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MELS Student Thesis Proposal Talks
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Please join us for the final Science Seminar of the term, where our students will be presenting their thesis research topics. The schedule will be as follows:
| Time | Student | Supervisor | Presentation Title |
| 2:00 p.m. | Sachi Villanueva | Dr. B. Cassone & Dr. C. LeMoine |
Knock-down of developmental genes to control insect pests |
| 2:20 p.m. | Riley Feser | Dr. M. Majumder | Eliminating breast cancer by early detection |
| 2:40 p.m. | Autumn Wiebe | Dr. A. Koiter & Dr. A. Glenn |
Greenhouse gas analysis: A reduced sampling method |
| 3:00 p.m. | Candace Park | Dr. P. Rutherford | Impacts of grazing on grassland herpetofauna |
| 3:20 p.m. | Courtney Harris | Dr. M. Charette | Investigating EMGg1’s Mechanism and therapeutic pathways in Bowen-Conradi syndrome |
| 3:40 p.m. | Tasneem Shinwari | Dr. V. Chen | Exploring the life cycle of Connexin43 gap junctions |
| 4:00 p.m. | Jasmine Scantlebury | Dr. W. Untereiner | Characterization of species of Exophiala responsible for infections of hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon |
| 4:20 p.m. | Ezinne Nwadike | Dr. B. Ardelli | Surveillance of neglected tick-borne pathogens in Manitoba |
| 4:40 p.m. | Jessica Kalyniuk | Dr. D. Greenwood | The last supper: Morphological and geochemical analysis of an armoured dinosaur’s last meal |
| 5:00 p.m. | Break | ||
| 5:20 p.m. | Frank Yamoah | Dr. P. Whittington | Ecohydrology and slope conditions at the periphery of an extracted peatland |
| 5:40 p.m. | Brayden Cuthbert | Dr. P. Alexandre | The significance of the silicification zones for the formation of unconformity-related uranium deposits in the Athabasca basin |
Light refreshments will be available.
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