At just 14, Rui Song has become a fixture on the winners’ list in the Saskatchewan regional SABC. While still at Greystone Heights Public School, she won the Junior Division twice – in 2008 and 2009 – and the streak continued this year, Rui’s Grade 9 year at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute. Her winning project [...]

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Congratulations to all SABC participants who competed in the 2010 Saskatoon Regional SABC Competition. A special congratulations to the following 2010 Saskatoon SABC 2010 Competition Award Winners: 1st Place Open Rui Song- Walter Murray Collegiate-Racing To Find A Marker: Development of Molecular Markers for Races of Colletotrichum truncatum. This innovative research project studying markers of [...]

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The “2010 Meet Your Mentor Event” is taking place on Thursday, January 14th from 4:15 to 5:30, at the National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute. (110 Gymnasium Road, U of S Campus.) Background information about the Challenge, preliminary schedules, responsibilities and judging criteria for projects will be provided. An information package and student lab books [...]

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Open Division 1st place ($2300) Xingyu Zhou Project Title:- Sugar Production, Waste Reduction:-Turning wastepaper into fermentable sugars for bioethanol Grade 11, Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon Mentor: Dr. Tim Dumonceaux Agriculture Agri-Foods Canada 2nd place ($1300): Scott Adams – Scott will represent Saskatoon at the NAtional Competition in Ottawa on May 5 and 6. Project [...]

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Wheat starch research gets a boost With almost half of the calories in the human diet supplied by starch-based products, and increasing worldwide demand for industrial starches, an ongoing priority for agricultural researchers is adding to their knowledge about starch production in grain crops, specifically how to improve and regulate starch yield and composition. The [...]

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Saskatoon Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge Winners Announced at 10th Annual Awards Banquet April 24, 2008 OPEN DIVISION WINNERS First Place: Xingyu Zhou School: Walter Murray Collegiate Project: Peeling Away Problems 2: The Antioxidizing, Antimicrobial and Anticancer Effects of Tree Bark Extracts Mentors: Dr. Wei Xiao – Department of Microbiology and Immunology – University of Saskatchewan, Dr. [...]

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A student-created music program helps autistic youth build confidence and communication skills. By Caitlin Crawshaw For someone with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), communicating can be an enormous obstacle and social norms a challenge to decipher. The neurological disease affects one in 150 Canadians, but remains a mystery for scientists and affected families alike. What [...]

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Xingyu Zhou with Kathy Estey, sanofi-pasteur Public Health Manager Fourteen-year old Xingyu Zhou learned that the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen came from the bark of the Pacific Yew and wondered if the bark from trees commonly considered waste by the wood industry might have some medical benefits. “I made tree bark extracts from Jack Pine, White [...]

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Howard Meng and Bobby Xiao, grade eleven students from Walter Murray Collegiate, went home with First Place in the Open Division. They carried out their research in the Physiology Department at the University of Saskatchewan with Dr. XiuYuan Song. Howard and Bobby  received a cash prize of $2300 to be shared with their school and [...]

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Nine teams have been accepted to participate in sabc Saskatoon. Four Open teams and four Junior teams are well into their work for the challenge. With projects ranging from bioinformatics to improving the Blue Honeysuckle, this year’s challenge will be one to watch for. Click below to see teams and mentors . Junior Division: Sean [...]

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