Saskatchewan, Creating a Better Lentil

Rui Song has ambitions. Of course, you’d expect that of the first ever repeat winner of Saskatchewan’s Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge, the youngest ever competitor (14) at the national SBCC in 2010 and, having won 1st place two years ago, the first ever to try for the national championship again. But competitions are only a step [...]

Grade 11 Student Wins Saskatchewan Competition for Second Time for Lentil Research

Moves on to Compete in National Finals of the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada Saskatoon, SK, April 19, 2012 – Ground-breaking research by a 17-year-old Saskatoon student investigating lentil disease resistance has earned top prize in the Saskatchewan competition of the “2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada (SBCC)”, a biotechnology research competition that encourages students to [...]

2011 Saskatoon: Students, 15 and 13, make leap towards developing wheat with fewer calories, other health benefits

The industrial-scale farming that has made Canada a world leader in growing and exporting wheat has weakened crop resistance to blight, fungus and other diseases — a catastrophe in the making. Traditional ways of breeding new strains to address these dangers is slow and labour-intensive and genetically modified (GM) crops are steeped in controversy. But [...]

2011 SABC Saskatoon Winners

Congratulations to all SABC participants who competed in the 2011 Saskatoon Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge Competition. Special congratulations to the 2011 Saskatoon SABC Competition Winners announced at the 13th Annual Saskatoon Region Awards Banquet: Open Division 1st Place: Pranay Pratijit and Prakriti Pratijit Evan Hardy Collegiate and Walter Murray Collegiate Project title: Novel Expedited Immature Spike-Culture-Derived [...]

2011 Meet Your Mentor Event

The “2011 Meet Your Mentor Event”, is taking place on Thursday, January 13th from 4:30 to 5:45, at the National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute. (110 Gymnasium Road, U of S Campus.) Background information about the Challenge, preliminary schedules, responsibilities and judging criteria for projects will be provided. An information package and student lab books [...]

SABC 2011 Saskatoon

Our 2011 Winners

SABC Saskatoon 2010

The Saskatoon Region of the Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge is proud to announce that Genome Prairie is now our new coordinating agency. Genome Prairie has been a valued sponsor over the years and more recently a member of our Advisory Committee in the person of Carol Reynolds Director, Corporate Development and Communications. Announcing the Saskatoon 2010 [...]

14-year-old looks to genetically fingerprint a lentil-killing fungus

At just 14, Rui Song has become a fixture on the winner’s list in the Saskatchewan regional SABC. While still at Greystone Heights Public School, she won the Junior Division twice – in 2008 and 2009 – and the streak continued this year, Rui’s Grade 9 year at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute. Her winning project [...]

Saskatoon SABC 2010 Competition Winners

Congratulations to all SABC participants who competed in the 2010 Saskatoon Regional SABC Competition. A special congratulations to the following 2010 Saskatoon SABC 2010 Competition Award Winners: 1st Place Open Rui Song- Walter Murray Collegiate-Racing To Find A Marker: Development of Molecular Markers for Races of Colletotrichum truncatum. This innovative research project studying markers of [...]

2010 Saskatoon Meet Your Mentor Event

The ?2010 Meet Your Mentor Event? is taking place on Thursday, January 14th from 4:15 to 5:30, at the National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute. (110 Gymnasium Road, U of S Campus.) Background information about the Challenge, preliminary schedules, responsibilities and judging criteria for projects will be provided. An information package and student lab books [...]