tactics? An Analysis of Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus) Otolith Annuli to Estimate Age	Francis Juanes
Olivia Waller	Calbindin and ChR2 Expression in the Dopaminergic SNc and VTA of DATcre::ChR2-EYFP Mice	Raad Nashmi

Chemistry

Name	Project Title	Supervisor
Sarah Bryan	Weeding out THC Isomers Using Mass Spectrometry	Scott McIndoe
Holly Celuszak	Predicting Chemical Reactivity of a Key Step in Common Chemical Reactions	David Leitch
Odhran Cruise	Direct Alkenylation of Vinyl Halides: Reaction Discovery Through High-Throughput Experimentation	David Leitch
Tyler Curtz	The PEPPSI Challenge: A Catalyst that Allows for Mechanistic Analysis	Scott McIndoe
Tiago Fisher	A Small Mercury Drop and a Quick Catalytic Stop: A Toxic Test for Homogeneity	Scott McIndoe
Maria Hangad	From Droplets to Drug Delivery: Lab-on-a-Chip Device for Dosing Retinoic Acid in Polycaprolactone Microparticles	Katherine Elvira & Stephanie Willerth
Manon Latrille	Impact of Using Weekly Quizzes on Student Learning of Introductory Organic Chemistry	Violeta Iosub
Doug Miller	Unlocking Pathways for Novel Molecules	David Leitch
Maximilian Strasser	Examining the Effects of the Acceptor on the Optoelectronic Properties of Phenol-based Donor-Acceptor Pairs	David Leitch
Martin Trapero Sempere	The Synthesis of Cyclic Phosphonates: Towards Stable and Recyclable Main Group Plastics	Ian Manners & Mitchell Nascimento
Jade Watson	Isolation of Unstable Heavy Analogues of Nitroso- and Nitro-benzene: Stabilization Through Extreme Steric Hindrance	Ian Manners
Peter Yang	Optical Properties of Molecules at the Air-water Interface	Dennis Hore

Earth & Ocean Sciences

Name	Project Title	Supervisor
Isabelle Beaupré-Olsen	The Mineralogy of Fe-bearing Hydrothermal Vent Particles at the Endeavour Mid-ocean Ridge	Laurence Coogen
Matteo Ferri	Graphite Thermometry of the Big Salmon Range, South-Central Yukon	Ruohong Jiao
Anna Nickoloff	Oceanic Response to Widespread Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion	Andrew Weaver & Michael Eby
Sophia Olim	Mitigating Anthropogenic Climate Change with Aqueous Green Energy:  Direct Air Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Powered by Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion	Andrew Weaver & Michael Eby
Meghan Reyda-Molnar	Investigating the Timing of Saanich Inlet’s Summer Mini-blooms	Roberta Hamme
Taylor Rushton	Pressure Compensation of RBR Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor	Roberta Hamme
Matthew Stephens	Using Stream Data to Measure Phanerozoic Dolomite Frequency	Roberta Hamme
Andrea Valcourt	Canada’s Most Complete Merycoidodon Fossil	Victoria Arbour & Andy Fraas
Savannah Yamamoto	Mapping Aquifers Using Electrical Resistivity Surveying on Eastern Vancouver Island in the Beaufort Watershed	Lucinda Leonard & Mike Wei

Mathematics & Statistics

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Physics and Astronomy

 

Name	Project Title	Supervisor
Nathan Clements	Maximizing Normal Tissue Sparing: Ultra-high Dose Rate GRID Radiotherapy Using Very-high Energy Electrons	Magdalena Bazalova-Carter
Matt Forbes	Classical Tensor Network Methods for the DMRjulia Library	Thomas Baker
Jennifer Glover	An Unusual Fossil Hunt: Finding New Stars in Old Galaxies	Kim Venn
Joshua Goodeve	Dancing With Dust: Hunting for Evidence of Exoplanets in Circumstellar Disks	Brenda Matthews
Jake Neijmeijer	Linear Algebra Methods for Tensor Networks	Thomas Baker
McKinley Veale	ORCASat: Providing Precise Photometric Calibration for Ground-based Telescopes	Thomas Baker