Mentored by the Lowenberger- and Gries-labs, high school students shine at nationwide science competition

Department of Biological Sciences

At the recent Canada-wide Science Fair at Frederickton, Charley Cai (Carl Lowenberger's mentee) won a Silver Medal in the senior division as well as the Canadian Young Researcher Award for his project "Chagas Disease: Decoding Vector-Based Pathogen Recognition". (Link: https://secure.youthscience.ca/virtualcwsf/projectdetails.php?id=6025&year=&province=&keyword=&name=charley&categoryid=&divisionid=&challengeid=&regionid=)

Similarly, Claire and Vanessa Scrimini (supported by Santosh Alamsetti and Regine Gries in the Gries-lab) received the NSERC Young Innovators’ Award at the regional science fair and at the Canada-Wide Science Fair were awarded a Gold Medal and a Challenge Award (for energy) for their project “Algae Meet Fungi: Microalgae-Fungi Co-Pelletization for Biofuel Production”. (Link: https://www.burnabynow.com/news/education/burnaby-students-impressive-at-national-science-fair-1.23832650)

Congrats to these future "scientific rock stars"..... and their mentors!!!!