P站色情片 Undergraduate Research Conference
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE!
罢丑别听P站色情片 Undergraduate Research Conference (TCURC) is an annual interdisciplinary conference giving all Trinity students the opportunity to present their research in an academic setting. This is also a unique occasion for students, faculty, staff and alumni of P站色情片 and the University of Toronto to meet and discuss related academic topics of interest outside of the classroom. Whether you are a presenter or a participant, TCURC is an opportunity for all undergraduate students, and university community members, to attend and gain experience & knowledge at an academic conference.听 TCURC is free to attend and lunch is provided.
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TCURC 2025 is scheduled for this SATURDAY, MARCH 15th, 2025.听 The conference is at capacity.听 Those unable to register in time are still welcome to visit the college during TCURC to see the public poster presentations in the main foyer and halls of P站色情片 over the weekend.
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TCURC 2025: SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 – CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (IN-PERSON)
9:00am to 9:30am: Conference Registration (Seeley Hall – P站色情片)
9:30am to 9:45am: Opening Remarks (Seeley Hall)
9:45am to 10:00am: Travel & Break
10:00 am to 3:30 pm: TCURC Wellness Lounge | Boardroom Lounge (next to Seeley Hall)
Open for the duration of the conference & hosted by the Mental Health Peer Advisors, the Wellness Lounge is a safe and relaxing space to take breaks and get self-care during the conference.
- Relax A Bit!听Comfy Chairs & Relaxing Music!
- Stay Hydrated!听Water, Herbal Teas, Fruit Punch!
- Stay Energized!听Energy Bars, Fruit & Cheese Tray!
- Make Something!听Scent-Pouch Making Station & Button Making Station!
- Capture the Memory & Remember How Awesome You Are!听鈥淚 was a delegate! I presented at TCURC!鈥� Photo-Booth!
10:00 am to 11:15 am: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, Junior Common Room, TC22, TC24
BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room
- Daria Synelnykova – Reclaiming Ukrainian Agency: The Role of Ukrainian Dissidents in Shaping the Global Cold War and Contributing to the USSR Collapse
- Kaelem Moniz – Fujimori鈥檚 Shadow: A Study of Extractive Colonialism in Peru
- Azucena Qadeer – Success Through Failure: The Stain of the Shining Path
- Isebela Sousa – A Freeze in the Mediterranean: 50 Years Since the Division of Cyprus
BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room
- Clive Stevens – Refusing to Rest in Peace: How Modern Medical Care in North America Allows Terminally Ill Cancer Patients to Refuse a Traditional Good Death
- Maya Kazemi – The Impact of COVID-19 on the disruption of care for individuals with HIV/AIDS
- Raina Uppal – The Effect on Abortion of Mandatory Waiting Period Laws: A Case Study of Arkansas, 2015
- Hongzip Kim – Designing Curriculum for Teaching Programming with Comics
BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – Junior Common Room
- Nicholas Amenta, Gwendolyne Depoorter, Miyuki Nakano, and Muskan Virk听– Reintroduction of the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee to the Greater Toronto Area
- Rosalia Caramazza, Theodora Ghosh,听Dewi Leksono, and Nevan Kho – Urban Green Infrastructure: A Vertical Aquaponics Ecosystem Design
- Sharanya Shankar – Examining the Sustainability of Food Prescription Programs in Canada: A Series of Semi-structured Interviews with Community Partners
- Samuel Hoogsteen – Taxing What Isn’t There; the effect of municipal vacancy taxes in Canada.
- Yuewen Luo – Counting Permutations in $S_{2n}$ and $S_{2n+1}$
BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC22
- Erika Teeter – GLP-1/E2 as a Potential Treatment for Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease: Restoring Cognitive Function
- Yanbing Shi – Potential Therapeutic Effects of Drug-R on Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury
- Laiba Irfan Butt 鈥� Using Salivary Cortisol to evaluate the stress response for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulations (RTMS) guided by task-evoked brain activity
- Tavie Johnson – Exploring Antioxidant Therapies in Epilepsy
- Sara Ziadat – Blood-Brain Barrier-Exclusion Scoring to Reduce Risk of Neurotoxicity in Drug Discovery
BREAKOUT ROOM #5 – TC24
- Eugene Seo – The gut microbiome and immune correlates of healthy aging in HIV
- Victoria Sephton – From the Backyard to the Bench: Defining Exposomic Influences on the Adaptive Immune Landscape
- Aditya Khan – Endemicity and Eradication of Diseases In the Presence of Vaccination and Reinfection in a SEIRV Model
- Bhavnoor Pannu – A Dual Scoping Review of Factors Causing Misdiagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women
11:15 am to 11:30 am: Break听& Refreshments (Seeley Hall)
11:30 am to 12:45 pm: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, Junior Common Room, TC22, TC24
BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room
- Maria Saqqur – Tunisia and Egypt: Transitional Justice and Politics of Accountability
- Sanya Pasricha – Examining the Relationship Between the Type of Actor and Prevelance of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones(1989-2021)
- De Xin (Daisy) Zhao – Foreign Intervention and Famine: Investigating the Root Causes of Food Insecurity in Niger and Malawi
BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room
- Amelia Wallworth – 听鈥淸B]ut at night she would sneak back to nurse her babies鈥�: Absences and Presences of 听Decision-Making within Enslaved Women鈥檚 Corporeal Capacity for Nourishment
- Arlo Grzyb-Reed – The Materiality of Pen and Ink Through the Hands of Writers: The Case of the Sinistral Scribe
- Sebastian Vidal-Waldron –The Eagle against the Tricolour: Exploring the Parallels Between the Development of General Aleksandr Vasil’evich Suvorov’s Tactics and Revolutionary France
- Anthony Popov – Reasoning with the Masses in London through Rhyme: Political Ballads and Popular Culture in the Age of the Glorious Revolution, c.听1678鈥�1690
BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – Junior Common Room
- Sara Eftekharzadeh – Examining coping behaviors in response to potentially morallY听 injurious events (PMIE) in individuals with low and high severity of听 PTSD symptoms
- Emma Watt-Hill – Exploring Children’s Moralisation of Effort (ChiME): Do Children Prefer Hard-Working Individuals?
- Nikita Yang – Neural and Behavioral Effects of Face Inversion in Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Anorexia Nervosa
- Annie Li – Narratives of Victim Precipitation in Police Accountability Reports: The Case of the SIU’s Response to Suicide-by-Cop Declarations
- James Wang – Superintelligence and the Burden of Intelligence: A Zapffean Critique of AI
BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC22
- Eliza McCann – The effect of sex differences on deep brain stimulation in a rodent model of PTSD
- Amir Samadi – Spatial Memory Performance and Consolidation Deficits in a Pre-Plaque TgCRND8 Mouse Model of Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease
- Zoe Augspach – Multiple Sclerosis and the Epstein-Barr Virus
- Roxanne Huang – Characterizing Cellular miRNA Downregulation During Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Infection
BREAKOUT ROOM #5 – TC24
- Hudson Wentzell – Molecular evolution of cetacean visual genes
- Sunny Chen – Characterizing the LINC Complex in Stem Cell Expansion During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
- Athena Cheng – Investigating the Osteogenic Potential of Adult Tissue-Resident Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
- Kenza Boumehdi – How does nuclear organization vary throughout developmental time?
12:45 pm to 1:15 pm: LUNCH (distributed in Seeley Hall)听|听Location is your choice!
1:15 pm to 2:00 pm: Research听Poster Presentations | P站色情片 front hall
Poster creators have given permission to make their contact information available for any questions you may have on their posters/research.
- Jacqueline Zhao – Perceptions of AI in Education among ADHD-diagnosed Early Adolescents Undergoing an AI-Based Assistive Intervention
- Zach Lidder – The impact of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
- Ian Magnuson – Tuft Cells and IL-25: Decoding the Chicken-or-Egg Mystery of Crohn鈥檚 Disease
- Lavinia Ricca – Using Bacteriophages to Battle Medullary Thyroid Cancer
- Nandita Jayadevan – Can Machine Learning Decode Neuron Shapes Across Species?
- Lilah Williamson – Designing a Canadian Youth Climate Corps
- Zaina Etoom – Storm Beneath the Skin: Investigating the Environmental Drivers of Atopic Dermatitis
- Hailey Shi – Uncovering the origins of uterine leiomyomas: female sex hormones and gene translocation
- Zoe Voudouris – The Effects of Synthetic Glucocorticoid Exposure on Epididymal Epithelial Cells of Adult Male Guinea Pigs
- Elizabeth Kam – Investigating the Impact of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure
- Artin Khiabani – Fundamental Fairness Beyond Legal Counsel: Envisioning a Less Lawyer-Centric Refugee Status Determination System in Canada
- Yixuan Peng – The Living Dead’s Brain: Investigating Insular-Amygdala-DMN Connectivity in Cotard Syndrome
- Willow Teter – Returns to Education for Canadian Postsecondary Students
- Ani Khachatrian & Shivanshi听Dhuria – Investigating Impaired Secretory IgA Responses in Disease States Across Mucosal Surfaces
- Larissa Pringle – A Screen for Cytochrome P450 Bioactivated Small Molecules that Kill C. elegans.
- Desmond Bradshaw – Evaluating the Relevance of WHO鈥檚 Tuberculosis Treatment Guidelines to the Challenges of Adherence to Decentralised and Integrated Care Models
- Jannat Islam – Reframing Romance: Otome Games and the Female Gaze
- Jayden Tang – Conversational Dynamics With AI: The Effect of Closeness on Moral Judgement in Robot and Human Conditions
- Caroline Andersen – Intergenerational consequences of maternal depression during pregnancy
- Emma Balmakoon – When Sleep Turns Fatal: a-Synuclein and its Potential Silent Trigger of Sporadic Fatal Insomnia
- Chiara Puglielli – Do We Know What Fascists Hate? A Qualitative Evaluation of How Theorists Understand 鈥淓nemies鈥� in Contemporary Fascist Regimes
- Anastasia Leshchik – SiNc or Swim: Synthesis of Biocompatible Silicon Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy
- Rebecca Chau – Resveratrol and the Overlapping Biology of Aging and Cancer: A Nutrient-Based Approach to Prevention and Therapy
- Sofia Penttil盲 – A Tale of Two Conditions: Untangling the Correlative and Causal Links Between Migraine and Multiple Sclerosis
- David Badillo Avila – A Comprehensive Atlas of T Cell Glycosylation
2:00 pm to 2:10 pm: Travel & Break
2:10 pm to 3:15 pm: Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | Seeley Hall
- Laurence Yang – Reevaluating Platonic Justice: A Critical Analysis of Karl Popper’s Critique
- Desiree Menezes – From Silicon Valley to the Global South: A Critical Examination of the Neocolonial Impact of AI
- Beatrix Stone – Evaluating the Social Relationships Between Gang Members and Their Communities in Western Canada听
- Esme Smolynec – Resisting Manifest Destiny: The Hawaiian Stand Against American Annexation
- Isa Oliveira Taranto – A Green Hell: Addressing concerns of migrant health in the Dari茅n Gap
- Amelie Pinard – Psychological Determinants of Generational Poverty in Canada – A Case Study Comparison
- Tushti Hari – Press Start for Healing: The Paradigm Shift of Video Games in Relationship Therapy
- Gabrielle Dum茅 – Games for Good 鈥� The Implementation of Gamification in Health Promotion Materials in Barbados
- Maddux Ma – Virtual Care in Ontario: A Promising Route for Improving Access to Primary Healthcare
- Anjali Joshi-Dave – Public Health Without Borders – Preserving Public Health in Times of Crisis
- Caitlin Walsh – Reforming Policy on Climate Change and Zoonotic Disease: A Focus on Avian Flu
- Lianne Ohayon – Policy Brief: Tackling Postpartum Depression with Culturally Sensitive Healthcare Initiatives
- Sia Issar – Deepfake Pornography and Gendered Harm: The Case for Legal Intervention
3:15 pm to 3:25 pm: Break | Wellness Lounge – Boardroom Lounge
3:25 pm to 4:30 pm: Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | Seeley Hall
- Paulina Turczynska – Impact of the FUS P525L Mutation on Glial Cells in ALS: Localization, Stress Response, and Gender Differences
- Gravity Guignard – Primitive Neural Stem Cells
- Cordelia Simmons – Therapeutic potential of miR-19a-mediated STAT1 inhibition for increasing cartilage growth in osteoarthritis
- Shivangi Roy – Systems biology analysis of vitamin D3 reveals new anticancer properties
- Julia Barbat – Probing Loop Attachment of a Copper-based spin label for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies
- Julia Freischlag – Uncovering Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: gene P站色情片y and tailored treatment options
- Caitlin Evran – Filling the Vision Gap: Using pluripotent stem cells and adjuvant听pharmacological agents听to successfully replace malfunctioning RPEs in juvenile Stargardt鈥檚 macular dystrophy.
- David Lee – Differential Toxicity in Colon Cancer Cells: NS Polypeptides as a Targeted Therapy
- William Malzar – Et Tu, Brute?: An Investigation Into the Link Between Antibody-Dependent Enhancement and Dengue Severity in Flavivirus-Immune Patients
- Maria Goemans, Ivy Chen, Karin Jacubkova, and Carter Hajt – Differential Interactions of Phragmites australis Native and Invasive Subspecies with Mycorrhizal Fungi Species in Southern Ontario
- Stefan Pereira – Why is Antimicrobial Resistance So High?: A Case Study of India & Bangladesh
4:30 pm: Closing Remarks
TCURC 2025 is brought to you by P站色情片鈥檚 Academic Dons & Academic Peer Advisors, in collaboration with the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program, the Graham Library, and the Office of the Registrar.
Please feel free to look over the archive of past conference schedules below…
TCURC 2024: SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2024
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (IN-PERSON)
9:00am to 9:30am: Conference Registration (Seeley Hall – P站色情片)
9:30am to 9:45am: Opening Remarks (Seeley Hall)
9:45am to 10:00am: Travel & Break
10:00 am to 3:30 pm: TCURC Wellness Lounge | Boardroom Lounge (next to Seeley Hall)
Open for the duration of the conference & hosted by the Mental Health Peer Advisors, the Wellness Lounge is a safe and relaxing space to take breaks and get self-care during the conference.
Relax A Bit!听Comfy Chairs & Relaxing Music!
Stay Hydrated!听Water, Herbal Teas, Fruit Punch!
Stay Energized!听Energy Bars, Fruit & Cheese Tray!
Make Something!听Scent-Pouch Making Station & Button Making Station!
Capture the Memory & Remember How Awesome You Are!听鈥淚 was a delegate! I presented at TCURC!鈥� Photo-Booth!
10:00 am to 11:15 am: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Room, TC22, TC24
BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room
- Jason Bouramia – Reimagining Governance: Harnessing Infrapolitics to Cure State Blindness in the Arab World and Beyond
- Amelia Hui – Artificial Intelligence in Warfare: Ethics, Development, and Regulation
- Esme Smolynec – Historical and Contemporary Causes of the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Daria Synelnykova – Dangers of the Private Military and Security Companies for Global Security: the Case of the Wagner Group
- (Conference Runner-Up for 10-minute Presentations!)* Jordan Picheniuk – An Empire by Free Enterprise: The Expansion of the British Empire in India by the East India Company in the Long Eighteenth Century
BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room
- Jenny Phung – Universal Health Coverage and Canada: Gaps in Medicare
- Omer Obaid Qazi– (Over)burden of Proof: An Examination of Legal Hurdles to Indigenous Title Rights in Canada
- Mahek Kaur – Constitutionalizing the Right to Health in Canada: A Legal Avenue to Address Health-Related Rights Violations Impacting Indigenous Communities
- Marija Buzanin – This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land: The Impact of Metaphorically-Structured and Gendered Language on Public Perception of Climate Change
- Nicole Velev – Thinking about you thinking of me: An exploration of the impact of intergroup contact on meta-perceptions among political partisans
BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – TC22
- Carolyn Chen – Characterizing the Host Specificity of Nematocida parisii in Caenorhabditis Nematodes
- Benson Wu – Spatial Intra-tumour heterogeneity of glioblastoma
- (Conference 1st Place for 10-minute Presentations!)* Sarina Doshi – Investigating how phosphorylation of the SLX4 MBR influences folding of the SAP domain
- Minsheng (Vincent) Hung – A SmaRTer IntERVention: Antiretroviral Drugs as Potential Breast Cancer Therapeutics
BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC24
- Jacqueline Zhao – Personality Dimensions May Mediate Our Sensitivity to Emotional Influences on Memory
- Eliza McCann – Investigating very long-term memory for real-world events several years after a smartphone-based memory intervention
- Xi (Joy) Wang – Pain Sensitivity & Irrational Beliefs
- Cathlin Jiaqi Han –听 The eyes 鈥� windows to the brain? Investigating the predictive potential of eye fixations on brain activation during configural processing
- Gabrielle Desilets – Is Partial Reinforcement Extinction More Resistant to the Reacquisition of Alcohol-Seeking Behaviours Than Traditional Extinction?
11:15 am to 11:30 am: Break听& Refreshments (Seeley Hall)
11:30 am to 12:45 pm: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, TC22, TC24
BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room
- Riley Alvarez – Quantifying Postzygotic Reproductive Isolation in Caenorhabditis Species Pairs
- Nishaant Jacobus – Controlling Non-Equilibrium Steady States via Environmental Tuning
- Sara Ziadat – Quantum-Enhanced Generative Algorithms for Optimized Drug Discovery
- Caroline Carruthers – Effect of Ephedrine, Phenylephrine, and Norepinephrine on Myometrial Contractility in Pregnant People with Type II and Gestational Diabetes during Cesarean Section: An in vitro study
- Chris Situ – Exploring the Relationship Between Liver X Receptor Isoforms and Low-Density Lipoprotein Transcytosis
BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room
- Giuliano Panizza – Supporting Healthy Aging: A Scoping Review on the Effects of Social Support on the Physical Health of Canadian Seniors Aging in Place
- Joyce Yin – Rehabilitation & the Abused & Brain Injured Toolkit: Supporting IPV Survivors with Brain Injury
- Bhavnoor Pannu – Dual Scoping Review of Factors Causing Misdiagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women and their Inclusion in Current Primary Research
- Mariana Castillon – Exploring the Impact of Child and Parental Depression on Early Childhood Decision- Making
- Emma Watt-Hill – The Nature of Helping Behaviours Across Adolescent Ontogeny: A Review of the Literature
BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – TC22
- Avishka Gautham – A lack of sanitation facilities in rural Kenya
- Sharanya Shankar – Examining the Sustainability of Food Prescription Programs in Canada
- Gabrielle Dum茅 – Barbados鈥� Trident: A Multi-pronged Approach to Combatting Childhood Obesity through Advocacy, Policy, and Education
- Alex McLean – The Sound of Life: Exploring Acoustical Technologies of Surveillance in a Neonatal Care Unit
- Rebecca Chau – Opioids: Synthesis of a Crisis & Prescription for a Cure
BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC24
- Bianca Quilliam – Observing Kenosis in the Poetry of Hadewijch and John Donne
- Clive Stevens – Ask Your Doctor: Pfizer as a Morally Questionable Brand
- Gene Case – A Sly and Constant Knave’: Class, Faith, and Good Service as Explored Through Cymbeline鈥檚 Pisanio
- Alexander Trachsell – The Impossibility of Fairly Compensating Prisoners – A Response to punishment
- Alice Quan – Twisted Truths: The Politicization of Intelligence听
12:45 pm to 1:15 pm: LUNCH (distributed in Seeley Halle)听|听Location is your choice!
1:15 pm to 2:00 pm: Research听Poster Presentations | P站色情片 front hall
Poster creators have given permission to make their contact information available for any questions you may have on their posters/research.
- Samantha Sheu – 鈥淕old Claims at Sturgeon Lake鈥� Project
- Yuechen Hao – Clade shape and evolutionary dynamics in epidemological and paleontological phylogenies
- (Conference 1st Place for Poster Presentations!)* HK (CY + SS)听– A Comparative Study of Police and Government Responses in China Through the Dynamics of Protest Types and Tactics
- (Conference Runner-Up for Poster Presentations!)* Magalie Pronovost-Morgan – The Artifice of Style: “Realism” in Renaissance Art
- Neha Gupta – The Speciation Clock of the Caenorhabditis genus
- Gravity Guignard – Investigating the Effects of UNC-18 PA Mutation on CPX-11 Mutants in C. elegans
- Christina Xie – Quantifying soil health and characterizing the soil microbiome
- Tavie Johnson – Implications of Spent Coffee Grounds in Vermicompost Via Analysis of 鈥淲orm Tea鈥� Fertilizer
- Chiara-Marie Marchesano – Expanding Vermicomposting Operations at P站色情片, University of Toronto
- Daniela Atere – Characterizing Lactobacillus species in the vaginal microbiomes of HIV at risk women
- Nandita Jayadevan – Morphology based Neuronal 鈥� Cell Type Classification across species鈥�
- Thomas Sidart Setio – Enhancement of Antimicrobial Activity of Magnetite/Olive Oil Ferrofluids Through Particle Size Reduction Using Natural Surfactants
- Tsubasa Ijichi – Protein intake in relation to hypertrophy and strength
- Eloise Valasek – CRISPR-Induced GFP Glow Sheds Light on Gene Correction Therapy for Hereditary Hemochromatosis
- Maya Honda-Granirer – Unraveling the Genetic Tapestry of End-Stage Kidney Disease: Investigating AGT Polymorphisms and RAAS Activation for Novel Therapeutic Insights
2:00 pm to 2:10 pm: Travel & Break
2:10 pm to 3:15 pm: Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | Seeley Hall
- Logan Walsh – Solving A Migration Crisis: Italy鈥檚 Current Policy Shortcomings and Potential Solutions
- Wania Gondal & Blerta Ademaj – The Gendered Gavel: Exploring Biases in Sexual Assault Verdicts
- Giovanna El Warrak – Politics of Death: the Yanomami Crisis in Brazil
- Cynthia Qu – Barriers to Healthcare Access for Refugees: Critical Assessment and Policy Proposals
- Tyrus Kalanyos – Immigration鈥檚 Insecurity: The Rise of the Far-Right in Sweden and Germany
- Angus MacKellar – The Good Friday Agreement: A Critical Analysis of Implementation and the Peace Process
- James Wang – Understanding Children’s Aversion to Conflict: Moral versus Non-Moral Dilemmas
- Anna McIntosh – Equality in Freedom and the End of Humanity: A Critique of J.S. Mill and Karl Marx
- (Conference Runner-Up for 3-Minute Thesis Presentations!)* Sanya Pasricha – The Social and Environmental Impact of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh
- Misheel Batkhuu – Unmasking Manufactured Demand: Ethical Dilemmas and Consumer Empowerment
- Zach Lidder – Toronto District School Board: Multi-Year Accessibility Plan An Intervention Assessment
- Jithvan Ariyaratne – A Novel Nordic Challenge: The Relationship Between Migration and Crime in Sweden
3:15 pm to 3:25 pm: Break | Wellness Lounge – Boardroom Lounge
3:25 pm to 4:30 pm: Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | Seeley Hall
- Mac Xing – On-Target Off-Tumour CAR-T Cell Activity Against CD19+ Brain Mural Cells as a Pathway of CAR-T-Cell-Induced Neurotoxicity
- Daniel Fragomeni – Investigating the Effects of the HLA-DR5 Allele on Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
- Sabrina Zhu – Characterizing METTL13 as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
- Mia Sung – Unraveling the Role of the MYCN Gene in Silencing Oncogenes and Initiating Spontaneous Regression in Neuroblastoma
- Yuri Choi – Antagonism at its Best: The Impact of Glucocorticoid Receptor Antagonists on Dissociative Amnesia
- Yixiang Zhang – Role of genus Bacteroides in the human gut microbiota in inducing neuroinflammation and A尾 deposition
- Meghan Yeung – The Elements of Context
- Suha Usmani – Investigating the correlation between microbial gut dysbiosis and autism spectrum disorder.
- Samuel Hoogsteen – Fundamental Structures for Economic Modelling of Prosocial Decision Making
- Yujin Choi – Surveillance Capitalism: Its Threats and the US Federal Response
- (Conference 1st Place for 3-Minute Thesis Presentation!)* Ana Maria Guevara Ibarra – Can conditional cash transfers mitigate property? A Case Study of Prospera-Oportunidades-Progresa in Mexico
- Alyssa Ukani – Thinking Out Loud: Linguistic Contributions to the Categorization Debate
- Laura Chen – The Psychology of Educational Performance: The Effect of Syllabus Perceptual Fluency on Students鈥� Self-Efficacy
* All 1st place and Runner-Up presenters in each category received gift certificates from the University of Toronto Bookstore.听 Congratulations!
4:30 pm: Closing Remarks
TCURC 2023: SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (IN-PERSON)
9:00am to 9:30am: Conference Registration (George Ignatieff Theatre [GIT]听foyer)
9:30am to 9:45am: Opening Remarks (GIT)
9:45am to 10:00am: Travel & Break
10:00 am to 3:30 pm:听NEW听TCURC Wellness Lounge | Buttery Fireplace Lounge
Open for the duration of the conference & hosted by the Mental Health Peer Advisors, the Wellness Lounge is a safe and relaxing space to take breaks and get self-care during the conference.
Relax A Bit!听Comfy Chairs & Relaxing Music!
Stay Hydrated!听Water, Herbal Teas, Fruit Punch!
Stay Energized!听Energy Bars, Fruit & Cheese Tray!
Make Something!听Scent-Pouch Making Station & Button Making Station!
Capture the Memory & Remember How Awesome You Are!听鈥淚 was a delegate! I presented at TCURC!鈥� Photo-Booth!
10:00 am to 11:15 am: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3 | Larkin Classrooms 200, 211, & 214
BREAKOUT ROOM #1 鈥� Larkin 200
- Tahiyat Islam听鈥撎�Astrocytes: More than just a supporting cell?
- Rico Dong听鈥撎�Stretch-activated Ca2+ channel, TRPV4, is a key mediator of cell mechanosensation
- Vincent (Minsheng) Hung听鈥撎�Optimistic ObsERVations: Endogenous Retroviruses in the Tumour Microenvironment
BREAKOUT ROOM #2 鈥� Larkin 211
- Mariana Castrillon听鈥撎�How attention shapes memory for category learning experiences through development
- Valeria Khudiakova听鈥撎�To Mask or Not to Mask: The Role of Stigma Experience, Concealment Behaviors, and Community Connectedness in Autistic People鈥檚 Mental Health
- Laura Chen听鈥撎�Preventing Adolescent Suicide: The Importance of Caregiver Support in Protecting Adolescents from Social Risk Factors
BREAKOUT ROOM #3 鈥� Larkin 214
- Sharanya Shankar听鈥撎�Food Pharmacy Programs in North America- A Scoping Review
- Sara Ziadat听鈥撎�Compound Library Analysis for Automated Quality Control
- Hongqian Wang听鈥撎�A听Meta-ANalysis of Antidepressant Responses to Different C-reactive Protein Levels in Adults with Major Depressive Disorder
11:15 am to 11:30 am: Break听& Refreshments (Larking 213)
11:30 am to 12:45 pm: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3 | Larkin Classrooms 200, 211, & 214
BREAKOUT ROOM #1 鈥� Larkin 200
- Chris Situ听鈥撎�Analyzing Autoimmunity Around The World
- Bhavnoor Pannu听鈥撎�Misdiagnosis in Indigenous Women of Canada
- Rana Sarhan听鈥撎�The Role of Empathy on the Self
BREAKOUT ROOM #2 鈥� Larkin 211
- Kaelem Moniz听鈥撎�Bridging the Divide: The Success of the Toronto Public Library Wi-Fi Hotspot Lending Program in promoting Digital Inclusion
- Madeleine Frechette听鈥撎�Environmental and Social Sustainability of Toronto鈥檚 Farmers鈥� Markets
- Peter Ma听鈥撎�Israel鈥檚 nonmilitary national security threats: challenges and pathways forward
- Zihan Alison Pang听鈥撎�Comparing Chinese Social Credit System and US Credit Referencing: A Surveillance Capitalism Persepective
BREAKOUT ROOM #3 鈥� Larkin 214
- Alexander Trachsell听鈥撎�Incarcerating the Innocent and Free Will Skepticism
- Jacob Buchan听鈥撎�User Perception of Smart Home Surveillance: An Integrative Review
- Arjun Chaudhuri听鈥撎�Leakages of A Welfare State: Corruption in Maharastrian Agriculture
- Celine Huang听鈥撎�Abstract art in Ming Dynasty China
12:45 pm to 1:15 pm: LUNCH (distributed in Larkin 213)听|听Location is your choice!
1:15 pm to 2:00 pm: Research听Poster Presentations | Buttery
Poster creators have given permission to make their contact information available for any questions you may have on their posters/research.
- Noor Abdelgawad听鈥撎�Use of Nanotechnology in Plant Disease Management
- Kawya Agarwal听鈥撎�Liberty or Expertise: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Democratic or Authoritarian Solution to Climate Change
- Riley Alvarez & John Lin听鈥撎�Exploring the Role of Attention in French Immersion Reading
- Akhilan Arulmozhi听鈥撎�Fad or Fact: Are Low-Carb Diets (LCDs) Advantageous to Human Health?
- Catherine Chi听鈥撎�Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the central nervous system in an animal model of Multiple Sclerosis
- Isabella Colalillo听鈥撎�I鈥檓 Not Surprised: Reasoning Societal Attitudes Towards Plexiglass Ineffectiveness for Limiting Sars-2-Cov Transmission
- Gabrielle Desilets听鈥撎�Investigating the effect of estrous cycle phase on goal-directed behaviour in female rats
- Catherine Diyakonov听鈥撎�Sympathy for Homeopathy: Investigating the Safety and Efficacy of Homeopathic Treatments for COVID-19
- Julia Gavieta听鈥撎�Tools for Achieving Net-Zero in Canada: Carbon Pricing and Climate-Related Risk Assessment
- Neha Gupta听鈥撎�Kaiso and MEG3 as potential therapeutic targets for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- Roxanne Huang听鈥撎�Rejecting Xenotransplantation: Could Religion be a factor?
- Alison Huang听鈥撎�CRISPR-Cas9: Innovative Genome Editing Tool, Let Blue Cells Turn Green
- Nandita Jayadevan听鈥撎�Cloning and sequencing of GAPC-2 gene from space exposed Solanum Lycopersicum and GAPC-2 as a phylogenetic marker
- Jooyeong Kwak听鈥撎�The role of UHRF1BP1, a protein implicated in systemic lupus erythematosus, in the regulation of autophagy
- Hongzip Kim听鈥撎�Summarizing Students鈥� Free Responses for an Introductory Algebra-Based Physics Course Survey Using Cluster and Sentiment Analysis
- Mbabazi Okafor听鈥撎�Recycled, Local, Small-Scale Energy Solutions
- Maya Salman听鈥撎�Incorporating Indigenous Epistemologies & Methodologies into Indigenous Language Revitalization Research and Initiatives
- Julia Shokeir听鈥撎�Bubble: Building Loyalty Through Digital Affective Labour
- Benson Wu听鈥撎�Evaluation of KIFC1 as a therapeutic target in non-small cell lung cancer
- Joyce Yin听鈥撎�Exploring the relationships between rehabilitation and survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review
2:00 pm to 2:10 pm: Travel & Break
2:10 pm to 3:15 pm: Three Minute Thesis Presentations 鈥� Part I | GIT
- Ahmed Hawamdeh听鈥撎�Racialized Revolutionaries: The Stereotyping of Racialized Men and the Consequences of Colour Conscious Casting in 鈥淗amilton鈥�
- Anna McIntosh听鈥撎�The Impacts of Globalization on The Appropriation of Navajo Culture
- Bianca Quilliam听鈥撎�Should we be Nietzscheans?
- Cristina Cazassus听鈥撎�The Political and Socioeconomic Contexts in Nigeria That Led to Boko Haram鈥檚 Rise in the 21st Century
- Frank Qiao听鈥撎�Confronting the ICC鈥檚 Africa Problem: How could the ICC Repair its Relations with the African Union?
- Garyn Rickwood听鈥撎�An Adversarial-Inquistorial System of Adjudication: The Future of Law?
- Hannah Cluroe听鈥撎�Addressing Violence Against Women in American Politics
- Jake Donner听鈥撎�The Hypocritical Use of PMCs
- Miranda Yang听鈥撎�Rising Temperatures and Rising Tensions: Governance in the Arctic
- Portia Garnons-Williams听鈥撎�How Canada Should Respond to China鈥檚 Uyghur Re-education Camps
- Sara Cai听鈥撎�International Policy on Myanmar: How Should Western Governments Respond?
- Sara Eftekharzadeh听鈥撎�Women, Life, Freedom Movement
- Zhejia Gong听鈥撎�A Brief Dissection of Frank Jackson鈥檚 Knowledge Argument and the Problem of Physicalism
- Wania Gondal & Artin Khiabani听鈥撎�Prohibition of single-use plastics in Canada: Are there justifiable consequences for small businesses?
3:15 pm to 3:25 pm: Break | Wellness Lounge 鈥� Buttery fireplace lounge
3:25 pm to 4:30 pm: Three Minute Thesis Presentations 鈥� Part II | GIT
- Maria Acosta听鈥撎�Review of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Combination Treatment
- Emma Bowman听鈥撎�Deep Breaths and Mind Breadth
- Elsa Cheung听鈥撎�Why Sleep is Both a Necessity and a 鈥淣euro-cessity鈥�
- Jiwoo Jeon听鈥撎�Credentials as Merit 2.0
- Julianna Lai听鈥撎�Correlation Between Adverse Effects and Treatment Efficacy in APL
- Jane Paterson听鈥撎�Disability Discrimination in Canada鈥檚 Long Term Care System
- Olivia Ruffolo听鈥撎�The Role of ANK3 in Bipolar Disorder I and Bipolar Disorder II
- Emily Shin听鈥撎�Exploring the correlation between de novo mutations in the BCOR gene and fetal ocular malformations associated with Lenz Microphthalmia Syndrome
- Thomas Speciel听鈥撎�AVLA 鈥� AudioVisual Learning AI tool
- Clive Stevens听鈥撎�The Ethics of Exploitation: How to Run Clinical Trials Involving Homeless Populations
- Bridget Woolf听鈥撎�Testing the Impact of Shared Sequences of Human and COVID-19 Genetic Material on COVID-19 Disease Outcomes and Ability of COVID-19 Genetic Material to Integrate into Human Cells
- Nikita Yang听鈥撎�The feeling of beauty in music: Relaxing and not confusing
4:30 pm: Closing Remarks
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