Join us for our annual celebration of Graduate Research on December 6th, 2024 from 9:00am – 4:00pm in CIBC Hall. Coffee and a small breakfast will be available at 8:30am. The event is free, but registration is required and can be found HERE.
CLICK HERE for the Graduate Research Symposium Program
| Coffee and Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:00 (CIBC Hall) | ||
| Keynote Speaker: 9:15 – 10:00 (CIBC Hall) | ||
| Dr. Ingrid Waldron – Research and Advocacy on Environmental and Climate Justice | ||
| Oral Presentation Session 1: 10:00 – 10:45 (CIBC Hall) | ||
| Supriya Bains – A Therapeutic Perspective on Cognitive Insight for Persons with Schizophrenia (Neuroscience) | ||
| Kaylee White (she/her) – The Impact of Sports Bras and Running Shoes on Comfort and Gait: Exploring Design Interactions in Female Runners (Kinesiology) | ||
| Zoe Lazar-Kurz (she/her) – Lines of Thought: an fMRI Investigation of Aesthetics and Creativity in Design (PNB) | ||
| Arthur Karapetov – Optimizing MRI Sampling Patterns for MP2RAGE Accelerated Brain T1 Mapping (Physics) | ||
| Han Bao (he/him) – Prediction of partitioning properties and environmental fate of complex contaminants by GC×GC (SEES) | ||
| Catherine Ao – The eye of the beholder: Only White observers have an attentional bias toward Latino and South Asian faces than Own-race Faces (PNB) | ||
| Xiao (Dora) Yu – Use of Conjugated Polymers with Self-Immolative Sidechain Linkers for Carbon Nanotube Dispersion (Chemistry) | ||
| Angelina Baric – The relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and cardiometabolic health markers among Canadian adults: an investigation of the CHMS (Kinesiology) | ||
| December 6 National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women | ||
| BREAK: 11:00 – 11:20 | ||
| Oral Presentation Session 2: 11:20 – 12:30 | ||
| Noah Britt (he/him) – Attention is Biased Toward My Hands: The Role of Action Affordance (PNB) | ||
| Anjali Bedi – Cracking the Code to Well-Being for All (Kinesiology) | ||
| Zaineb Hamoodi – Urinary Metabolomics to Identify Diagnostic Biomarkers of Delirium (Chem Bio) | ||
| Chaeeun Shin – “Mom is acting different, should I be worried?” Parent-child dynamics in predicting child anxiety in the surgical setting (PNB) | ||
| Alexandre de Camargo – Leveraging Normalizing Flows for Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (Chemistry) | ||
| Kaelin Platt – Late Holocene Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Hurricane Records for San Salvador ISland, Bahamas via Foraminifera Assemblages and X-Ray Fluorescence (SEES) | ||
| Faith Adams (she/her) – Investigating the effects of lorazepam and baclofen on interhemispheric inhibition (Kinesiology) | ||
| Lauren Tiller (she/her) – Strategies to address the antibiotic resistance crisis (Biology) | ||
| Fermin Retnavarathan (she/her) – Evaluating the Test–Retest Reliability of a Newly Developed Battery of Binocular Vision Tests (Neuroscience) | ||
| Raven Westlake (she/her/he/him) – The White Dwarf Opportunity: constraining M dwarf stellar winds using a white dwarf companion (Physics) | ||
| Calleigh Tomas (she/her) – The Contribution of Microbial Communities to Cold Adaptation in High-Altitude Species (Biology) | ||
| Griffin LaChapelle – Giving an Old Sandwich New Toppings: The Reactivity of Organotitanium Compounds with Ambiphilic Ligands (Chemistry) | ||
| Ameer Hamoodi – The Development of Brain Wave Informed Brain Stimulation for Motor Rehabilitation (Kinesiology) | ||
| Sadia Chowdhury – Evolving Transit Landscape in Canada: Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Transit Pass Ownership from a Binomial Probit Model (SEES) | ||
| BREAK – Poster Presentations & Lunch: 12:30 – 2:30 | ||
| Siyao Peng (PNB) | Dila Aycan (Biology) | Josie Ng (Chemistry) |
| Anmol Thind (PNB) | Allan Roberts (Biology) | Maryam Darestanifarahani (Chemistry) |
| Shane Seheult (PNB) | Anqianyi Tu (Biology) | Ana Stanciu (Chem Bio) |
| Courtney Aucoin (PNB) | Reza Arabpour Dahoei (CSE) | Mustaali Hussain (Kinesiology) |
| Emily DeLeon (Physics) | Victor Maldonado & Grace Yao (Chemistry) | Shelby Prokop Millar (Neuroscience) |
| Curtis Goosney (Physics) | Pengfai Cai (Math & Stats) | Fermin Retnavarathan (Neuroscience) |
| Yassine Benkandil (SEES) | Jeffrey Marshall-Milne (Math & Stats) | Jack Salole (Biology) |
| Brooke Chmiel (SEES) | Ruiyang Hong (Math & Stats) | Kayla Garvey (Biology) |
| Gagan Josan (SEES) | Emma Naguit (Math & Stats) | Kieran Bhaskara (Math & Stats) |
| MD Rasel Sheikh (SEES) | Kyle Stegman (Chemistry) | Isaac Huidobro Meezs (Chemistry) |
| Zainab Saad (Biology) | Mokhamed Ranne (Chemistry) | Asma Jamali Rafsanjani (CSE) |
| Oral Presentation Session 3: 2:30 – 3:10 | ||
| Zengyao Qi – Graft-then-Shrink LSPR biosensors for screening intracellular drug delivery vehicles (Chem Bio) | ||
| Julie Hartz – When environmental conditions become less favorable, microbialites complexify, and this complexification can be measured (SEES) | ||
| Michael Agronah – Improving Microbiome Analysis by Modeling Taxa Correlations (CSE) | ||
| Anjilee Manhas (she/her) – A Bioinspired Dynamic Lens Inscribed with Waveguide Architectures (Chemistry) | ||
| Karen Joseph – Exploring Physical and Mental Health Correlates in Aging Autistic Adults (Kinesiology) | ||
| Qiulin Ma (she/her) – Structural Determinants of PF4 Tetramer Asymmetry (Chem Bio) | ||
| Michelle Yap (she/her) – Let’s iron things out! (Physics) | ||
| BREAK: 3:10-3:30 | ||
| Awards and Closing Remarks: 3:30 | ||