| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 8th | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | McMaster University, CIBC Hall (MUSC 3rd Floor) |
Event Schedule
| Time | Event Name |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM | Welcome, coffee |
| 9:00 AM to 9:15 AM | Opening remarks (Associate Dean, Dean of Science, Dean of Graduate Studies) |
| 9:15 AM to 10:00 AM | Keynote speaker (Dr. Francine McCarthy, Brock University) |
| 10:00 AM to 10:20 AM | BREAK |
| 10:20 AM to 12:30 PM | Student Presentations |
| 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Lunch & Poster Presentations |
| 2:30 PM to 3:15 PM | Keynote speaker (Dr. Michael Sonne, McMaster University & Baseball Scientist for the Chicago Cubs) |
| 3:15 PM to 4:00 PM | Awards, Recognition & Closing Remarks |
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Francine McCarthy, Brock University
Dr. Francine McCarthy is an Earth Scientist at Brock
University. She has expertise in the reconstruction
and understanding of ancient climate environments.
Dr. Michael Sonne, Baseball Scientist (Chicago Cubs)
Dr. Michael Sonne is a recent graduate with a PhD in
Kinesiology from McMaster University. He is currently
a baseball scientist for the Major League Baseball
team, the Chicago Cubs. He is responsible for
integrating new technology and biomechanics data
between the field, dugout and analytics team.
Introducing our MC for the day: Kay McCallum!
Kay is a fourth year PhD candidate in Chemistry and this year’s Vice President/Treasurer for SciGSA.
Their research explores indoor air and surface-gas interactions in museum-relevant environments.
Outside the lab, Kay has been an active member of student-led, departmental, and university-wide
governance organizations to advocate for graduate students across McMaster. Kay enjoys baking,
bookbinding, crochet, and climbing, and is honoured to MC for the incredible researchers at this
year’s Grad Research Symposium!
Expandable List
| Time | Presenter | Program | Title of Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:20 – 10:25 AM | Stephanie Ali Fairbairn (she/her) | Biology | Kaiso, Androgen Receptor and Breast Cancer Disparities in Women of African Ancestry |
| 10:25 – 10:30 AM | Nicole Gromek (she/her) | Physics & Astronomy | Calibrating Elemental Abundances in the Coolest Stars |
| 10:30 – 10:35 AM | Valerii Chuiko (he/him) | Chemistry | How to make molecule thing…and reveal its properties? |
| 10:35 – 10:40 AM | Hyuna Seo (she/her) | Math & Stats | Weights in Meta Analyses |
| 10:40 – 10:45 AM | Shane Seheult | PNB | Behavioural & electrophysiological measures of hearing in Abnormally Wobbly Gait (AWG) mutant mice |
| 10:45 – 10:50 AM | Aneesa Rabbani | SEES | Evaluating Backwater versus Upstream Tectonic Controls on the Gravel-Sand Transition, Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin |
| 10:50 – 10:55 AM | Cade Kuehl (he/him) | Kinesiology | Disability and the Construction of the ‘Normal’ Body in Health and Fitness |
| 10:55 – 11:00 AM | Ge Song (they/them) | Math & Stats | Bias correction of study weights in meta-analyses with a binary outcome |
| 11:00 – 11:05 AM | Ben Dyer (he/him) | Physics & Astronomy | Measuring Relativistic Electrons in Low Earth Orbit |
| 11:05 – 11:10 AM | Mollie Erickson (she/her) | PNB | Shyness and elevated social anxiety symptoms from childhood to late adolescence predict social anxiety disorder in early adulthood |
| 11:10 – 11:15 AM | Polina Gkragkopoulou (she/her) | Chemical Biology | Protein toxins are weapons of bacterial warfare |
| 11:15 – 11:20 AM | Priyanka Hire (she/her) | SEES | Erosion Sensitivity Analysis for an Urban Watershed using a GIS-based Toolbox |
| 11:20 – 11:25 AM | Noah Britt (he/him) | PNB | Spatial Attention Appears Modulated by Behaviourally Relevant Contexts: A Simulated Driving Study |
| 11:25 – 11:30 AM | Lindyann Lessey (she/her) | Biology | The Opposing Roles of Kaiso and p120ctn in intestinal inflammatory diseases |
| 11:30 – 11:35 AM | Nicholas Hoffman (he/him) | Chemistry | From Design to Deposition: Precursor Synthesis and the Development of New Processes for Atomic Layer Deposition |
| 11:35 – 11:40 AM | Tegan Hargreaves (she/her) | Neuroscience | Brain Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predictors of Brief Intervention Response in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder |
| 11:40 – 11:45 AM | Billy Sievers (he/him) | Physics | Self-intersecting Surfaces inside black holes |
| 11:45 – 11:50 AM | Manjot Grewal (she/her) | Chemical Biology | Bio-renewable Hydrogel Sorbents for Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater |
| 11:50 – 11:55 AM | Michael Agronah | CSE | Power Analysis for Differential Abundance Microbiome Studies |
| 11:55 – 12:00 PM | Caroline Lowisz (she/her) | Kinesiology | Optimizing insulin sensitivity via exercise and protein supplementation in overweight/obese older adults |
| 12:00 – 12:05 PM | Pallavi Mukherjee | Chemistry | Transition state analysis of NeuB |
| 12:05 – 12:10 PM | Yilong Zhai | Math & Stats | Machine Learning for Data Imputation in Loss Reserving |
| 12:10 – 12:15 PM | Karishma Ramdeo (she/her) | Kinesiology | The effects of the menstrual cycle on synaptic plasticity induced via repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation |
| 12:15 – 12:20 PM | Sukhvershjit Aulakh | Chemical Biology | Seeking Novel and Innovative Approaches to Tackle Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| 12:20 – 12:25 PM | Niloofar Nalaee | SEES | A Study on Commuting-Induced Stress, Coping Strategies, and Health Implications in Santiago, Chile |
| 12:25 – 12:30 PM | Mellissa Easwaramoorthy | Biology | Too Hot for Cold Fish: Warming Temperatures on Developing Yellow Perch |
| Student | Program | Poster Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Owens | Physics | |
| Andrew Kovachik | Physics | Slowly Moving Black Holes Can Hide Quantum Gravity |
| Jury Radkovski (he/him) | Physics | Scattering amplitudes in high energy limit of projectable Horava Gravity |
| Thomas Kirby | Chemistry | Dual carbon nanotubes-based chemiresistive sensor for dissolved gases |
| Novan Gray (he/him) | Chemistry | Thioether and Selenoether Complexes of Thorium and Uranium: A Study of Actinide–Chalcogen Bonding |
| Anjilee Manhas | Chemistry | Bioinspired Waveguide Encoded Lattice Architectures Inscribed in a Dynamic Lens System |
| Ali Akbar (he/him) | Chemistry | Identification and quantification of aqueous disinfectants using an array of carbon nanotube-based chemiresistors |
| Victor Maldonado (He/Him) | Chemistry | Exploring the influence of urban grime accumulation on the physical properties and environmental reactivity of common building materials |
| Alison (Mengchan) Xu (She/Her) | Chemistry | Assessing potential health impacts of plasticizer emissions during polymer clay jewelry manufacture |
| Wesley Sanchez (he/him) | Chemistry | Modeling the Annexin A1-S100A11 Heterotetramer: a Molecular Dynamics Investigation |
| Haley Monson & Spencer Locke (USRA Poster) | Math & Stats | The Saturn Ring Defect for Two Colloidal Particles |
| Silas Vriend (he/him) | Math & Stats | The standard lens cluster in R2 uniquely minimizes relative perimeter |
| Yassaman Ommi | CSE | |
| Avesta Ahmadi (he/his) | CSE | Characterization of Plating in Li-ion Cells via Optimal Reconstruction of Relations and Li-NMR Spectroscopy |
| Leonardo Della Libera (he/him) | Chemical Biology | Investigating the Aberrant Inhibition of Protein Kinase A by Mutations Causing Hormonal Resistance |
| Tishani Thiviyakumar (she/her) | Neuroscience | Mood Fluctuations and Biological Rhythms Across the Menstrual Cycle assessed Using the MAC-PMSS and Actimetry |
| Giovana Romero (she/her) | Neuroscience | Cannabis Use and Potential Impact on Psychostimulant Response in Adult ADHD |
| Allan Roberts (he/him) | Biology | Developing Learning Modules for Environmental Data Visualization |
| Shane Taylor (he/him) | Biology | More than a neurotrophic factor: MANF-1 regulates proteostasis & autophagic flux |
| Jack Salole (he/him) | Biology | Reducing the waste in wastewater testing: using the RTgill-W1 permanent cell line to replace fish use |
| Hanad Adan | Biology | The Role of Kaiso in TGFß-Mediated Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Triple Negative Breast Cancer |
| Younghoon (Daniel) Lee (he/him) | Kinesiology | Lived Experiences of Acculturation and Identity Exploration: An Ethnographic Study of Newcomer Youths in Community-Based Recreational Sport |
| Han Bao | SEES | Environmental Fate and Transport of Methane & Bitumen-Related Organics in a Oil Sands Reclamation Site |
| Katie Mountjoy (she/her) | SEES | Aquifer hydrology in the Yucatan Peninsula with an emphasis on the Classic Maya Decline |
| Brooke Chmiel (she/her) | SEES | Evaluating the uptake of the CSA B701:17 (R2021) Carer-inclusive and accommodating organizations standard |
| Kangyu So (He/Him) | SEES | Forest management practices for preserving carbon and nitrogen sequestration in soils while providing negative climate feedback in a representative coniferous stand plantation |
| Julie Hartz (she/her) | SEES | Patterns of Complexity in Biogenic Carbonates |
| Faith Rahman (she/her/hers) | SEES | What Have We Learned? Navigating the Climate Change Research Landscape in Nunavut, Canada (2004-2021) |
| Noah Stegman (he/him) | SEES | Inter- and Intra- species Transpiration Variation in a Carolinian Deciduous Forest in Southern Ontario |
| Reshna Nina (she/her) | PNB | Identifying Military Cultural Competencies in Civilian Sexual Assault Support Programs Serving Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma |
| Ariel Takach (she/they) | PNB | A systematic review and meta-analysis of attention bias for racial out-groups in humans |
| Elias Latchem (he/him) | PNB | Influence of social rank on learning in group living fish |
| Joshua Schlichting (he/him) | PNB | Social justice advocacy through music – Investigating the influence of attendance mode and multimodal information on physiological and self-reported audience reactions |