SURF Poster Session

Please find a complete list of poster presentations below, noting that changes may be made in the coming days. Contact our team with any questions or concerns.

 

SECTION A | SECTION B | SECTION C 


 

SECTION A - Posters #1-31

 

1. Dania Abdulrazzag, Saba Halabisaz, Firaas Mir (Supervisor: Professor Melissa Holmes
Differences in Neural Activation Patterns in Subordinate Naked Mole Rat Castes 

 

2. Kate Abecia (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan
Parity in Preference? Age and Gender Effects on Peer Preference for Gender Non-Conforming Children 

 

3. Eren Aday, Ryan Ugovsek (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai) 
Behavioural effects of handling on zebrafish (Danio rerio) shoals 

 

4. Besher Al Asmi, Sara Jesem (Supervisor: Professor Joanne Chung) 
The Sounds of Everyday Life in a Sample of Syrian Young Adults Resettling in the Netherlands 

 

5. Hafssa Al-Rawi, Charlotte Xiaoting Liu (Supervisor: Professor Yuhong He
Assessing Vegetation Recovery in Rehabilitated Sites Using Field Data and Drone Imagery 

 

6. Sama Al-Shammari, Madison Mickalakos (Supervisor: Professor Melissa Holmes) 
Investigating the Effect of Valproic Acid on Social Behaviour in Naked Mole Rats 

 

7. Farheen Ali (Supervisor: Professor Marc Johnson) 
The effects of urban green and non-green roofs on pollinator composition and visitation

 

8. Luna Alkabra, Blythe Apostol (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson) 
Monolingual & Bilingual Children’s Word Recognition in Unfamiliar Accents

 

9. Basma Alkhateeb, Fabiha Bushra, Oliver Du (Supervisor: Professor Cassidy D’Aloia
High food availability as a driver of fish occupancy in risky sponge habitat 

 

10. Sophia Alonzi (Supervisor: Professor Alana Ogata) 
Development of a CA125 Single Molecule Array for Biofluid-based Endometriosis Diagnostics 

 

11. Rose Amir Pour, Maheel Mirza, Yeonjun (Jun) Park (Supervisor: Professor Joanne Chung) 
"Giving Voice": The Launch of a Community-Engaged Longitudinal Study of Racialized Students' Personality, Well-Being, and University Experiences 

 

12. Alisa Augustin (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan
Faith and Place: Exploring the Impact of Urbanicity and Religiosity on Gender Roles for Parenting in Thailand

 

13. Arvin Azodi (Supervisor: Professor Alana Ogata) 
Development of Impedance Bioresistor for Cardiac Disease Prognosis using Roll-to-Roll Technology 

 

14. Natasha Barekman, Muskaan Toor (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
Strategies to Enhance User Engagement on Research Labs’ Social Media Accounts 

 

15. Jazzmeyn Barnett (Supervisor: Professor Loren Martin) 
Social Modulation of Pain in Drug-Naïve Cohabitants of Mice Administered Chronic Morphine  

 

16. Ido Ben Haim, Vic Moore, Christian Kevin Sidharta (Supervisor: Professor Dennis Fernandes) 
ChatGPT for Drug Discovery? Developing Proteomic Large Language Models

 

17. Naima Bhutta (Supervisor: Professor David McMillen
Creating an ER Membrane Fusion Protein to Enable Vesicular Transport Directly to the Plasma Membrane from the ER in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

18. Massimo Bozzo, Alya Ruken, Sacha Samouk, Lucas Zuzak (Supervisor: Professor Jordana Garbati) 
Emoji Use on X (Twitter) During the 2024 Super Bowl  

 

19. Kayan Bunnaman (Supervisor: Professor Bryan Stewart) 
Investigating the Role of the Rab-GDP-Dissociation Inhibitor (GDI) on Drosophila Melanogaster Neuromuscular Junction Morphology and Synaptic Plasticity

 

20. Jacob Burek (Supervisor: Professor Loren Martin) 
Cell subtype identification of novel long range cholecystokinin expressing neurons of the anterior cingulate cortex 

 

21. Xiaoyu Cai, Kunyi Gao (Supervisor: Professor Omidali Aghababaei Jazi
Decoding Survivorship Bias: Insights from Biased Survival Data 

 

22. Ian Yiu Hon Chan (Supervisor: Professor Randy Besco) 
Revealing the Insights of Canadian Electoral Trends  
 

23. Trassy Cathrina D'Rozario (Supervisor: Professor Anna Kosovicheva
Mapping individual differences in visual perception around the visual field
 

24. Vivian Dam (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray) 
Investigating effects of urbanization on Odonata assemblages at stormwater ponds 

 

25. Ana Beatriz de Faria Porto (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson) 
From Lift to Elevator: How Different Accents Affect Children's Social Preferences? 
 

26. Francesco Del Rosso, Fiona Hanasavha (Supervisor: Professor Holly Bradley) 
Neural Tracking of Accented Speech by Infants  

 

27. Grace Diab (Supervisor: Professor Maciej Korzynski
Post Synthetic modifications of Metal-Organic Frameworks Featuring Alkynyl Moieties 

 

28. Amanda Dong (Supervisor: Doug VanderLaan
Sociocultural influences on Thai and Canadian children’s self-perception of typicality towards both genders    
 

29. Homayoun Elyasi (Supervisor: Professor Ahmed Ashraf
An Introduction to Proof Assistants  

 

30. Nihal Ercin (Supervisor: Professor Shannon McCauley
Investigating the Impact of Road Salt Exposure on Odonata Diversity in Mesocosm Ponds in King City, Ontario 
 

31. Tea Falzata (Supervisor: Professor Praneeta Mudliar
Community Solutions

 

 

SECTION B - Posters #32-61
 

32. Aiya Farhan (Supervisor: Professor Christopher Eaton) 
Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Communication 
 

33. Zhengyang Fei, Dylan Galego, Yusuf Kenaroglu (Supervisor: Professor Asal Aslemand) 
A Multi-Step Tutorial Structure to Enhance Students’ Learning Experience in Applied Statistics 
 

34. Shawncholi Ferdous, Vidhan Joshi (Supervisor: Professor Lea Hirsch) 
Dancing in the Dark: Unveiling the Cosmic Choreography of HD165401’s White Dwarf Companion using astrometric and radial velocity data. 
 

35. Nicole Fernando, Teodora Prnjat (Supervisor: Professor Steven Chatfield) 
Careers in Life Science
 

36. Selena Gangaram, John Marques (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan
Your Brain on Birth Control: Documenting Structural Change Over the Hormonal Contraceptive Cycle
 

37. Karmjot Girn, Khushi Malik, Moazzam Reza (Supervisor: Professor Tingting Zhu
Using Storytelling and Physical Analogues to Enhance Engagement and Accessibility in CS1
 

38. Elaine Guan (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
The Impact of Children’s Musical Experience on Pitch Imitation
 

39. Silvia Guidi (Supervisors: Professors Anna Kosovicheva & Benjamin Wolfe
The effects of variable fonts on sentence-level reading 

 

40. Mumtaz Hajjo Alrifai (Supervisor: Professor Alex Nguyen Ba) 
Statistical modeling and prediction of nuclear localization sequences in intrinsically disordered regions using evolutionary contrasting 
 

41. Abdullah Hamasni, Nick Li (Supervisor: Professor Michael Phillips
Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for sustainable biofuel production 

 

42. Karim Hamid, Mujda Mirabi (Supervisor: Professor Maciej Korzynski
Towards Targeted Silicon-Doping in Metal-Organic Frameworks
 

43. Sana Hashim, Ryan Siu (Supervisor: Professor Yuhong He) 
Monitoring Vegetation Greenness & Species Diversity in Post-Rehabilitated Ecosystems Using UAVs 
 

44. Alisha Hasan, Adelina Patlatii, Sana Sarin (Supervisor: Professor Rutwa Engineer)  
Introducing Critical Algorithmic Literacies in Computing Education 
 

45. Ye Hong (Supervisor: Professor Tenley Conway) 
How Have They Grown? Utilizing Satellite Imagery for Assessing Trees Planted Through a Backyard Tree Planting Program  
 

46. Anya Hu (Supervisor: Professor Michael Phillips) 
PEP Synthesis in Mature Chloroplasts of A. thaliana 
 

47. Taif Huda, Amanda Wang (Supervisor: Professor Tingting Zhu
Identifying Food Deserts in Mississauga: A Comparative Analysis of Socioeconomic Methods
 

48. Luca Hutchison, Parham Baghbanbashi, Meryem Karayunusoglu, Amar Saed, Yimin Xu (Supervisor: Professor Dennis Fernandes
Implementing AI and Machine Learning in Ultrasound imaging for Enhanced Diagnostic Accuracy 
 

49. Reem Idris (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
Surprise, Surprise – How Musical Surprises Might Benefit Language Learning in Children 

 

50. Anne Ikhile (Supervisor: Professor Virginijus Barzda
Nonlinear Microscopy of Molecular Aggregates in Plant Petals
 

51. Benjamin Koshy Jacob (Supervisor: Professor Meng-Chuan Lai
Critiquing Paradigms in Autism Research: A Pathway to Equity-Centered Revision   
 

52. Samira Kamal Eddin (Supervisor: Professor Ingo Ensminger) 
Effect of soil moisture on turgor loss point and differences between genotypes in white spruce.  
 

53. James Kania (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray) 
How does urbanization affect sexual ornamentation in a sex-role reversed species? 

 

54. Damien Kemka Douanla (Supervisor: Professor Virginijus Barzda
Nonlinear microscopy of neurotubules

 

55. Aleeza Khan (Supervisor: Professor Voula Kanelis) 
Characterization of Disease-Causing Mutation in the Human ATP-Sensitive Potassium (KATP ) Channel 

 

56. Keonho Lee (Supervisor: Professor Marcus Dillon) 
Molecular Characterization of Transcription Activator-Like Effector Evolution in Xanthomonas oryzae

 

57. Audrey Leung (Supervisor: Professor Maddalena Damian
Urban agriculture and its connections to accessing healthier food in the City of Mississauga 

 

58. Ruitong Li (Supervisor: Professor Baohua Liu
Mechanisms underlying the retinotopy of optokinetic reflex 

 

59. Brooke Lim (Supervisor: Professor Anna Kosovicheva
Up or down! Using motion to measure timing delays between the two eyes

 

60. Selina Liu, Mahrijan Ozbek (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan) 
The Early Versus Late Bilingual Brain: Structural Differences Associated With the Timing of Second-Language Acquisition 

 

61. Alia Louati (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
The Effect of Temporal Dynamics on Attention in Complex Auditory Scenes  


 

 

SECTION C - Posters #62-104

 

62. Khushi Malik, Amber Richardson (Supervisor: Professor Andrew Petersen) 
Seeding Forums with Curated Questions  

 

63. John Marques, Selena Gangaram (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan) 
Sex on the Brain… or Is It Gender? A Comparison of Hypothalamic Subfield Volumes in Transgender and Cisgender Adults
 

64. Meryem Matar (Supervisor: Professor Bryan Stewart) 
Investigating the interactions between Rab Gtpase Dissociation Inhibitor (GDI) and Neurotrophins on Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction Synaptic Morphology  

 

65. Quinn McGovern (Supervisor: Professor Dennis Fernandes) 
Research & Development of Computational Modules for Educational Purposes​

 

66. Asmaa Meerasafeer (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan) 
Cultural and Religious Influences on Other-Gender Similarity in Canadian and Thai Children 

 

67. Gauri Menon (Supervisor: Professor Marc Johnson) 
The Invasion Game: Investigating Fitness Effects of Structural Variants and their Role in Urban Adaptation of White Clover (T. repens)
 

68. Andy Mishra, Shahad Badr (Supervisor: Professsor Jessamyn Schertz
Exploring the variance in Indian English
 

69. William Mitchell, Justin Tran (Supervisor: Damian Maddalena
Quantifying foraging potential in support of understanding the potential environmental impacts of competing pollinators

 

70. Drishya Mitra (Supervisor: Professor Jayson Parker) 
The Role of Light Exposure in Regulating Sleep: A Pilot Study 

 

71. Isabelle Moss, Mathilde Tremblay (Supervisor: Professor Tim Duval) 
Developing a Methodology to Assess Carbon & Nutrient Availability in Restored Aggregate Pits

 

72. Huda Nadeem (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan
Cultural Influences on Gender-Related Peer Preferences in Thai and Canadian Children 
 

73. Somtochukwu Nnakenyi (Supervisor: Professor Nathan Innocente
Students Supporting Students: Enhancing Academic Success Through Holistic Peer Mentorship  

 

74. Abdulsalam Oladimeji (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray) 
The Role of Ornamentation in Animal Behavior and Reproduction: A Comparative Analysis Across Species 

 

75. Mahrijan Ozbek, Selina Liu (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan) 
Reading the Dyslexic Brain: Structural Abnormalities Across Reading and Language Circuits  

 

76. Laiba Paker, Matteo Paventi (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan) 
Journey into the Relationship between Brain Structure and sex/gender: Methodological Insights and Challenges Related to the CIVET Pipeline.
 

77. Garima Panwar (Supervisor: Professor Ashley Monks) 
Sexual Dimorphism in the Mouse Brain Following Genital Stimulation and Testosterone Treatment 

 

78. Ian Quan (Supervisor: Professor Omidali Aghababaei Jazi)
Hidden Markov Model on Stock Price Prediction

 

79. Prajna Pendharkar (Supervisor: Professor Samar Sabie
Using Storytelling to Surface Design and Brainstorming Strategies of Novice Makerspace Users 

 

80. Silas Peters (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray) 
Invertebrate Communities Associated With Urban Ponds

 

81. Daniel Pourrahimi (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray) 
The Impact of De-icing Road Salt on Mosquito Oviposition Preferences Across Urban and Rural Regions 

 

82. Maria Proskurina (Supervisor: Professor Ingo Ensminger) 
Plant Responses to Climate Change 

 

83. Kaileigh Rador, Yifan Shu (Supervisor: Professor Timothy Duval) 
Water availability in restored sand and gravel pits

 

84. Louisianne Saldagna, Selena Gangaram (Supervisor: Professor Asal Aslemand
Understanding Undergraduate Students' Attitudes Toward Statistics 

 

85. Maira Salman (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
The Role of Emotional Valence, Arousal, and Dominance on the Attentional Speech Bias  

 

86. Hiya Singh (Supervisor: Professor Andrea Olive) 
Wildlife Conservation in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and Roosevelt Campobello International Park 

 

87. Imanuel Arie Sirupa (Supervisor: Professor Kent Moore) 
Analysis of Sea Ice Dynamics Along Nares Strait 

 

88. Vaamanan Sivalogan, Ryan Ugovsek (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan
The Brain on Cocaine: Structural Abnormalities Across Reward Circuits in Cocaine Use Disorder 

 

89. Imran Smlatic, Stefanie Rajkumarsingh (Supervisor: Tim Duval) 
Using vegetation characteristics to determine the ecological success of restored sand & gravel pits

 

90. TBD

 

91. Chloe Syriac (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
Tonal Language Exposure: Speech and Song Pitch Imitation in Children 

 

92. Brianna Tapia (Supervisor: Professor Marcus Dillon) 
Understanding the role of gene effectors in Xanthomonas Campestris 

 

93. Roman Tkachuk (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray) 
Relationship of male dance fly hypogigium shape complexity and mating success 

 

94. Anh Tran (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan
Gender Essentialism Beliefs and Categorization of Gender Non-Conforming Peers: A Non-Western Perspective  

 

95. Burrak Urrehman (Supervisor: Professor Jayson Parker) 
Digital Sleep Biomarkers: Oura Ring's Response to Sleep Hygiene Practices  
 

96. Thandava Vanapilli Nursimulu (Supervisor: Professor Jumi Shin) 
Using Rational Design and Phage-Assisted Evolution to Develop Protein Drugs  

 

97. Jessica Wen (Supervisor: Professor Michael Liut) 
Enhancing Self-Explanation in Student Learning Through Large Language Models 

 

98. Elyse Wong (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson) 
Effects of talker familiarity on word recognition in mono-accent and multi-accent toddlers 

 

99. Jack Wong (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray
Herpetofauna assemblage comparisons between urban ponds
 

100. Cassandra Yanga (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
Tiny Ears, Big Discoveries: Infants' Ability to Distinguish Speech vs. Song  

 

101. Jordan Young (Supervisor: Professor Robert Reisz
Scavenged Remains of the First Large-Bodied Herbivores during the Late Paleozoic 

 

102. Tahrim Zafirah (Supervisor: Professor Damian Maddalena
European Honeybees on a Canadian Campus: State of the science on native and non-native pollinators 

 

103. Zainab Zakaria (Supervisor: Professor Loren Martin
Are You Hurt? Exploring the Neurological Mechanisms Behind Female Rodent Approach Behaviour Towards Siblings in Pain 

 

104. Rosa Fragomeni (Supervisor: Matthew Adams) 
The Impacts of Urban Trails on Non-communicable Diseases