Bionanolab undergraduate students have won major research prizes at the 2016 annual CPES Undergraduate poster session held at the Science Complex of the University of Guelph on Friday, August 5. Over 40 posters were presented by the summer students who worked on various research projects from the 5 departments of the College of Physical & Engineering Science (CPES).
This is the 4th consecutive year, BioNanoLab members have been winning these poster awards. Check out the past Bionanolab best poster award winners at this competition
2013 - https://bionanolab.ca/laboratory/lab-news/177-evan-wins-poster-award
2014 - https://bionanolab.ca/laboratory/lab-news/210-cpes-poster-presentation
2015 - https://bionanolab.ca/laboratory/lab-news/241-cpes-poster-presentation-2015
2016 (Below)
Three of the current BioNanoLab members presented their research findings at the 2016 CPES undergraduate poster session held on August 5, 2016.
Michael Lissemore - 3rd Year Biological Engineering Student - 'A Handheld Device for Rapid Detection of Food Adulterants Using Bulk Acoustic Wave Biosensors'
Isaac Thevathasan - 2nd Year Biological Engineering Student - 'In Vitro Characterization of Camelina Sativa Antitumor Peptides against Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Cells'
Kaidi Wang - Mitacs Globalink Student from Zhejiang University of China - 'Nanobiosensor for Egg White Food Allergen Detection'
Michael Lissemore and Isaac Thevathasan also won the Best Poster Awards during the 2016 Canadian Society for Bioengineering Annual Meeting Conference held at Halifax during July 4 to 6, 2016 - https://bionanolab.ca/laboratory/lab-news/279-bionano-lab-members-wins-national-awards
Michael Lissemore - winner of the 2nd Prize in the overall CPES Best Poster Award Category
Isaac Thevathasan - Best Poster Award in the School of Engineering
Michael Lissemore showing the field deployable food adulterant biosensor (working prototype) he built at the BioNano Laboratory
Isaac Thevathasan at the Science Complex atrium on August 5, 2016 - CPES Poster Session
Kaidi Wang - Mitacs Globalink Research Intern at the BioNano Lab presenting her research project on Food Allergen Biosensor
Dr. Hayward and Dr. Suresh with Michael Lissemore at the CPES Poster Session.