Best Poster – Undergraduate
Thomas Tsangaris, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Supervisor: Dr. Claudiu Gradinaru
Work Presented: “Protein conformational ensembles for a disordered protein restricted by separate biophysical experiments”
Xingyuag (Kate) Zou, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Origins Institute, McMaster University
Supervisor: Dr. Maikel Rheinstädter
Work Presented: “Curcumin and homotaurine suppress amyloid-β25−35 aggregation in synthetic brain membranes”
Best Poster – MSc
Lizzy Baker, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Rainey
Work Presented: “Functionalized spider silk biomaterials promote neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells”
Matthew Leighton, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Dr. David Sivak
Work Presented: “Performance trade-offs in collective cellular transport systems”
Mykhaylo Slobodyanyuk, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
Supervisor: Dr. Corrie daCosta
Work Presented: “Investigation of the determinants of agonism in a ligand-gated ion channel using statistical coupling analysis”
Best Poster – PhD
Anna Ananchenko, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Musgaard
Work Presented: “Arachidonic acid interactions with human acid-sensing ion channel 3”
Alexandra Brown, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Supervisor: Dr. David Langelaan
Work Presented: “Investigating the structure and function of coactivator recruitment by the melanogenic transcription factor MITF”
Yu Seby Chen, Department of Biochemistry & Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale, McGill University
Supervisor: Dr. Kalle Gehring
Work Presented: “Crystal structure of an archaeal CorB magnesium transporter”
Shuya Kate Huang, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Supervisor: Dr. Scott Prosser
Work Presented: “Elucidating the conformational landscape of a G protein-coupled receptor by fluorine NMR”
Miranda Louwerse, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Dr. David Sivak
Work Presented: “Thermodynamics of the transition-path ensemble”
Morgan Robinson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Supervisor: Dr. Zoya Leonenko
Work Presented: “The interaction of melatonin with model lipid membranes by AFM”
Jeremy Rothschild, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Supervisor: Dr. Anton Zilman
Work Presented: “Behavioural phases of immigration-birth-death processes in competitive ecosystems”
Jeffrey Simmons, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Rainey
Work Presented: “Probing structural modularity and disorder in recombinant pyriform silk”
Mackenzie Thompson, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa
Supervisor: Dr. John Baenziger
Work Presented: “Functional role of the M4 lipid-sensor in the muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor”
Kathleen Vergunst, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Supervisor: Dr. David Langelaan
Work Presented: “Exploring the structural stability and assembly mechanism of hydrophobin proteins”
