We are very excited to present the Biology Undergraduate Symposium (BUS 2024) happening this Thursday April 11th, 2024, in MDCL Rooms 1008 to 1116. We invite everyone to attend and support your colleagues as they present the work they have completed over the last academic year. Registration for presenters and supervisors will occur from 8:00-8:30am […]
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Dr. Juliet Daniel is one of only 3 Canadian scientists to be named a Black Innovator in Research and Medicine by the Government of Canada’s Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). The award celebrates her research on Triple Negative Breast Cancer, an aggressive form of cancer with higher rates of incidence among Black and Hispanic women. […]
Dr. Jianping Xu was also featured in McMaster’s Brighter World this month for his work in developing a statistically validated list of genes that contribute to drug resistance in the human pathogenic fungus Candida auris. One of the most unexpected findings of the study was that most of the genes identified had never previously been […]
After years of working with walleye in Georgian Bay, Dr. Pat Chow-Fraser’s lab realized they had a problem – massive water level fluctuations due to climate change had led to changes in habitat use by fish in the bay, leaving them with empty nets and nothing to study. Enter PhD student Danielle Montocchio, who took […]
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This article from the Faculty of Science announces the launch of Dani Montocchio’s (PhD candidate; Pat Chow-Fraser Lab) upcoming citizen science project on Zooniverse on January 22, 2024.“This project is a part of my thesis exploring the impacts of changing water-levels in Georgian Bay on coastal wetland ecosystems and communities. Specifically, I am researching whether the appearance […]
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