Awards and prizes

Public Service Award of Excellence for 2016 – Scientific Contribution

• Cathryn L. Abbott (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
• Sabah Bidawid (Health Canada)
• Guillaume Bilodeau (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Patrice Bouchard (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
• Nathalie Corneau (Health Canada)
• Robert Foottit (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
• Morag Graham (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Siegfried Janz (National Research Council)
• André Lévesque (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
• James Macklin (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
• Franco Pagott (Health Canada)
• Michael Rott (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Edward Topp (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
• Gary Van Domselaar (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Teodor Veres (National Research Council)

Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral Award

• Sean Walkowiak (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Let's Talk Science - Significant Contribution to Science Outreach Award

• Sean Walkowiak (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Gold Harvest Award 2015 for First Canadian Biofungicide for Controlling Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat

• George Fedak (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Golden Harvest Team Award for Brassica Genome Sequencing

• Isobel Parki (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Plant Pathology Society of Alberta 2015 Annual Meeting - Best Technical Oral Presentation

• Ravinder Goyal (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) (tied)

Plant Pathology Society of Alberta 2015 Annual Meeting - Best Student Oral Presentation

• Anas Eranthodi, PhD student in Nora Foroud's laboratory (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Plant Pathology Society of Alberta 2015 Annual Meeting - Graduate Student Scholarship

• Anas Eranthodi, PhD student in Nora Foroud's laboratory (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Science Branch Recognition Program 2016 - Partnership/Collaboration for their contribution to the QIS project

• Guillaume Bilodeau (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Marie-José Côté (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Margaret Neuspiel (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Delano James (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• Michael Rott (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Cox Fisheries Scientist in Residence Award - Dalhousie University

• Ian Bradbury (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Environmental Science & Technology best scientific articles second runner up award 2015 in the field of Environmental Science

• Doug Crump (Environment and Climate Change Canada) (out of 1500 papers)

University of Saskatchewan - First Place Platform Presentation and Third Place Thesis Award for Acute effects of exposure to oil sands-influenced sediments on the early life stages of Xenopus laevis

• Bruce Pauli (Environment and Climate Change Canada)

Society of Toxicology's Risk Assessment Specialty Section 2015 top five paper award

• in the category 'Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment' for a technical guidance for risk assessors using genomics, and
• for a case study on the use of genomics in the risk assessment of benzo[a]pyrene
  • Carole Yauk and team (Health Canada)

Health Canada Deputy Minister's Award of Excellence in the category of Science

• Sabah Bidawid and Nathalie Corneau (Health Canada)

Health Products and Food Branch Assistant Deputy Minister's Award for Excellence in the category of Science

• Sabah Bidawid and Nathalie Corneau (Health Canada)

Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Annual General Meeting 2015 - Best Oral Communication for a presentation on the EpiQuant framework

• Benjamin Hetman (Public Health Agency of Canada)

Public Health Agency of Canada Research Merit for work on the Salmonella In Silico Typing Resource

• Catherine Yoshida (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Peter Kruczkiewicz (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• John Nash (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Eduardo Taboada (Public Health Agency of Canada)

Entomological Society of Canada - C. Gordon Hewitt Award given annually for an early career scientist for contributions to entomology

• Patrice Bouchard (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Water Environment Association of Ontario Exemplary Biosolids Management Award

• Ed Topp (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Genetic Toxicology Association EMGS Emerging Science Award for Best Student Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting, Newark, Delaware, US

• Carole Yauk and team (Health Canada)

Health Canada Deputy Minister's Award of Excellence in the category of Science

• Genevieve Bondy (Health Canada)

Health Products and Food Branch Assistant Deputy Minister's Award for Excellencein the category of Science

• Genevieve Bondy (Health Canada)

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Science Award - Nomination for Best Paper

• Gary Van Domselaar (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Charles Shepard (Public Health Agency of Canada)

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases James H Nakano Citation for Best Paper

• Gary Van Domselaar (Public Health Agency of Canada)

Farm Credit Canada Rosemary Davis Award for leadership in agriculture through innovation, creativity and a passion for the success of the industry

• Sylvie Cloutier (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Journal of In Vitro Cell Development and Biology - Appreciation of Associate Editorship Award

• Mark Jordan (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

University of Saskatchewan - Graduate Thesis Award for top PhD in the Life Sciences

• Mathew Links (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

University of Saskatchewan - Governor General's academic gold medal for top PhD

• Mathew Links (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Mycological Society of America – Election as Fellow

• Scott Redhead (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Graduate Scholarship

• Karen Dunmall (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

W. Garfield Weston Scholarship

• Karen Dunmall (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

J. Frances Allen Scholarship

• Karen Dunmall (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch Assistant Deputy Minister's Award for Excellence in the category of Leadership

• Carole Yauk (Health Canada)

Health Canada Deputy Minister's Award for Excellence in the category of Leadership

• Carole Yauk (Health Canada)

Society of Toxicology - Top 10 Toxicity Risk Assessment Abstracts (Phoenix AZ, March 2014)

• Carole Yauk (Health Canada)

Health Canada Research Forum – Best Poster (Ottawa, Dec. 2013)

• Carole Yauk (Health Canada)

International Conference on Environmental Mutagens – Best Poster (Brazil, Nov. 2013)

• Carole Yauk (Health Canada)

IUFRO Scientific Achievement Award in recognition of scientific achievements in the field of forest pathology

• Richard Hamelin (Natural Resources Canada)