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Session 1: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Environment I April 7, 2015. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 2) Room: AA 204; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik 1-1 Shameek Das Non dominant species affects the 9:30-9:45 (Cadotte) germination of

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Session 1: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Environment I April 7, 2015. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 2) Room: AA 204; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik 1-1 9:30-9:45 Shameek Das (Cadotte) Non dominant species affects the germination of dominant species during germination 1-2 9:45-10:00 Tisha Tan (Fitzpatrick) Natural Genetic Variation in Dispersal of Drosophila melanogaster 1-3 10:00-10:15 Harunya Sivanesan (Lovejoy) Sequence Evolution of Sodium channel Gene (Nav1.4a) in Electric Fishes 1-4 10:15-10:30 Roland Law (Cadotte) Biological control of Vincetoxicum rossicum 1-5 10:30-10:45 Priya Mistry (Fulthorpe) Screening of endophytes for plant growth promoting effects 10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 1-6 11:00-11:15 Omar Yossofzai (Weir) A Taxonomic Revision of Hypocnemoides 1-7 11:15-11:30 Zakera Kachhvi (Edelsparre/Mason) The amount of time Drosophila melanogaster spends on food is influenced by genetic variation in dispersal behavior 1-8 11:30-11:45 Katerina Eyre (Cadotte) Biochars effects on two different plant species grown in two opposing infertile soils 1-9 11:45-12:00 Ahmad Nizami (Mason) Vibration reception in a ‘noisy’ environment in the black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus 12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

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Session 2: Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Physiology I April 7, 2015. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 1) Room: AA 205; Moderator: Aarthi Ashok 2-1 9:30-9:45 Anh Cao (Treanor) The sweet side of B cells 2-2 9:45-10:00 Namrata Menon (Caudy/Brunt) The study of metabolomics using LC-MS 2-3 10:00-10:15 Cheuk-Yan Li (Gazzarrini) Regulation of seed germination at supraoptimal temperature through the action of the endosperm in A. thaliana 2-4 10:15-10:30 Hassan Khan (Nash) The Role of SIRT3 as a Disease-Modifying Agent in Parkinson's Disease 2-5 10:30-10:45 Harindra Rajasekeran (Vanlerberghe) The role of AOX in preventing the high CO2 -induced feedback-limited photosynthesis in Nicotiana tabacum at low night time growth temperature 10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 2-6 11:00-11:15 Adam Borenstein (Morshead/Brunt) Examining Metformin’s Potential to Repair Irradiation Induced Damage of Neural Precursor Cells 2-7 11:15-11:30 Theodora Yung (Hasenkampf) Characterization of Mitotic Anaphase in Arabidopsis thaliana hop2 Mutants 2-8 11:30-11:45 Shanjid Hasan (Schulze/Hasenkampf) Optimizing an Enzyme Assay to Measure the Activity of Gaunidinoacetate Methyltransferse using Tandem Mass Spectometry 2-9 11:45-12:00 Angie Liao (Riggs) Characterization of Meiotic Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana 12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

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Session 3: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Environment II April 7, 2015. 1:00PM-4:00PM (concurrent with session 4) Room: AA 204; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik 3-1 1:00-1:15 Michael Dobrovetsky (Lovejoy) Body shape evolution in Anchoa 3-2 1:15-1:30 Vinusha Gunaseelan (McGowan) The Effect of Chronic Variable Stress and High Fat Diet-Influenced Maternal Behaviour on Offspring Anxiety-Like Behaviour 3-3 1:30-1:45 Gurkirat Taggar (Weir) Quantitative Image Analysis of Plumage within Subspecies of Silvered Antbird (Sclateria naevia) 3-4 1:45-2:00 Xun Ming Wang (Boonstra) The effect of territorial aggression on the size of the zona reticularis in competitive and non-competitive squirrel species 3-5 2:00-2:15 Shathveekan Sivanathan (McGowan) Maternal obesity and stress influences on

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2:15-2:30 COFFEE BREAK 3-6 2:30-2:45 Nicholas Sookhan (Cadotte) Biological Effects on Microclimate in Grassland Ecosystems 3-7 2:45-3:00 Darsan Sadacharam (Weir) A Phylogeny of Dendrocincla Woodcreepers Using Vocalizations 3-8 3:00-3:15 Michell Selvarajha (Cadotte) Functional trait responses in plant species 3-9 3:15-3:30 Danny Seo (Richards) Development of a Conditioning Chamber for Behavioural Studies of mPFC in Mice 3-10 3:30 – 3:45 Michele Goh (Cadotte) Biological growth of an invasive plant under different conditions 4:00 PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY

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Session 4: Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Physiology II April 7, 2015. 1:00PM-4:00PM (concurrent with session 3) Room: AA 205; Moderator: Aarthi Ashok 4-1 1:00-1:15 Trisha Mahtani (Campbell) The Impact of Novel Chemicals on the Growth and Development of Arabidopsis thaliana 4-2 1:15-1:30 Umama Siddiqi (Harrison) Understanding Classical Activation of Macrophages 4-3 1:30-1:45 Yu Li (Zhao) Construction & characterization of A. thaliana knockout line via CRISPR/Cas9 system 4-4 1:45-2:00 Samir Iskander (Riggs) An interaction screen to identify binding partners for HOP2, a meiosis-specific protein 4-5 2:00-2:15 Ji Zhang (Zhengping/Nash) p21-Activated Kinases 1 and 3 are Critical to Sociability 2:15-2:30 COFFEE BREAK 4-6 2:30-2:45 Hampavi Sivanesan (Vanlerberghe) Nitric Oxide (NO) production from plant mitochondrial electron transport chain 4-7 2:45-3:00 Sophie Qin (McGowan) Correlating Genetic Variation and Maternal Response 4-8 3:00-3:15 Fathima Buhari (Treanor) The Role of the TRPM7 Channel in Antigen Accumulation of B cells 4-9 3:15-3:30 Melissa Poon (Zhao) Substrate specificity of the Molecular Chaperone HSP90 4:00 PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY