Spring/Summer 2023 news
The Biology Graduate Student Symposium happened in late April – the first time the event happened in person in 3 years. It was a great day with a lot of fantastic talks and posters. Congratulations to the two LESA lab members who presented, Hayley and Katrina, who were also award winners! Hayley won the People’s Choice Award and an Honourable mention for best PhD talk, and Katrina won the best MSc talk award. Congratulations!
Congratulations to LESA Lab alumna, Kristen Tenwolde, who recently submitted a manuscript of her Honours thesis work for publication in Evansia.
Congratulations to Katrina Cruikshanks who is racking up awards and scholarship this month. She received a small research grant from the Nova Scotia Museum, was the Memorial University Recipient of an ESRI Scholarship and won the Culberson and Hale Lichenology Field Research Award from the ABLS (American Bryological and Lichenological Society)!