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/
Today is the last day of the summer research season. Thank you to all undergraduate students who worked in the Molecular Modelling Lab this summer – your hard work makes everything possible!
VIU held the annual USRA Showcase event today, where Simon and Savannah presented the results of their summer research. Very well done to both of you!
The VIU Molecular Modelling group made quite the splash at CSTCC 2022 in Kelowna, BC. Heather gave an invited talk and Simon and Savannah both gave excellent poster presentations, with Savannah taking home the prize for the Best Undergraduate Poster. Congratulations Savannah! Conference highlights included many excellent scientific talks, great networking opportunities, a visit to Kangaroo Creek Farm and the banquet at Summerhill Pyramid Winery.
Heather also gave an invited communication at WATOC 2020 in Vancouver, BC. It was wonderful to be among the international computational chemistry community in-person again, and many great connections were made!
Congratulations to Simon and Savannah for receiving NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards!
Heather has received a $120,000 NSERC Discovery Grant to fund her work on pressure resistance in deep-sea proteins. Further details can be found in the official VIU press release here. Thank you NSERC for the support!