Congratulations to Savannah Mercer for winning second best flash presentation for the Chemistry in Canada 2067 Symposium at CSC2023, Vancouver! She presentation gave an overview of her poster which she also presented at CSC2023!
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Congratulations to Savannah Mercer for winning second best flash presentation for the Chemistry in Canada 2067 Symposium at CSC2023, Vancouver! She presentation gave an overview of her poster which she also presented at CSC2023!
Congratulations to Savannah Mercer for receiving an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award!
Savannah Mercer was interviewed by VIUBlogs to share her experiences doing undergrad research, read about it here: https://www.viu.ca/blog/solving-real-world-problems-computational-chemistry
Heather and Savannah gave a Science & Technology Community Lecture at VIU. Savannah’s talk was titled “Molecular Docking Studies of Carfentanil Precursors in the µ-opioid receptor” and Heather’s talk was titled “Under Pressure: Using computational methods to investigate pressure-resistance in deep Sea
organisms.” Thank you to everyone who came out!
In collaboration with Dr. Chris Gill and the Applied Environmental Research Laboratory, we have published our first manuscript! Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1002/dta.3431
Savannah Mercer was interviewed for the Globe and Mail to discuss her experiences doing undergrad research at VIU! Read the paper here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/composer-preview/BSHN262GPBH4JBRYIIO7EXQSQM/