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Muscle Health Research Centre

Muscle Health Awareness Day (MHAD) Poster Awards

MSc and PhD Award Competition

Five (5) posters for the MSc competition, and five (5) posters for the PhD competition will be pre-selected from those submitted by the abstract deadline. The ten (10) finalists will be notified one week prior to the event, and must be available to present their posters at the times specified on the program. Two (2) winners in each category will be selected, and they will receive a certificate and a $150 honorarium. The winner will be announced at the end of day.

Criteria for Selection:

The poster award winners for MHAD 4, May 17, 2013 (in order from left to right) are:
  1. Jared Root-McCaig, University of Guelph
  2. Julian Aiken, York University
  3. John-Michael Arpino, Western University
  4. Sarthak Matravadia, University of Guelph
The poster award winners for MHAD 3, May 25, 2012 (in order from left to right) are:
  1. Dr. David Hood, MHRC Director
  2. Dara Slopack, York University
  3. Elena Tsimakouridze, University of Guelph
  4. Julia Totosy de Zepetnek, McMaster University
  5. Brittany Edgett, Queen's University
The poster award winners for MHAD 2, May 13, 2011 (in order from left to right) are:
  1. Roxanna Chis, University of Toronto

  2. Jenna Gillen, McMaster University

  3. Andrew Mitchell, University of Waterloo

  4. Brennan Smith, University of Guelph

 

Muscle Health Research Centre-sponsored

Ontario Exercise Physiology (OEP) Student Awards

Barrie, Ontario - January 2011

 

MSc and PhD Award Competition

 

Eligibility:

Abstracts for the MSc competition (4-5), and PhD competition (4-5) will be pre-selected from those who indicate they wish to apply for the award on the OEP registration/abstract submission form.

The ten (10) finalists will be notified prior to the event, and must be available to present their posters during the Saturday morning sessions.

Students cannot apply for both OEP Graduate Student Award and MHRC Student award.

Two (2) winners in each category will be selected, and they will receive a certificate and a $150 honorarium. The winner will be announced at the Banquet Dinner on Saturday night. Once identified prior to the meeting, the 10 finalists must indicate their willingness to be present at the Banquet dinner on Saturday night in order to qualify for the Award.

 

Judging Criteria

RESEARCH

 - a) how closely is the work related to muscle health/research?

 - b) rationale and experimental design well developed?

 - c) significance of findings

PRESENTATION

 - a) quality and appearance of slides

 - b) quality of oral presentation

 - c) ability to answer questions

 

The poster award winners for OEP Student Presentation Awards, Jan 21-23, 2011 are:
  1. Senthure Jeganathan (York University). “Amino acid induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle of healthy rats is reversible”.

  2. Karin Trajcevski (McMaster University). “Age-related effects of diet induced obesity on skeletal muscle regeneration”.