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Graduate student entrepreneurs earn development support through Innovation Catalyst Grants

trevor.kenney — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:02:56 +0000

Two exciting projects have received support from a provincial grant program that provides a two-year runway for entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize innovative, science-based products and services.

Greg McGillis and Mojtaba Nazariahangarkolaee (MSc ’18) have earned Innovation Catalyst Grants (ICG) worth $250,000 for work they are doing at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, supported by Agility, the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ’s comprehensive idea and incubation shop that fosters bold ideas and helps students put them into action.

“The whole focus of the grant is to help bring research to market, and to help stimulate the economy and create jobs,” says Dr. Luc Roberts (BSc ’12, PhD ’23), entrepreneurial strategist for the Teaching Centre and Agility. “This grant, in particular, is quite helpful because it offers both a stipend for the person doing the work as well as seed money for business expenses.”

Roberts knows well the benefits of the program as he was a recipient of similar funding when the ICG was known as GreenSTEM and supported the launch of Allos Bioscience, a start-up he initiated with fellow ULethbridge alumnus Harland Brandon (BSc ’13, PhD ’21). While GreenSTEM was focused on green energy and emissions reduction, the ICG is much broader and simply encourages innovation with a hardware component.

“If you have a solid business idea, this program gives you the opportunity to take a good run at it, because for two years you can go after it full time,” adds Roberts. “You’re being paid, the bills are being paid and you can devote all your time to your idea.”

Greg McGillis

McGillis and Nazariahangarkolaee join ICG recipients who received funding this cycle from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta and ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary. The program selects projects annually from each of the province’s three comprehensive universities. Brent Puchalski (Paramoria Agri-Science) and Tyler Bennett (Coagtech Ltd.) were funded at ULethbridge last year.

“Each year is a new cohort and you’re all part of a pan-Alberta cohort of applicants from the other universities,” says Roberts, noting eligible applicants are recent graduates of a master’s or PhD program. “Because you are recent grads, most don’t have a lot of business experience, so to have access to all these business resources the program provides is huge.”

McGillis, whose Brain Care Technologies start-up recently finished second in Agility’s Launch Point Pitch Competition, is looking to revolutionize the process of detecting dementia in people and paving the way for earlier interventions to enhance quality of life and even delay the onset of the condition.

“The ICG significantly supports the achievement of our mission — empowering individuals to improve their cognitive health through early detection and monitoring of dementia so they can age well,” says McGillis, who is developing a headgear device patients would wear for testing brain activity. “This award expedites the hiring of additional staff, expansion of our collaboration with stakeholders and partners, and advancement of the development of our intellectual property to enable us to fulfill our commercialization objectives."

Mojtaba Nazariahangarkolaee

Nazariahangarkolaee’s Synaptag Technology Inc. is focused on improving RFID (radio frequency identification) solutions for animal tracking that can be used both in a lab setting with small animals such as mice and rats, or on a large scale in agricultural applications.

Nazariahangarkolaee says ICG funding will enable his group to expand its team with highly skilled talent and invest in essential hardware and equipment to fully realize the potential of their technology.

“The ICG program has additionally facilitated our access to two technical and business mentors, whose distinct perspectives and expertise will greatly support us throughout our entrepreneurial journey,” he adds. “Moreover, ICG offers quarterly and annual networking events which are an ideal opportunity for us to gain valuable connections, access resources and knowledge, validate our ideas and build our brand.”

The next deadline for applications to the ICG program as Sept. 15, 2024, and more information can be found on the Agility web page.

Allos Bioscience to develop better biosensors thanks to Mitacs grant

caroline.zentner — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:15:34 +0000

Thanks to a Mitacs Accelerate grant worth $150,000, Allos Bioscience is set to work on developing better biosensors to detect specific carbohydrates in solutions.

Luc Roberts

Over the next two years, the grant will allow Allos Bioscience to hire two interns to work on the project using space and equipment in the SynBridge maker space at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge. Allos Bioscience is a startup company based at ULethbridge that designs and produces biosensors to detect specific carbohydrates. These biosensors have wide applications, including in human health, biofuel production, food production and textile finishing.

“Our main goal is to improve the biosensors we already have and to make them more accessible to our end users,” says Luc Roberts (BSc ’12), a ULethbridge PhD candidate who founded Allos Bioscience with Dr. Harland Brandon (BSc ’13, PhD ’21). “In addition to improving the prototypes we have by making them more sensitive and efficient, we also hope to make them more available to end users who may not have the infrastructure available at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ.”

They’re also embarking on a pilot project to design biosensors for a cancer biomarker. Research has shown that specific carbohydrates can be used as biomarkers to detect cancer, so the team at Allos Bioscience hopes to develop a biosensor to detect those carbohydrates.

“Presently, the largest barrier to understanding the role carbohydrates play in human health is the lack of suitable tools to study them,” says Roberts.

Dr. Harland Brandon

A biosensor is a biological tool that detects a specific target. Roberts uses the example of a flashlight and batteries to illustrate. The flashlight can be considered the biosensor and the batteries as the target. The flashlight will light up when the batteries are present.

“In our case, the flashlight is a protein with a fluorescent dye on it and the batteries are the carbohydrates,” says Roberts. “When the protein binds to the carbohydrates, you get a change in the brightness of the dye, like a flashlight lighting up. And we can quantify how bright the light is.”

The team at Allos Bioscience will work with Dr. Trushar Patel, a Canada Research Chair in RNA and Protein Biophysics at ULethbridge.

“The work will lay the foundation to develop biosensors that can help detect diseases, such as cancer and infections,” says Patel. “This partnership is also an example of the unique opportunities ULethbridge offers to graduate students, promoting their entrepreneurial skills.”

Roberts and Brandon have based their work on previous research by ULethbridge alum, Dr. Dylan Girodat (BSc ’13, PhD ’19), PhD candidate Dustin Smith (BSc ’13, MSc ’17), former ULethbridge professor Dr. HJ Wieden, and ULethbridge adjunct professor Dr. Wade Abbott of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

“Without them, this Mitacs grant wouldn’t have been possible,” says Roberts.

Startup Blue Sky Analytical Labs calls U of L home

caroline.zentner — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:26:16 +0000

The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge is a vital part of the southern Alberta economy and the success of its partnership with Blue Sky Analytical Labs, which recently captured the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce’s New Business of the Year award, is a perfect example of the synergy that results from such collaborations.

From right to left are Jackson Knott, Sara Dutton, Ross Tisdale and Luc Roberts.

Blue Sky, a unique startup venture providing specialized analytical testing, uses U of L space and scientific laboratory equipment, including nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and other spectroscopy instruments and an X-ray diffractometer, to analyze samples of everything from water to cannabis for its industry clients.

“Our partnership with Blue Sky demonstrates how the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ contributes to the economy and can serve the needs of industries here in southern Alberta, in the province and beyond,” says Dr. Dena McMartin, vice-president research. “We are pleased with Blue Sky’s early success and foresee a partnership that will thrive long into the future. Ventures like this one benefit everyone involved and the U of L is always open to establishing partnerships with local entrepreneurs.”

Blue Sky had its beginnings when Ross Tisdale, the company’s president, spotted a niche opportunity. In his conversations with other entrepreneurs on campus, he learned many local industries send their samples to larger cities for the analyses they require. They wondered if such testing couldn’t be done locally with all the scientific equipment at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ and Tisdale, along with Luc Roberts (BSc ’12) and two others, began collaborating on the potential opportunity.

They developed a proposal and presented it to U of L senior administration, where it was given the green light. Blue Sky set up its offices in Science Commons in April and has been hard at work setting up protocols for its tests.

“We were initially focused on water, but understood there was also a large opportunity in the cannabis industry,” says Tisdale. “The majority of cannabis producers in Alberta, and there are quite a few of them, send their samples to Ontario to be analyzed because there are not many providers of services in Alberta and those who do provide the services can’t offer the whole package that Health Canada requires. As soon as we got our licence, we focused on cannabis and learned everything we could about it. We soon realized we have all the equipment to be the only place in Alberta that can do the entire Health Canada suite of tests. We want to service everyone from home growers looking for potency tests to commercial growers.”

Blue Sky is also collaborating with other local companies and clients, such as Down to Earth Labs, a Lethbridge company that specializes in soil testing.

“We believe that Lethbridge and the extended southern Alberta area has more than enough demand to house analytical laboratory work, but it’s all been going up to Calgary, aside from the soil work that Down to Earth does,” says Tisdale. “We’re trying to divert that revenue back into southern Alberta and the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge because it just makes sense.”

Operating an analytical lab requires technical expertise in several areas. Blue Sky has brought on Jackson Knott (BSc ’16, MSc ’20) as their lab manager and master chemist and Roberts, a PhD candidate, serves as the company’s microbiologist and vice-president. Tisdale brings a background in business and is currently completing an MBA at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Edinburgh. They’ve also received grant funding to hire Sara Dutton, a biology student. Ag-tech student, Kurtis Cridland, has joined the group on a volunteer basis and they hope to obtain additional grant funding for him and a computer science student to do database programming.

For Tisdale and the other staff at Blue Sky, winning the New Business of the Year award was a chance to celebrate their hard work and how far they’ve come in a few, short months.

“It’s important for us, being a startup here on campus, to make sure we strategically align our goals with those of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ,” Tisdale says. “Of course, it will only work if everybody is benefiting from this arrangement. We are also highlighting the Science Commons building, the beautiful facility that it is and the amazing equipment and infrastructure we have on campus.”

Pandemic underlines need to revamp academic system that disadvantages parenting researchers and women

caroline.zentner — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:10:26 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic pressure tests our societies in many ways and reveals often overlooked, long-existing and festering systemic challenges and disadvantages. One of the most universal experiences associated with the current pandemic has been the struggle of working parents forced to balance full-time, stay-at-home jobs with the challenge of parenting and home-schooling.

��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge researchers Drs. H.J. Wieden and Ute Kothe, along with graduate student Luc Roberts (BSc '12), detailed in a recent article published in EMBO Reports, that the struggle is just as acute in the academic world — widening an already existing gulf between researchers who are active parents and those who are not, thereby presenting a threat to the diversity, inclusivity and quality of research communities. The authors identify the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink and overhaul the academic career and reward system that consistently disadvantages parenting researchers and women.

Parenting researchers — an invisible divide, examines the pressure active parents face while trying to juggle pushing scientific boundaries and child strollers all at once. In the article, Kothe, Wieden and Roberts argue an already broken system is being exacerbated by the pandemic, which only weakens the system in the end.

“The current structure of the academic system — funding, publishing incentives and career options — disadvantages parents and women in particular,” says Wieden. “The present pandemic deepens the already existing divide between parenting researchers and their peers without such obligations. In the long run, this will negatively affect recruiting and retaining junior researchers and maintaining a diverse talent pool.”

Roberts is a PhD candidate now at home with a toddler. His wife, a front-line medical worker, must continue to work out of the home, leaving him as the primary parent. A recent email he received reminded him that, “It is work from home and not a vacation.” Struggling to work on his thesis given his new responsibilities, he blistered at suggestions he should be even more productive at home with so much free time to devote to writing and publishing.

“Let’s be honest, unless my thesis is going to be about the sounds farmyard animals make — coauthored by my son of course — it is not getting written,” says Roberts in the article. “It feels as though I have to choose between my child and a scientific career, and as much as I love science, I am always going to pick my family.”

An age-old struggle, there seems to be an overriding perception that dedicated researchers are devoted to their craft because it is more important. Wieden, Kothe and Roberts would beg to differ, especially now.

“Without any doubt, the well-being of our children and family is most important,” says Kothe. “But it is not only for selfish reasons that our children must be the highest priority. They will be a generation who has experienced and been shaped by the pandemic — the greatest global crisis since the Second World War. It is essential that they are not traumatized by this experience, that they become strong and smart individuals who can build a resilient and intelligent society that is better prepared to handle future threats and pandemics. All parents have an essential and system-relevant job.”

Therein lies the conundrum and what the authors would like to see corrected when the pandemic ends. Good scientific minds have been put in this situation for years, pushed along by a publish or perish culture where rewards are based solely on productivity. As a result, the scientific community may be losing valuable scientific contributors who place familial priorities high.

“How we will deal with this situation will define the character of our research community. Do we reward only the most productive ones, or do we embrace anyone who genuinely conducts high-quality research?” asks Wieden.

They call for a complete overhaul of the academic system as it is currently constructed, recognizing at long last that true equity, diversity and inclusion is not a compromise, but a prerequisite to fostering strong and creative research communities that generate high-quality knowledge. Inclusion means fair recognition of the contributions of parent researchers, women and other underrepresented groups — including their additional obligations.

“Now is the time to completely re-think the academic system,” they argue. “It is critical that we analyze the effects of the pandemic on parenting researchers and trainees and seize the opportunity to thoroughly revamp the academic system and not simply go back to the old routine once it is over.”

For a look at the full article, visit EMBO Reports.

U of L graduate students earn GreenSTEM funding in support of biotech start-up

trevor.kenney — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:16:06 +0000

The southern Alberta biotech industry will get a boost this spring thanks to some innovative work out of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge and funding support from the Government of Alberta’s GreenSTEM program.

Harland Brandon

Allos Bioscience, a start-up company that designs and produces protein-based biosensors, is led by PhD candidates Luc Roberts (BSc ’12) and Harland Brandon (BSc ’13). The two, with support from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ’s Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute (ARRTI), its director Dr. H.J. Wieden, Dr. Wade Abbott of the Lethbridge Research and Development Centre and Synbridge (the synthetic biology makerspace on campus), are members of the first cohort of GreenSTEM fellows in the province.

Luc Roberts

“With the funding from GreenSTEM and the support of Synbridge and the Wieden lab, we now have the opportunity to leverage the rich infrastructure here at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ,” says Roberts. “Without this funding, I doubt we ever would have attempted to do it. They partner you with business mentors, provide training opportunities and really help you create the foundation for your business. We actually came into the program after the first cohort was selected and the first thing we noticed was how supportive and collegial the other fellows are.”

GreenSTEM is an entrepreneurial pilot program for recent graduates of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) masters and PhD programs. It provides funding support over two years for entrepreneurially inclined, technically skilled participants who are working on hardware-based technologies with emissions reduction potential. The GreenSTEM fellows are hosted by Alberta’s research universities, including the U of L, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta and ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary.

Roberts and Brandon based their idea off work done by the U of L’s Dr. Dylan Girodat (BSc ’13, PHD ’19, currently working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory) and PhD candidate Dustin Smith (BSc ’13, MSc ’17).

“The detection of specific biomolecules is an important part of many industrial and academic processes,” says Roberts. “However, sensors that detect and differentiate between similar molecules are not readily available for all types of molecules, or require significant time and technical infrastructure for detection.”

Their company proposes to develop custom biosensors for a variety of applications, including the biofuel industry and any number of ag biotech uses. Their biosensors are biodegradable detection systems that provide rapid, sensitive and selective measurements of a desired chemical in solution. They currently have three working prototypes (each detecting a unique biomolecule) and their main focus is on green technologies.

“Our first priority is to do some strong market research, and talk to as many biofuel people as we can to show them what we have and whether it might be helpful to their business,” says Brandon. “Some of the first advice we’ve been offered about building our business, is to ensure we’re satisfying a need with our product.”

Roberts says they are also looking at custom applications, finding people in either energy or research sectors who have a need to detect certain molecules, then partnering with them to build a custom biosensor for that need.

“Either you make it and sell it directly to them or you license what you’ve designed and sell it to a biotech company, and they build it on a large scale,” he says. “We think the value in our company is the technology and the development pipeline and less an actual, physical product.”

GreenSTEM provides annual fellowship stipends (essentially salaries) as well as seed funding to cover technology and business development expenses. Additionally, the program provides technology-focused entrepreneurship programming, technical and business mentorship and networking opportunities with investors, venture capital organizations, service providers and potential industry partners.

“There’s a lot of biotech going on in southern Alberta and it’s growing much faster than most people realize,” adds Brandon. “This rapid increase in biotech and green energy technologies is where GreenSTEM can make such a big impact, and afford us an opportunity to contribute to that sector.”

The intake for the latest round of GreenSTEM has just opened. Expressions of interest are being accepted from Feb. 24 through Mar. 23. For more information, visit alberta.ca/greenstem.

Students don lab coats during the fourth annual Let’s DO Science Day

caroline.zentner — Thu, 07 May 2015 17:42:04 +0000

Around 85 high school students from Lethbridge and surrounding area got the chance to be scientists for a day, conducting a series of experiments in science labs at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge.

High school students examine a preserved brain during Let's DO Science Day.

As part of Let’s DO Science Day on April 30, students did math puzzles, built a helmet for a marshmallow in kinesiology, mapped the location of rods and cones in their eyes in neuroscience, purified fluorescent protein in biochemistry, tested the levels of antioxidants in drinks such as soda and green tea in chemistry, used lasers in the physics lab, and tested the effects of temperature and pH on an enzyme’s ability to function in biology

Let’s DO Science Day is organized by science graduate and undergraduate students at the U of L who volunteer with the national Let’s Talk Science Outreach program. The students, along with faculty volunteers, organize activities that expose students to state-of-the-art scientific programs and procedures and give them a taste of what it’s like to be a science student at the university level.

An infrared photo taken in the physics lab shows a student's cold fingertips.

“Our volunteers in all the science departments spend a lot of time thinking of fun activities. I don’t think people would come if it wasn’t fun,” said Luc Roberts, one of the organizers of Let’s DO Science Day. “We have a lot of people who come year after year so it seems to be something they enjoy doing. It being fun and educational is the big factor.”

Volunteers start planning the event a couple of months in advance.

They focus on creating activities that will engage the students and get them thinking about pursuing a career in the sciences.

“It’s one thing to go to high schools and talk about opportunities in science and another to do hands-on activities and science experiments,” Roberts says. “Let’s DO Science gives them an idea of what it’s like to be in a university lab and use equipment they might not have access to in their high school.”

Following their experiments, the students were awarded prizes for their achievements and participation. The day wrapped up with a presentation by Dr. Bryan Kolb, a renowned U of L neuroscientist.

“It’s nice to break down that barrier between science and the rest of society and get them excited about science,” Roberts says. “How do they know they would like science unless they tried it?”

High school students to participate in fourth annual Let’s DO Science Day

caroline.zentner — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:02:51 +0000

High school students from across southern Alberta will participate in a variety of science activities at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge during Let’s DO Science Day on Thursday, April 30. Let’s DO Science Day will be filled with numerous fun, hands-on science activities to expose students to several different streams of science and encourage them to think about potential careers and futures in post-secondary education.

High school students work in a U of L lab at last year's Let's DO Science Day.

By tackling state-of-the-art scientific problems and procedures, students’ scientific knowledge will be challenged. Among other activities, students will have the chance to investigate the anti-oxidant content of green tea and other foods in chemistry, learn how to use light to study objects in outer space, dissect sheep brains in neuroscience and design helmets to protect the brain from collisions in kinesiology.

At the end of the day, students will be awarded prizes for their achievements and active participation before hearing a special presentation from Dr. Bryan E. Kolb, professor of Neuroscience at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, former President of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science and former President of the Experimental Division of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is currently a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s program in Child and Brain Development.

Let’s DO Science Day is organized each year by U of L science graduate and undergraduate students who volunteer for the national Let’s Talk Science Outreach program. It is their goal to share their passion for science with high school students, to increase the public accessibility of science and to inspire students to pursue careers in science. Activities for the event have been designed by graduate students and faculty volunteers from several science disciplines. Overall, more than 20 graduate and undergraduate student volunteers, along with faculty members, will assist during the day to make it a fun and inspiring experience for everyone involved.

Spooky Science ready to spark fun and interest in the sciences

caroline.zentner — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:12:58 +0000

This week’s Spooky Science activities are designed to give youngsters a taste of science wrapped up in a bunch of Halloween fun.

While he didn’t get the chance to attend such an event when he was a child, Luc Roberts, a doctoral student majoring in biochemistry, now has the chance to organize it through the Let’s Talk Science Outreach program at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge.

“I really enjoy Spooky Science night. Everything’s exciting to younger children; they really like science and nothing is impossible. They have all these ideas and it’s good if you can get them interested in science at a young age,” says Roberts. “I see a lot of students here who came to some of our other Let’s Talk Science events. It’s nice to think that some people are joining the sciences because of us.”

He remembers the curiosity and creativity he had as a child, building with Lego blocks and getting out the screwdriver whenever a household appliance was broken so he could take it apart and see what was inside.

“I could never put it back together but I would take it apart, just because it was kind of cool inside,” he says.

Luc Roberts, a doctoral student, is one of the organizers of the Spooky Science weekend.

Roberts, who grew up in Lethbridge, had a natural affinity for the sciences when he was in high school. When he began his studies at the U of L, he intended to become an engineer. Those plans changed when he found he enjoyed other sciences more than math. Biochemistry piqued his interest, especially after he took his first serious biochemistry course because he had to apply the knowledge he’d learned in previous classes to solve problems.

“It was just incredibly challenging and I really liked it,” he says.

Roberts and several other students have been organizing Spooky Science Weekend with Dr. Ute Kothe, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Let’s Talk Science Faculty supervisor, since September.

“Our biggest goal is to make it fun for the children so we put a lot of energy into finding really good activities, adding new activities, but also having safe activities,” says Kothe. “We want to excite the next generation and their parents for science, so that they enjoy and appreciate science and research and see the power of science in explaining the world.”

Children will participate in 13 activities, including making fake blood, fake snot, screaming balloons and small lava lamps. The evening includes a spooky chemistry show, complete with puking and exploding pumpkins, by Wayne Lippa, a U of L chemistry and biochemistry instructor.

“We have enthusiastic, happy children dressed up in their best costumes being focused and engaged in science and totally loving it. Just seeing their eyes is for me the biggest reward ever,” says Kothe.

Media can choose from three Spooky Science Weekend events, all held in the Atrium of ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Hall. The Friday event goes from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday events go from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m.

Roberts claims top prize at 3 Minute Thesis

trevor.kenney — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:24:36 +0000

Luc Roberts, Jenni Karl and Rachael Adams claimed the first, second and third-place prizes, respectively, at the School of Graduate Studies 3 Minute Thesis Competition, March 15.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT™) is an internationally recognized research communication competition. 3MT was developed by The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Queensland in 2008 to challenge thesis-based graduate students to give a compelling presentation on their research and its significance in three minutes or less.

Roberts led the way with his presentation, Translating Protein Movements into Novel Antibiotics. He will now move forward to participate in the Western Regional 3MT Competition on May 2, 2014 at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Calgary.

Second-place winner, Jenni Karl, presented Early Development of Visually Guided Action: Within Reach but Beyond Grasp, while the third-place presentation by Adams was titled Landscape genetics of a North American songbird, the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus).

Adams was also given the People's Choice Award.

For photos from the event, follow this link.

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