Session 1: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Environment I April 7, - PDF document

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

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

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 Michael Dobrovetsky Body shape evolution in Anchoa 1:00-1:15 (Lovejoy) 3-2 Vinusha Gunaseelan The Effect of Chronic Variable Stress and 1:15-1:30 (McGowan) High Fat Diet-Influenced Maternal Behaviour on Offspring Anxiety-Like Behaviour 3-3 Gurkirat Taggar Quantitative Image Analysis of Plumage 1:30-1:45 (Weir) within Subspecies of Silvered Antbird ( Sclateria naevia ) 3-4 Xun Ming Wang The effect of territorial aggression on the 1:45-2:00 (Boonstra) size of the zona reticularis in competitive and non-competitive squirrel species 3-5 Shathveekan Maternal obesity and stress influences on 2:00-2:15 Sivanathan offspring cocaine sensitivity (McGowan) 2:15-2:30 COFFEE BREAK 3-6 Nicholas Sookhan Biological Effects on Microclimate in 2:30-2:45 (Cadotte) Grassland Ecosystems 3-7 Darsan Sadacharam A Phylogeny of Dendrocincla 2:45-3:00 (Weir) Woodcreepers Using Vocalizations 3-8 Michell Selvarajha Functional trait responses in plant species 3:00-3:15 (Cadotte) 3-9 Danny Seo Development of a Conditioning Chamber 3:15-3:30 (Richards) for Behavioural Studies of mPFC in Mice 3-10 Michele Goh Biological growth of an invasive plant (Cadotte) under different conditions 3:30 – 3:45 4:00 PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY

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