The 30th Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference was held in Winnipeg on 6-7 May 2016. Four of our outstanding undergraduate researchers took top honours in their categories:
Heather Baker (Campbell research group)
1st Place - Biochemistry Oral Presentation
Topic: Blue Shifted Variant of the mNeonGreen Fluorescent Protein
Cat-Tuong Huynh (Brown research group)
1st Place - Computational/Theoretical/Physical Poster
Topic: Computational Study on Relative Stabilities and Excited States of Tautomers of Modified Emissive RNA Nucleobases
Matthew Keirstead (Lucy research group)
1st Place - Analytical Poster
Topic: Characterization of a Multi-Modal High Performance Liquid Chromatography Column
Asad Makhani (Gibbs research group)
1st Place - Biochemistry Poster
Topic: Reducing the Background-Triggered Reaction in Lesion Induced DNA Amplification
Congratulations to the award winners and to all of our students who represented our department in this event. We look forward to next year's WCUCC, to be hosted right here in Edmonton and organized by our own Chemistry Students' Association.