Honours defenses in Biology have kicked off this week! We have 19 defenses in total over the next few weeks. Defenses are open to the public! If you're interested in the honours program feel free to drop in and see what interestoing work students in our program have been working on!

 

Below is the list of defenses scheduled for this week:

 

Candidate: Abigail Chafe:

Title: Phylogenetic relationships in the Andean genus of palms Parajubaea

Date: Wednesday April 3

Time: 10:30 am

Place: CSF 2208

Chair: Dr. Paul Marino

Examiner: Dr. Dawn Marshall

Supervisor(s): Dr. Julissa Roncal

 

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Candidate: Alison Deng

Title: Examination of β-lactamase Inhibitory Activity in Environmental Streptomyces Isolates from Newfoundland

Date: Thursday, April 4

Time: 10:30 am

Place: CSF 2342

Chair: Dr. Jeanette Wheeler

Examiner: Dr. Andrei Igamberdiev

Supervisor(s): Dr. Kapil Tahlan

 

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Candidate: Julianne King

Title: The effects of fish density and isolation on food intake and behaviour in a schooling fish, the tiger barb Puntigrus tetrazona

Date: Thursday, April 4

Time: 11:00 am

Place: CSF 2205 (meeting room adjacent to head’s offices)

Chair: Dr. Tom Chapman

Examiner: Dr. Brian Staveley

Supervisor(s): Dr. Helene Volkoff

 

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Candidate: Rebecca Ralph

Title: Testing a particle image velocimetry algorithm with applications to flow-plankton interactions

Date: Thursday, April 4

Time: 2:00 pm

Place: CSF 2222

Chair: Dr. Kapil Tahlan

Examiner: Dr. Amy Hurford

Supervisor(s): Dr. Jeanette Wheeler

 

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Candidate: Sarah Duraid

Title: THE EFFECTS OF PRE-TANGLE PSEUDOPHOSPHORYLATED HUMAN TAU ON BEHAVIOUR AND HISTOLOGY IN THE CA1 REGION OF THE HIPPOCAMPUSDate: Thursday, April 5

Time: 10: 00 am

Place: CSF 2342

Chair: Dr. Julissa Roncal

Examiner: Dr. Jackie Vanderluit  

Supervisor(s): Drs. Qi Yuan and Brian Staveley