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Symposium Schedule – December 5th, 2025 in CIBC Hall
| Coffee and Breakfast: 8:30am – 9:00am | |||||
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| Opening Remarks: Welcome, Overview, Address from Dean of Graduate Studies 9:00am – 9:10am | |||||
| Dr. John Valliant, Keynote Speaker: 9:10am – 10:00am | |||||
| Lightning Poster Presentations: 10:00am – 10:30am | |||||
| 1 | Almila Bahar (Neuroscience) | 7 | Keegan Howden (Chemical Biology) | 13 | Victor Pop (Physics & Astronomy) |
| 2 | Alysha C. D’Souza (Kinesiology) | 8 | Khyla Wiltshire-Mateer (Biology) | 14 | Yi Xiong (Computational Science and Engineering) |
| 3 | Arman Parham (Chemistry) | 9 | Nicole Tais Frohlich (Neuroscience) | 29 | Tang Tang Guo (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour) |
| 4 | Erica Li (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour) | 10 | Olivia Velenosi (Chemistry) | ||
| 5 | Heider Al Mashalah (Computational Science and Engineering) | 11 | Paul E. Fitzsimons (Physics & Astronomy) | ||
| 6 | Jonathon Kirsh (PNB) | 12 | Shane Seheult (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour) | ||
| Coffee Break #1 & Posters: 10:30am – 11:00am | |||||
| Contributed Talks, Session 1: 11:00am – 12:20pm | |||||
| Aishwarya Patwardhan (She/Her): Autism-Risk Gene Mutations Alter Oxytocin Modulation of Social Stimulus Encoding in the Nucleus Accumbens (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour) | |||||
| Joanna Misquitta (She/Her): The Effects of Height and Sex on Two-Person Team Lifting (Kinesiology) | |||||
| Vanessa Nicole Parise (She/Her): Exploring Sensory Processing Difficulties and Their Impact on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Study (Neuroscience) | |||||
| Uriel Garcilazo Cruz (He/Him): The use of Large Language Models for Embedding-Based Regression in Molecular Structure Analysis (Computational Science and Engineering) | |||||
| Esha Patel: Layers of the Brain: Fabricating Stackable Biomimetic 3D in vitro Neocortical Tissue Models to Explore Neuronal Durotaxis in a Multilayered System (Neuroscience) | |||||
| Daniel Fernando Calero Osorio (He/Him): Seniority-Zero Canonical Transformation Theory: Reducing Truncation Error with Late Truncation (Chemistry) | |||||
| Hayden Simm (He/Him): Determining How Climate Change Stressors Affect the Toxicities of Chemical Pollutants in Aquatic Animals (Biology) | |||||
| Simaya Rosenbloom (She/Her): Avalanche dynamics in a tumbling drum (Physics & Astronomy) | |||||
| BREAK – Posters & Lunch: 12:20pm – 1:20pm | |||||
| 1 | Almila Bahar(Neuroscience) | 12 | Shane Seheult (PNB) | 23 | Lucas Beckering Vinckers Stofer (Earth and Environmental Sciences) |
| 2 | Alysha C. D’Souza (Kinesiology) | 13 | Victor Pop (Physics & Astronomy) | 24 | Molly Dobrik (Biology) |
| 3 | Arman Parham (Chemistry) | 14 | Yi Xiong (Computational Science and Engineering) | 25 | Nazneen Meethal (Chemistry) |
| 4 | Erica Li (PNB) | 15 | Andrei Alexe (Neuroscience) | 26 | Yoon Lee (Chemistry) |
| 5 | Heider Al Mashalah (Computational Science and Engineering) | 16 | Anna Do (Chemical Biology) | 27 | Taraneh Ghandi (Computational Science and Engineering) |
| 6 | Jonathon Kirsh (PNB) | 17 | Anjali M. Bedi (Kinesiology) | 28 | Reyad Malakh (PNB) |
| 7 | Keegan Howden (Chemical Biology) | 18 | Brandan Wilson (Kinesiology) | 29 | Tang Tang Guo (PNB) |
| 8 | Khyla Wiltshire-Mateer (Biology) | 19 | Curtis Goosney (Radiation Sciences) | 30 | Sasha Cognigni (Biology) |
| 9 | Nicole Tais Frohlich (Neuroscience) | 20 | Echo Terrell (Chemistry) | 31 | Danielle MacNeil (Biology) |
| 10 | Olivia Velenosi (Chemistry) | 21 | Emily DeLeon (Radiation Sciences) | ||
| 11 | Paul E. Fitzsimons (Physics & Astronomy) | 22 | Joshua Cherubini (Kinesiology) | ||
| Contributed Talks, Session 2: 1:20pm – 2:20pm | |||||
| Adrian Yu (He/Him): Accelerating Biomaterials Discovery via High Throughput PET-RAFT Polymerization (Chemical Biology) | |||||
| Riley Mantulak (She/Her): From Swimming to Signaling: Exploring the role of estrogen-related receptors on exercise training in zebrafish (Danio rerio) (Biology) | |||||
| Jeffrey Marshall-Milne (He/Him): An invitation to knot theory and the Greene-Howie Theorem (Math & Stats) | |||||
| Jaskiran Garcha: Alphafold: Pushing the envelope of computational modelling. (Chemistry) | |||||
| Aneesa Rabbani: “Not an alluvial fan: Steep gradient, coarse grained meandering tributary channels systems, Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation, Liard basin, NWT, Canada” (Earth and Environmental Studies) | |||||
| Kirstin Davidson (She/Her): Monte Carlo to Correct Synchrotron XRF Images of Lead Absorption in Porcine Skin (Radiation Sciences) | |||||
| Coffee Break #2 & Posters: 2:20pm – 2:50pm | |||||
| Contributed Talks, Session 3: 2:50pm – 3:50pm | |||||
| Paulo Chu (He/Him): Giant Vesicles as Microbial Traps: Toward Characterizing the Flow Fields of Encapsulated Bacteria (Physics & Astronomy) | |||||
| Noah Britt (He/Him): The impact of race as a social category is revealed through observers’ selective attention to faces (Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour) | |||||
| Libby Tunney (She/Her): Origins of Life’s Building Blocks: Nucleobase Clues from Meteorites (Earth and Environmental Studies) | |||||
| Tory Hartley-Cox (She/Her): Evaluating the Effects of Forest Management Practices on Habitat Quality and Breeding Success of an Endangered Woodpecker in British Columbia, Canada (Biology) | |||||
| Kevina Chavda: Improving clinical translation of 18F-radiopharmaceuticals: a straightforward method for the automated synthesis of radiolabelled neuroendocrine tumor imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) (Chemical Biology) | |||||
| Caroline Lowisz: Effects of Lighter-Weight Resistance Training and Protein Quality on Body Composition and Glycemic Control in Older Adults with Overweight or Obesity (Kinesiology) | |||||
| Concluding Remarks & Awards Presentation | |||||