The Killam Trustees congratulate the awardees and look forward to hearing more about their achievements.
Dr. Otto is known for her theoretical studies investigating how the very nature of organismal inheritance and reproduction evolve, using mathematical models to investigate the selective forces acting on genetic systems.
Dr. McNicholas’ recent work has seen the development of model-based clustering approaches for finding groups of similar observations within multivariate longitudinal data. This work broke new methodological ground .
By unravelling the paradox of oppositional enzyme hijacking, Dr. Shuhendler hopes to pinpoint strategies to thwart this hijacking activity of cancer, opening new routes to therapies preventing its spread.
Dr. Tait will focus on studying Martian meteorites, using novel techniques to understand how Martian meteorites are put together at the atomic level.
