Biology Departmental Seminar - Honours Thesis Presentations

Event Date:

Friday, April 8, 2022 - 10:00am EDT

Event Location:

Centennial Building 3013 with synchronous Zoom Webinar

Event Contact Name:

Dr. Susanne Walford

Event Contact E-mail:

swalford@lakeheadu.ca

Biology Departmental Seminar

Honours Thesis Presentations

Each student will present for 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes of questions from the audience.

This event is IN-PERSON with a Zoom Webinar option (register with biology@lakeheadu.ca for the link).

Centennial Building CB3013

10:00 Symposium with Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Azim Mallik.

10:15 Celena Brosseau (Dr. Robert Mackereth): The effects of beaver dams on brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) distribution in northwestern Ontario streams.

10:30 William Hunt (Dr. Kam Leung): Arsenic detoxification: The bioremediation potential of and the ability to improve phytoremediation by As(III)-oxidizing bacteria isolated from an arsenic-contaminated mine tailing site.

11:00 Katherine Filopovic (Dr. Kam Leung): Construction of a Tn5 isogenic mutant library of a plant growth promoting As(III)-oxidizing Pseudomonas strain BS2: Screening for As(III)-oxidizing mutants and IAA mutants.

11:15 Emily Hodgson (Dr. Leonard Hutchison): Growth rates of saxicolous lichen in northwestern Ontario graveyards.

11:30 Kyle Swerhun (Dr. Neelam Khaper): The development of a spider silk-based hydrogel antimicrobial peptide delivery system.

11:45 Sydney-Lyn Bernardi (Dr. Adam Algar): Predicting the northern range edge of Hyla versicolor using macro- and microclimate niche models.

Coffee and light snacks provided. Please bring your own mug!

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