Please find a complete list of poster presentations below, noting that changes may be made in the coming days. Contact our team with any questions or concerns.
SECTION A | SECTION B | SECTION C | SECTION D
SECTION A - Posters #1-21
1. Abdulrazzag, Dania (Supervisor: Professor Ho-Sung Rhee)
Assessing the Role of CREST-bound Enhancers in Neuronal Gene Expression
2. Adhis, Dana & Xu, Ruyi (Supervisor: Professor Lea Hirsch)
Enhancing Astronomy Education with Digital Telescope Labs
3. Agnihotri, Hemani; Oh, Hae Youn & Romani, Daniela (Supervisor: Professor Tim Duval)
Contrasting Water Quality Patterns Between an Isolated and a Flow-through Urban Pond
4. Ahtesham, Myra (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden)
Speech-Song Pitch Expansion (Discrimination)
5. Akbar, Amber & Alemayehu, Ruth (Supervisor: Professor Mary Cheng)
Exploring the Potential Role of Beta-arrest in 1 in Mood and Memory-related Disorders
6. Alonzi, Sophia (Supervisor: Professor Alana Ogata)
Validating Single Molecule Arrays for the Detection of Disease Biomarkers in Biofluids
7. Al Refai, Dana (Supervisor: Professor Katharina Braeutigam)
Setup and Use of a Woody Plant Tissue Culture System
8. Amiel, Mia (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden)
Are We Better at Conveying Emotion in Song than Speech?
9. Amir, Hania & Lim, Brooke (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan)
Blues on the Brain: Parahippocampal Cortical Thinning in Major Depressive Disorder
10. Amir, Ismail (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
Exploring the Mechanisms of the Other Accent Effect
11. Anthony Makwanda (Supervisor: Professor Alana Ogata)
Improved Sensitivity for blood tests in Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
12. Arora, Sanya & Khanna, Karanvir (Supervisor: Professor Ahmed Umer Ashraf)
Matroid Polytopes - Polar Volume
13. Batta, Jessica (Supervisor: Professor Sonya Allin)
PTGames: Experiential Learning in Physical Therapy
14. Bhachu, Keerath (Supervisor: Professor Marc Johnson)
Tissue-Specific Expression of HCN and its Metabolic Precursors in Trifolium Repens
15. Boodhram, Amber (Supervisor: Professor Virginijus Barzda)
Advancing Cancer Prognostics with Nonlinear Microscopy
16. Buttigieg, Maya (Supervisor: Professor Jayson Parker)
Digital Biomarkers for Health Calibration: Writers Block - Does Our Circadian Rhythm Influence Writing Performance and Cognitive Intellect?
17. Cam, Sabrina; Delos Reyes, Charity; & Paventi, Matteo (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan)
Gender and Occipital Cortical Thickness in Young Adulthood: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study
18. Chen, Daniel (Supervisor: Professor Mary Cheng)
The Role of UBR1 and UBR2 in CRY1 and CRY2 Clock Protein Stability Within the Mammalian Circadian Rhythm System
19. Cheung, Kelly (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai)
Stress and the Effects on Learned Helplessness in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
20. Chong-King, Sydney (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray)
Examining the Effect of Road Salt on Mosquito Oviposition Choice across an Urban-rural Gradient
21. Costa Tiago, Helner (Supervisor: Professor Soo Min Toh)
Workplace Telepressure In the Digital Age
SECTION B - Posters #23-70 (as well as #103 and #117)
23. David, Ryan (Supervisor: Professor Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden)
Variation in Perception of Music and Language across the World
24. de Faria Porto, Ana Beatriz (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
The Impact of the Experimenter's Accent on Children's Language Biases
25. Dhimitri, William (Supervisor: Professor Jayson Parker)
Digital Biomarkers of Cognitive Performance: A 'Dark Data' Pilot Study Investigating Peak Times and Diurnal Variations through Video Games
26. Diab, Maryanna (Supervisor: Professor Kathi Wilson)
The Perceptions of Government and Their Policy Responses among Immigrants and Racialized Individuals in Peel Ontario during the COVID-19 Pandemic
27. Du, Hongchen (Supervisor: Professor Marc Johnson)
Tracking Pollen Dispersal Using Quantum dots
28. El Kebiri, Manal & Huo, David (Supervisor: Professor Lea Hirsch)
Determining the Rotation Periods of Nearby Sun-like Stars with Photometry and Spectroscopy
29. Estrada, Diego (Supervisor: Alana Ogata)
Single-molecule Optimization of Alkaline Phosphate Activity through Osteopontin Substrate Inhibition
30. Jani, Amanda (Supervisor: Professor Judith Andersen)
Exploring 24-hour Field Recordings of Heart Rate Fragmentation for Predicting Mental Health Symptom Risk in Nonclinical Undergraduate Students
31. Faiyaz, Ammara (Supervisor: Professor Iva Zovkic)
Sex-specific Role of Histone H2A.Z.2 in Alzheimer’s Disease
32. Faylinn, Christabel (Supervisor: Professor Josh Milstein)
Bye-Bye Biofilms: Antimicrobial Efficacy of Photocaged B-lapachone in Bacillus Subtilis Biofilms
33. Fazili, Maryam; Zhang, Crystal; & Bhatia, Mahima (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan)
The Grey Matter Blues: Depression and Regional Parietal Volume
34. Gangaram, Selena; Saldagna, Louisianne; & Qiao, Yinqi (Supervisor: Professor Asal Aslemand)
Unlocking Key Predictors of Positive Mental Health Among Youth using the Canadian Community Health Survey Data
35. George, Gabriella; Liu, Ran; & Gun, Jingru (Supervisor: Professor Omidali Aghababaei Jazi)
Analysis of Compartmental Models for Disease Transmission
36. Gidda, Gurmukh (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray)
Gifts from a City vs Rural Dance Fly: Exploring Rhamphomyia longicauda Nuptial Gifts Across an Urban Gradient
37. Gulati, Shriya (Supervisor: Professor Alana Ogata)
Investigating the Stability and Activity of Enzyme-Mimicking Metal-Organic Frameworks
38. Hashim, Sana & Siu, Ryan (Supervisor: Professor Yuhong He)
Assessing Vegetation Recovery Post Restoration Efforts Using Remote Sensing
39. Hawse, Alexandra (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
“Look at the Hand!”: Investigating the Extent of Early Word Recognition Abilities in Six-month-old Infants
40. Haxhiaj, Ariel (Supervisor: Professor Andrew Beharry)
Synthesis of Light-activatable β-lapachone prodrug for cancer therapy
41. Hmaidan, Yasmeen (Supervisor: Professor Benjamin Wolfe)
Do Drivers Need to Look Directly at a Hazard to Avoid it? Tracking Eye Movements during Road Hazard Detection
42. Hupalo, Nicole (Supervisor: Professor Joanne Chung)
Identifying Problems in Peer Review Within Personality Psychology
43. Husaini, Sami (Supervisor: Professor Claudiu Gradinaru)
Illuminating the Unseen: Fluorescence Labeling of Membrane Proteins for Single-Molecule Imaging in Live Cells
44. Idris, Reem & Alfaras, Jana (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
Mono- and Bilingual Children’s Word Recognition in Unfamiliar Accents
45. Ikhile, Anne; Mirabi, Mujda; & Atkinson, Amber (Supervisor: Professor Maciej Korzynski)
Towards Targeted Silicon Doping in Metal-organic Frameworks – UiO-66 Case Study
46. Irfan, Jannat & Okengwu, Edward (Supervisor: Professor Murray Rosalind)
Observations of Female Ornamentation in Taxon
47. Jacob, Benjamin Koshy (Supervisor: Professor Joanne Chung)
Giving Voice: Understanding Personality Development & Well-Being in Queer People of Color at the University of Toronto Mississauga
48. Javier, Celina Micaela (Supervisor: Professor: Doug VanderLaan)
Variability in Androgen-mediated Development among Gay Men: Insights Based on Digit Ratios, Height, and Leg Length
49. Jaworski, Dominik (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray)
The Effect of Urbanization on the Operational Sex Ratio of Rhamphomyia Longicauda
50. Jeji, Anureet (Supervisor: Professor Benjamin Wolfe)
Are Unreliable Car Warnings Still Helpful to the Driver? The Effect of Auditory Cues on Road Hazard Detection in Dynamic Road Scenes.
51. Joshy, Kevin (Supervisor: Professor Kent Moore)
Understanding the Impact of Islands on Spatial Sea Ice Variability in Nares Strait
52. Karim, Mahsa Seema & Sarfraz, Esha (Supervisor: Professor Praneeta Mudliar)
Commoning for Climate Justice: By the Youth and for the Youth
53. Kiru, Christopher (Supervisors: Professors Sanja Hinic-Frlog and Christoph Richter)
Nest Competition at UTM Parking Structures
54. Kyryk, Aisha (Supervisor: Professor Shannon McCauley)
Marking Methods and Dispersal of Caddisfly (Trichoptera) Populations
55. Law, Justin (Supervisor: Professor Christina der Nederlanden)
Speech-Song Pitch Expansion (Evaluation)
56. Li, Steven (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai)
Does Human Handling Influence Learning Performance of Zebrafish: An Experimental Analysis
57. Liao, Tsai-Ping & Dang, Minh Thi Nhat (Supervisors: Ms. Lauren Ead and Professor Matthew Adams)
Exploring the Use of Fluorescent Spectra as a Diagnostic Tool for Microplastics
58. Liening, Silas (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai)
Optimizing Zebrafish Husbandry: The Influence of Dry Food versus Live Food on Growth, Survival, and Water Quality Outcomes.
59. Lodhi, Ayesha (Supervisor: Professor Kathi Wilson)
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Health and Wellbeing among Immigrant and Racialized Individuals in Peel Ontario
60. Ly, Boi Boi (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
Exploring the Other Accent Effect Under Reduced Task Demands
61. Malagi, Meghana (Supervisor: Professor Brandon Walters)
The Creation of an Inducible, Isoform Specific SDK1 Viral Vector for the Study of SDK1 Isoforms in Neurons
62. Mander, Rachel (Supervisor: Professor Maciej Korzynski)
Catalysis as a New Route for Post-Synthetic Modifications of Metal Organic Frameworks
63. McFadden, Liam & Meanwell, Lucy (Supervisor: Professor Avery Ozburn)
The Language Profiles Project
64. Menon, Trisha (Supervisor: Professor Melissa Holmes)
Detecting the C-FOS Protein in Naked Mole-Rat Brains Using Immunohistochemistry
65. Mooney, Ethan (Supervisor: Professor Robert Reisz)
Evolutionary Significance of Terrestrial Vertebrate Skin Preserved in a Paleozoic Cave
66. Nadeem, Wardah (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
How Do Infants React to Unfamiliar Languages and Accents?
67. Nasir, Liza (Supervisor: Professor Marc Johnson)
Breaking Barriers: Enhancing Accessibility and Comprehension in BIO342 Evolutionary Biology
68. Newton, Brendan (Supervisor: Professor Frank Wendt)
Multi-ancestry Phenome-wide Association Study of SNPs for Predicting Externally Visible Characteristics in a Forensic Setting
69. Noonan, Matthew (Supervisor: Professsor Yuhong He)
Analyzing Temporal Changes in Vegetation at Disturbed and Rehabilitated Sites Using Cloud-based Remote Sensing
70. Noritomi-Hartwig, Lucas; Ciganovic, Nevena; Shi, Jingwen (Steven) & Xu, Ying (Supervisor: Luai Al Labadi)
Information Theory and Statistics
103. Tan, Tianqin (Supervisor: Professor Lueder Kahrs)
Sim2Real Reinforcement Learning with a 7 Degree of Freedom Robot Arm and a Surgical Instrument
117. Zetko, Greg (Supervisor: Professor Lueder Kahrs)
Using a Videogame Controller to Teleoperate a 7 Degree of Freedom Collaborative Robot
SECTION C - Posters #73-99
73. Ong, Sean (Supervisor: Professor Ingo Ensminger)
Use of Leaf Spectral Reflectance and Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements to Detect Plant Phenology
74. Osterling Arias, Adrian (Supervisor: Professor Robert Reisz)
Taxonomic Diversity of Trematopid Temnospondyls at Dolese in the Early Permian of Oklahoma
75. Paker, Laiba; Lavasani, Darra; & Ishtiaq, Bisha (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan)
Anatomy of Melancholy: Anterior Cingulate and Orbitofrontal Cortical Thickness in Major Depressive Disorder
76. Panwar, Garima; Rucitadewi, Maria; & David, Ryan (Supervisor: Professor Doug VanderLaan)
Less is Morose: Cortical Volume of Medial Prefrontal Regions in Major Depressive Disorder
77. Patel, Hemali (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai)
The Dopaminergic System: A Psychopharmacological Analysis of Zebrafish
78. Pedruco Choi, Silvia (Supervisor: Professor Melissa Holmes)
Investigating Behavioral and Hormonal Differences of Successful and Unsuccessful Breeding Vancouver Island Marmots (Marmota Vancouverensis) Pairs
79. Perc, Mateja (Supervisor: Professor Marcus Dillon)
Probing the Plant Immune System: Characterization of Various Type III Secreted Effectors in Xanthomonas for Their Impact on Virulence
80. Philippe, Gabriel (Supervisor: Professor Tim Duval)
Assessing Soil Physical and Chemical Properties Following Sand and Gravel Pit Restoration.
81. Prakash, Priscilla (Supervisor: Professor Rosalind Murray)
The Coevolution of Female Ornamentation and Male Genitalia in the Sex-Role Reversed Dance Fly, Rhamphomyia longicauda
82. Prete, Emily & Giannini, Giuliana (Supervisor: Professor Steven Chatfield)
Bio-Careers: Facilitating Career Path Exploration with a Podcast Series
83. Qayyum, Maryam (Supervisor: Professor Melissa Holmes)
Variation of Prosocial and Agonistic Behaviors amongst Heterocephalus Glaber of Different Castes via Social Network Analysis
84. Quadri, Elise (Supervisor: Professor Mark Currie)
Investigating the Enzymatic Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress Stimulated Pathways
85. Rawat, Yashi & Abozaid, Amira (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai)
Novel Object Recognition in Adult Zebrafish
86. Rykaczewski, Matthew (Supervisor: Professor Mary Cheng)
Investigating the Role of Ubiquitin Ligases in Pilepsy
87. Saeed, Natasha (Supervisor: Professor Christina der Nederlanden)
Investigating Social Attention in Autism through Change Detection in Real World Scenes
88. Salad, Abdullahi & Naeem, Mahnoor (Supervisor: Praneeta Mudaliar)
More than Education: Exploring the Role of Institutions of Higher Education in Land Conservation
89. Salehi, Souren (Supervisor: Professor Kent Moore)
Nares Strait Sea Ice Formation
90. Sarin, Sanah; Chen, San Chuan; Chen, Leosan (Supervisor: Tingting Zhu)
3D Deep Learning for accurate Tree Canopy Detection: A PointCNN approach
91. Shao, Zicheng (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
Influence of Foreign-accented Speech on Illusory Truth Effect
92. Sharma, Raghav (Supervisor: Professor Ahmed Ashraf)
Efficiency of Deep Learning Models
93. Sharma, Tanish (Supervisor: Professor Lueder Kahrs)
Simulating Human Vocal Fold Deformation in a Silicone Laryngeal Model
94. Smith, Maya & Sehgal, Joshita (Supervisor: Professor Natasha Leclerc)
Polar Timekeepers: Investigating Clathromorphum compactum as an arctic erosion proxy
95. Strzechowska, Zofia & Al-Ghazali, Tala (Supervisor: Professor Praneeta Mudaliar)
Exploring Cultural Ecosystem Services in Lands Owned by Institutions of Higher Education
96. Suliguin, Angelo Philippe (Supervisor: Dr. Vera Velasco)
Light Use Efficiency in Plants Varies Due to Light Source
97. Sun, Ethan (Supervisor: Professor Shannon McCauley)
Assessing Impacts of Increasing Pond Salinity on Calling Anuran Community Composition
98. Sun, Grace (Wujiamei) (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
Exploring Gender Differences in Early Vocabulary Composition
99. Syed, Omer (Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerlai)
Using Zebrafish to Investigate Psychedelic Teratogenicity
SECTION D - Posters #101-119 (excluding #103 and #117)
101. Chaudhry, Fatima (Supervisor: Rosalind Murray)
Sex ratios of emerging mosquito populations across a salinity gradient
102. Tafazzoli, Dorsa (Supervisors: Professors Anna Kosovicheva and Benjamin Wolfe)
The Effects of Different Line-by-line Highlighting Styles on Reading Speed and Comprehension
103. Due to the nature of its display materials, poster #103 will be displayed in Section B.
104. Tjahayadi, Evan & Christabel, Faylinn (Supervisor: Josh Milstein)
Exploring the Impact of Mechanical Stress on Bacterial Growth via Single-Cell Imaging Analysis
105. TBD
106. Trinh, Hong Minh (Supervisor: Professor Sonya Allin)
Discovering Causal Structure in Observational Data: Examples with Real and Synthetic Data
107. Tran, Calvin (Supervisor: Professor Sarah Rauscher)
Activation Mechanisms of the A2A Adenosine Receptor
108. Joshi, Isha; Liang, John; Sankar, Chyenne & Tran, Oscar (Supervisors: Professor Tenley Conway & Camilo Ordóñez Barona)
People’s Perceptions Of Peri-Urban Parks Before And After Tree Removal
109. Unrau, Ryan (Supervisor: Professor Claudiu Gradinaru)
Nanometer Navigators: Enabling Scientific Discoveries through Real-time Focal Drift Correction
110. Vuong, Van (Supervisor: Professor Marc Johnson)
Genetics of Cyanogenesis and Its Influence on Phenotypic Variation in Trifolium Repens L.
111. Wang, YiMeng (Supervisor: Professor Christina der Nederlanden)
Can Neural Tracking Index the Attentional Speech Bias in Busy Listening Environments?
112. Young, Faith & Xiang, Yantong (Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Johnson)
Where Is the Banana? How Language Experience Impacts Toddlers' Ability to Understand Other-accented Talkers
113. Younis, Rami (Supervisor: Professor Andrew Beharry)
Development of Dark-Dynamic Photosensitizers for Cancer Treatment
114. Youssef, Jacob; Ijaz, Wardah & Angeles, Lanz (Supervisor: Professor Tingting Zhu)
Enhancing Accessibility and Engagement in Computer Science Education
115. Xu, Ying (Supervisor: Professor Luai Al Labadi)
Entropy
116. Zamiri, Sina (Supervisor: Professor Bryan Stewart)
Investigating the Function of GDP Dissociation Inhibitor (GDI) at a Drosophila Model Synapse
117. Due to the nature of its display materials, poster #117 will be displayed in Section B.
118. Zhang, Tianheng (Supervisor: Professor Soo Min Toh)
Debiasing of Immigrant Job Recruitment: Predictors of Topical Knowledge Acquisition
119. Jafari, Arya (Supervisor: Professor Claudiu Gradinaru)
Do Disordered Proteins Dream of Unruly Order? Dimensionality Reduction Has the Answer!