Award Winners

ANALYTICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

1st Place Oral Presentation: Lauren Grey, University of Western Ontario
Investigating the Chemical Nature of Adventitious Carbon 

2nd Place Oral Presentation: Finlay Dingman Peterson, Trent University
Applications of Nanomaterials for the Detection of Environmental Pollutants 

2nd Place Oral Presentation: Zack Whitworth, University of Western Ontario
Carbon Quantum Dots in Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells 

1st Place Poster Presentation: Sophia Kienast, Queen's University
PTFE Powder for the Determination of Ultra-Trace Rare Earth Elements in Refractory Material using ETV-ICPOES

CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

1st Place Oral Presentation: Adam McMahon, University of Guelph
Investigating the SEP-Interaction Motif of P47

2nd Place Oral Presentation: Megan Black, University of Guelph
Investigating Allosteric Communication in Human MItochondrial AAA Metalloprotease YME1L

1st Place Poster Presentation: Esther Hoffman, Queen's University
Discovery and Characterization of Nylon-Degrading Enzymes from Thermostable Organisms 

CHEMICAL EDUCATION 

1st Place Oral Presentation: Lidia Nemtsov, University of Western Ontario
An Examination of a Team-Based Electrochemistry Module in a Large Class

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

1st Place Oral Presentation: Olivia Velenosi, McMaster University
Investigating the Effects of Substituting Gallium for Vanadium in Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode 'Sodium Vanadium Fluorophosphate'

2nd Place Oral Presentation: Thomas Kalab, McMaster University
GeTe Phases with Intermediate Structure: A Way to Optimize Room-Temperature Performance of GeTe

1st Place Poster Presentation: Jacob Mastrandrea, University of Guelph
Synthetic Modifications and Coordination Complexes of Neutral Radical HbimDTDA

ORGANIC AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

1st Place Oral Presentation: Alex Akhundov, York University
Diastereoselective Synthesis of Fluorinated Lactams using Difluorocarbene

2nd Place Oral Presentation: Simon Popovic, University of Toronto
b-Aminoboronic Acids for the Synthesis of Unique Pyrrolizidine Scaffolds 

1st Place Poster Presentation: Teh Ren Hou, University of Toronto
Organoboron-Catalyzed Regioselective Alkylation of Azoles with Allylic Alcohols 

PHYSICAL, THEORETICAL, AND COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

1st Place Oral Presentation: Gabriela Imbriaco, York University
A pH-Dependant Study of the Cis-Trans Isomerization for 5-(8-Hydroxyquinolinyl)-Phenylazo-4-Sulfonate

2nd Place Oral Presentation: In Gue Chang, Royal Military College
Bond Energy of Functionalized Folic Acid Group and Folic Acid Receptor Alpha

POLYMER AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

1st Place Oral Presentation: Liam Wittenberg, McMaster University
A Combination of Click Chemistry and Natural Crosslinkers to Create Silicone Elastomers 

2nd Place Oral Presentation: Yanqian Lin, University of Western Ontario
Patterning Gold Nanoparticles using Nanoimprint Lithography 

1st Place Poster Presentation: Tatsuya Seamus Corlett, University of Toronto
Exploring the Diquat Chemical Space: Counterions