Chinook Symposium winners announced

trevor.kenney — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:20:35 +0000

Craig Wheaton won the first-ever Loren Hepler Gold Medal for PhD research excellence as the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry held the 3rd Annual Chinook Symposium for Chemistry and Biochemistry in early October.

The symposium and associated poster prize is held to recognize undergraduate and graduate students performing original research in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The Chinook Poster Prizes have been established at the undergraduate and master's levels, but new this year was the addition of the Loren Hepler Gold Medal for PhD research excellence. Two people gave presentations about their PhD research, with Wheaton winning the gold medal and Jeffrey Fischer placing second.

Judges for the annual contest included: Dr. Peter Dibble, Gary Knox and Jared Nieboer (Richardson Nutrition) for the Chemistry prize; Dr. Steven Mosimann, Dr. James Thomas and Sandor Dudas (ADRI) for the Biochemistry prize; Dr. Rene Boere and Dr. Brent Selinger for the PhD prize.

Following are the winners from the 3rd Annual Chinook Symposium for Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Chemistry – Undergraduate
First - Cassandra Churchill
Second - Shayne Rybchinski

Chemistry – Master's
First - Jennifer Przyblski
Second - Kevin Johnson

Biochemistry – Undergraduate
First - Mackenzie Coatham
Second - Michael Shields

Biochemistry – Master's
First - Evelina De Laurentiis
Second - Jessica Durand

PhD Presentations
First - Craig Wheaton
Second - Jeffrey Fischer

2009 Student Research Awards

trevor.kenney — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:46:23 +0000

AHFMR Health Research Studentship
The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Research Studentship is valued at $21,000 plus a $1,500 research allowance over 12 months.

Lori-Ann Sacrey (Ian Whishaw)
"Role of attention in cognitive and motor tasks in Parkinson's disease"

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AHFMR Studentship
The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Studentship is valued at $6,300 over 12 months.

Heather Bell (Sergio Pellis)
"The rules of engagement: The development of social competence"

Simon Spanswick (Rob Sutherland)
"Adrenalectomy induced neuronal degeneration: Development of an animal model"

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AHFMR Summer studentship
The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Summer Studentship is valued at $5,200 over four months.

Selina Dobing (Brent Selinger)
"Modification of inositol polyphosphatases for the cost effective production of inositol phospate derivatives"

Kate Greeff (Hans-Joachim Wieden)
"Molecular dynamics of translational GTPases"

Henrie Bradley (Ian Whishaw)
"Neuroscience"

Norah-Faye Matthies (Gerlinde Metz)
"New rehabilitation strategies for spinal cord injury"

Nichole Schmold (Bryan Kolb)
"Effects of prenatal enrichment on recovery from early brain injury, behaviour, and the epigenome"

Joel Stimson (Olga Kovalchuk)
"Role of epigenetic changes in chemoresistance of breast cancer cells"

Rebecca Supina (Gerlinde Metz)
"Physiological and behavioural alternations after maternal and prenatal stress"

Shuchi Talwar (Olga Kovalchuk)
"Role of microRNA-mediated TOP2A regulation in breast cancer drug resistance"

Stephanie Wickersham (Igor Kovalchuk)
"Improvement of gene targeting by inhibition of non-homologous repair pathways"

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Alberta Government Graduate Scholarship
The Alberta Government Graduate Scholarship is valued at $3,000.

Kevin Johnson (Paul Hayes)
"An investigation into the reactivity of low valent group 3 and lanthanide metals supported by a tridentate pincer ligand"

Ben Ireland (Paul Hayes)
"Cationic organomagnesium complexes as lactone polymerization catalysts"

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Alberta Ingenuity MSc Graduate Scholarship
The Alberta Ingenuity MSc Graduate Scholarship is valued up to a maximum of $23,000 plus a $1,500 research allowance per year for up to two years.

Linda Lait (Theresa Burs)
"The postglacial dispersal and population structure of the boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus)"

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Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral 3 (NSERC)

Crystal Ehresman (Ian Whishaw)
"Dividing attention in motor and cognitive tasks"

Lori-Ann Sacrey (Deborah Saucier)
"Hormonal manipulation of male and female Long-Evans rats in an object location memory paradigm"

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Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (NSERC)
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Canada Graduate Scholarship is valued at $17,500 over one year.

Kyle Hambrook (Will be attending UBC)
"Effective bounds on the exceptional zero of a Dirichlet L Function"

Linda Lait (Theresa Burg)
"The postglacial dispersal and population structure of the boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus)"

Diana Lim (Will be attending UBC)
"The effects of prior experience on brain plasticity and learned nonuse following
cortical injury"

Ashley Marchuk (Tony Russell)
"Organization, Expression and Evolution of snoRNAs in Euglena gracilis"

Nathan Puhl (Brent Selinger/Doug Inglis)
"Characterization of cryptic emerging bacterial pathogens"

Jerrah Sawatsky (René Boere)
"PMMH-based dendrimers incorporating stable free radicals"

Anthony Schmieder (Howard Cheng)
"Compression image sets"

Nichole Schmold (Robbin Gibb)
"The effects of prenatal experience on early brain development and the epigenome"

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Chinook Research Summer Award
This ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge award is valued at $5,625 over four months.

Katie Areshenko (Brent Selinger)
"Characterization of novel protein tyrosein phosphatase like phytases from aerobic bacteria"

Lisa Boody (Lynn Kennedy)
"The talk of the town: Gossip and boundaries of community in Antebellum Charleston"

Lisza Bruder (Ute Kothe)
"Yeast model system for Dyskeratosis congenita mutations"

Colleen Chan (Tony Russell)
"Purification and reconstitution of snoRNP proteins"

Georgia Dale (Tiffany Muller Myrdahl)
"A feminist analysis of 'Green' discourse: Theory and praxis"

Jeffery Doherty (Yale Belanger)
"Collapse of the Kainai First Nation cattle ranching industry"

Angelica Doucette (Lesley Brown)
"Novel intervention for managing balance impairment in people with Parkinson's Disease"

Shey Eagle Bear (Hans-Joachim Wieden)
"Localization of two conserved bacterial GTPases on the E. coli Ribosome"

Laura Faber (Habiba Kadiri / Nathan Ng)
"Explicit bounds for the Kth prime number"

James Falconer (Abdie Kazemipur)
"The consequences of the rising ethnic/cultural diversity for social cohesion in Canada and other industrial nations"

Vanessa Foussier (Hans-Joachim Wieden)
"Nucleotide binding properties of the Lymphocyte guard IAN5"

Brandon Good (Shelly Wismath)
"K-Normal identities for varieties of bands"

Laura Gothreau (Paul Vasey)
"Mate retention behaviours of the male partners of female sex workers"

Dylan Johnson (Sheila McManus)
"Drawing the line: Selling the North American West, 1880-1930"

Sara Kafashan (Martin Lalumiere)
"Why risk it? A study on the link between risky behaviour and developmental stability"

Phillip Kubara (Roy Golsteyn)
"Characterization of Cdk1 activity in human cells exposed to genotoxic agents"

Phillip Layton (Judith Kulig)
"Resiliency in rural settlements that have experienced wildfires: Implications for disaster management and mitigation"

Vanessa Lodermeier (Muriel Mellow)
"Assessing experience in salary equity studies at North American universities"

Allysa Lumley (Habiba Kadiri)
"Explicit bounds for some functions of prime numbers"

Daniel Manson (James Mackenzie)
"Teaching spiritual identity in the west"

Kelly Pasolli (Heidi MacDonald)
"The Dominion-Provincial Youth Training Program (1937-39): A response to Canadian youth at risk during the Great Depression"

Shayne Rybchinski (Paul Hayes)
"Diphosphido supported transition metal and actinide complexes"

Jesse Supina (Arundhati Dasgupta)
"Quantum gravity"

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CIHR Health Professional Student Research Award
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health Professional Student Research Award is valued at $4,251 over 13 weeks.

Phillip Layton (Judith Kulig)
"The discovery of death and dying beliefs and practices among low German speaking Mennonites: Application to best practice guidelines"

Nicole Lemke (Ruth Grant Kalischuk)
"Post death encounters"

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FQRSC Fellowship - Bourse de Maitrise en Recherche
The FQRSC Fellowship is valued at $15,000 over one year.

Gillian Kennedy (Martin Lalumiere)
"Motivational Myopia: The effect of sexual arousal on decision-making"

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Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's (SSHRC)
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship is valued at $17,500 over one year.

Debra Gazeley (Judith Whitehead)
"First Nation's women, gender and the embodiment of social suffering"

Carlin Nicholson (Jason Laurendeau)
"Let's put them on leashes: The construction of the novice risk experience in kayaking"

Kerrie Price (will be attending U of C)
"Of brave deeds in saddle and afoot: Internalization of masculinity in the American West"

Daisy Raphael (will be attending the U of A)
"Constructing gender in the 2008 US presidential election: representations of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in the New York Times"

Anne Spice (will be attending Dalhousie ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ)
"Fair Trade and the ethical consumer: re-imagining relationships through the global marketplace"

Perry Stein (will be attending SFU)
"The divergences of fair trade"

Lesley Terry (Paul Vasey)
"Food, feeding and female sexual arousal"

Brittany Thompson (TBA)

Gabrielle Weasel Head (Yale Belanger)
"Aboriginal housing issues in Lethbridge"

Krysta Wosnack (Thelma Gunn)
"The process of resilience in adolescents in foster care: A mixed-methods approach"

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Julie Payette NSERC Research Scholarship
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Research Scholarship is valued at $25,000 over one year.

Selina Dobing (TBA)
"Biochemistry"

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Math in Moscow Scholarship (Canadian Mathematics Society/NSERC)
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Math in Moscow Scholarship is valued at $9,000 over one semester.

Mark Thom (Independent ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Moscow)
"Mathematics"

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NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship Master's
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship is valued at $21,000 over one year.

Rob Sonnenberg (Dan Johnson / Pisces Environmental Consulting Services)
"Aquatic ecology and limnology"

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NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) award is valued at $5,625 over four months.

Karley Campbell (Theresa Burg)
"Testing the Bergmann Hypothesis in Nucifraga columbiana and Poecile gambeli"

Cassandra Churchill (Stacey Wetmore)
"Large scale computer modeling of DNA damage"

Mackenzie Coatham (Hans-Joachim Wieden)
"Structural and functional properties of translational ATPases"

Jill Dosso (Bryan Kolb)
"Recovery from juvenile brain injury"

Jarrod Dowdall (Matthew Tata)
"What and where in the auditory brain"

Jessica Erickson (Elizabeth Schultz)
"Understanding the molecular role of FKD1 in PIN localization"

Thomas Fox (Andrew Hurly)
"Use of landmarks by hummingbirds"

Natalie Freeman (Theresa Burg)
"Population differences in morphology of black-capped chickadees"

Tanner Heggie (David Naylor)
"Characterizing the performance of the Fourier spectrometer for use with SCUBA-2"

Miranda Meents (Elizabeth Schultz)
"Testing a truncated auxin response factor for repressibility"

Christine Michell (Andrew Hurly)
"Risk sensitive foraging by hummingbirds"

Aaron Mullin (Derek Peddle)
"Remote sensing of environmental dynamics in riparian forests of southern Alberta"

Lex Navarro-Whyte (Stacey Wetmore)
"Characterizing noncovalent interactions between DNA and proteins"

Samuel Neale (Mark Walton)
"Non-Newtonian reflections in one-dimensional quantum mechanics"

Karla Ponjavic (Matthew Tata)
"Auditory attention in complex acoustic environments"

Keilan Scholten (Kevin Grant)
"Flexible runtime structures for Bayesian network inference"

David Sessford (Lesley Brown)
"Bridging the gap between clinic and laboratory-based assessments of motor performance"

Michael Shields (Hans-Joachim Wieden)
"Universal bacterial GTPases interacting with the protein synthesis machinery of E. coli"

Vivien Suen (Jackie Rice)
"Investigations into representations for reversible logic functions"

Mark Thom (Nathan Ng)
"The Riemann zeta function and divisor functions"

Hlif Thrainsdottir (Lesley Brown)
"Exploring the interplay between attention and balance in older adults who fear falling"

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Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction
The Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction is valued at $20,000 over one year.

Craig Wheaton (Paul Hayes)
"The development of novel homogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of biodegradable polymers"

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Sexual Medicine Society of North America stipend
The Sexual Medicine Society of North America stipend is valued at $3,500 over one year.

Gillian Kennedy (Martin Lalumiere)
"Motivational myopia: The effect of sexual arousal on decision-making"

Kelly Suschinsky (Martin Lalumiere)
"Tell me how you feel: Why are women less sexually concordant than men?"

Lesley Terry (Paul Vasey)
"Food, feeding and female sexual arousal"

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Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (NSERC)
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Vanier Scholarship is valued at $50,000 per year up to three years.

Kristy Kutanzi (Olga Kovalchuk)
"Epigenetic dysregulation in estrogen-induced mammary carcinogenesis"

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