Event
NRS Graduate Seminars - 2
Thursday, October 23, 2025 10:00to11:30
Learn about the exciting research our graduate students are working on in this 2nd installment of their teaching seminars. Talks will be divided into 3 sessions (see below). Everyone is welcome.
Session 1
Location: R3-048 (Raymond Building) - Abstracts - Oct 23, 2025 - Session 1
- 10:05 - 10:30 Cameron, Gillian – The Emergence of Copper Resistance in Legionella pneumophila
- 10:35 - 10:55 Neraasen, Anwyn – Investigating the molecular basis of differences in sensitivity to dioxin-like compounds in two populations of herring gulls (Larus argentatus)
- 10:55 - 11:20 Veres, Emma – Assessing the Transcriptomic Points of Departure of 30 Chemicals in rainbow trout brain cells
Session 2
Location: B1-015 (Barton Building) - Abstracts - Oct 23, 2025 - Session 2
- 10:05 - 10:30 Li, Ke Ke– Soil Microbial Community Composition and Greenhouse Gas Flux Across the Forest–Tundra Ecotone in a Warming Arctic
- 10:30 - 10:55 Story, Kyle – Investigating the Plausibility of Backwards Contamination: A Pathogenicity Risk Assessment of Mars Analogue Sites
- 10:55 - 11:30 Righi, Emma – Simulating the bioremediation of an oil-contaminated high Arctic shoreline using in vitro mesocosms
Session Z
Location: Zoom (https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/83407762183) - Abstracts - Oct 23, 2025 - Session Z
- 10:05 - 10:30 Newsome, Reanna – Wolf denning success and predation on the Porcupine Caribou Herd in the era of climate change
- 10:30- 10:55 Stafiej, Nicole– Reimagining cookbooks and nutritional labels to advance Inuit food sovereignty: insights from community-led goose research in Arviat, Nunavut