"Sun and Science" became the virtual edition of our popular Soup and Science series. Students and community members heard from outstanding Ŀ; professors across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions in dynamic breakout rooms.Click on the session date to view the video recording of the presentation.
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Coughing? Choking? No Voice? What went wrong with your throat?
Department of Physiology
Interrogating immune responses in bats
Imane Chafi
Faculty of Engineering
Cress - MEI Mapping Tool : A Software Engineering Web Interface to Classify Musical Neumes
Jessica Ford
Redpath Museum
STEMM Diversity @ Ŀ;
Department of Geography
Changing Arctic Landscapes
Department of Chemistry
Modern Mass Spectrometry: So Much More than Molecular Weight
Department of Physics
The Diversity of Exoplanets
Department of Physics
Why Physics Matters (Ŀ; Physics Outreach)
Prof. Christophe Dubach
School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering
Language Design, Compilation and Hardware Synthesis for Machine Learning Acceleration
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Department of Physics
Supersonic Sandstorms on Lava Planets
Department of Biochemistry
Damage, Repair and Cancer: How do you keep your DNA safe?
Fiona D'Arcy, PhD Candidate
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Join for the Rocks, Stay for the S'mores! Students of Ŀ; Outreach in Earth Sciences
Department of Geography
COVID-19 mobility response: A country comparison
Department of Biology
Protecting biodiversity in all its complexity
School of Computer Science and Department of Linguistics
Building computers that understand and interact in human language
Department of Chemistry
How to turn crustacean or insect shells
into new plastics
Prof. Bastien Castagner
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Understanding and manipulating the human gut microbiota
Prof. John White
Department of Physiology
Vitamin D and
COVID-19
Ada McVean
Department of Chemistry
More than just blowing things up: Ŀ; Chemistry Outreach Group
Department of Psychology
Measuring and Mitigating Implicit Biases in Judgment
Department of Geography and Institute for the Study of International Development
Capital has no homeland – and neither does faith
Prof. Shirin A.
Enger
Department of Oncology and Medical Physics Unit
Fighting cancer with physics and scientific computing
Tuesday July 7, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Strength below the Continents
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Interactions between geometry, algebra and quantum theory
Department of Geography
Global lakes and rivers: putting the world's water resources on the map
Prof. Samantha Gruenheid
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New links between the gut and the brain in Parkinson’s Disease
Department of Physics
HIRAX and the Search for Dark Energy
Department of Psychology
Familial and environmental contributions to risk for depression: The role of the positive valence system
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Integrating humans into Earth System models
School of Computer Science
Machine Learning on Graph Data
Department of Geography
For Peat Sake: carbon cycling from bogs to your garden
School of Computer Science Using artificial brains to understand real brains
Department of Geography
Northern housing and Indigenous Peoples’ health
Department of Physics
Searching for cosmic dawn
Prof. Mathieu Roy
Department of Psychology
No pain no gain: how does the brain decide between pain and monetary rewards?
Friday June 12 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
What are microbes eating and why?
Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics
Singing cells? Label free imaging inside cells using optical harmonics
Julie Alexia-Dias
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The opioid epidemic: mathematical pharmacokinetic modelling of fentanyl and naloxone.
Michelle Yang
Department of Psychology
Psychophysiological markers in PTSD treatment
Undergraduate Student Panel
Dylan Wong
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Investigating Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase as a
Novel Biomarker for Checkpoint Blockade
Morgan Sweeney
Department of Psychology
Magic of the Mind
Nadia Blostein
Cognitive Science
The Modular Organization of Heritability
Across the Cortex
Laura Meng
Neuroscience
Using a mouse model to treat Anorexia nervosa
Redpath Museum
Mouse tale in a warming world
Department of Physics
May the force be with you!
Department of Chemistry
A Solid Case for New, Cleaner Chemistry
Department of
Physics
Making the Largest 3D Maps
of our Universe
Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Ancient and future
earthquakes
Department of
Chemistry
Tracking Cell Metabolism and
Communication
Prof. Thomas Brunner
Department of Physics
Understanding our Universe through neutrinos
Prof. Yajing Liu
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Earthquakes and faults
Prof. Anna Hargreaves
Department of Biology
Life at the edge: understanding species current and future geographic distributions
Prof. Eric McCalla
Department of Chemistry
Accelerating advanced battery materials research
Sun and Science was produced by
PreetiPurba-Singh, Research Office of the Faculty of Science
Eduardo Ganem Cuenca,Research Office of the Faculty of Science