Trainee Travel Award Results
2024
| NAME | SUPERVISOR | COMPETITION | MEETING |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mkenna Eklund | Edan Foley | April | 18th International Zebrafish Conference; Kyoto, Japan |
| Ellen Hayhoe | Lisa Willis | April | 7th Canadian Glycomics Symposium & Annual General Meeting; Edmonton, Canada |
| Kuldeep Kaur | Vanessa Meier-Stephenson | April | 9th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada; Montreal, Canada |
| Sarah Mansour | Wael Elhenawy | April | Having IMPACTT 4: Advancing Microbiome Research; Canmore, Canada |
| Jonas Wong | Wael Elhenawy | April | 73rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists; London, Canada |
| Justine Beghin | Vanessa Meier-Stephenson | August | 2024 International Hepatitis B Virus Meeting; Chicago, USA |
| Jessica Skoreyko | Vanessa Meier-Stephenson | August | 2024 International Hepatitis B Virus Meeting; Chicago, USA |
| Luisa Soares | Sue Tsai | August | Immunology of Diabetes Congress 2024; Bruges, Belgium |
Trainee Travel Awards 2023
| NAME | SUPERVISOR | COMPETITION | MEETING |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sara AlRawashdeh | Khaled Barakat | April |
Chemical Computing Group North American User Group Meeting and Conference 2023; Montreal, Canada |
| Paulo Basso | Sue Tsai | April | 35th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Conference; Orford, Canada |
| Amelia Chen | Joanne Lemieux | April | 8th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada; Calgary, Canada |
| Pu Chen | Joanne Lemieux | April |
8th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada; Calgary, Canada |
| Bradley Dubrule | Amit Bhavsar | April | 72nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists; Halifax, Canada |
| Kasia Dzierlega | Xavier Clemente-Casares | April | 35th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Annual Meeting; Orford, Canada |
| Alberto Felix-Lopez | Tom Hobman | April | 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology; Athens, USA |
| Malcolm Forster | Amit Bhavsar | April | 72nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists; Halifax, Canada |
| Ellen Hayhoe | Lisa Willis | April | 2023 Canadian Glycomics Symposium; Edmonton, Canada |
| Maryam Jama | Khaled Barakat | April | Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences 2023 Symposium; Toronto, Canada |
| Kevin Joannou | Troy Baldwin | April | 35th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Annual Meeting; Orford, Canada |
| Megan Lee | Sue Tsai | April | 35th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Annual Meeting; Orford, Canada |
| Qi Feng Lin | Maya Shmulevitz | April | 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology; Athens, USA |
| Joaquin Lopez-Orozco | Tom Hobman | April | 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology; Athens, USA |
| Jimmy Lu | Joanne Lemieux | April | 12th General Meeting of the International Proteolysis Society; Singapore |
| Sogand Makhsous | Lisa Willis | April | 2023 Canadian Glycomics Symposium; Edmonton, Canada |
| Judy Qiu | Xiao-Li (Lilly) Pang | April | 8th International Calicivirus Conference; Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Yasser Tabana | Khaled Barakat | April | Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences 2023 Symposium; Toronto, Canada |
| Kaitlyn Visser | Denise Hemmings | April | International Herpesvirus Workshop; Missoula, USA |
| Daniiar Zhaguparov | Michael Woodside | April | RiboWest 2023; Prince George, Canada |
| Shae Komant | Troy Baldwin | August | 15th Annual International Oncolytic Virotherapy Conference; Banff, Canada |
| Amirhossein Rahmati | Shokrollah Elahi | December | 36th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Annual Meeting; Banff, Canada |
| Maryam Razaeifar | Shokrollah Elahi | December | 36th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Annual Meeting; Banff, Canada |
Trainee Travel Awards 2022
| NAME | SUPERVISOR | COMPETITION | MEETING |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sara AlRawashdeh | Khaled Barakat | April | Chemical Computing Group North American User Group Meeting and Conference 2022; Montreal, Canada |
| Yasaman Bahojb Habibyan | Shokrollah Elahi | April | 34th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Conference; Halifax, Canada |
| Lee Campbell | Katharine Magor | April | European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2022 Symposium; Prague, Czech Republic |
| Ivan Domingo | Amit Bhavsar | April |
65th Annual Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences Meeting; Banff, Canada |
| Katia Dzierlega | Xavier Clmemte-Casares | April | 34th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Conference; Halifax, Canada |
| Yuliya Fakhr | Denise Hemmings | April | 9th Annual Canadian National Perinatal Health Research Meeting; Online |
| Daniel Ferrer | Stephanie Yanow | April | 27th American Peptide Symposium; Whistler, Canada |
| Maryam Jama | Khaled Barakat | April | Chemical Computing Group North American User Group Meeting and Conference 2022; Montreal, Canada |
| Amir Landi | Michael Houghton | April | 28th International Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus, Falviviruses and Related Viruses; Ghent, Belgium |
| Megan Lee | Sue Tsai | April | 34th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Conference; Halifax, Canada |
| Joaquin Lopez-Orozco | Tom Hobman | April | Positive-Strand RNA Viruses; Keystone, USA |
| Erin Stachan | Sue Tsai | April | Having IMPACTT 2: Advancing Microbiome Research; Canmore, Canada |
| Ning Sun | Andrew Mason | April | Canadian Liver Meeting; Ottawa, Canada |
| Reegan Willms | Edan Foley | April | International Zebrafish Conference; Montreal, Canada |
| Francisca Cristi Munoz | Maya Shmulevitz | August | 14th International dsRNA Virus Symposium; Banff, Canada |
| Uwa Iyamu | Stephanie Yanow | August | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting; Seattle, USA |
| Justine Kniert | Maya Shmulevitz | August | 14th International dsRNA Virus Symposium; Banff, Canada |
| Shae Komant | Troy Baldwin | August | BioCanRX Summit for Cancer Immunotherapy; Montreal, Canada |
| Asna Latif | Amit Bhavsar | August | Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2022 Annual Meetng; Montreal, Canada |
| Qi Feng Lin | Maya Shmulevitz | August | 14th International dsRNA Virus Symposium; Banff, AB |
| Catherine Mitran | Michael Hawkes | August | American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting; Seattle, USA |
| Suzy Wang | David Evans | August | BioCanRX Summit for Cancer Immunotherapy; Montreal, Canada |
| Sudha Bhavanam | Xiao-Li (Lilly) Pang | December | Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2019 Annual Conference; Toronto, Canada |
| Lee Campbell | Katharine Magor | December | Plant & Animal Genome Conference 2023; San Diego, USA |
Trainee Travel Awards 2021
There were no awardees in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trainee Travel Awards 2020
There were no awardees in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trainee Travel Awards 2019
| NAME | SUPERVISOR | COMPETITION | MEETING |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana Airo | Tom Hobman | April | Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology, Positive-Strand RNA Viruses; Killarney, Ireland |
| Catherine Mitran | Stephanie Yanow | April | American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 68th Annual Meeting; National Harbor, USA |
| Shima Shahbaz | Shokrollah Elahi | April | American Association of Immunologists 2019 Annual Meeting; San Diego, USA |
| Minjeong Sihn | Edan Foley | April | American Society for Microbiology 2019 Annual Meeting; San Francisco, USA |
| Wan Kong Yip | Maya Shmulevitz | April | American Society for Virology 2019 Annual Meeting; Minneapolis, USA |
| Sudha Bhavanam | Xiao-Li (Lilly) Pang | August | 7th International Calicivirus Conference; Sydney, Australia |
| David Fast | Edan Foley | August | European Drosophila Research Conference; Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Connie Le | Lorne Tyrrell | August | International Hepatitis B Virus Meeting; Melbourne, Australia |
| Mira Shenouda | David Evans | August | Summit for Cancer Immunotherapy; Victoria, Canada |
| Hussain Syed | Andrew Mason | August | American Association for Study of Liver Diseases; Boston, USA |
| Madeline Wiebe | Stephanie Yanow | August | American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 68th Annual Meeting; National Harbor, USA |
| Kang Yu | Deborah Burshtyn | August | 17th International Congress of Immunology 2019; Beijing, China |
| Saeideh Davoodi | Edan Foley | December | Inter-Organ Communication in Physiology and Disease Symposium; Heidelberg, Germany |
| Deanna Santer | Michael Houghton | December | Immunology 2020; Honolulu, USA |
| Reegan Willms | Edan Foley | December | The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC 2020); Washington, USA |
Trainee Travel Awards 2018
| NAME | SUPERVISOR | COMPETITION | MEETING |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Campbell | Katharine Magor | September | Avian Immunology Research Group 2018; Oxford, UK |
| Farah Elawar | David Marchant | September | 11th International Respiratory Syncytial Virus Symposium; Asheville, USA |
| Danyel Evseev | Katharine Magor | September | Avian Immunology Research Group 2018; Oxford, UK |
| Cameron Griffiths | David Marchant | September | 11th International Respiratory Syncytial Virus Symposium; Asheville, USA |
| Janelle Johnson | Michael Houghton | September | Hepatitis C Virus Symposium 2018; Dublin, Ireland |
| Michael Joyce | Lorne Tyrrell | September | Hepatitis C Virus Symposium 2018; Dublin, Ireland |
| Angie Mena Palacios | Stephanie Yanow | September | American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting 2018; New Orleans, USA |
| Deanna Santer | Michael Houghton | September | 6th Annual Meeting of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society; Boston, USA |
| Garett Dunsmore | Shokrollah Elahi | December | Canadian Society of Immunology 2019; Banff, Canada |
| Maria Hasing | Xiao-Li (Lilly) Pang | December | Seventh International Congenital Cytomegalovirus Conference; Birmingham, USA |
| Julia May | Troy Baldwin | December | Canadian Society of Immunology 2019 Annual Meeting; Banff, Canada |
| Melika Motamedi | Shokrollah Elahi | December | American Association of Immunologists 2019 Annual Meeting; San Diego, USA |
| Isobel Okoye | Shokrollah Elahi | December | American Association of Immunologists 2019 Annual Meeting; San Diego, USA |