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BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019

Session 1: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology I April 8, 2019. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 2) Room: AA-205; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik 9:30-9:45 Waqqas Khalid

(MacIvor) Pollinator Diversity Across Sedum Green Roofs

9:45-10:00 Taegan Perez

(Lovejoy) More than Meets the Eye: Unveiling Fish Diversity in Tortuguero National Park Using DNA Barcoding

10:00-10:15 Praveen Jayarajan

(MacIvor) Saproxylic Invertebrate Community Analysis Across Urbanization Gradients

10:15-10:30 Shalini Bahl

(Lovejoy) Unveiling cryptic speciation events: molecular genetic diversity and phylogeny

• f the weakly electric knifefish genus,

Hypopomus (Order: Gymnotiformes), of the Guiana Shield

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:15 Reema Abdoulrezzak

(Mandrak) Preservation Effects on Morphometric Analysis of Round Goby

11:15-11:30 Zhuo Wei

(MacIvor) Phylogenetic Analysis of the Bees of Toronto Using R

11:30-11:45 Rebekah Kim

(Mason) Time-course of Metabolomic Signature of Stress in the Monster Haglid, Cyphoderris monstrosa

11:45-12:00 Stephen Grabinsky

(MacIvor) Use of C-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Better Understand Decomposition in Coarse Woody Debris

12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019

Session 2: Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Genetics I April 8, 2019. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 1) Room: AA-206; Moderator: Aarthi Ashok 9:30-9:45 Kugarja Sivanesan

(Hawkins/Pajovic) Exploring Synthetic Lethality in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

9:45-10:00 Luke Ajay David

(Schuurmans) The Imprinted Gene Network (IGN) Acts to Maintain Müller Glia Cell Latency in the Adult Retina

10:00-10:15 Dilakshan Srikanthan

(Taylor) The Efficacy of CAR-T Immunotherapy in Solid Brain Tumours

10:15-10:30 Myuran Yoganathan

(Treanor) Investigating the Mechanism of B Cell Anergy Through Super-Resolution Imaging

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:15 Yisell Farahani- Tafreshi

(Hasenkampf) Role of HOP2 in the Fidelity of Homologous Chromosomes Interactions

11:15-11:30 Hannan Malik

(McGowan)

Effects of Early-Life Maternal Care Received and Dopamine Receptor-2 Genotype on Brain Dopamine Levels and Maternal Behaviour in Female Rat Offspring

11:30-11:45 Thiviya Rajasekar

(Harrison) Isolation and Culture of Primary Osteocytes from Long Murine Bones

11:45-12:00 Ceren Yuksel Sogukpinar

(McGowan) Perinatal High-Fat Diet and Immune Stressor Alter Neuroendocrine Stress Response Programming in Neonatal Rats

12:00-1:00

LUNCH BREAK

BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019

Session 3: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology II April 8, 2019. 1:00PM-3:30PM (concurrent with session 4) Room: AA-205; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik 1:00-1:15 Sharon Nirmalakumar

(Feng) Cardiac Monitoring of Mus musculus Using Transdermal Optical Imaging Technology

1:15-1:30 Neil Punwasi

(Cadotte) How Root Morphology of Plant Communities is Affected by Invasion of Vincetoxicum rossicum and Plant-Soil Feedback

1:30-1:45 Hassan Syed

(Tomescu) Physiotherapy Performance with Visual Feedback Post Knee Surgery

1:45-2:00 Malak Abuzgaya

(Thiele) The use of genome engineering to dissect striatal neural circuits in zebrafish

2:00-2:30 COFFEE BREAK 2:30-2:45 Dhruv Vyas

(Brown) Effect of H2O2 on degradation of chlorophyll from annual and perennial flax species.

2:45-3:00 NONE 3:00-3:15 NONE 3:30 PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY PRESENTATION OF BioBURP AWARD

BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019

Session 4: Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Genetics II April 8, 2019. 1:00PM-3:30PM (concurrent with session 3) Room: AA-206; Moderator: Aarthi Ashok 1:00-1:15 Sebastian Acosta

(Serghides) Periconceptional Exposure to Lopinavir- Based Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Impairs Uterine Remodeling in Early Mouse Pregnancy

1:15-1:30 Nick Garrido

(Riggs) Cytological & Molecular Characterization

• f an Arabidopsis Mutant

1:30-1:45 Laxshaginee Thaya

(Guzzo) Identify the Effect of HIV-1 Incorporated α4β7 on Antibody Reactivity of the Virus Envelope Glycoprotein

1:45-2:00 Jenan Noureddine

(Gazzarrini/Zhao) Characterization of Proteasome Interacting Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

2:00-2:30 COFFEE BREAK 2:30-2:45 Natalie Au

(Terebiznik) Intestinal Organoids as an in vitro Model for Studying Microfold (M) Cells

2:45-3:00 Rabea Nadeem

(Kaul) Foundational Skills in Translational HIV Research

3:00-3:15 Mariam Issa

(Terebiznik) Exploring the Interaction Between Infection Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) and the Early Endosomal Pathway in Fish Cells

3:30 PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY PRESENTATION OF BioBURP AWARD