Cheer on the Faculty of Science 3MT 2021 Competitors

On August 10 and 11, 2021, students will be challenged to showcase their research to a general audience in a three-minute or less in a 3MT competition. Part of the Faculty of Science, Student Undergraduate Summer Research Experience Program.

 There will be two competitions that will air live on the Faculty of Science YouTube channel.

• Life Sciences
  Tuesday, August 10, at 1 PM: Watch online: https://youtu.be/SNNuIyD3KVY 
• Physical Science and Computational & Data Sciences
  Wednesday, August 11, at 1 PM: Watch online: https://youtu.be/8jOZRoIlQfs  

Tune in, and cheer on our undergraduate students! Discover world-changing research at the UM Faculty of Science.

Listing of undergraduate student 3MT competitors and topics:

Life Sciences
3MT Competition
Tuesday August 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm

Watch online: https://youtu.be/SNNuIyD3KVY 

• Does one size really fit all: Determining ideal filter type and porosity for use in environmental DNA
  Katrina Audet
  Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Docker, Department of Biological Sciences 
• Evaluating SKP2 as a Chromosome Instability Gene in Colorectal Cancer
  Gillian Boychuk
  Supervisor: Dr. Kirk McManus, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics 
• PGP- what? The microbes feeding our future
  Stefanie Chaput
  Supervisor: Dr. Mark Belmonte, Department of Biological Sciences 
• Family Experience of Elopement in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Rashi Chhabra
  Supervisor: Dr. Toby Martin, Department of Psychology  
• RNAi: Our green Saviour
  Sharon Felix
  Supervisor: Steve Whyard, Department of Biological Sciences 
• Protecting the Diabetic Heart: Can roflumilast prevent cell death in cardiomyocytes exposed to lipotoxicity
  Amy Fernando
  Supervisor: Dr. Joe Gordon, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science 
• Re-New Contracting
  Juanita Garcia
  Supervisor: Dr. Kristine Cowley, Department of Physiology  
• Drug resistance and variation among yeast infection isolates
  Devin Habon
  Supervisor: Dr. Aleeza Gerstein, Department of Microbiolog
  
• Electrochemical Detection of Resistance to Tobramycin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  Muhammad Hayat
  Supervisor: Dr. Sabine Kuss, Department of Chemistry 
• A species-specific approach to mosquito population control
  Kousha Kamal
  Supervisor: Dr. Steve Whyard, Department of Biological Sciences 
• Signal Jamming: The computational design of Netrin-1/DCC inhibitors
  Matthew Kirby
  Supervisor: Dr. Jörg Stetefeld, Department of Chemistry 
• Synthetic Fertilizers and Fungicides, Who Needs ‘em?!
  Patrick Lloyd
  Supervisor: Dr. Mark Belmonte, Department of Biological Sciences 
• Exploring the role of metabolism in glioblastoma
  Eliz Malaso
  Supervisor: Dr. Tanveer Sharif, Department of Pathology 
• Accessing the stability of dsRNA in A. aegypti to develop a species-specific pesticide
  Japji Matharu
  Supervisor: Dr. Steve Whyard, Department of Biological Sciences 
• Photodynamic Inactivation Effect on Influenza using TLD-1433 as a Photosensitizer
  Tolani Olanrewaju 
  Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Coombs, Department of Microbiology 
• Overcoming nitrogen pollution through Rhizobium-legume symbiosis
  Zeel Patel
  Supervisor: Dr. Ivan Oresnik, Department of Microbiology 
• Unlocking the Potential of the Fungal Secondary Metabolome
  Randi Roy
  Supervisor: Dr. John Sorenson, Department of Chemistry 
• Managing mycotoxins: understanding nutrient acquisition in Fusarium graminearum
  Meagan Smith
  Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Bakker, Department of Microbiology 
• Cytochrome C Oxidase Deficiency Detection using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy in Living Cells
  Shubhneet Thind
  Supervisor: Dr. Sabine Kuss, Department of Chemistry 
• The Electrochemical Characterization of Auranofin in Aqueous media
  Melak Yossief
  Supervisor: Dr. Sabine Kuss, Department of Chemistry

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Physical, Computational, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences
3MT Competition
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 1:00 pm
Watch online: https://youtu.be/8jOZRoIlQfs   

• Fabrication and characterization of micro-optical ring electrodes
  Nafisa Ahmed
  Supervisor: Dr. Sabine Kuss, Department of Chemistry   
• TBD
  Aishat Bello
  Supervisor: Dr. Celine Latulipe, Department of Computer Science 
• PCEV With Alternative Covariance Estimators
  Thomas Czubryt
  Supervisor: Dr. Max Turgeon, Department of Statistics 
• Domination in Networks
  Laura Funk
  Supervisor: Dr. Karen Gunderson, Department of Mathematics 
• Representing Information In a Smaller Way
  Connor Hryhoruk
  Supervisor: Dr. Carson Leung, Department of Computer Science 
• Iso-photo-metry – Equal-Light-Measurement
  John Jiwa
  Supervisor: Dr. Chris O’Dea, Department of Physics and Astronomy 
• Infect Everyone: Modelling infection spreading via bootstrap percolation
  William Kellough
  Supervisor: Dr. Karen Gunderson, Department of Mathematics 
• The Universe’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerators
  Alan Nguyen
  Supervisor: Dr. Samar Safi-Harb, Department of Physics and Astronomy 
• Friction-Coupled Pendulums: Understanding the Widespread Phenomena of Coupled Oscillators Using a Unique Model System
  Bentley Turner
  Supervisor: Dr. Can-Ming Hu, Department of Physics and Astronomy 
• Evidence for Jet Driven Outflows in Hercules A
  Daniel Turon
  Supervisor:  Dr. Chris O’Dea, Department of Physics and Astronomy 
• Rotational Spectroscopy of Astrochemical Species
  Keighlynn Veilleux
  Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer van Wijngaarden, Department of Chemistry