The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology department hosted our 3rd annual undergraduate biochemistry 3-minute thesis (3MT) event near the end of term 1. Students who are currently in biochemistry directed studies (BIOC 448) or biochemistry honours thesis (BIOC 449) were invited to present the concept behind their research projects to an audience of undergraduate students and a panel of graduate student judges. From the 12 presenters 3 award winners were chosen, a people choice winner was selected by the audience and another 2 selected by the graduate student panel.
Panel Winners:
Helen Tran presented,“Characterizing the Structure and Function of the CrPV 3’UTR.” Helen is a student in the Jan lab.
Gayatri Prakash presented, “The role of stress granule proteins in platelets expression.” Gayatri studies in the Kastrup lab
People’s Choice Winner:
Thomas Nguyen presented, “Budding Yeast: What are the FACTs?” Thomas is a student in the Howe lab.
“Anatomy of an RNA virus: dissecting the host virus interactions that govern Dicistrovirus gene expression and transmission,” by Craig Kerr, PhD Candidate, Jan and Foster Labs.
“Cysteine arylation to engineer and discover proteins,” by Bradley Pentelute, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Electron microscopy approaches to studying lipid-protein interactions,” by Thomas Walz, Professor, the Rockefeller University.
“Viral strategies to hijack and alter host cell functions during picornavirus replication.” by Bert Semler, University of California, Irvine.
“Engineering development form stem cells,” by Peter Zandstra, UBC, MSL & School of Biomedical Engineering.
“Mitochondrial Fe-S Cluster assembly machinery,” by Miroslaw Cygler, University of Saskatchewan.
“Highly fluorescent RNA Mango aptamers for in vitro imaging and RNP purification”, by Peter Unrau, Professor, Simon Fraser University.