Schedule 2024

Final

• Thursday, March 14, 5 – 7 pm, Thea’s Lounge (Thea Koerner House, 6371 Crescent Rd).
• Audience registration

Training

3MT Personal Presentation Feedback Sessions (20 min by appointment)

Book a personal presentation feedback session with Jacqui Brinkman and Conny Scheffler from Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
Jan 25 – Mar 6, various dates and times.  Register.

Semi-Finals

• Both semi-finals will be held in Thea’s Lounge in Thea Koerner House (with online option).
• The top five finalists from each Semi-Final will advance to the Final event.
• Audience registration

Semi-Final 1: Tuesday, March 12 from 10 am to 12 pm

Presenters:

• Caleigh Charlebois, The moving genes that might stop these birds from breeding: Even though they look almost identical!, PhD in Zoology, supervised by Dr. Darren Irwin
• Cristina Rubino, From Sight to Insight: Eye Movements Guiding Stroke Rehabilitation, supervised by Dr. Lara Boyd
• Torin Halvorson, Novel cell therapies for immune tolerance in organ transplantation, supervised by Dr. Megan Levings
• Michael Sekatchev, Axion Quark Nuggets: A Recipe for a Glowing Milky Way?, supervised by Drs. Ariel Zhitnitsky and Ludovic Van Waerbeke
• Ahmed Kabil, Scared to be scarred? Prevent gut fibrosis with bile acids, supervised by Dr. Kelly McNagny
• Andrea Olaizola, Can CBD be used to treat Parkinson’s disease?, supervised by Dr. Jessica Kalra
• Amir Ghahremani Baghmisheh, Performance of Tall Timber Buildings in Earthquake, supervised byDr. Tony Yang
• Kumseok Jung,Whose data is private? When is it private? And How do we make it private?, PhD in Computer Engineering, supervised by Drs. Karthik Pattabiraman and Sathish Gopalakrishnan,
• Christopher Lamb, Brain sensorimotor changes associated with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, supervised by Drs. Lara Boyd and Jackie Whittaker
• Marina Mehling, Tree bark for clean water, supervised by Dr. Orlando Rojas
• Hiro Ito, Reimagining dementia: stories of ‘ikigai’ and how Japanese Canadians live well with dementia, supervised by Dr. Susan Cox
• Yuyan Li, Forest Doctor, supervised by Dr. Richard Hamelin
• Jamie Kwon, Developing a MicroRNA Biomarker for Oropharyngeal Cancer, supervised by Drs. Cathie Garnis and Eitan Prisman
• Adrian Grzedowski, Engineering Diagnostic Tests with DNA Nanocubes, PhD in Chemistry, supervised by Prof. Dan Bizzotto
• Vishak Nandan Aathresh, Modeling Soft Tissue Artifacts: How Does Your Skin Jiggle? MASc in Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Calvin Kuo

Semi-Final 2: Tuesday, March 12 from 3 to 5 pm

Presenters:

• Aishwarya Das, Soil amendments for the degradation of stormwater-derived trace organic contaminants in bioretention systems, MASc in Civil Engineering supervised by supervised by Dr. Rachel Scholes
• Rio Weil, The art of quantum computer: crafting computational canvases on a quantum device, MSc in Physics, supervised by Dr. Robert Raussendorf
• Angeline Wu, When Sugar Isn’t Sweet: Glycosylation in Rheumatoid Arthritis, MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, supervised by Dr. Simon Wisnovsky
• Daniel Elesin, Impact of Aerobic Fitness on Intra-Individual Variability in Older Adults with Chronic Stroke, MSc in Rehabilitation Sciences, supervised by Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose,
• Katherine Baillie, Office politics: studying dominant negative mutations in DNA2 to improve cancer treatment, PhD in Interdisciplinary Oncology, supervised by Dr. Peter Stirling
• Akash Madhav Gondaliya, Fighting Climate Change By Reinventing Wood, PhD in Chemical Engineering, supervised by Dr. E. Johan Foster
• Karisse Yamamoto, Synthesis and evaluation of UV-activated gas sensor for monitoring soil nutrients in smart agricultural system applications, MSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering, supervised by Dr. Fariborz Taghipour
• Genevieve Bonnor, Athletic Motion Sensing: How to Reduce Soft Tissue Jiggle in Impact Measurement, MASc in Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Calvin Kuo
• Harry Seely, Applying Deep Learning to Optimize Lidar-Based Forest Carbon Models, PhD in Forestry, supervised by Dr. Nicholas Coops
• Rael Gumbe, Real World Validation of the Efficacy of a Fall and Near-Fall Detection Algorithm, MASc in Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Calvin Kuo
• Victor Sira, Robust Clock Generation for Microchips, MASc in Electrical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Sudip Shekhar
• Vanessa Jones, Changing colonial stories of soils: How the soil microbiome can inspire ecological and food systems reconciliation, PhD in Forestry, supervised by Dr Jennifer Grenz
• Orkhon Gantogtokh, Envisioning Doctoral Education in Mongolia, PhD in Educational Studies, supervised by Prof. Lesley Andres
• Nada Al-Emadi, Disarming C. difficile: The Fragmented Approach, PhD in Microbiology & Immunology, supervised by Drs. Ted Steiner and Laura Sly
• Penelope Kahn, Mechanisms and consequences of rapid evolution in an extreme environment, PhD in Zoology, supervised by Dr. Sarah Otto