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Preliminary Heats

Three Minute Thesis competitors will not present in the order listed in these online schedules. Competitors will be advised of their speaking order at the event.

Heat 1

March 18, 9 a.m.

Name Faculty Three Minute Thesis title
Jessica Amin Health Sciences A Picture is Worth a Million Words: Imaging in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ridhdhi Dave Engineering A sticky situation: Using small adhesive particles for treating dry eyes
Grace Grafham Health Sciences Repairing the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for Type 1 Diabetes
Aaron Hayat Health Sciences Can yeast rise above the rest? Targeted drug delivery in lung fibrosis
Shawn Hercules Science Breast Cancer: Closing the Racial Divide
Sebastian Himbert Science Super-Human Blood
Ricky Lali Health Science Completing the Puzzle of Genetic Risk
Lyubov Lytvyn Health Sciences How can we create guidelines partnering with the people they apply to?
Dalia Mahmoud Engineering Application of Additive Manufacturing in Biomedical Implants
Ronak Moftakhari Science Exploring the complexity and importance of the regulation of lipid homeostasis
Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot Science Impact of defects on materials: how many defects are too many?
Vinay Patel Engineering It’s Not Always Better To Go Green
Bruno Luis Segat Frare Engineering Silicon Photonics and the Future of Communication
Diego Fernando Valencia Garcia Engineering Predictive control: Back to an electric future

Heat 2

March 18, 10:30 a.m.

 

Name Faculty Three Minute Thesis title
Moustafa Abdel-Mooty Engineering How climate change-induced floods taught me patience.
Komal Aryal Health Sciences Aging and the Emergency Department
L. Creighton Avery Social Science Puberty in the Past
Kathryn Benincasa Science Fly Eyes, Cameras, Waveguides!
Anna Bissola Health Sciences HIT-ting the Target: Strategies for Improving Diagnostic Accuracy
Elise Desjardins Health Sciences Evidence for Planning Healthy, Bike-Friendly Environments in Hamilton
Xiuping Ding Science Stretchable and wearable of electronics
Taylor Elliott Health Science The regulatory elements of blood clots
Karina Kawka Engineering Production of cancer therapeutics based on viruses
Agata Kieliszek Health Sciences Developing a Drug that Prevents Cancer Spread to the Brain
Emma Mulholland Science “Scent-sational” Streptomyces: How soil bacteria can save lives
Joshua Racette Engineering Elucidating Long Lived Radionuclide Migration for the Canadian DGR: Sorption Experiments and Theoretical Modelling
Roxana Roshankhah Engineering Development of membranes for chromatographic separation and their application for bio-pharmaceutical purification
Michael Tucker Engineering Certainty in Safety: Improving Simulations of Nuclear Reactors

Heat 3

March 18, 1 p.m.

Name Faculty Three Minute Thesis title
Alessandra Andreacchi Health Sciences Obesity and Health Care – How Do They Measure Up?
Dawson Bonneville Engineering Tiny Lasers for a Big Future
Isabella Churchill Health Sciences AI: the next frontier in lung cancer diagnosis
Pallavi Dutta Health Sciences Minding the Gap: Examining the intention-physical activity gap using ecological momentary assessment
Hanna Haponenko Science How will we get Shanjay out of the parking lot?
Sami Kurani Science The Lights are on, but is anyone home?: Mapping dwelling distribution in rural Alberta
Sharifa Patel Humanities The Making of “Good” and “Bad” Families in Canadian State and Media Discourses
Cuauhtemoc Reale Hernandez Engineering Stability analysis of small molten lead reactors
Ali Safdel Engineering Additively Manufactured NiTi Stents
Sarah Sandor Science Mushrooms and Insects: Allies or Foes
Priya Thomas Health Sciences The rule of three: Culture, violence, and health
Samaneh Toufanian Engineering Seaweed Bandage
Carla Weigel Humanities Automatic Speech-to-Text. A Resource in University?

Heat 4

March 18, 3 p.m.

Name Faculty Three Minute Thesis title
Mark Armstrong Engineering Computing machines that work on the real numbers
Mercy Daka Science Development of a rapid diagnostic tool for Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
Leandra Greenfield Humanities Posting penitence: Effects of online communication channels on organizational crisis apologies
Logan Groves Engineering Bacteriophages: the Long-Forgotten Answer to the Antibiotic Problem
Renata Hall Social Sciences The Female Gaze: Reclaiming and Redefining Black Femininity and Sexuality
Mackenzie Hilton Humanities Health of the Soul: How Greek Philosophy Shaped Western Medicine
Krishna Jangid Engineering Printable flexible sensor for water quality analysis
Xinyi Li Engineering climate downscaling
Lijun Liu Health Sciences Neuromodulation of patients with distal colon anal-rectal dysfunction
Mohammed Mahdi Engineering The Integral Molten Salt Reactor
Nicholas Simard Engineering Concussion, The Invisible Disease No More!
Jiali Song Science Does the usefulness of our vision change with distance?
Emma Tolsdorf Health Sciences Utilizing Gut Microbiota to Treat Anxiety
Jessica Van Ryn Engineering Sharing for a Better Future

Heat 5

March 19, 8:30 a.m.

Name Faculty Three Minute Thesis title
Jintu Deng Business Will There Be More Workers Moving from Rural Areas to Cities?
Robert Gutgesell Health Sciences Bitumen to Baculums – the Impact of the Alberta Oil Sands on Wildlife
Laiba Jamshed Health Sciences Trying to modulate Tryptophan: wildlife
Gautham Krishnaraj Health Sciences Ethical Innovation in Humanitarian Contexts
Sami Kurani Science The Lights are on, but is anyone home?: Mapping dwelling distribution in rural Alberta
Alex MacLean Humanities Generative Visuals for Audio Performance Using Audio Feature Analysis for Control
Shervin Manzuri Shalmani Engineering Brain Stew: Chopping the Big Artificial Brain into Re-usable Parts
Jeffrey McLean Health Sciences Globalization in the Arctic ocean
Brinda Lakshmi Narayanan Engineering Once it spills, we pay the bill
Bhavya Parekh Engineering Where does this food end up?
Lisa Sarpong
Megan Vierhout Health Sciences Do Monocytes Take Your Breath Away?
Calvin Zhu Engineering Training Trustworthy AI Doctors

Heat 6

March 19, 10:30 a.m.

Name Faculty Three Minute Thesis title
Nikoo Aghaei Health Sciences Gene overexpression study uncovers genetic signature of metastatic lung cancer cells in the brain
Sarah Asbury Science Off-The-Shelf Engineered Immune Cells for Cancer Therapy
Erica Dao Science Setting Boundaries Between You and Cancer
Hussein El-Khechen Health Science Assessing the Design, Analysis, and Reporting of HIV Pilot Studies
Andrea Hucik Health Science Where’s anti-Waldo?
Emil Karpinski Science A Dance of Tusks and Time
Natalija Milkova Health Sciences Dysautonomia and Dysmotility-Making Sense of the DYSarray
Jason Morgenstern Health Sciences Exploring How Diet Predicts Cardiovascular Disease
Saina Sehatkarlangrodi Business Measuring the Value of Enterprise Architecture using Performance Reference Model
Emily Sirotich Health Sciences Clinical Guideline for Emergency Bleeding in Immune Thrombocytopenia:
Aditya Trivedi Engineering Faster MRI liver modality screening using convolutional neural networks
John Vrbensky Health Sciences Rogue Soldiers of the Immune System
Sadru Walji Engineering Going Viral After Surgery