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? |
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| 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 |