{"id":8439,"date":"2019-04-11T20:58:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2019-04-11T22:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:09:32","slug":"ufv-science-students-shine-at-the-university-of-british-columbia-undergraduate-research-conference-held-in-kelowna-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/04\/11\/ufv-science-students-shine-at-the-university-of-british-columbia-undergraduate-research-conference-held-in-kelowna-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Science Students shine at the University of British Columbia Undergraduate Research Conference held in Kelowna last month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biology Professor, Dr. Nathan Bialas<\/a>, along with a number of UFV Biology students presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference<\/a> held at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus on March 30, 2019 in Kelowna. The conference is an opportunity for Honours and Directed Studies students to present their projects to peers, professors and the campus community at large.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong><< Eryn Braley<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. James Bedard<\/p>\n

The role of ethnicity in predictive genetic testing for hereditary cancer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cassandra Friesen >><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. Alan Reid<\/p>\n

Mycological identification of the pear rust pathogen Gymnosporangium sabinae across three Pyrus host species through morphology, DNA barcoding, and histopathology<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><< Brayden Griffiths<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Nathan Bialas<\/p>\n

The Effects of Haskap Berry (Lonicera caerulea) Extract on Stress Resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Brenna Hay <\/strong>>><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. Lucy Lee<\/p>\n

Evaluating Potential Genotoxicity of Imidacloprid with Fish Cell Lines<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><< Ajeet Singh Klaer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. Sharon Gillies<\/p>\n

The Role of Non-toxic Substances in Earthworm Extraction & the Distribution of Native versus Invasive Earthworm Species & Gregarine Parasites in the City of Abbotsford<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ajdin Masic<\/strong> >><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. Sharon Gillies<\/p>\n

Earthworm Populations Across Abbotsford and The Differences in the Number of Gregarines Between Native and Invasive Species<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><< Shayne Oberhoffner<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Supervisor: <\/strong>Stephen Thomas<\/p>\n

Synthesis of Sulforaphane (1-Isothiocyanato-4-methylsulfinylbutane) and Evaluation of Antibacterial Properties against 6 Bacterial Strains in-vitro<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Isabelle St-Martin<\/strong> >><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. James Bedard<\/p>\n

Annotation and analysis of Drosophila takahashii chromosome 3L contig2 through comparative genomics<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><< Mark Stephens<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: James Bedard<\/p>\n

Genetically introduced streptomycin resistance in Escherichia coli by CRISPR\/Cas9-induced site-directed mutagenesis of the rpsL gene<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ceilidh Welch<\/strong> >><\/h3>\n

Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr. James Bedard<\/p>\n

Annotation of Coding Sequences in the 3L Chromosome of Drosophila takahashii<\/p>\n

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Biology Professor, Dr. Nathan Bialas, along with a number of UFV Biology students presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference held at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus on March 30, 2019 in Kelowna. The conference is an opportunity for Honours and Directed Studies students to present their projects to peers, professors and the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":8440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,58],"tags":[180,182,336],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-deans-office","category-news","tag-biology","tag-poster-presentation","tag-undergraduate-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}