Adam Oshanyk | Examining the role of calcium signaling in endothelial cells and capillary obstruction in the mouse brain | Craig Brown & Kerry Delaney |
Chloe Nicholls | Investigating haul-out behaviour in Arctic Ringed seals through acoustic and photo analysis | William Halliday |
Elinor Sisk | Fitness effects of a suppressor of a selfish gene in Drosophila testacea | Steve Perlman |
Elizabeth Bass | Intergenerational effects of a western-style diet on the reproduction in C. elegans | Nicole Templemen |
Em Creasy | Ammonium and nitrate fluxes in male versus female/hermaphroditic Polystichum munitum gametophytes | Barbara Hawkins & Patrick von Aderkas |
Fynn Owen La Boucan | Examining α4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression in the medial versus lateral substantia nigra | Raad Nashmi |
Kailey Strachan | Conservation of Seaside juniper | Patrick von Aderkas |
Jasmin Urdahl | Modelling the effects of type 2- diabetes-like hyperglycemia on ferritin expression in C. elegans and investigating the effect of iron chelation on lifespan in high glucose conditions | Patrick Walter & Nicole Templeman |
Katerina Kurz | The effect of chronic stress on the density of reelin positive cells in the entorhinal cortex | Hector Caruncho & Raad Nashmi |
Koa Planedin | Testing hypotheses for the origin of a young sex chromosome in Deacon rockfish | Greg Owens |
Chloe Leroy | Sablefish resistance and the presence or co-infection of bacterial pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida, the causative agent of furunculosis | John Taylor |
Lauren Mills | Micro-RNA regulation of Pax6 in the mouse olfactory bulb | Bob Chow |
Mackenzie McNiven | Improving biorhythms to foster healthy cognitive aging: Exploring the impact of community-based walking programs | S. MacDonald |
Maddy Mazur | Using machine learning to examine seasonal effects on Saanich Inlet’s phytoplankton diversity and bloom progression | Roberta Hamme, Paul Covert & Diana Varela |
Meredith White | Effects of vessel noise on Pacific sand lance anti-predator behaviour | Francis Juanes & Nora Carlson |
Reid Adams | Mitigating disturbance to breeding seabirds during drone censuses in the arctic | Amanda Bates |
Riya Chitroda | Synaptic plasticity at the vomeronasal to accessory olfactory bulb synapse in the American bullfrog | Kerry Delaney |
Samuel Burford | Pharmacological manipulation of neural activity and its impact on contralateral Protease Activator Inhibitor 1 expression following stroke | Craig Brown |
Sarah Rozanski | Exploring the elemental variation in Threespine stickleback bodies and waste products along the Sooke River | Rana El-Sabaawi |
Toshibaa Govindaraj | Genetic population structure of Black and Grizzly bears in the Yukon | John Taylor |
Victoria Greene | In vitro electrophysiological characterization of hippocampal synaptic plasticity following prenatal THC exposure | Brian Christie & Raad Nashmi |
Will Kinahan | Exploring the interplay of predation pressures and changing habitats in Littprina obtusata along the Shores of Eastern Canada | Tom Reimchan |
Xiaoya Xie | The accumulation of lipofuscin over time in retinal pigment epithelium layer in Stargardt disease using the Abca4 null mouse model | Bob Chow |
Zachariah Fenniri | Effects of iron on acute leukemic cell viability | Juergen Ehlting & Patrick Walter |