GReAT Talks

In-House Research Presentations 

"GReAT Talks" (Graduate, REsearcher, And Trainee)

Come out and participate in the department’s GReAT Talks. 
Dates/Location/Presenters listed below - 10am to 12pm

Speakers typically present work in progress or give practice talks for conferences. All faculty and department trainees (including post-docs, graduate students and undergraduates working in our labs) are encouraged to attend.

2025-2026

May 21, 2026 - DV 3130

 

April 16, 2026 - DV 3130

 

March 26, 2026 - DV 3130

Fatman Ece Ozkan
Myside Bias Across Age, Contexts, and Stages of Reasoning

Silvia Guidi
Individual Differences in Identifying Degraded Stimuli: Language-Specific and General Mechanisms

Joaquin San Augustin
Investigating the Effects of Social Phenotype on Naked Mole-Rat Reproductive Transition

Olya Bulatova
What Limits Repetition Learning?

Whitney Mambou
The Real Deal: A Systematic Investigation of Agreement in Self and Other Perceptions of Authenticity

February 12, 2026 - DV 3130

Maria D. Soto
An Average Power Primer: Clarifying Misconceptions about Average Power and Replicability

Liliana Wu
Functional Brain Biomarkers of Self-Referential Bias in Remitted Depressed Outpatients

Kelly Cheung
The Effects of Human Handling on Larval Zebrafish Locomotion and Exploratory Behaviour

January 8, 2026 - DV 3130

Gianna Perugini
Dopamine Agonists' Effect on exploratory and aggression behavior in naked mole-rats

Sandy Luu
Examining the Role of Perfectionism, Self-Efficacy, and Rumination on Belief Updating and Student Wellbeing

Ido Zivli
What do drivers know before they look back at the road? The time course of attention in dynamic road scenes

Michael Ge
Characterization of Memory Retention, Extinction, and Reversal Learning in Adult Zebrafish

Julia Mazur
Investigating the role of CRHBP in pubertal onset following release from reproductive suppression in the eusocial naked mole-rat

Erin Ricaloglu
Investigating Chromatin–Lysosome Crosstalk in Alzheimer’s Disease

Shernell Hines
Self-Transcendent Emotions & Well-being

Adam Malitek
Repeated Encoding Opportunities Mitigate Belief-Based Bias in Correlation Estimations

November 20, 2025 - DV 3130

Emilie Kovalik
Synthesizing Sharing: Parent-Child Relationships, Synchrony, and Prosocial Behaviour

Zeynab Kohandel
Post Translational Modifications of Histone Variant H2A.Z in Alzheimer's Disease

Ben Tsang
Got Advice? How to Start Writing Science Communication Pieces for Academia

Dana Kulzhabayeva
Towards a Process Theory of Causal Attributions 

October 16, 2025 - DV 3130

Sarah Scott
Reddit as a Valuable Form of Social Support During Medical Transitioning

Ashley Dhillon
Gender Development in the Thai Context: A Preliminary Look at Retrospective Data

Jesse Whiteman
Awe and Well-Being at the Extremes  

September 18, 2025 - DV 3130 

Christina der Nederlanden, Brett Beston, Judith Andersen, and Ashley Monks
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