Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), April 6, Western University

• Ayaz Ghasempourbalou (Western), Fighting the Opioid Crisis with Machine-Learning-Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (with François Lagugné-Labarthet) [oral]
• Manisha Kumari (York), Study of Impact of Chalcogen Substitution on the Conformational Landscape of Organic Molecules: Phenyl Vinyl Sulfide and Phenyl Vinyl Ether (with Sophia Worthington-Kirsch and Jennifer van Wijngaarden) [oral]
• Christy Xie (Western), AI-Powered Identification and Quantification of Multi-Component Street Drugs (with François Lagugné-Labarthet) [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), May 7 - 10, University of Saskatchewan

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), May 23 - 25, Cape Breton University

• Daniel Deschênes (New Brunswick), Exploring the Structure and Substrate Specificity of N-Methyltransferase 4 in Catharanthus roseus via Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) (with Ghislain Deslongchamps) [undergraduate, oral]

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Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), March 25, Trent University

• Gabriela Imbriaco (York), A pH-Dependant Study of the Cis-Trans Isomerization for 5-(8-Hydroxyquinolinyl)-Phenylazo-4-Sulfonate (with William Pietro and Ozzy Mermut) [oral]
• In Gue Chang (Royal Military College), Bond Energy of Functionalized Folic Acid Group and Folic Acid Receptor Alpha [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), May 2 - 25, University of Alberta

• Zhehan Jia (Thompson Rivers), Investigating the Antioxidant Activity of Cannabidiol (with Nelaine Mora-Diez) [oral]
• Clayton Smith (Victoria), Adsorption of Cysteine on Au(111) (with Irina Paci) [poster]

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), May 25 - 27, Dalhousie University

• Incé Husain (New Brunswick), SchNet and Density Functional Theory: Interpreting Representations Generated by Machine Learning Using Traditional Methods (with S. de Baerdemacker) [undergraduate, oral]

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Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), March 26, University of Toronto, St. George

• Macgregor Macintosh (Western), High-Pressure Structural and Electronic Tuning of a Two-Dimensional Perovskite Semiconductor for Photovoltaic Applications (with J. Ratte and Y. Song) [oral]
• Bao Nguyen (Waterloo), Aggregation Mechanism, Unraveled: Identification of Structural Hotspots for Aggregation Initiation in ALS-linked SOD1 Mutants via NMR (with H. Deol, J. Palumbo, and E. M. Meiering) [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), May 27 - 29, University of Calgary

(no awards given this year)

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), May 26 - 29, St. Francis Xavier University

• Incé Husain (New Brunswick), Understanding Machine Learning Generated Molecular Representations (with S. de Baerdemacker) [undergraduate, oral]
• Elisha Bennett (Saint Mary's), Polarization-sensitive Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Characterizing the Ultrastructure of A- and B-type Crystallized Maltodextrin Particles (with D. Tokarz) [undergraduate, oral]
• Padmapriya Srivinasan (Mount Allison), Synthesis, Reactivity and Computational studies of Redox Active Indium Benzenethiolate Complexes (with G. Briand) [undergraduate, oral]
• David Morris (Dalhousie), Structure and Properties of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles with Varied Composition (with P. Zhang) [graduate, oral]

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Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), March 20, McMaster University

• Petra Chea (Ottawa), Characterizing isomeric trisaccharides by CID and ion mobility coupled with mass spectrometry (with S. Overton and P. M. Mayer) [oral]
• Kristen Harrington (Queen's), Can silver nanoclusters break Kasha's rule? Investigating the dual emission of Ag29(DHLA)12 (with P. Aminfar, G. Yousefalizadeh, and K. Stamplecoskie) [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC)

(not held this year due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), May 20 - 21, Mount Allison University

• Claire Anderson (New Brunswick), Machine learning towards automated discovery of bipyridine derivatives for use in non-aqueous redox glow batteries (with S. de Baerdemacker) [undergraduate, oral]
• Katherine Parsons (Dalhousie), Excitation energy transfer in the chlorosome light harvesting complex (with A. Kelly) [graduate, oral]

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Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), June 15, Ryerson University

• Nadreen Elshawish (Western), Computational modelling of water clusters relevant to the molecular mechanism of thunderclouds (with S. Constas) [oral]
• Montdher Hussain (Toronto, Mississauga), Pairing of rational and non-rational design reveals role of disordered loop in defining specificity of DNA binding of the peptide therapeutic ME47 (with J. A. Shin) [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), April 30 - May 3, University of Calgary

(cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), June 11 - 13, Mount Allison University

(postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), March 30, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Salena Hoesterey (Western), Physical insight into photoluminescence and electrochemiluminescence of carbon quantum dots (with Z. Ding) [oral]
• Tzu-Ching Yen (Toronto), Reduction of the number of separately measured terms in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver method (with A. Izmaylov) [oral]
• Reynolds Dziobek-Garrett (Toronto), Core-shell quantum dot sensitizers in upconversion devices (with M. Wilson) [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), June 14 - 15, University of British Columbia Okanagan

• Maria Matlinska (Alberta), Fighting bone demineralization with metal-organic frameworks: Hydrothermal synthesis and biological studies of novel alkaline earth biomaterials (with V. Michaelis) [oral]
• Simon Edelmann (British Columbia, Okanagan), Designing a benchmark database for reaction barrier heights and transition state structures (with G. Dilabio) [poster]

Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), March 24, Wilfred Laurier University

• Sydney Legge (Western), Probing surface chemistry at the monolayer level with PM-IRRAS (with W. Luo, F. Lagugné-Labarthet, and M. Workentin) [oral]
• Maya Olechnowicz (Western), Investigating CO₂ adsorption and dynamics in the metal-organic framework ZnAtzOx-MeOH (with B. Desveaux, B. Lucier, and Y. Huang) [oral]
• Ruben Mirzoyan (Toronto), Near-field infrared spectroscopic properties of boron nitride nanotubes upon polymer binding (with G. Walker) [oral]
• Xinyu (Linda) Ye (Western), Can molecular simulations help understand Alzheimer's disease? (with M. Karttunen) [oral]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), April 30 - May 3, University of Winnipeg

• Zhongren (Tony) Jin (Alberta), Structure and bioactivity of calcium and strontium borophosphate glass: A solid-state NMR study (with V. Michaelis) [oral]
• Maria Matlinska (Alberta), Synthesis and structural characterization of novel alkaline earth bio-MOFs (with M. Ha, G. M. Bernard, B. Hughton, A. K. Iyer, A. Mar, and V. Michaelis) [oral]
• Chris Sitko (Brandon), Computational assessment of ilomastat derivative for the inhibition of MMP and glioma migration (with A. Poole, B. Hill, V. Chen, and E. Bushnell) [poster]
• Micaela Lisogorsky (Manitoba), Design of di-alkyl conduritol aziridines as molecule probes for b-exoglucosidase glucocerebrosidase (with J. Grauer, C. Phenix, and R. Davis) [poster]

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), June 7 - 9, St. Mary's University

• Archita Adluri (Memorial), Conformation dynamics of Keap1 reactive site Cys151 changes due to electrophilic influences (with C. Rowley) [oral]
• Christopher Qui (Memorial), Computational study of tetrabenzocoronene derivatives (with Y. Zhao and C. Flinn) [poster]

Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), March 18, York University

• Roman Korol (Toronto), Tunneling to hopping crossover in thermopower of the DNA molecular junctions (with D. Segal) [oral]
• Angela Murcia Rios (Western), Investigating the rotary mechanism of ATP synthase using molecular dynamics simulations (with L. Konermann) [oral]
• Deborah Chan (Western), Farming photons: Computational and spectroscopic studies of phthalocyanines as a photosensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells (with M. Stillman) [oral]
• Lisa Labine (Laurentian), Analysis of tramadol and metabolites in skeletal remains by UPLC-qToF MS: Effects of the Dose-Death Interval on drug and metabolite levels (with J. H. Watterson) [oral]

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Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), May 3 - 5, University of Alberta

• Zhibo Wang (Alberta), Determining conical intersections of fluorescent protein chromophores (with A. Brown) [oral]
• Cat-Tuong Huynh (Alberta), Benchmarking QUANTUM ESPRESSO: Assessment of the accuracy of the computationally determined solid-state \({}^{17}\)O NMR magnetic shielding of alkaline earth metal oxides (with A. Brown) [poster]
• Xin Wang (Alberta), Molecular modeling of drug interactions with modified \(\gamma\)-cyclodextrins (with J. Klassen) [poster]

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), May 4 - 6, Memorial University

• Ernest Awoonor-Williams (Memorial), Advancing kinase inhibitor drug discovery through computational modelling (with C. Rowley) [oral]
• Archita Adluri (Memorial), DFT-Calculated molecular polarizability as a single parameter descriptor for the partitioning and phase behaviour of chlorinated and broninated compounds (with C. Rowley and C. Young) [oral]

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Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC), April 2, Trent University

• Andy Huynh (McMaster), Molecular electronics devices: Diodic behaviour and light emitting diodes (with R. S. Dumont) [oral]
• Vanessa Tran (Waterloo), Separating the isomers of the protonated phenylalanine/serine dimer (with S. Hopkins) [oral]
• Vanessa Rodrigues-Machado (Toronto), Tailorable anisotropy of cellulose nanocrystal containing hydrogels and aerogels via freeze casting and elsastomeric polyurethane foams with reversible isotropic and anisotropic thermal conductivities (with E. Kumacheva) [poster]
• Connie Tang (Toronto), Tellurophene-functionalized gold nanoparticles: thermal reductive elimination of halogens using low energy light (with D. Seferos) [poster]

Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference (WCUCC), May 6 - 8, University of Manitoba

• Hessam Hosseini (Winnipeg), A computational study of boronic acid catalyzed aza-Piancatelli rearrangement (with J. Hollett) [oral]
• Cat-Tuong Huynh (Alberta), Computational study on relative stabilities and excited states of tautomers of modified emissive RNA nucleabase (with M. Gedik and A. Brown) [poster]

Science Atlantic/CIC Chemistry Student Conference (ChemCon), June 2 - 4, Mount Saint Vincent University

• Mitch Pinto (Acadia), Photophysical investigation of a novel family of Ru(II) dyads as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (with S. A. McFarland) [oral]
• Archita Adluri (Memorial), DFT-Calculated molecular polarizability as a single parameter descriptor for the partitioning and phase behaviour of chlorinated and brominated compounds (with C. Rowley and C. Young) [poster]