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For those applying for AIHS, appli-cation forms and guidelines for the 2017 AIHS competition for Graduate
Studentship competitions are now available on the AIHS website – Training & Early Career Devel-opment page http://www.aihealthsolutions.ca/funding/train-ing-and-early-career-funding/.
It provides funding for students enrolled in a thesis-based Master’s or PhD program in a health-related research area at an Alberta university. The submission deadline for the competition is Monday, April 3, 2017 NOTE: This year, everything is submitted online. There will be no courier going out. Please make sure everything is submitted by April 3, 2017.
Department of Biological Sciences“from biomolecules to the biosphere”
Newsletter
Important Dates
Reg 2017 - Course registration for continuing studentsMar 27-31
Biological Sciences Student Symposium Mar 28 - 31 BI 211 & 499
Classes endApril 12
Final ExamsApril 15-26
Spring Term lectures startMay 15
#10 March 17, 2017 www.bio.ucalgary.ca
Scholarships
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EEB 601 Seminar - Monday 12h00 in BI 211Mar 20 - Nick Rosenberger - Out with the old and in with the new: consequences of bumble bee displacement in Patagonia
BCEM 601 Seminar - Monday 16h00 in BI 211Mar 20 - Dean Lang - Understanding substrate recognition of N-methyltransferases involved in benzylisoquinoline alkaloid metabolism.
Micro 601 Seminar - Wednesday 12h00 in BI 211Mar 22 - Emad Albakistani - Methane Oxidizing Bacteria in oil sands tailings
ICB 601 Seminar - Friday 15h00 in BI 211Mar 17 - Ahmad Shah - Adverse Impacts of Sulfolane on Development of Zebrafish Danio rerio Embryos
Seminars
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BGSA Emergency Fund: Despite the resources offered by the Campus food bank, a number of students in our department still struggle to afford some basic necessities (food, toiletries, etc.). For these individuals, financial pressure is a constant problem, and unplanned expenses can be extremely stressful.
In conjunction with Karen Barron and Christine Goodwin in the main office, the BGSA is launching an Emergency Grocery Fund for graduate students of the Biological Sciences department. This fund is intended to be used in the event that some assistance is re-quired to attain groceries, or if an emergency makes purchasing food difficult. To assist in raising funds for the BGSA Emergency fund, I will be selling 50/50 tickets again. Tickets are $1 each, or an arm’s length for $10 50% of the winnings will go to the Emergency Grocery Fund, and 50% will go to the lucky ticket holder. As this will mainly be a BISI raffle (if outsiders wish to purchase a ticket, I won’t turn away their $$, but I won’t be advertising it as much as I did the United Way 50/50). Draw date will be end of Winter term….April 28, 2017.Thanks, Karen
Research Proposals
None currently scheduled.
Ph.D. Candidacy Oral Examination - Candidacy Exams are Closed Exams.
Sara Smith (Supervisor: S. Rogers), will be holding her Candidacy Examination, in the area of “Ecology”, on March 22, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neu-tral Chair: R. Turner).
William Andrew Thompson (Supervisor: M. Vijayan), will be holding his Candidacy Exam-ination, in the area of “Physiology”, on March 24, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: M. Samuel).
Luis Arriaga Rubio (Interim Advisor: R. Cartar), will be holding his Candidacy Examina-tion, in the area of “Evolutionary Biology”, on April 28, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in Biological Sci-ences room 389. (Neutral Chair: P. Dunfield).
Graduate Student Affairs
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Amy Noël (Supervisor: C. Hubert), will be holding her Candidacy Examination, in the area of Environmental Microbiology”, on May 24, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 312. (Neutral Chair: D. Hansen).
Isabella Skuplik (Supervisor: J. Cobb), will be holding her Candidacy Examination, in the area of “Developmental Biology”, on June19, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: D. Muench).
Thesis Oral Examinations - Exams are “Open” unless otherwise noted.
Megan Goulding Goulding (Supervisor: M. Reid), will be holding her M.Sc. Thesis Ex-amination, in the area of “Ecology”, on March 31, 2017 at 11:15 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: M. Samuel). EXIT SEMINAR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ROOM 542 at 09h00.
Taylor Woo (Supervisor: D. Storey), will be holding his M.Sc. Thesis Examination, in the area of “Host Pathogen Interactions”, on April 7, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: R. Turner).
Mitchell Alberts (Supervisor: D. Muench), will be holding his M.Sc. Thesis Examination, in the area of “Cell Biology”, on April 28, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 499. (Neutral Chair: H.R. Habibi)
Anne Marie Labandera (Supervisor: G. Moorhead), will be holding her Ph.D. Thesis Exam-ination, in the area of “Biochemistry”, on May 10, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: V. Zaremberg).
Matthew Morris (Supervisor: S. Rogers), will be holding his Ph.D. Thesis Examination, in the area of “Evolutionary Biology”, on May 29, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: P. Dunfield).
Ruth Moges (Supervisor: A. Buret), will be holding her M.Sc. Thesis Examination, in the area of “Host Pathogen Interactions”, on June 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Biological Sciences room 389. (Neutral Chair: TBD).
Graduate Student Affairs continued...
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2017 Biological Sciences Student ConferenceUndergraduate Student Presentations
SCHEDULE
Tuesday March 28 Room BI 211
Morning Session 1 CMMB STUDENTS
10:40 Belanger, Brooke (Dr.s Mitha & Hansen) Title: Serum Free Transfection of Rabbit Mesenchymal Stem Cells
11:00 Humphries-Micallef, Jennifer (Dr. Chua) Title: Loss of Function Suppression of Dosage Lethality
11:20 Dunn, Raylene (Dr. Chua) Title: Transcription Factors involved in the GABA Metabolic Pathway of S. pombe
11:40 Fekete, Elena (Dr. Buret) Title: Host microbe interactions
12:00 LUNCH
Afternoon, Session 2 CMMB STUDENTS
13:00 Choo, Ashley (Dr.s Reimer & Harrison) Title: Liver miRNA Expression in Rats Following Antibiotic Treatment in Prenatal and Perinatal Development
13:20 Chohan, Avneet (Dr. Chua) Title: Systematic Screen of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Deletion Collection to Identify New Genes Important in the Process of Flocculation.
13:40 Mahina, Nabiha (Dr. Storey) Title: Characterization and Double Mutant Production of Genes Involved in the Diketopiperazine Synthesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
14:00 Tims, Robin (Dr. Harrison) Title: Molecular Cloning
14:20 BREAK
Afternoon, Session 3 PLBI STUDENTS Chair: Dr Muench
15:00 Link, Claire (Dr. Muench) Title: Genetic control of tolerance to oil sands tailings naphthenic acids in the model plant Arabidopsis
15:20 Hickerson, Neil (Dr. Samuel) Title: Analyzing Brassinosteroid Synthesis and Signalling Through Farnesyl Modification
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15:40 Dizon, Emma (Dr. Ro) Title: In Vitro Assay to Elucidate Valerenic Acid Biosynthesis in Valeriana officinalis
16:00 Baek, Sihyun (Dr. Ro) Title: Using yeast metabolic engineering to increase flux into taxadiene, a key intermediate in taxol biosynthesis
Wednesday March 29 Room BI 211
Morning Session 1 CMMB STUDENTS
9:00 Nguyen, Jenny (Dr. Storey) Title: The Prairie Epidemic Strain: Is Strain Replacement in Cystic Fibrosis Lungs Mediated by the Type Six Secretion System?
9:20 Perera, Kevin (Dr.s Pillai & Gedamu) Title: Molecular Parasitology
10:00 An, Hyeong (Dr.s Jijon & Buret) Title: IgA analysis of microbiome
10:20 BREAK
Morning Session 2 CMMB STUDENTS
10:40 Kim, Taeyeob (Dr.s Giles & Cobb) Title: Honours Research Project
11:00 Khaliq, Fariha (Dr. Shemanko) Title: Prolactin regulated target genes
11:20 Aquirre, Gerard (Dr. Storey) Title: Characterization of the Inhibitory factor produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa CF clinical isolate 14651
11:40 Dinh, Dillon (Dr. Chua) Title: Identification of mitochondrial genes involved in Schizosaccharomyces pombe flocculation through reverse genetic screening
12:00 LUNCH
Afternoon, Session 3 CMMB STUDENTS
13:00 Belay, Tina (Dr.s Dong & Harrison) Title: Honours Research Project
13:20 Harris, Xander (Dr. Buret) Title: The role of intestinal epithelial NLRP3 in host response to giardia/enteropathogenic E. coli coinfection.
13:40 Brar, Balray (Dr. Lewis) Title: Honours Research Project
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14:00 Falguera, Jan (Dr. Ng) Title: Structural studies of substrate recognition in the plant phosphatase AtRLPH2
14:20 BREAK
Afternoon, Session 4 CMMB STUDENTS
15:00 Mattis, Carly (Dr. Cobb) Title: An uncharacterized Shox2 expression domain in the mouse embryonic endoderm.
15:20 Aujla, Gunoor (Dr. Lewis) Title: Competitive advantage mutation in select amino acid pathways provides to pseudomonas aeruginosa
15:40 Culham, Cassandra (Dr. Dunfield) Title: High-Throughput Screening of Single-Cell Genomes from an Exotic Soil for Methane Monooxygenase Genes
16:00 Mohamud, Amina (Dr.s Greenway & Lewis) Title: Honours Research Project
Thursday March 30 Room BI 211
Morning Session 1 CMMB STUDENTS
9:00 Walsh, Emma (Dr.s Klein & Cobb) Title: Zinc Transporters in Equine Endometrium and Oviducts
9:20 Rich, Kaylee (Dr.s Peters & Hynes) Title: The effect of Th2 worm antigen on macrophage response to Leishmania
9:40 Ranson, Adam (Dr. Peters & Gedamu) Title: The response of Leishmania major infected murine macrophages to M-CSF and investigating the release of HMGB1 by murine macrophages and neutrophils in response to L. major infection
10:00 Milovanova, Katie (Dr. Klein & Voordouw) Title: Role of miRNA-29 in regulation of oxytocin receptors in the mare
10:20 BREAK
Morning Session 2 CMMB STUDENTS
10:40 Shideler, Steve (Dr.s Lewenza & Storey) Title: Antimicrobial purification
11:00 Rehman, Zara (Dr.s Zenteno & Gieg) Title: Identification of Dormancy Mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
11:20 Lee, Jeanie (Dr. Shemanko) Title: Mapping Key Signaling Pathways In Osteoclasts
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11:40 Baykan, Altay (Dr. Shemanko) Title: The effects of prolactin and sonic hedgehog on osteoblast differentiation
12:00 LUNCH
Afternoon, Session 3 CMMB STUDENTS
13:00 Scott, Craig (Dr. Hansen) Title: Protein-binding domains in the C. elegans stem cell protein MRG-1
13:20 Drake, Sienna (Dr. Weiss & Hansen) Title: The effect of a small molecule inhibitor of glutaminase on brain tumour stem cell survival in culture.
13:40 Chan, Yoyo (Dr. Hansen) Title: MTK-1 and its proliferative role in C. elegans germline stem cells
14:00 Qasim, Azka (Dr. Reckseidler-Zenteno & Harrison) Title: Antimicrobials from fungi
14:20 BREAK
Afternoon, Session 4 CMMB STUDENTS
15:00 Varga, Rachelle (Dr. Wong) Title: Clostridium difficile lysis mediated by engineered caveolin nanoparticles.
15:20 Chen, Rai (Dr. Wong) Title: The investigation of the assembly of the Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus (CCMV) based nano-bioreactors.
15:40 Paracha, Ziad (Dr. Zaidi & Hansen) Title: Understanding MRSA
16:00 Hamilton, Greg (Dr. Cobb) Title: The regulation of Sall1 and Sall3 expression by SHOX2 in the developing mouse limb.
Tuesday March 28 Room BI 499
Morning Session 1 ECOL STUDENTS Chair Dr. Sean Rogers
8:40 Welcome (Dr. S. Rogers)
8:45 Ruiping Luo (Dr. Fox) Title: Effect of habitat size on spatial synchrony in populations of Euplotes and Tetrahymena
9:00 Purohit, Krish (Dr. Jackson) Title: Monitoring Microbial Growth on Wastewater Membranes
9:15 Regel, Colby (Dr. Harder) Title: Temporal variation in female reproductive performance in Delphinium glaucum
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9:30 McDonald, Tegan (Dr. Yeaman) Title: The effect of migration and environmental heterogeneity on the maintenance of variation: a simulation
9:45 Ahn, Micky (Dr. Reid) Title: Opening a can of worms: a study on the symbiotic relationship between phoretic nematodes and bark beetles
10:00 Break
10:15 Tinwala, Mohammed (Dr. Vamosi) Title: Quantitative Genetics
10:30 Pastran, Sonya (Dr. Ruckstuhl) Title: Ecology of E.multilocularis
10:45 Kroeker, Sarah (Dr. Johnson) Title: Snow and Seed Distribution
11:00 Closing Remarks (Dr. Rogers)
12:00 LUNCH
Theme: Connecting biochemical structures to functionAfternoon, Session 3 BCEM STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Noskov
13:20 Zhang, Yu Amy (Dr. Fraser) Title: Structure-function relations in ATP citrate lyase
13:40 Gonzales, Gerone (Dr. Ng) Title: Purification and crystallization of Norwalk virus polymerase
14:00 Nguen, Vinh (Dr. Fraser) Title: Nucleotide-binding by SCS
14:20 BREAK
Afternoon, Session 4 BCEM STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Edwards
15:00 Sule, Kevin (Dr. Prenner) Title: Lipid-Drug Interactions
15:20 Monych, Nadia (Dr. Turner) Title: Metal resistance proteins
15:40 Elbaz, Jonathan (Dr. Zimmerly) Title: Group II Intron Splicing Mechanisms
Wednesday March 29 Room BI 499Morning Session 1 ZOOLOGY STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Hamid Habibi
9:10 Welcome (Dr. H. Habibi)
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9:20 Ashkin, Mitchell Ryan (Dr. Vijayan) Title: Developmental Toxicity of Bisphenol A and its Congeners in Zebrafish
9:40 Akram, Rida Imad (Dr. Habibi) Title: Endocrine-Paracrine Control of Ovarian Development in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
10:00 Wahba, Michael (Dr. Habibi) Title: Sulfolane exposure cause developmental abnormalities in Zebrafish embryo
10:20 BREAK
Morning Session 2 ZOOLOGY STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Hamid Habibi
10:40 Shokeir, John Galileo (Dr. Theodor) Title: Post-Cranial Osteology of Leptochoerid Artiodactyls: a Rebuttal to Marsh (1894)
11:00 Weerawardhena, Dilum H (Dr. Theodor) Title: Describing the Ear Morphology of Hypertragulus
11:20 Wright, Madison Jordyn (Dr. Wildering) Title: The Inhibition of Free Fatty Acids and their Affect on Neuronal Stability Within the Brain of Lymnaea stagnalis and how this Relates to Neuronal Decline seen with Age-Associated Neurobiological Impairment.”
11:40 Hillaby, Catherine Eleanor (Dr. Galpern) Title: Alberta Solitary Bees: the Effect of Vegetation Level on Diversity
Afternoon, Session 3 ZOOLOGY STUDENTS Chair: Dr. D. Syme
13:00 Katlariwala, Prayash V (Dr.s Buret & Bray) Title: Cortical Features of the Dorsal and Ventral Attention Networks and Attention Capabilities in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Study
13:20 Amir, Malek Ismai (Dr.s Flynn & Dr. Teskey) Title: The Effect of Nifedipine on Post-Ictal Hypoxia and Interictal Memory Deficits
13:40 Tan, Ryan (Dr.s Syme & Lukowiak) Title: Combining factors that individually enhance memory in Lymnaea
Thursday March 30 Room BI 499
Morning Session 1 BCEM STUDENTS
Theme: Biochemistry of healthy and diseased states
9:00 Mihai, Dai (Dr.s Klement & Moorhead) Title: DNA Repair and Aging
9:20 Grant, Paige (Dr. Moorhead) Title: Verification of Novel Substrates of Shewanella-like Protein Phosphatases in
Plants
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9:40 King, Melissa (Dr. Lewis) Title: Metabolic phenotypes in P. aeruginosa
10:00 Aftab, Arooj (Dr.s Barber & Lewis) Title: Perfusion Imaging in Acute Ischemic Stroke
10:20 BREAK
Morning Session 2 BCEM STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Lohmeier-Vogel
10:40 Sogboer, Haiden (Dr. McDonald) Title: Detection and Quantification of Myosin Phosphorylation Using Targeted Mass Spectroscopy
11:00 Carr, Sam (Dr. Ng) Title: Viral Polymerases. II
11:20 Blevins, Derek (Dr. Ng)Title: Expression of Reverse-Transcriptase-Related Protein, AbiK in E. col
12:00 LUNCH
Afternoon, Session 3 BCEM STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Noskov Theme: Biochemistry from plants to humans through bacteria
13:00 Song, Sally (Dr. McFarlane) Title: Light mediated changes in skin pigmentation through signalling using two neuroendocrine systems involving alpha-MSH and melatonin
13:20 Wagner, Kelsey (Dr. Zaremberg) Title: Analyzing Interactions Between Diacylglycerol and the C1 domain of PKCδ
13:40 Wardman, Jacob (Dr.s Muench & Zaremberg) Title: RNA-Protein Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana
14:20 BREAK
Afternoon, Session 4 BCEM STUDENTS Chair: Dr. Noskov
14:20 Du, Amy (Dr. Zimmerly) Title: Expression and Purification of a Binary Splicing Intron-Encoded Protein
14:40 Lu, Xiao (Dr. Vogel) Title: Ca++ sensing in L- and T-plastins
15:00 Yeung, Devlin (Dr. Ng) Title: Studies of a Streptavidin Mutant and Cysteine Biotinylation Tag
15:20 Osman, Selena (Dr. Zaremberg) Title: Analyzing Phosphorylation states of the yeast acyltransferase Gat1
15:40 Toth, Brendan (Dr. Moorhead) Title: Signalling through MPK9
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CANADIAN OCEAN SCIENCE NEWSLETTER
LE BULLETIN CANADIEN DES SCIENCES DE L'OCÉAN
Special Bulletin, March 2017Bulletin spécial, mars 2017
CNC-SCOR Western Tour Speaker
The 2015 Western annual CNC-SCOR tour speaker is Dr. C.J. Mundy from the University of
Manitoba. He will presenting a talk titled: Arctic spring: key processes in�uencing
timing of primary production in ice-covered waters.
Dr. Mundy seeks to understand variability and change in the Arctic marine ecosystem due
to climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice. In particular, he studies physical and
biological processes controlling the timing, location, magnitude, and fate of primary
producers in the ice-covered environment.
Climate warming and the rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice cover have imposed new
variability and likely directional change on the Arctic marine ecosystem. Improving our
understanding of variability and change in the polar marine ecosystem in the face of a
rapidly changing environment underpins my current research goals. My research has a
particular focus on primary producers in the Arctic marine ice-covered ecosystem, which
include sea ice algae, ice melt water (brackish) /ora and phytoplankton. My most recent
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endeavours include: biological oceanographic studies of the central Canadian Arctic, Canadian
Beaufort Sea (investigating phytoplankton bloom dynamics, sea ice bio-optics and ice algal
productivity, photophysiology and taxonomy) and Hudson Bay (investigating freshwater and
dissolved organic carbon input and export), and biophysical modeling of the ice algae ecosystem.
(C.J. Mundy Web Page)
Venues and times of Dr. Mundy’s talks
City Date, Time Location Contact
Vancouver March 20 1:30 Earth Science Building 5104
University of British Columbia
Philippe Tortell
ptortell@eoas.ubc.ca
Patricia Bay March 21 2:00 Central Board Room, Rm 2100
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Bill Williams
Bill.Williams@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Victoria March 22 3:30 Room C118 David Strong
building, University of Victoria
Lucinda Leonard
lleonard@uvic.ca
Edmonton March 23 12:30 Tory 3-36
University of Alberta
Paul Meyers
pmyers@ualberta.ca
Calgary March 24 3:00 Earth Sciences 443
University of Calgary
Brent Else
belse@ucalgary.ca
Previous newsletters may be found on the CNC-SCOR web site.
Newsletter #91 will be distributed in November 2016. Please send contributions to David Greenberg david.greenberg@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
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Les bulletins antérieurs se retrouvent sur le site web du CNC-SCOR.
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