{"id":17163,"date":"2025-03-11T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=17163"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:40","slug":"carleton-postdoc-tom-kazmirchuk-wins-second-popular-award-at-mcmaster-research-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2025\/carleton-postdoc-tom-kazmirchuk-wins-second-popular-award-at-mcmaster-research-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Postdoc &#8211; Tom Kazmirchuk Wins Second Popular Award at McMaster Research Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biology Postdoc &#8211; Tom Kazmirchuk Wins Second Popular Award at McMaster Research Competition\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Our Biology Postdoc &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/thomas-kazmirchuk\/\">Dr. Tom Kazmirchuk<\/a> has made an impressive mark at McMaster University\u2019s prestigious <em data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"229\">Appetizers for the Mind<\/em> research competition. As the only in-person finalist from outside the Greater Toronto Area and the first-ever Carleton representative, Dr. Kazmirchuk delivered a compelling research talk that earned him the <strong data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"461\">Second Popular Award<\/strong>, based on audience votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-240x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-240x427.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-160x284.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-400x711.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-360x640.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/IMG_5391-200x356.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event, held on <strong data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"527\">March 5, 2025<\/strong>, featured a lineup of postdoctoral researchers presenting their work in an engaging format. Attendees, both in-person and online, had the opportunity to vote for their favorite talk. Dr. Kazmirchuk\u2019s strong showing reflects not only his expertise but also the growing presence of Biology researchers on a national stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kazmirchuk is currently a postdoctoral fellow in <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ashkan-golshani\/\">Dr. Ashkan Golshani\u2019s<\/a> lab in the Department of Biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details on <em data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"898\">Appetizers for the Mind<\/em>, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mccallmacbain.mcmaster.ca\/schedule\/winter-2025-schedule\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"1029\">McMaster University\u2019s event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Biology Postdoc &#8211; Dr. Tom Kazmirchuk has made an impressive mark at McMaster University\u2019s prestigious Appetizers for the Mind research competition. As the only in-person finalist from outside the Greater Toronto Area and the first-ever Carleton representative, Dr. Kazmirchuk delivered a compelling research talk that earned him the Second Popular Award, based on audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17175,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions\/17175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}