Twenty-eight Graduate students at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture participated in the 14th annual Graduate Research Days April 18 and 19th. The event, hosted by the Faculty of Agriculture, promotes current graduate student research and gives students an opportunity to explain the importance of their work to the Faculty, industry and the general public.

(L to R) Dr. Dian Patterson, Weixi Shu, Chaini Konwar, Faezeh Kharazyan, Lauren Innes and Sara Murphy
The following students took home prizes:
Best Oral Presentation Category
First Prize:
Weixi Shu
Soil phosphorus dynamics under annual or single application of alkaline stabilized biosolids
Second Prize:
Faezeh Kharazyan
Sequence analysis of the Aleutian Mink Disease Virus in wild mink and weasels
Best Poster Category
First Prize:
Chaini Konwar
Localizing genetic elements associated with reproductive performance In mink using a sequence-based SNP panel
Second Prize:
Lauren Innes
The effect of body condition history on health and reproductive performance in mink females
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