Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference

Congratulations to our MURC 2021 Winners.

Poster presentation

• First Place
  Presentation Title: Do as we say, not as we do: A critical discourse analysis of anti-racism statements released by medical schools and academic medical organizations in 2020
  Presenter: Favour Omobhude
• Second Place
  Presentation Title: Impact of Sharing Laboratory Test Costs and Required Blood Volumes on Resident Test Ordering
  Presenter: Norbert Banyi
• Third Place
  Presentation Title: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Clinical Tool Kit for the Care of Patients Receiving Clozapine in Acute Psychiatry
  Presenter: Kiana Rahnama

Oral presentation

• First Place
  Presentation Title: Influence of Nucleic Acid Modifications on Lipid Nanoparticle Morphology and Efficacy
  Presenter: Kevin An
• Second Place
  Presentation Title: Improving the Persistence of CAR T-cells with Telomerase
  Presenter: Charu Sankaran
• Third Place
  Presentation Title: Modeling the trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein evolution in continuous latent space using a neural network and Gaussian process
  Presenters: Emilia Chen, Janella Schwab, Kimia Rostin, Sarah Ng

What is MURC?

MURC is a conference for UBC undergraduate students to showcase their research in front of their fellow UBC students, family, and friends. Researchers may choose one of two formats to showcase their research: presentation or poster.

See the 2021 MURC Program Guide (pdf) for more details.

Who presents at MURC?

Any UBC undergraduate student who is participating in, or has completed, their own UBC Faculty-supervised research project can apply to present at MURC. All Faculties and Schools are welcome. For more information, please visit the Present at MURC page.

• Present at MURC
  Are you an undergraduate student with a passion that you want to share with the rest of UBC through research?
• Volunteer at MURC
  Get involved in one of two ways: be a volunteer or an adjudicator!
• Attend MURC
  Are you interested in seeing what other undergraduate students are up to in research?

For more information about the conference, email undergraduate.research@ubc.ca.