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
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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