杏吧原创

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room

• Marta Tavares Fernandes, Innocence Lost: The Intrinsic Good of Unreflexive Caring in Childhood
• Ezinne Arki, The Effect of Olfaction on Memory: Multisensory Integration vs Unimodal Encoding
• Amir Samadi, Investigating the functional necessity of anticipatory AON activity in context-dependent odour memory
• Maya Rueda-Cohen, Measuring Perceptual Distortions of Body Image with a 3D Avatar: Assessing the Somatomap 3D App
• Nathaniel Dickie,听 Equality versus Choice: A Defense of Educational Adequacy and Community Self-Determination

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room

• Crystal Zhang, Rational Resistance: Feminist Refusal Discourses of Marriage in South Korea and the Co-Production of Neoliberal Governmentality
• Sharmeen Imran, Speech-Makers and Truth-Takers: Satire and Resistance to Legal Professionalization in 19th Century New York
• Christina (Dianya) Tan, Negotiated Power & Constrained Agency: Representations of Women in Popular Songs by Women Rappers (2017-2024)
• Leo Smucker, Harley MS 1251: Life, Death, Memory, and Female Book Ownership in the Later Middle Ages
• Khaliun Enkhbold, The Quiet Architecture of Gendered Expectations and Their Influence on Interpersonal Dynamics

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 -TC22

• Jiani Wu, Periodic & aperiodic components of longitudinal EEG power spectra in mild cognitive impairment patients
• Nikita Yang, Linking Neural Synchrony to Spatial Memory Deficits in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
• Anwesha Mukherjee, Investigating Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Fragile X Syndrome Using Human Cortical and Thalamic Organoids
• Sky Wang, Study of Synaptic Density Changes in the FMR1 Knockout Mice Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Jia Nitin Vedante, Identifying the role of Sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus (SLD) Astrocytes in Regulating REM Sleep in Mice *Runner Up Winner – 10-Minute Presentations

BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC24

• Ariana听 Abbaszadeh, The Right to Race: FIA Governance and the Suppression of Driver Expression in Formula 1
• Joseph Choi, Police Associations and the Politics of Fear: How Police Unions Leverage Crime Narratives in Canada
• Xian Ning (Crystal) Lim, Testing the Roles of Environmental and Biotic Heterogeneity in Restoration
• Sarina Hamzehian, Helping or Harming? How Undergraduate Students Make Sense of AI in Their Academic Careers

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room

• Olivia Hofman, Retaining the Periphery: Strategies of Metropoles in the Struggle Against Secession
• Martin Vanhille, Matt Pindera, Jason Bouramia, The Sentiment of Survival: How Budapest鈥檚 Civil Society Navigates Democratic Backsliding
• Esme Smolynec, The Polar Sea Voyage: What do debates over the Northwest Passage tell us about Canadian Sovereignty?
• Gabrielle Bridi, The Triangle Factory Fire: Gender, Space, and the Tragedies of Capital

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room

• Benjamin Doan, Developing and validating self-tracing system in in vivo model for refinement of stem cell treatment
• Veronique Aynedjian, Factors Influencing Surveillance Adherence in Rectal Cancer Patients Managed with Watch-and-Wait (WW) at Princess Margaret Hospital
• Ellie Bagrin, Efficacy of Intravenous Iron Therapy Across a Diverse Patient Population: A Narrative Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
• Jana Mahmoud, Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Pain Recurrence Following Trigeminal Neuralgia Surgery
• Shivangi Roy, Melatonin Demonstrates Significant Anticancer Potential Through Systematic Analysis

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – TC22

• Maia Klatt-Sautner, Toxic Supply, Desperate Demand: Understanding Canada’s Opioid Crisis and Strategies for a Coordinated Response
• Sena Yenilmez, Canada鈥檚 Fragmented Healthcare System: How Can We Bridge the Gap Between Canada and Higher-Performing Universal Care Providing Countries
• Lianne Ohayon, Learning from COVID-19: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Healthcare in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland
• Emily Ng, Preventing Dementia: A Comparative Analysis of Dementia Prevention Policies in the听United Kingdom, Germany, and听Japan
• Isabela Calderone, To Live or Not to Live?: Analyzing the Role of Stigma in Extending MAiD Eligibility for Mental Illness *1st Place Winner – 10-Minute Presentations

BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC24

• Daniel Fragomeni, Tenofovir Alafenamide and Placental Fatty Acid Transporters in HIV-Positive Pregnancies
• Caitlin Adams, An oral cell line prototype of antiretroviral therapy-associated IRIS for an HIV/HHV-8 co-infection
• Vasilisa Kuzmanova, pcdh15 isoforms function in different organs to mediate the development of inner hair cell and UV cone morphology
• Laiba听 Butt,听 The Role of the Complement System in Primary Membranous Nephropathy (PMN) and podocyte cell injury
• Jiahao (David) Geng, Novel Sponge-Derived Aeroplysinin (Ap) Compounds Activate the Nrf2-Keap1 Pathway to Protect Cells from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

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 in a chill space!
• Stay Hydrated & Energized!
• De-stress with games and crafts!

Poster creators have given permission to make their contact information available for any questions you may have on their posters/research.

1. Foluwa Ajani, The Evaluation of the Bond Strengths of Dental Adhesives on 3D-Printed Ceramic Crown Material
2. Nuzhat Azim,听 Insulin Resistance and Mood Disorders: Evidence From Randomized Controlled Trials
3. Madeline Bank, Lending an Ear: Christian Voices Under Muslim Rule in the Medieval Mediterranean
4. Kate Beshiri, Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health: Regression Analysis of Wildlife Habitat Capacity and Relative Soil Organic Carbon in Eastern Canada
5. Micah Cao, Sharia in Song: Jurisdiction, Legal Pluralism, and the Fanfang in Song China
6. Yu Wa (Chloe) Chan, Exploring Modulation of APRIL-BCMA Signaling to Delay the Onset of Good鈥檚 Syndrome in Thymoma Patients
7. Rebecca Chau, Accenting Bias: How Race, Gender, and Language Shape Experiences of Canadian General Surgeons
8. Elizabeth Chen, DNA Quantification and Copy Number Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells from Breast Cancer
9. Elsa Cheung, Inhibition of Synaptic Transmission using the AAV-Syn1-rtTA Construct Tet-ON System to Verify Motor Neuron Function in the cSCI Rat Model
10. Gabbai, Comparison between left-right ovarian stromal blood flow, ARK1C3 concentrations, and PCOM in patients with PCOS
11. Bilge G眉ven,听 Well-Being in Post-Secondary Education: A Longitudinal Investigation of Self-Determination Theory Applications
12. Maya Honda-Granirer, Investigating Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder Patients *Runner Up Winner – Poster Presentations
13. Ashmeer Isahac,听 Verifying Mathematics by Machine: Type Theory and Computer-Checked Proofs
14. Joseph Katz, Multi-Agent AI Evaluation of Donor Suitability in Liver Transplantation
15. Roman Krukowski, The Effects of Simultaneous Phage and Carbapenem Therapy on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
16. Chiara-Marie Marchesano, Using total-columns of CO鈧�, CH鈧�, and CO to investigate emissions from Toronto
17. Lauren McGuire, Application of Siltuximab in Chronic Graft vs Host Disease Post Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
18. Emily Ng, Light-Driven Ethane Dehydrogenation for Ethylene and Hydrogen Co-Production.
19. Reena听 Obmina, Modernising ePlant: API Redevelopment, Quality Control, and Performance Optimisation for the Bio-Analytic Resource
20. Benjamin Panet, Examining the Evolution of Long-Wavelength Sensitive Rhodopsin in Holometabola Insects
21. Parmin Sedigh Tonekaboni, To Transplant or Not to Transplant (Pre-Emptively): The Benefits and Downfalls of Pre-Emptive Kidney Transplantation
22. Anka Stefanovic, Interpreting the pathogenicity of ATM variants
23. Natalie Su van Lieshout, Roots in Concrete: The Multifaceted Community Role of Indigenous-Led Urban Garden Initiatives (IUGIs) in Toronto
24. Hammad Umar, Mini-Review: The Current Progress in the Field of Cardiac Regenerative Medicine and the Major Challenges to Clinical Translation
25. William Unal Ferreira Da Silva, Chemogenetic Inhibition of Prefrontal Cortical Neurogliaform Cells Impairs Social Memory in Mice: A Three-Chambered Social Approach Study
26. Ashley Wai, 鈥淚t is a good way to track where is my stress level and then I can find the resources to help me:鈥� Investigating Optimal Approaches for Implementing a Comprehensive EHR-Integrated Psychosocial Screening Tool in Routine Pediatric Oncology
27. Kuan-Wei Wu, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Taiwan’s Nuclear Dilemma
28. Jie Xiong, Impact of B-catenin overexpression on adhesion of limbal epithelial stem cells
29. SPECIAL EXHIBIT – Antonella Pecora Ruiz, Reese Kurian, & Roselaide Decker – Poxes & Passports: An Exhibition on Vaccination Histories *1st Place Winners – Poster Presentations

• Adelia Luba, Corridor Urbanism: Tracing geopolitical implications of lithium mining across northern Argentina & Chile
• Carol Lu, Investigating the Role of Aquaporin-4 in Optic Nerve Fluid Accumulation in Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome Using a Hindlimb Unloading Mouse Model
• Yinghao Liu, Bone Marrow Adipocytes: Can they be Transformed to Fibroblasts by Leukemia?
• Alysa Leigh, Psychological Effects of Large-Scale Mining on Indigenous Communities in Canada
• Artin Khiabani, Taylor Voted Democrat, So I鈥檓 Voting Democrat: Celebrity Endorsement and the Limits of Private Political Expression
• Eunsong (Bianca) Jeong, Children Without Protection: Understanding child trafficking and possible prevention measures
• Abraar Hussain, The Role of Anatomical Compression of the Facial Nerve (CN VII) in the Pathogenesis of Bell鈥檚 Palsy
• Yuheng Huang, Exploring Matcha as a Preventive Strategy to Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease
• Gravity Guignard, Harnessing Neural Stem Cells for Adult Neurogenesis
• Robbie Gray, The Intersection of Housing Instability and HIV/AIDS in Toronto: How to Better Treat the Most Vulnerable
• Caitlin Evran, Echoes of Adversity: The Prevalence and Associations of Invisible Symptoms with Adverse Childhood Experiences, Attachment Style, Self-Compassion, and Care Preferences in People with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Catherine Donkin, Examining the Status of Gender-Affirming Healthcare for Ontario Adults
• Amber Chow, Why did Canada鈥檚 pandemic response fail to institutionalize ventilation as a public health intervention, what mitigation efforts were attempted, and what federal actions are still available to reduce airborne disease risk in public buildings?
• Deen Choudhry, A Multilateral Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation Responses
• Elizabeth Chen, Understanding Phenotypic and Genotypic Alterations in Human Pulmonary Fibrosis Using iPSC-derived and Primary Fetal Lung Cell Co-Culture Model
• Nicholas Amenta,听 Research by Committee: How campus citizen science can usher in a new era of experiential learning at the University of Toronto
• Rie Aiyama,听 Voices of the Future: A Study of Youth Protest Culture in Japan
• Maria Jose Acosta, Hybrid Antigen Generation For Neisseria gonorrhoeae Vaccine Development

• Daisy Zhao, The Effect of the COVID-19 Recession on Crime Rates: A Case Study of Toronto Neighbourhoods
• Jiayi Zhang, Understanding the Impact of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Multiple Sclerosis Progression
• Victoria (Yixin) Wang, Love and Duty: An Iconographical Analysis of Botticelli鈥檚 Primavera听 *Runner Up Winner – 3-Minute Thesis Presentations
• Derin Taylan,听 Examining the Relationships Among Dietary Fat Intake, BDNF Levels, and PMDD Symptom Scores Across Temporal Subgroups of PMDD
• Nishat Fatima Syeda, The association between social isolation (SI) and depression, anxiety, and overall mental health among individuals with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): A cross-sectional analysis
• Alexander Simmons, Forgotten: Sudans Civil War
• Chaehwan Shin, From Deterrence to Bargaining: North Korea鈥檚 Nuclear Program in the U.S.-China Power Struggle
• Jia Sharma, Privacy, Secrecy, and the Public Good: The State Secrets Privilege in American Constitutional Practice
• Ahzem Rudani, Exploring the influence of internal biofilm environments on efflux pump-mediated antibiotic resistance in H. pylori听 *1st Place Winner – 3-Minute Thesis Presentations
• Amelie Pinard,听 CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully): Beyond Clinical Implications
• Gabriel Pascual, Investigating Seizure Susceptibility in Interneurons and Pyramidal Neurons via Neurofibromin Mutations
• Simon听 O’Connor, Failures in Counterterrorism: Exploring British ‘Criminalization’ of the IRA
• Katharine Morley, Flattening the Curve: Exploring Genetic Contributions to the Prevalence and Severity of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) and Sex-Related Risk
• Chihiro Mori, Comparative Analysis of AI innovation Ecosystems: A Citation Network Study of the University of Toronto and the University of Tokyo
• Anjali Mohile, The Missing Link in the Trauma Chain of Survival
• Jack McMahon Ackhurst, Rhetoric or Reality: Donald Trump鈥檚 New Approach to American Foreign Policy
• James听 Mar, Investigating the Selectivity of the Organoarsenical Antibiotic Arsinothricin in Human and Bacterial Glutamine Synthetase

TCURC 2025: SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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

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?

Research Poster Presentations | 杏吧原创 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

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

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 discovery 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

TCURC 2024: SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2024 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Room, TC22, TC24

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, TC22, TC24

Research听Poster Presentations | 杏吧原创 front hall

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | Seeley Hall

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | Seeley Hall

* All 1st place and Runner-Up presenters in each category received gift certificates from the University of Toronto Bookstore.听 Congratulations!

TCURC 2023: SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3 | Larkin Classrooms 200, 211, & 214

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3 | Larkin Classrooms 200, 211, & 214

Research听Poster Presentations | Buttery

Three Minute Thesis Presentations 鈥� Part I | GIT

Three Minute Thesis Presentations 鈥� Part II | GIT