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Past Sun and Science Events

"Sun and Science" became the virtual edition of our popular Soup and Science series. Students and community members heard from outstanding Â鶹AV professors across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions in dynamic breakout rooms.ÌýClick on the session date to view theÌý video recording of the presentation.

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School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Coughing? Choking? No Voice? What went wrong with your throat?


Department of Physiology

Interrogating immune responses in bats

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Imane Chafi
Faculty of Engineering

Cress - MEI Mapping Tool : A Software Engineering Web Interface to Classify Musical Neumes

Jessica Ford
Redpath Museum

STEMM Diversity @ Â鶹AV

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Department of Geography
Changing Arctic Landscapes

Department of Chemistry
Modern Mass Spectrometry: So Much More than Molecular Weight

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Department of Physics
The Diversity of Exoplanets

Department of Physics
Why Physics Matters (Â鶹AV Physics Outreach)

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Prof. Christophe Dubach

School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering
Language Design, Compilation and Hardware Synthesis for Machine Learning Acceleration

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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 Â鶹AV Outreach in Earth Sciences

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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

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Department of Chemistry
How to turn crustacean or insect shells
into new plastics

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Prof. Bastien Castagner

Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Understanding and manipulating the human gut microbiota

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Prof. John White

Department of Physiology
Vitamin D and
COVID-19

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Ada McVean

Department of Chemistry
More than just blowing things up: Â鶹AV Chemistry Outreach Group

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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

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Tuesday July 7, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Strength below the Continents

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Interactions between geometry, algebra and quantum theory

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Department of Geography

Global lakes and rivers: putting the world's water resources on the map

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Prof. Don
Sheppard

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Tackling Fungal Diseases

Prof. Samantha Gruenheid

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New links between the gut and the brain in Parkinson’s Disease

Prof. Alvin
Shrier

Department of Physiology
Potassium ion channels and cardiac arrhythmias
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Prof. D

Department of Physics
Black Hole Exotica

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

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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

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Prof. Melanie Dirks

Department of Psychology So, what happened at school today?

School of Computer Science Using artificial brains to understand real brains

Department of Geography
Northern housing and Indigenous Peoples’ health

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Department of Physics
Searching for cosmic dawn

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lanna Watt

Department of Biology
Exercise in a pill for ataxia

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Prof. Mathieu Roy

Department of Psychology
No pain no gain: how does the brain decide between pain and monetary rewards?

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Friday June 12 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
What are microbes eating and why?
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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.

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Michelle Yang

Department of Psychology
Psychophysiological markers in PTSD treatment

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Undergraduate Student Panel

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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
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Laura Meng

Neuroscience
Using a mouse model to treat Anorexia nervosa

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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

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Department of
Physics

Making the Largest 3D Maps
of our Universe

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Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences

Ancient and future
earthquakes

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Department of
Chemistry

Tracking Cell Metabolism and
Communication

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Prof. Thomas Brunner

Department of Physics

Understanding our Universe through neutrinos
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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

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Sun and Science was produced by

PreetiÌýPurba-Singh, Research Office of the Faculty of Science
Eduardo Ganem Cuenca,ÌýResearch Office of the Faculty of Science

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