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 [...]

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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 Title: Utilizing antisense ODN technology as a means for silencing [...]

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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. Xiang Li, Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, [...]

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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 researchers [...]

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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 Spruce, [...]

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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 Bolley – [...]

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JUNIOR: DNA Fingerprinting of Three Species of Parasitoids of Lygus
Students: Yohan Lefol
School: l’école canadiènne française
Mentor: Dr. Martin Erlandson, Agriculture Agri-Food Canada
JUNIOR: DNA Fingerprinting of Wheat
Students: Matt Paslwaski and Keegan Vetter
School: St. Bernard School
Mentor: Dr. Ravi Chibbar and Dr. Pooba Ganeshan and College of Agriculture and Bioresources, Department of Plant Science
JUNIOR: The Way to an Insect’s [...]

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Work on the Anticancer Effects of Soy Isoflavones took first place first in the 2006 Sanofi-Aventis Biotech Challenge (SABC) in Saskatoon .
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 [...]

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