PNWYC 2025

Thank you for joining us at the University of British Columbia for the 3rd edition of the PNWYC Meeting! Congratulations to our trainee award winners:

Trainee talk award:

Leah Anderson, University of Washington - Maitreya Dunham Lab

Experimental evolution reveals new drivers of freeze-thaw tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Poster awards: 

1. Andrew Loe, University of Victoria - Jennifer Cobb Lab

Moonlighting to Create the RNA Goldilocks Zone: Cbf5’s novel role in DNA Double Strand Break repair

2. Oliver Hong, University of British Columbia - Thibault Mayor Lab

High-throughput antimicrobial peptide expression screening in Komagataella phaffii by peptide barcoding

3. Emily Dennis, University of Oregon - David Garcia Lab

Investigating the molecular mechanism of the beneficial yeast prion [BIG+]