{"id":12684,"date":"2025-10-23T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=12684"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:04:47","slug":"fall-2025-directed-studies-presentations-bio-409-499-proposal-seminars-nov-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2025\/10\/23\/fall-2025-directed-studies-presentations-bio-409-499-proposal-seminars-nov-5-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2025 Directed Studies Presentations: BIO 409\/499 Proposal Seminars NOV 5 &#038; 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"414\">As part of the Directed Studies program in Biology, our BIO and BIOC 409\/499 students will each be presenting a 15-minute seminar outlining their research proposal. These presentations account for 5% of each student\u2019s overall grade in the course and will be evaluated by their research supervisors. This year, we have ten students presenting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"738\">If you\u2019d like to stop by and show your support, the presentations will take place on <strong data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"549\">Wednesday, November 5, from 11:00 AM\u20132:30 PM<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"597\">Friday, November 7, from 12:00\u20131:00 PM<\/strong> (see full schedule below). If you\u2019re unable to attend in person, you would like to join via Zoom, please email <a class=\"decorated-link cursor-pointer\" href=\"mailto:Caroline.Majeau@ufv.ca\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"720\">Caroline.Majeau@ufv.ca<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"740\" data-end=\"951\">Thank you for your continued support of our Directed Studies students. These proposal seminars offer valuable feedback and help prepare them for future graduate studies and careers in Biology and Biochemistry.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Session 1:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Wednesday, November 5 &#8211; Room A300 (Abbotsford Campus)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>11:00-11:20 AM | BIO 409A | <strong>Samuel Wrayton<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: Alan Reid)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Wednesday, November 5 &#8211; Room A360 (Abbotsford Campus)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>11:40-12:00 PM | BIO 499a | <strong>Aidan Hendry<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/bialas-nathan.htm\">Nathan Bialas<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>12:00-12:20 PM | BIO 499A | <strong>Adam Winters<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/bialas-nathan.htm\">Nathan Bialas<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><s>12:20-12:40 PM | BIO 499A | <strong>Austin Currie<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/bialas-nathan.htm\">Nathan Bialas<\/a><\/s>) <em>**Presenting Friday, November 7 @ 12:40 PM<\/em><\/li>\n<li>12:40-13:00 PM | BIO 409A | <strong>Karam Dhillon<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/tabatabaee-mitra.htm\">Mitra Tabatabaee<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>13:00-13:20 PM | BIO 409A | <strong>Semir Hasic<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/bedard-james.htm\">James Bedard<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>13:20-13:40 PM | BIOCC 409A | <strong>Matthew Miller<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/bedard-james.htm\">James Bedard<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>14:00-14:20 PM | BIO 499A | <strong>Anhad Kaur<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/harley-gordon.htm\">Harley Gordon<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Session 2:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Friday, November 7 &#8211; Room 360 (Abbotsford Campus)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>12:00-12:20 PM | BIO 409A | <strong>Lainey Peters<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/agriculture\/meet-the-team\/lauren-erland.htm\">Lauren Erland<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>12:20-12:40 PM | BIO 409A | <strong>James Raack<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/tourlakis-marina.htm\">Marina Tourlakis<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>12:40-1:00 PM | BIO 499A | <strong>Austin Currie<\/strong> (Research Supervisor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/biology\/contact-us\/faculty\/bialas-nathan.htm\">Nathan Bialas<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2506\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/09\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/09\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/09\/UFV-science-logo-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/09\/UFV-science-logo-200x91.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/09\/UFV-science-logo.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Directed Studies program in Biology, our BIO and BIOC 409\/499 students will each be presenting a 15-minute seminar outlining their research proposal. These presentations account for 5% of each student\u2019s overall grade in the course and will be evaluated by their research supervisors. This year, we have ten students presenting. If &#8230; <a title=\"Fall 2025 Directed Studies Presentations: BIO 409\/499 Proposal Seminars NOV 5 &#038; 7\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2025\/10\/23\/fall-2025-directed-studies-presentations-bio-409-499-proposal-seminars-nov-5-7\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":12706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[484,483,482],"class_list":["post-12684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","tag-bio-409","tag-bio-499","tag-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12684"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}