Past BU NSERC USRA Recipients

1991

Cecilia Dong

Andrea Ferrier

Michael Forster

Lanette Friesen

Scott Gadsby

David Jones

Joachim Stadel

1992

Christopher Bidinosti

Steven Burgin

Lanette Friesen

Nadene Halm

Sean Harasymchuk

Jill Jakubowski

Jason Palidwar

Wayne Robbins

Anna Robertson

Deidre Sunley

1993

Tom Henderson

Nicole Houde

Nicola Johanneson

Bryan Reimer

Deidre Sunley

Scott Todd

1994

Christopher Campbell

Neil Enns

Darrell Kifiak

Ian Manns

Rhonda McDougal

Loretta Minkus

Roger Moar

Craig Price

Bryan Reimer

1995

Nicola Johanneson

Rhonda McDougal

Roger Moar

Tatjana Mirkovic

Farrah Morrow

Michael Szafron

1996

Cory Bajus

Chad Bamford

Patrick Lacroix

Farrah Morrow

Donald Neufeld

Michael Szafron

James Tait

Kurtis Warkentin

1997

Sean Boyd

Wayne McDonald

Thomas Tran

Ryan Walberg

Amy Woywoda

1998

Andrea Hachkowski

Corey Morcombe

Thomas Tran

Ryan Walberg

1999

Michael Bidinosti

Rachelle Friesen

Ming Lan

Thomas Tran

Corey Morcombe

John Sowiak

Amy Woywoda

2000

Jason Bachewich

Christopher Coueslan

Blake Denbow

Darren Irvine

Tara Klassen

Patrick Norman

Charles Paulson

2001

Darren Irvine

Tara Klassen

Charles Paulson

Gale Bowering

Thomas Hart

Keith Jenkins

Robert Shearer

2002

Fabrizio DiMuro

Shauna Horkey

Geoffrey Jacobs

Angela Paulson

Elaine Ruff

Robert Shearer

John Sowiak

2003

Christopher Coueslan

Thomas Hart

Trevor Hoffman

Shauna Horkey

Todd Kruk

Erin Navid

Matthew O’Hara

Leia Pfeifer

2004

Jonathan Bush

Kai Choy

Timothy Friesen

Adam Gareau

Kevin Henry

Judy Hodge

Trevor Hoffman

Todd Kruk

2005

Jesse Arbuckle

Kai Choy

Shanda Ford

Kevin Henry

Tanya Hodgson

Todd Kruk

Mary-Jane Orr

Katherine Pernarowski

Christopher Sarkonak

2006

Jesse Arbuckle

Kai Choy

Andrew Hakman

Ryan Henry

Jenna Kirk

Jill Larkin

Matthew O’Hara

Mary-Jane Orr

Nirupan Vipulananthan

2007

Jesse Arbuckle
Application of Synthetic Stellar Spectra

Nicholas Cairns
Ecology of the Redbelly Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) in Southwestern Manitoba

Andrew Hakman
Vertical Motions in the Milky Way’s Gas Halo

Ryan Henry
Irreducible Union-Closed Families

Jenna Kirk
Electronic Properties of Antioxidants

Matthew Morrissette
Entanglement in Adiabatic Algorithms

Mary-Jane Orr
The Mycoflora of the Fur of Polar Bears

Karla Stouffer
Ancient Forests and Climates of Western Canada

Jeffrey Tompkins
Property Estimation for Anti-Oxidants

2008

Carrie Elliott
The Product of Analytic Functions in Z

Kyle Froese
Molecular Characterization of the Mycoflora of the Fur of Polar Bears

Darren Holland
Simulation Studies of Antioxidant Function

Matthew Morrissette
Calculation of Quasinormal Modes of Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes

Jarrod Nickel
Atomic Scale Computer Simulation of Trace Amines Binding Against Neuronal Membranes

Jenna Phillips
Sequence Stratigraphy of Shoreface-to-Shelf Deposits in a Low Accommodation Setting

Christopher Pugh
Application of Synthetic Stellar Spectra

Ceri Richards
Galactic Rotation Revealed by New Velocities and Distances to H ll Regions

Colin Sproat
Early Silurian Brachiopod Tripleasia from Anticosti Island: Internal Structure and Paleoecology

Laurel Stitt
The Role of ABC Transporters in Ivermectin Tolerance in Adult Brugia Malayi

Jeffrey Tompkins
Identification of Drug Targets in Brugia malayi Using Microarray Analysis

2009

Burton Colter
Galactic Shock Theory: Comparison with Observations

Brendan Cooper
Modelling the Milky Way in Neutral Hydrogen

Justin Moes
Angle-Dependent Indirect Exchange and Partial Order in Itinerant Magnets

Jarrod Nickel
Atomic Scale Simulation of Charged Trace Amines Diffusing Through Neuronal Membranes

Christopher Pugh
Analysis of Vega Using Synthetic Stellar Spectra

Travis Redpath
Spin Ice on the Trillium Lattice

Colin Sproat
Middle Devonian Brachiopod Fauna from Dolly Bay and Winnipegosis, Manitoba

Jeffrey Tompkins
Analysis of ABC Transporter Expression in Brugia malayi

2010

Brendan Cooper
Density Wave Models of the Outer Milky Way Galaxy

Brendan Lyons
Measures of Entanglement in Quantum Computation

Darren McGillis
Geometric Measurements of Entanglement

Justin Moes
Local XY Model on the Trillium Lattice

Jessica Peat
Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of a Cretaceous Mudstone Belt

Christopher Pugh
Abundance Determination Using Synthetic Stellar Spectra

Mariam Ratiani
Regulation of Trace Amine Synthesis

Colin Sproat
Paleoclimate and Palaeoecology of the Early Eocene Driftwood Macroflora in B.C.

2011

Jarrett Beck
Frustrated Magnetism on a Kagome Inspired Net

Fabien Cayer
Validation of Computer Models of Trace Amine Functioning

Youn-Tae Chung
An Analysis of Brugia malayi P-Glycoproteins

Brendan Cooper
Interstellar Gas in the Inner and Outer Milky Way Galaxy: Pattern and Structure

Alise Gaiser
Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Toxicity

Brendan Lyons
Measures of Entanglement in Quantum Computation

Julia Redfern
Host-Parasite Dynamics in Larval Amphibians

2012

Jarrett Beck
Is Quantum Magnetism Frustrated on the Sorrel Net?

Alise Gaiser
Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia in a Mouse Model

Hannah Mazier
Examination of Multiple Stressors on Tadpole Development

Darla Palmer
The Role of the DMT Superfamily in Drug Resistance

Julia Redfern
Parasitism in Larval Amphibians: Host Risks and Defences

Ian Russell
Integrands of Feynman Diagrams for Out of Equilibrium Theories

Tara Steliga
The Effects of Trace Amines on Dopamine Receptor Signal Transduction

Carrie Van Damme
Synthesis of New Redox-Active Ligands and Their Transition Metal or Lanthanide Complexes

2013

Nico Bonanno
Metal Complexes of Stable Radicals

Dylan McGill
Spin-Crossover Type II and III Conducting Metallopolymers

Darla Palmer
Characterizing the Role of the DMT Superfamily in Drug Resistance

Danielle Sharanowski
Characterization of RNAi in Cryptobia salmositica

Joseph Smith
Renormalization Group Flow Equations at Next to Leading Order

Theresa Urichuk
Parasite Effects on Host Behaviour and Physiology

2014

Ryan Bergen
Classifying Feynman Diagrams

Katrina Cristall
VSG Genes and Antigenic Variation in Cryptobia salmositica

Danielle Dinsdale
New Hybrid Conducting Spin-Crossover Metallopolymers

Lyndon Duff
Diversity of Fungi Associated with the Western Thatching Ant

Danielle Sharanowski
Functional Analysis of RNAi in Cryptobia salmositica

Tara Steliga
Preparation and Solid State NMR Properties of Spin Crossover Metallopolymers

2015

Carrie Bergen
Characterization of Molecular Chaperones in Cryptobia salmositica

Ryan Bergen
Quantum Probability Measures

Nico Bonanno
Synthesis of Polynuclear Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands

Lyndon Duff
Assessing the Diversity of Fungi from Nests of the Western Thatching Ant

Whitney Gordon
The Geometric Measure of Entanglement

Brett Meggison
Renormalization of Scalar 4π Effective Theories in 4 Dimensions

Jocelyn Young
Identification of Selected Ascomycota Isolated from Children’s Sandboxes

2016

Carrie Bergen
Molecular Chaperones in a Bodonid kinetoplastid

Peter Brandt
Soil Moisture and Topography of Peatland Restoration with Aerial Imagery

Brett Meggison
Renormalization Group Applied to 4π Effective Theories

Jillian Perreaux
Assessment of the Diversity of Fungi Associated with Snake Hibernacula

Rebecca Storey
On the Probability of Quantum State Transfer

2017

Carrie Bergen
Functional Characterization of Molecular Chaperones in Cryptobia salmositica

Kyle Clarkson
The Convolution and Fractional Calculus of Distributions

Seth Friesen
Renormalization Group Calculations at the 4π Level

Adam Klonowski
Identify Emerging and Established Foliar Diseases in Manitoba Soybean

Chantel Lim
The Use of CRISPR/Cas9 for Targeted Gene Disruption in Cryptobia salmositica

Darian Mclaren
Quantum State Transfer: A Linear Algebraic Approach

Caleb Northam
Role of PGC-1β in Regulating Metabolism in Zebrafish Larvae

Christopher Phillips
Graphical Expansions of the Nπ Effective Action

2018

Cassidy Baumung
Computational Investigations into Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

Seth Friesen
Fast Fourier Transform Methods in Spherical Coordinates

Patrick Gohl
Using Soil Microbes to Control Plant Diseases

Hunter Goodon
Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases as Drug Targets

Thomas Humphries
Fractional Calculus of Distributions and Abel’s Integral Equations

Stephanie Hunter
Roles of PGE2 in Vasculogenesis

Taylor Kostyshyn
Synthesis of NDGA Analogues and Characterization of Their Oxidation Products

Darian Mclaren
Quantum Random Walks

Caleb Northam
Mitochondrial Physiology of PGC-1 Knockdown in Zebrafish

Braydon Nault
Micro RNA Secretome Analysis

Hunter Plowman
Fractional Calculus of Distributions and Abel’s Integral Equations

2019

Ellie Duncan
Metabolic Phenotype of Crispr Generated PGC-1 Mutant Zebrafish

Jesse Elder
Computational Investigation of the Proteolytic MMP-3 Enzyme

Taylor Goodon
Exploring the Role of the Post- Translational Modifications of T-UTP4/Cirhin in Ribosome Assembly

Derek Harris
Identifying the Contributions of SNR35, EMG1, and TSR3 to Translational Speed and Accuracy

Braydon Nault
Proteomic Approaches to Decipher miRNA High Cell Secretome

Farrah Huntinghawk
Investigating the Structure of Positive Operator-Valued Measures

Caitlin Le
Identification of MMP-3 Substrates in Glioma

Jessica Li
Rapid Detection of Oncometabolite 2HG from Patient-Derived Samples

Bonita Shin
In Silico Protein Pathway Analysis

Jessica Sparrow
Understanding How Deet Repels Mosquitoes

2020

Joshua Beaudin
Fractional Differential Equations

Mackenzie Cullen
Micro RNA Metabolome Analysis

Bailey Forster
Plasmons in Unstable Plasmas

Taylor Goodon
Determining the Genetic and Molecular Interactions of EMG1 in Ribosome Assembly

Rachelle Gross
Assessing the Diversity of Xerotolerant Fungi in the Mound Nests of Formica ulkei

Katherine Hunt
How Do Planarians Regenerate Their Nervous System?

Farrah Huntinghawk
Random Spin Channels and Irreducibility

Tyler Murray
A TDDFT Investigation of the Photochemistry of Diimine Metal-Dithiolene and -Diselenolene Complexes

Nicole Russel
Determining the Function of the Disordered N-Terminal Region of EMG1

Sandra Schira
Insect Leaf Feeding During a Past Climate Warming in the McAbee Fossil Site

Roman Zaliskyy
An Investigation of the Formation of Hydrogen Gas by Tellurium Containing Catalysts

2021

Corbin Glufka
Mechanisms of IDH Mutation in Glioma Cancers

Taylor Goodon
Determining the Molecular Interactions Between EMG1 and UTP2 in Ribosome Assembly

Joel Hardy
Probing the Structure and Post- Translational Modifications of EMG1

Courtney Izzard
Moss-Peat Gradients of Physical Properties and Moisture Content from Drone Images

Changmin Lee
A Computational Investigation of the Antioxidant Power of Ovotellurol and Ergotelluroneine

Jeffrey Li
Multi-Proteomic Analysis of IDH Mutation in Glioma

Keagan Morrison
Elucidating the Genetic Basis for Vector Competence in Beetles

Reid Opperman
Roles of miRNA in Cellular Aging

Kieran Taylor
Development of Diagnostics for Soybean

2022

Joshua Broome
Insights Into the Catalytic Power and Durability of Ni-Te Catalysts for the Production of H2 Gas

Adriano Budzik
Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms in the Internet of Things

Wade Cowie
Anisotropy in Dirac Semi-Metals

Hillary Derewianchuk
Plastic Metabolism in Insect Larvae

Kimberly Dunthorne
Spatial Variability in Colour and Geochemical Fingerprint Properties

Bryce Friesen
Solving the Yang-Mills Equation with a Proper Time Expansion

Thomas Friesen
Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Non-Linear Differential Equations

Keagan Morrison
Determining the Damage Caused by Wireworms to Manitoba Crops

Elisha Tariq
Phosphorylation-Dependent Protein Complexes Using Trapped Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight

Lacey Winstone
Investigating the Roles of YWHAB in Breast Cancer

2023

Zakariya Abidullah
Computational Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of FDH

Olivia Erickson
Role of Microplastics in Inflammation

Bryce Friesen
Solving the Yang-Mills Equation with a Proper Time Expansion

Hanna Gross
Evaluation of the Sphagnum magellanicum Species Complex

Juliana Hiebert
Quantum State Transfer

Carter Loewen
Surveying the Distribution of Hiodon Populations in the Assiniboine River Via Environmental Nucleics

Michael McFarlane
Lightweight Cryptographic Systems for the Internet of Things

Milah Mikkelsen
Evaluation of Wireworm Damage Potential to Corn and Barley

Mitchell Stanton
Theory/Experiment Study of Unsaturated Sulfonamides as Michael Acceptors in NHC Catalyzed Reactions

Raya Turner
Metabolic Consequences of Plastic Biodegradation in Waxworms

2024

Ayodele Adeniyi
Application of microorganisms to reduce infectious disease transmission

Nate Fingas
Nonlinear fractional differential equations with functional boundary conditions

Beatrice Gatien
Investigating DOX-COX Interaction in Drug Resistance

Chloe Green
Quantum State Transfer

Jeongheum Jo
Identifying the location of the ribosome assembly protein Emg1’s protein-protein interactions

Oyindamola Kayode
What lies below? Understanding the local environmental impact of lead from recreational fishing in the urban Assiniboine River

Onyedikchukwu Anthony Onyia
Metabolic ontogeny of the waxworm (G. mellonella)

Ying Ying Ou
Nonlinear fractional differential equations with functional boundary conditions

Noah Paddock
A computational Investigation into the production of H2 by Ni-dithiolene catalysts

Caden Pedlow
Development of a LAMP assay for species identification from eNAs in the field

Shane Sangster
Correlation functions in high temperature plasmas

Brenna Sawchuk
Measuring the thickness and flaring of the Milky Way Galaxy’s HI disk

Kaene Soopramania
Heavy quarkonium decay