14 presenters for 3MT western final

Fourteen graduate students are at TRU this week vying for the opportunity to represent their university at the national Three Minute Thesis competition.

The students will present their research before a live audience and a three-person panel of non experts. Presenters will have three minutes to succinctly present their findings and in such a manner understandable to the audience and judges.

Presentations start at 2 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre located in Old Main. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.

Among the finalists is TRU Biological Sciences student Kristen Marini. “Living in the Ghetto: Effects of city life on chickadees” is the title of her presentation.

Presenters and the titles of their talks

Jeremy Chiu, Applied Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
“Thermogregulation of a Honeybee Swarm”

Zoe Wai-Man Lam, Linguistics, University of British Columbia
Perception of Lexical Tones by Heritage Speakers of Cantonese”

Joshua Lee, Medical Genetics, University of Alberta
“Treating Genetic Disease with DNA Band-Aids”

Kayla Balderson, Wildlife Ecology, University of Regina
“Greater Sage-Grouse Recovery Efforts in Southeast Alberta”

Carey Simpson, Health and Exercise Science, UBC-Okanagan
“Stretching the Limits of Muscle Growth: A New Route to Hypertrophy.”

Stephanie Bonvicini, Chemistry, University of Victoria
“Liquid Lasers: Can they solve the pesky laser malfunctions that evil villains (and scientists!) face?”

Elizabeth Watt, Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary
“Permanent Breast Seed Implant: Improving Patient Experience in Early-Stage Breast Cancer”

Sheena Manghera, BioScience, Technology & Public Policy, University of Winnipeg
“Silent No More: Re-activation of Endogenous Retroviruses in ALS”

Sara Pyke, Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia
“How do public health nurses experience interprofessional collaboration with primary care providers in Northern British Columbia?”

Cameron Bye, Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge
“What role do NMDA receptors have in learning and memory?”

Erika Bachmann, Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan
“Making a little go a long way: Fertilizer microdosing for improved agricultural production in Northwest Benin.”

Kathleen Kelava, Applied Psychology, Athabasca University
“The shades of ubiquitous suffering: Dichotomy in theory and in states/diagnosis.”

Kristen Marini, Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University
“Living in the Ghetto: Effects of city life on chickadees.”

Rebecca (Delong) Dielschneider, Immunology, University of Manitoba
“Lysosomes as targets in leukemia.”