General Schedule
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:36
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Thursday 24th February
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Time
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Description
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9:00-11:00 am
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Registration (Natural Science Museum)
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11:00-12:00 am
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Poster setup (Natural Science Museum)
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12:00-1:00 pm
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Lunch (Natural Science Museum)
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1:00-1:20 pm
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Conference Welcome (THORV 105)
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1:30-4:20 pm
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Oral Presentations (THORV 105, 159)
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5:30 pm
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Mixer (Natural Science Museum)
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Friday 25th February
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Time
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Description
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9:00-12:00 am
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Oral Presentations (THORV 105, 159)
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12:00-1:00 pm
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Lunch (Natural Science Museum)
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1:00-3:00 pm
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Oral Presentations (THORV 105, 159)
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3:15-4:30 pm
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Tour of VIDO (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization)
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8:00 pm
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Nocturnal Perturbations (optional social event)
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Saturday 26th February
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Time
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Description
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9:00-12:00 am
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Oral Presentations (THOV 105, 159)
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12:00-1:00 pm
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Lunch (Natural Science Museum)
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12:30-4:00 pm
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Poster Judging (Natural Sciences Museum)
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4:00-4:45 pm
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Faculty Research Presentation -Prof. Susan Kaminskyj (THOV 105)
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5::30 pm
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Cocktails (Upper Marquis Hall)
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6:30-9:00 pm
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Plenary Banquet and Awards Presentation (Upper Marquis Hall)
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:21
Thursday Sessions
Monday, 21 February 2011 13:37
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Thursday Afternoon Sessions
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Thorvaldson 105
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Thorvaldson 159
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Time
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Presenters
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Time
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Presenters
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1:30 – 2:20
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Cherie J. Dugal - The effects of hunting on elk (Cervus elaphus) behaviour and habitat selection in a fragmented agriculture-dominated landscape
Raea Gooding - Protecting Farmers and Fauna: Analyzing Trends of Crop Damage By White-Tailed Deer and Elk to Manage Bovine Tuberculosis Risk In Manitoba
Michel Laforge - Joint-space use and interaction rate in female elk (Cervus elaphus): Testing the gambit of the group
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1:30 – 2:20
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Md Kausar Alam - Aspergillus nidulans GputAGAL7 (galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase) is functionally homologue to Saccharomyces GAL7, but does not have completely homologue functions
Amira El-Ganiny - New antifungal drug targets in the walls of Aspergillus nidulans
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2:30 – 3:20
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Ryan McDonald - The use of summer food subsidies by arctic foxes near Cape Churchill, Manitoba
Nadine T. Price - Seasonal thermoregulatory and foraging adaptations of free-ranging star-nosed moles (Condylura cristata)
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2:30 – 3:20
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Sourav Gangopadhyay - Divide and conquer: functional and structural analyses of the plant mitochondrial division apparatus
Kara Neudorf -Identifying multidrug resistant efflux pumps in Rhizobium leguminosarum
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3:30 – 4:20
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Lisa Teichroeb - A cry for help: a comparison of juvenile distress calls among different species of ungulates
Eric Vander Wal - Factors affecting group size in social cervids: implications for pathogen transmission
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3:30 – 4:20
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Xiaoxiao Sean He - A “counter-intelligence” strategy to stay ahead in the drug-resistance arms race.
Kira Goff - Using Sychrotron Fourier Transform Infrared Spectromicroscopy to Investigate the Effect of Oil Sands Naphthenic Acids on C. reinhardtii
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:21
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Friday Sessions
Monday, 21 February 2011 13:38
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Friday Morning Sessions
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Thorvaldson 105
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Thorvaldson 159
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Time
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Presenters
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Time
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Presenters
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9:00 – 9:50
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Mohamed Anas - Environment-zooplankton relationships in pristine boreal lakes threatened by acidification
Zachary Hoover - The effects of increasing salinity on the anti-predator behaviour of fathead minnows
Cameron Hoggarth - Sediment Organic Content and Total Mercury in Prairie Wetlands
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9:00 – 9:50
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Clare Anstead - PCR detection of a novel Rickettsia (Alphaproteobacteria) in the tick Ixodes kingi
Charmain Hamilton - Effects of elevated dietary iron on the gastro-intestinal expression of Nramp genes and iron homeostasis in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
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10:00 – 10:50
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Kenton Lysak - Turbidity as an ecological constraint on leanred predator recognition and generalization in a prey fish
Jeff Sereda - The Contribution of Point and Diffuse Sources of Nutrients to the Eutrophication of Lake Diefenbaker: A Sensitivity Analysis
Brittney Hoemsen - Spatial Heterogeneity of Eutrophication in Lake Diefenbaker: Causes and Consequences
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10:00 – 10:50
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James Heffernan - Combined effect of dehydration and dicrotophos exposure confounds the diagnosis of anticholinesterase exposure in quail using plasma cholinesterase activity
Morgan Kirzinger - Raiders of the lost hrc: The search for the elusive Pantoea agglomerans Type III Secretion System
Sarah Klatt - Elucidating the Role of TsDHN-2, a Dehydrin from Thellungiella
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11:00 – 11:50
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Elizabeth Starks - Effects of climate, land-use and fisheries on top-predator persistence in northern prairie lakes
David Vandergucht - Zooplankton and phosphorus deficiency in lakes - the role of ecological stoichiometry
Jordan Weisgerber - The effects of salinity on the reproduction of fathead minnows
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11:00 – 11:50
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Chantel Krakowetz - Prevalence and genetic diversity of the bacterium, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, in ticks, Ixodes scapularis, from populations in Minnesota (USA) and Manitoba (Canada)
Geeta Nadarasah - Characterization of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Pantoea
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Friday Afternoon Sessions
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Thorvaldson 105
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Thorvaldson 159
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Time
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Presenters
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Time
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Presenters
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1:00-1:50
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Kirsten Allen - An experimental method for controlled warming of surface soils at remote locations using solar power
Robert Read - Seed Ecology between native species Festuca hallii and invasive species Bromus inermis and Poa pratensis
Carissa Brown - Fire, seed availability, and substrate quality interact to drive patterns of episodic recruitment in northern black spruce forests
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1:00-1:50
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Marc Beal - Exploring the potential usefulness of microsatellites in genetic toxicology research
Amr El Zawily - Investigating the role of the Arabidopsis FRIENDLY gene in a conserved mitochondrial quality control pathway: a plant model for Parkinson's?
Jonathan Kornelsen - Comparing resistance and tolerance in 10 accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana
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2:00 – 2:50
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Olwyn Friesen - Ecology of parasites in arctic (Vulpes lagopus) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes): parasite community and diet reconstruction from fecal samples
Sarah Ludlow - Grassland songbirds and oil and gas development in southeast Alberta
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2:00 – 2:50
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Melissa Pearn - Pollination and comparative reproductive success of lady's slipper orchids Cypripedium candidum, Cypripedium parviflorum, and their hybrids in southern Manitoba.
Maggi Pettit - Survivorship Capabilities of Environmental and Clinical Pantoea Isolates
Lauren Schewe - Ontogeny of floral organs in flax (Linum usitatissimum L., cv. CDC Bethune)
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:20
Saturday Sessions
Monday, 21 February 2011 13:39
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Saturday Morning Sessions
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Thorvaldson 105
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Thorvaldson 159
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Time
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Presenters
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Time
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Presenters
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9:00 – 9:50
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Angela Freeman - Shiver me feathers: Infrasound and Indian Peafowl
Laura Gardiner - Living on the edge: Habitat selection of two sympatric snake species at the northern periphery of their geographic range
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9:00 – 9:50
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Matthew Martens - Growth of domestic and wild strains of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in experimental trials
Jordan Matley - Arctic cod (Boreagadus saida) predation by seabirds and their interactions during summer in the Canadian Arctic
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10:00 – 10:50
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Carolyn A. Gaudet - Songbirds and gas wells: trying to understand the effects of natural gas development on grassland birds
Leanne Heisler - Assessing Small Mammal Community Assemblages and Population Dynamics Across Multiple Geographic Scales on the Canadian Prairies
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10:00 – 10:50
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Allen Maher – Hexadecane impacts on denitrification potential in simulated hyporheic downwellings
Marci Trana - Effects of Stress Hormones on Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) Populations of the Canadian arctic
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11:00 – 11:50
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Molly Phillips - Snakes on a Plain: cooperative defense in the Cape ground squirrel (Xerus inauris). Adaptive benefits, predator discrimination and resistance against venomous snakes
Jody Rintoul - Be cool or eat? Energy compensation strategies in reproductive big brown bats
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11:00 – 11:50
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Emily Boutilier - A description of a mosasaurid skull (Reptilia:Squamata) from the Bearpaw formation of Saskatchewan
David P. Braun- Trophic position of lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens in the Saskatchewan River
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:20
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