Spenser Ross wins the best poster award at the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Congress
Spenser Ross wins the best poster award at the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Congress
Spenser Ross, PhD candidate in the Moore Lab, won the best poster award at the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Congress this June!
His poster titled "The Influence of Taylor Columns on Ocean Dynamics and Sea Ice in the Chukchi Sea” explained the delayed ice melt that has been observed over Herald Shoal in the Chukchi Sea of over a century.
Zaid Qureshi publishes his first lead authored paper on the 'thorny corolla'
Zaid Qureshi publishes his first lead authored paper on the 'thorny corolla'
Archaeocyaths are a diverse group of ancient sponges that first appeared in the Lower Cambrian ~530 million years ago and faced extinction ~510 million years ago. In this short span of 20 million years, archaeocyaths constructed the world's first animal-built reef ecosystems and exhibited a vast degree of morphological diversity. One of the most enigmatic archaeocyaths is Yukonensis yukonensis, which constructed complex stacked chambers with unique bowl-shaped structures known as the 'thorny corolla'.
CPS Grad Spotlight - Xiaohan Zhou
CPS Grad Spotlight - Xiaohan Zhou
Name: Xiaohan Zhou
MSc or PhD Candidate: PhD Candidate
Location of Undergraduate Education: HBSc., Nanjing University
Name of the Lab at CPS: Gradinaru Lab
Selected Awards: Best Oral Presentation at the Trainee Session (23rd GPCR Retreat), CPS Research Visit Fellowship Program (2023)
Selected Research Contributions:
Local Confinement within Plasma Membrane Nanodomain
Iza Pawlowski from the Halfar Lab wins the best poster award
Iza Pawlowski from the Halfar Lab wins the best poster award
Iza Pawlowski, MSc student in the Halfar Lab, won the best poster award at the 2026 Queen’s Northern Research Symposium!
Shin Lab “Frankenproteins” Featured on the Chemistry Website (STGC)
Shin Lab “Frankenproteins” Featured on the Chemistry Website (STGC)
Three new publications from the Shin Lab highlight advances in protein design with potential applications in cancer therapeutics, gene regulation, and biosensors.
The research showcases novel engineered proteins, including tools that target genetic pathways and new approaches using phage-assisted evolution to optimize protein function.
Aiyan Brown's first authored paper on measuring the structure and dynamics of single molecules
Aiyan Brown's first authored paper on measuring the structure and dynamics of single molecules
Experimental methods have advanced to be able to measure the structure and dynamics of single molecules such as proteins. One of the most common tools we use for these measurements is light; by attaching dyes to the molecule of interest, we can infer its conformations using a technique known as smFRET. In hopes of making this technique more quantitative, in this work Aiyan Brown outline a novel computational approach to simulating smFRET which markedly improves the efficiency and resolution of calculations.
Johnathan Sorrentino's first authored paper on fossilization in varying water salinity
Johnathan Sorrentino's first authored paper on fossilization in varying water salinity
In general, organisms must sink and become buried to become fossilized. Therefore, organisms which rapidly sink are more likely to become fossilized and be overrepresented in fossil collections. Johnathan Sorrentino et al. recorded how long it took crickets and bumblebees to sink in still water of different salinity: freshwater, seawater, and hypersaline water. They also monitored individual cricket legs and forewings in the same water salinities.