
“Great event. Enjoyed listening to some start up founders and some great research from other students.”
— Jack Lockyer, Master’s Student
Congratulations to the awardees!

Best Synthetic Biology: Engineering Autotrophic S. cerevisiae via Optimized Directed Endosymbiosis (Quinten Bennett, Jack Lockyer, Ayoub Rabhi)
Best Sustainability: Synthetic Nodule-Like Structures in Cereals Using CRISPR-Cas9 (Daniela Magallanes, Carlos Balcazar Camacho, Tyler Young)
Best Presentation: Probiotics for Preventative Dentistry (Kate Willis-Urena, Reefah Kabir, Luis Arturo Flores Asomoza)
Conference Chairs
Professor Codruta Ignea: codruta.ignea@mcgill.ca
Eleanor Dong: yueming.dong@mail.mcgill.ca
Conference Organizers
Laura Hebert: laura.hebert@mail.mcgill.ca
Kate Willis-Ureña: kate.willis-urena@mail.mcgill.ca
Catherine Xu: catherine.xu@mail.mcgill.ca