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BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019 Session 1: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology I April 8, 2019. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 2) Room: AA-205; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik Pollinator Diversity Across Sedum Green Waqqas Khalid 9:30-9:45 Roofs (MacIvor) More than Meets the Eye: Unveiling Fish Taegan Perez 9:45-10:00 Diversity in Tortuguero National Park Using (Lovejoy) DNA Barcoding 10:00-10:15 Praveen Jayarajan Saproxylic Invertebrate Community Analysis Across Urbanization Gradients (MacIvor) Unveiling cryptic speciation events: molecular genetic diversity and phylogeny 10:15-10:30 Shalini Bahl of the weakly electric knifefish genus, (Lovejoy) Hypopomus (Order: Gymnotiformes), of the Guiana Shield 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:15 Reema Abdoulrezzak Preservation Effects on Morphometric Analysis of Round Goby (Mandrak) 11:15-11:30 Zhuo Wei Phylogenetic Analysis of the Bees of Toronto Using R (MacIvor) Time-course of Metabolomic Signature of 11:30-11:45 Rebekah Kim Stress in the Monster Haglid, Cyphoderris (Mason) monstrosa Use of C-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 11:45-12:00 Stephen Grabinsky to Better Understand Decomposition in (MacIvor) Coarse Woody Debris 12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019 Session 2: Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Genetics I April 8, 2019. 9:30AM-12:00PM (concurrent with session 1) Room: AA-206; Moderator: Aarthi Ashok Exploring Synthetic Lethality in Diffuse Kugarja Sivanesan 9:30-9:45 Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) (Hawkins/Pajovic) The Imprinted Gene Network (IGN) Acts to Luke Ajay David 9:45-10:00 Maintain Müller Glia Cell Latency in the (Schuurmans) Adult Retina The Efficacy of CAR-T Immunotherapy in 10:00-10:15 Dilakshan Srikanthan Solid Brain Tumours (Taylor) 10:15-10:30 Myuran Yoganathan Investigating the Mechanism of B Cell Anergy Through Super-Resolution Imaging (Treanor) 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK Role of HOP2 in the Fidelity of Homologous Yisell Farahani- Chromosomes Interactions 11:00-11:15 Tafreshi (Hasenkampf) Effects of Early-Life Maternal Care Received 11:15-11:30 Hannan Malik and Dopamine Receptor-2 Genotype on Brain (McGowan) Dopamine Levels and Maternal Behaviour in Female Rat Offspring Isolation and Culture of Primary Osteocytes 11:30-11:45 Thiviya Rajasekar from Long Murine Bones (Harrison) Ceren Yuksel Perinatal High-Fat Diet and Immune Stressor Alter Neuroendocrine Stress Response 11:45-12:00 Sogukpinar Programming in Neonatal Rats (McGowan) 12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019 Session 3: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology II April 8, 2019. 1:00PM-3:30PM (concurrent with session 4) Room: AA-205; Moderator: Ivana Stehlik Sharon Nirmalakumar Cardiac Monitoring of Mus musculus Using 1:00-1:15 Transdermal Optical Imaging Technology (Feng) How Root Morphology of Plant Neil Punwasi Communities is Affected by Invasion of 1:15-1:30 (Cadotte) Vincetoxicum rossicum and Plant-Soil Feedback Hassan Syed Physiotherapy Performance with Visual 1:30-1:45 Feedback Post Knee Surgery (Tomescu) Malak Abuzgaya The use of genome engineering to dissect 1:45-2:00 (Thiele) striatal neural circuits in zebrafish 2:00-2:30 COFFEE BREAK Effect of H 2 O 2 on degradation of Dhruv Vyas 2:30-2:45 chlorophyll from annual and perennial (Brown) flax species. 2:45-3:00 NONE 3:00-3:15 NONE PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY 3:30 PRESENTATION OF BioBURP AWARD

BIOD98/99 PRESENTATION DAY 2019 Session 4: Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Genetics II April 8, 2019. 1:00PM-3:30PM (concurrent with session 3) Room: AA-206; Moderator: Aarthi Ashok Periconceptional Exposure to Lopinavir- Sebastian Acosta Based Combination Antiretroviral Therapy 1:00-1:15 (Serghides) Impairs Uterine Remodeling in Early Mouse Pregnancy Nick Garrido Cytological & Molecular Characterization 1:15-1:30 of an Arabidopsis Mutant (Riggs) Identify the Effect of HIV-1 Incorporated Laxshaginee Thaya 1:30-1:45 α 4 β 7 on Antibody Reactivity of the Virus (Guzzo) Envelope Glycoprotein Characterization of Proteasome Jenan Noureddine 1:45-2:00 Interacting Proteins in Arabidopsis (Gazzarrini/Zhao) thaliana 2:00-2:30 COFFEE BREAK Natalie Au Intestinal Organoids as an in vitro Model 2:30-2:45 for Studying Microfold (M) Cells (Terebiznik) Rabea Nadeem Foundational Skills in Translational HIV 2:45-3:00 Research (Kaul) Exploring the Interaction Between Mariam Issa Infection Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) 3:00-3:15 (Terebiznik) and the Early Endosomal Pathway in Fish Cells PIZZA IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BALCONY 3:30 PRESENTATION OF BioBURP AWARD