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! Comfy Chairs & Relaxing Music!

Stay Hydrated! Water, Herbal Teas, Fruit Punch!

Stay Energized! Energy Bars, Fruit & Cheese Tray!

Make Something! Scent-Pouch Making Station & Button Making Station!

Capture the Memory & Remember How Awesome You Are! “I was a delegate! I presented at TCURC!” Photo-Booth!

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Larkin 200

• Tahiyat Islam – Astrocytes: More than just a supporting cell?
• Rico Dong – Stretch-activated Ca2+ channel, TRPV4, is a key mediator of cell mechanosensation
• Vincent (Minsheng) Hung – Optimistic ObsERVations: Endogenous Retroviruses in the Tumour Microenvironment

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Larkin 211

• Mariana Castrillon – How attention shapes memory for category learning experiences through development
• Valeria Khudiakova – To Mask or Not to Mask: The Role of Stigma Experience, Concealment Behaviors, and Community Connectedness in Autistic People’s Mental Health
• Laura Chen – Preventing Adolescent Suicide: The Importance of Caregiver Support in Protecting Adolescents from Social Risk Factors

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – Larkin 214

• Sharanya Shankar – Food Pharmacy Programs in North America- A Scoping Review
• Sara Ziadat – Compound Library Analysis for Automated Quality Control
• Hongqian Wang – A Meta-ANalysis of Antidepressant Responses to Different C-reactive Protein Levels in Adults with Major Depressive Disorder

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Larkin 200

• Chris Situ – Analyzing Autoimmunity Around The World
• Bhavnoor Pannu – Misdiagnosis in Indigenous Women of Canada
• Rana Sarhan – The Role of Empathy on the Self

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Larkin 211

• Kaelem Moniz – Bridging the Divide: The Success of the Toronto Public Library Wi-Fi Hotspot Lending Program in promoting Digital Inclusion
• Madeleine Frechette – Environmental and Social Sustainability of Toronto’s Farmers’ Markets
• Peter Ma – Israel’s nonmilitary national security threats: challenges and pathways forward
• Zihan Alison Pang – Comparing Chinese Social Credit System and US Credit Referencing: A Surveillance Capitalism Persepective

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – Larkin 214

• Alexander Trachsell – Incarcerating the Innocent and Free Will Skepticism
• Jacob Buchan – User Perception of Smart Home Surveillance: An Integrative Review
• Arjun Chaudhuri – Leakages of A Welfare State: Corruption in Maharastrian Agriculture
• Celine Huang – Abstract art in Ming Dynasty China

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

• Noor Abdelgawad – Use of Nanotechnology in Plant Disease Management
• Kawya Agarwal – Liberty or Expertise: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Democratic or Authoritarian Solution to Climate Change
• Riley Alvarez & John Lin – Exploring the Role of Attention in French Immersion Reading
• Akhilan Arulmozhi – Fad or Fact: Are Low-Carb Diets (LCDs) Advantageous to Human Health?
• Catherine Chi – Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the central nervous system in an animal model of Multiple Sclerosis
• Isabella Colalillo – I’m Not Surprised: Reasoning Societal Attitudes Towards Plexiglass Ineffectiveness for Limiting Sars-2-Cov Transmission
• Gabrielle Desilets – Investigating the effect of estrous cycle phase on goal-directed behaviour in female rats
• Catherine Diyakonov – Sympathy for Homeopathy: Investigating the Safety and Efficacy of Homeopathic Treatments for COVID-19
• Julia Gavieta – Tools for Achieving Net-Zero in Canada: Carbon Pricing and Climate-Related Risk Assessment
• Neha Gupta – Kaiso and MEG3 as potential therapeutic targets for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
• Roxanne Huang – Rejecting Xenotransplantation: Could Religion be a factor?
• Alison Huang – CRISPR-Cas9: Innovative Genome Editing Tool, Let Blue Cells Turn Green
• Nandita Jayadevan – Cloning and sequencing of GAPC-2 gene from space exposed Solanum Lycopersicum and GAPC-2 as a phylogenetic marker
• Jooyeong Kwak – The role of UHRF1BP1, a protein implicated in systemic lupus erythematosus, in the regulation of autophagy
• Hongzip Kim – Summarizing Students’ Free Responses for an Introductory Algebra-Based Physics Course Survey Using Cluster and Sentiment Analysis
• Mbabazi Okafor – Recycled, Local, Small-Scale Energy Solutions
• Maya Salman – Incorporating Indigenous Epistemologies & Methodologies into Indigenous Language Revitalization Research and Initiatives
• Julia Shokeir – Bubble: Building Loyalty Through Digital Affective Labour
• Benson Wu – Evaluation of KIFC1 as a therapeutic target in non-small cell lung cancer
• Joyce Yin – Exploring the relationships between rehabilitation and survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review

• Ahmed Hawamdeh – Racialized Revolutionaries: The Stereotyping of Racialized Men and the Consequences of Colour Conscious Casting in “Hamilton”
• Anna McIntosh – The Impacts of Globalization on The Appropriation of Navajo Culture
• Bianca Quilliam – Should we be Nietzscheans?
• Cristina Cazassus – The Political and Socioeconomic Contexts in Nigeria That Led to Boko Haram’s Rise in the 21st Century
• Frank Qiao – Confronting the ICC’s Africa Problem: How could the ICC Repair its Relations with the African Union?
• Garyn Rickwood – An Adversarial-Inquistorial System of Adjudication: The Future of Law?
• Hannah Cluroe – Addressing Violence Against Women in American Politics
• Jake Donner – The Hypocritical Use of PMCs
• Miranda Yang – Rising Temperatures and Rising Tensions: Governance in the Arctic
• Portia Garnons-Williams – How Canada Should Respond to China’s Uyghur Re-education Camps
• Sara Cai – International Policy on Myanmar: How Should Western Governments Respond?
• Sara Eftekharzadeh – Women, Life, Freedom Movement
• Zhejia Gong – A Brief Dissection of Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument and the Problem of Physicalism
• Wania Gondal & Artin Khiabani – Prohibition of single-use plastics in Canada: Are there justifiable consequences for small businesses?

• Maria Acosta – Review of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Combination Treatment
• Emma Bowman – Deep Breaths and Mind Breadth
• Elsa Cheung – Why Sleep is Both a Necessity and a “Neuro-cessity”
• Jiwoo Jeon – Credentials as Merit 2.0
• Julianna Lai – Correlation Between Adverse Effects and Treatment Efficacy in APL
• Jane Paterson – Disability Discrimination in Canada’s Long Term Care System
• Olivia Ruffolo – The Role of ANK3 in Bipolar Disorder I and Bipolar Disorder II
• Emily Shin – Exploring the correlation between de novo mutations in the BCOR gene and fetal ocular malformations associated with Lenz Microphthalmia Syndrome
• Thomas Speciel – AVLA – AudioVisual Learning AI tool
• Clive Stevens – The Ethics of Exploitation: How to Run Clinical Trials Involving Homeless Populations
• Bridget Woolf – 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 – The feeling of beauty in music: Relaxing and not confusing

TCURC 2022: Saturday, March 12, 2022

Held online, TCURC 2022, now in its eighth consecutive year, was a complete success! All times are EST.

Conference Program

10:00 am to 10:15 am: Opening Remarks | Main Conference Room

10:15 am to 11:30 am: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3

BREAKOUT ROOM #1

• Roya Aboosaidi: What past hegemonic shocks can tell us about the future of US-China relations
• Mostafa El Sharkawy: Threatening Engagement: Regional Hegemons and Terrorist Groups
• Shreya Vohra,: Climate Change, School Closures, and Youth Militant Recruitment in Kashmir
• Tessa Di Vizio: Memory on Trial: The High Command Trial, Postwar Justice, and Collective Memory in Germany, 1945-1958

BREAKOUT ROOM #2

• Kunying (Jenny) Jiang: The Use of Mobile Applications in Language Learning
• Yixin Wang: Vowel reduction and deletion in Palauan
• Justine Vorvis: Error Frequency: A Double-Edged Sword for Subsequent Memory Formation?
• Valeria Khudiakova: The Experiences of Stigmatization and Discrimination in Autistic People of Different Genders and Sexualities
• Mariana Castrillon: Measuring associative memories using implicit and explicit tests in children and adults

BREAKOUT ROOM #3

• Elise Lafleur: Queer Trinity: masculinities, power, and transatlantic community in early colonial Toronto
• Timothy Boudoumit: Understanding Arab Cartography’s Role in International Relations in the Late 19th Century Ottoman Empire
• John Beattie: Under the Double Eagle: A re-evaluation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• Eden Zorn: The Portrayal of Non-Russian Ethnic Minorities in Russian Literature Since 1800.

11:30 am to 11:45 am: BREAK | Main Conference Room

11:45 am to 12:45 pm: Concurrent 3-Minute Thesis Panels | Breakout Rooms 1 & 2

BREAKOUT ROOM #1

• Amy Pan: Pharmacogenetic profiling via genome sequencing in children with medical complexity
• Riley Alvarez: Breaking Barriers Behind Bars: A Policy Brief on Health Inequities Facing Incarcerated Canadians
• Kris Choi: Creation of transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis disease models
• Clover Chen: Broken Telephone: Positioning Indigenous Self-determination and State Negotiation in Canadian Policy
• Erika Teeter: Relevance of Beta-Amyloid Protein Plaques and in Alzheimer’s Disease
• Sofia Westerhoff: The United States’ Divided Approach to Sexual Health Education
• Giuliano Panizza: Analysis of the Protein Interactions of wtHTT, ULK1, P62, and LC3 and their Connection to Huntington’s Disease
• Alexander Trachsell: The Dangers of Race in Post-Racist Society
• Sarina Doshi: Discerning the Role of Mutant alpha-Synuclein In Vesicle Docking/Fusion as a Means of Understanding Parkinson’s Disease Pathology
• Bhavnoor Pannu: Does the ‘S’ in Tesla S really stand for saviour?
• *cancelled* Adrian Tanjala: The role of environmental toxins in the induction of acquired cystic fibrosis phenotypes in respiratory epithelia
  Jordan Picheniuk, PMSCs and Normalization at the United Nations

BREAKOUT ROOM #2

• Emma Watt-Hill: The Dichotomy of Positivism and Feminism: The Visceral Necessity for Feminist Jurisprudence in Legal Positivism
• *cancelled* Anna Lai: Comparative transcriptome analysis of human and mouse single cell RNA sequencing of pancreatic cancer
• Anjali Mohile (not finalized title): Uncovering Underdiagnosis–A Policy Brief to Address the Underdiagnosis and Treatment of ASD in Indigenous Communities
• Joyce Yin: Role of Lactobacillus iners in Vaginal Microbiota Dysbiosis
• Xiaolong (James) Wang: Violent Video Games: A Physiological Analysis on its Effect on Adolescents’ behavior
• Yifei (Christina) Tao: β-secretase: Cause of Alzheimer’s? No, it is the consequence.
• Devyani Chandra: Inflation and Tapering in the Pandemic Era: Lessons from the Great Financial Crisis
• Melissa Finlay: Clinical Characteristics of Severe Neurologic Impairment: A Scoping Review
• Harsh Bajwa: The China-Watcher Industry (Temporary Title)
• Jooyeong Kwak: Visualizing the Internalization of Fluorescent SARS-CoV-2 Virus-Like Particles
• Eugene Seo: Undersea Accumulations: The Impact of Plastics on Human and Marine Health
• Sheena McKeever: The Art of Synthesis: A Poetic Analysis of Nicolas Poussin’s Venus, Mother of Aeneas, Presenting him with Arms Forged by Vulcan (1636-7)

12:45 pm to 1:15 pm: LUNCH BREAK | Main Conference Room

1:15 pm to 2:30 pm: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Room 1, 2, & 3

BREAKOUT ROOM #1

• Radheesh Ameresekere: A Kantian Argument Against Watching Pornography
• Shruti Nistandra: Exploring the Rise of the Tort of Intentional Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage
• Shannon Bardin: Lockdown’s Effects on Juvenile Delinquency: An Examination of Changes in Social Capital and Corresponding Links to Deviance in Ontario University Students
• Isabella Giancola: Vaccine Violations: Experimental Evidence from Toronto-Based Restaurants
• Manal Quraishi: Assessing the association of ABO blood groups and secretor status with COVID-19 outcomes in a diverse Canadian cohort
• Closing remarks

BREAKOUT ROOM #2

• Clive Stevens: Community-Based Healthcare: Creative or Crap?
• Aria Lorenz: Chronically Disadvantaged; The Barriers to Academic Success for Disabled Students
• Madeleine Frechette: Honouring the Dish with One Spoon Covenant: Cultivating Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Toronto
• Samraggi Hazra: Addressing the State of International Healthcare: An Analysis of Health Inequities in Developed Nations
• Zihan (Alison) Pang: Inequality in Advanced Knowledge Economy: Comparison of Ireland and the Netherlands
• Closing remarks

BREAKOUT ROOM #3

• Ryu Won Kang: Optimization of Expression and Purification of Class A GPCRs for Structural Analysis
• Linus Schweizer, Effects of N-methylation in ultrashort tetrabasic lipopeptidomimetic-based antibiotic adjuvants
• Rhidita Saha, Assessing vascular changes in the lungs of discoidin domain receptor 1 (DDR1) deficient mice
• Minsheng Hung, Targeting Interleukin (IL)-1 to Prevent Leukaemia Progression
• Itzal De Urioste Terrazas, Trapped ions as Electric Field Detectors
• Closing remarks

Poster Presentations

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

• Aly Muhammad Ladak, The Role of Redox-Active Iron in Parkinson’s Disease (PDF)
• Caroline Middleton, Assessing the Sodium Content in Canadian Fast-Food and Sit-Down Restaurants From 2016 to 2020 (PDF)
• Natalie Lo, Exploring the Mechanisms behind Anti-PD-1/Anti-PD-L1 Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus (PDF)
• Julia Barbat, In situ reprogramming of astrocytes to alleviate Parkinson’s Disease (PDF)

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Conference Program

10:00 am to 10:15 am: Opening Remarks | Main Conference Room

10:15 am to 11:30 am: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3

BREAKOUT ROOM #1

• Yoon Mo Kang, Biased Gene Conversion Elevates GC Content in Genes that Undergo Frequent DNA Damage #1
• Anji Zhang, Cycloisomerization of Carbamoyl Chlorides in HFIP: Stereoselective Synthesis of Chlorinated Methylene Oxindoles and Quinolinones
• Ruo Ning Qiu, Exploring the Effectiveness and Usage of Mathematical Definitions in Exam Responses
• Vincent Hung, Potential in Store: A Proposal for the University of Toronto’s Climate Change Plan—Sizing Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to Complement Solar Energy

BREAKOUT ROOM #2

• Ariel Moon, Humanitarian Interventions or Imperialism
• Maja Soltysiak, In the Ethical Spotlight: Long-term Care Homes and COVID-19
• Zeus Eden, Learning from CERB: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in Canada

BREAKOUT ROOM #3

• Zihan Pang, Lenses of Memory: A Historiographical Study of China’s Culture Revolution
• Paranjay Sahanii, Paradox of Protesting in India
• Foti Vito, International Organizations and Democratic Backsliding: Examining the European Union and the Western Balkans
• Isabella Giancola, An Empty Chamber: Failing to Replicate the “More Guns, Less Crime” Hypothesis

11:30 am to 11:45 am: BREAK | Main Conference Room

11:45 am to 12:45 pm: Concurrent 3-Minute Thesis Panels | Breakout Rooms 1 & 2

BREAKOUT ROOM #1

• Tash-had Saqif, Living in Our Heads: Examining the Human Proclivity Toward Excessive Mind Wandering
• Suehyun Cho, Molecular analysis of the protocadherin HNCM1: a novel therapeutic target for head and neck cancers
• Anika Gupta, Curcumin and Neurotrophic Factors as Potential Drug Treatments for Parkinson’s Disease
• Defne Gulluoglu, Treat Cancer with Happiness?
• Amanda Oprisan, The Cultural Value of Suicide: A Historical Documentation of the Idealization of Suicide as a Literary Tool in 18th Century British Romanticism
• Aria Lorenz, Sexual Morality & Canadian Law: The Danger of Canada’s Polygamy Legislation
• Isabella Li, Investigating How to Prevent the Radicalization of Incels
• Amelia Marlowe, Sexual Violence and Protection in Indonesia
• Claire Parish, Conservation and Local Inhabitants: Common Tensions and their Relation to Kashmir’s Dal Lake
• Leila Koohi, Darkness Remains: The Effect of 2018 U.S. JCPOA Withdrawal on Iranian-U.S. Relations and Preventing a Nuclear Iran
• Megan Horsthuis, China’s Impact on the Threat of Cyberwarfare
• Stefania Stoica, Mental Health in Canadian Secondary Education – A Policy Brief

BREAKOUT ROOM #2

• Devyani Chandra, The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Evaluating The Ethical Implications of The Indian Reservation System
• Rahman Ladak, Mice, models, microbiota: How can we more accurately reflect human disease?
• Serena Yuan, Exclusionary Zoning in the United States
• Cathlin J. Han, Conserving the Upper Guinean Forest and Reducing the Spread of Infectious Disease
• William Wynne, A Static System in a Dynamic World: The Lack of a Multicultural Presence in the Canadian Healthcare System
• Anna Samuel, Managing Sexual Violence Against Women in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions
• Shijia Liu, Mental Health Counselling at a Toronto Inner-City School Based Health Centers (SBHC): A Descriptive Study
• Andrei Corlaci, Cybersecurity: The Importance of its Introduction and Proper Implementations for the General Population on a Large Scale
• Daphne Berberyan, The Shortcomings of the Security Council and Responsibility to Protect in Syria
• Shreya Vohra, Ideologies of Defining Citizenship: A Battle of Beliefs in India
• Nunazriah Dhahrul, From Resistance to Resilience: A Triple Helix Approach
• Yevin Ahn, The North Korean Refugee Crisis: Canada’s Private Sponsorship Program for NK Refugees in Thailand

12:45 pm to 1:15 pm: LUNCH BREAK | Main Conference Room

1:15 pm to 2:30 pm: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Room 1, 2, & 3

BREAKOUT ROOM #1

• Ali Nadhum, Deadly Impacts and the Questions Surrounding Wartime Use of Depleted Uranium
• Victoria Liu, Policy advise to counter-terrorism efforts against Al-Shabaab in Somalia
• Mariana Castrillon, Literature Review on Music Therapy for Refugees with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Samantha Pierre, And The Nominees Are: An Empirical Analysis of the Value of a Tony Award
• Closing remarks

BREAKOUT ROOM #2

• Roya Aboosaidi, Instilling hope- A plan to restore mental health to those who survived the most complex violations of human rights today
• Ryu Won Kang, Understanding the Mental Health Outcomes of Temporarily Furloughed Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Sebastian Warma, Microbiome Abnormalities as a Possible Link Between Diabetes Mellitus and Mood Disorders: Pathophysiology and Implications for the Treatment
• Closing remarks

BREAKOUT ROOM #3

• Tiffany Teng, Beauty Is in the Ingroup of the Beholder: Judgements of Attractiveness and Perceptually Ambiguous Social Groups
• Justine Vorvis, Distilling Process Praise to Maximize – and Optimize – Children’s Persistence
• Mishel Alexandrovsky, Singles’ Beliefs about Relationships as a Source of Happiness
• Closing remarks

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

• Victoria Fortuna: Victoria Fortuna – An In-Vivo Study Controlling Gene Expression in CagA Positive Helicobacter pylori to Determine the Effects of the CagA Gene on the Development of Gastric Cancer (PDF)
• Anjali Rao: Anjali Rao – Global Governance and Gender-Based Violence OnlinE (PDF)
• Sabrina Zhu: Sabrina Zhu – H. pylori infection as a causal agent for the neuroinflammation characteristic of Alzheimer’s Disease (PDF)

Saturday, March 7, 2020

We are very excited to have Trinity College’s Pearson-Sabia Distinguished Visitor and Visiting Fellow humanitarian, author and business leader Rosemary McCarney as our keynote speaker this year. Ms. McCarney most recently served as Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament.

TCURC is free to all students. Please register in advance at: https://forms.gle/r3WzxeQRDb81jmYLA

Conference Program

10:00 am to 10:30 am: Registration and Opening Remarks | George Ignatieff Theatre (GIT)

10:30 am to 11:30 am: Keynote Address | GIT

Trinity College’s Pearson-Sabia Distinguished Visitor and Visiting Fellow humanitarian, author and business leader Rosemary McCarney

11:30 pm to 12:30 pm: Concurrent panels | TC22 & TC24

REPRESENTATION | TC22

• Elise Lafleur, Sodomites with Unpleasant Accents: Constructing a Queer Oral History of Trinity College
• Thomas Siddall, Queer Youth on the Move: Gentrification and the International in Beijing
• Emily Wuschnakowski, Gender Quotas in National Parliaments: A Policy Solution to Increase Women’s Substantive Representation? A Comparative Analysis between Belgium and Denmark

INFORMATION | TC24

• Anne Michaela MacDonald, From Jurors’ Shopping to Shopping for Jurors: Big Data in the Courtroom
• Maja Soltysiak, A Media Examination: The Top Bioethical Issues of 2019 and the Possible Ramifications for the Health Care Field
• Roshni Thawani, Reflective Biography—Experiential Learning through the Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm: Catered Lunch | Regent Park Catering Collective | PDR and Combination Room

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Concurrent panels | TC22 & TC24

IMMUNITY | TC22

• Felice Chun, The Role of M2 Macrophages and Microglia in MS Prognosis
• Rutvij Khanolkar, Synergistic checkpoint blockade and cytokine therapy increase γδT cell-mediated cytotoxicity in hepatocellular carcinoma
• Tsz Wai Phoebe Liu, Anti-CD40L and Atacicept as new potential therapeutic strategies to treat Helicobacter-induced gastric B cell lymphomagenesis

RELATIONS | TC24

• Sally Antown, Human Security and Foreign Policy: Bridging the Gap between Refugees and the State
• Xuemeng Bai, Getting out of Poverty Trap: Basic Income and the “Relatively Poor”
• Matthew Remedios, Neocolonial narratives in development assistance for abortion in Uganda: Contextualized solutions for unintended pregnancies in postcolonial cultures

2:30 pm to 3:15 pm: Poster Session | Alternative Modalities | 3-Minute Thesis Presentations | Coffee Break | Seeley Hall, TC22, & TC24

POSTERS:

• Tereza Blahova, The Reproductive and Pregnancy Outcomes of Female Childhood Cancer Survivors
• Charles Carr, What is Really in Your Bathroom Cabinet: The Contents of Expired Probiotics
• Christina Giusto, Learning plan for target vocabulary
• Sheryl Ester Gumira, Is Monosodium Glutamate a Safe Additive in Food
• Minsheng (Vincent) Hung, After the Flood: Disaster Healthcare in the Climate Change Era
• Maria Medeleanu, Fracture outcomes in E/B Thalassemia patients in Sri Lanka.
• Zihan Pang, The Intellectual Origins of China’s Social Credit System
• Milad Saadati, A Study On Factors Impacting Life Expectancy
• Bana Samman, Lymphocytic Infiltration and Immune Checkpoint Expression in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours
• Ayesha Shakeel, A Pursuit of Equity in Online ESL Education: Delivering Culturally Responsive Reading Materials
• Madison Skoblo, The Arctic Council: Problems and Solutions
• Yufeng Tao, Combining Trading Strategies via Recurrent Reinforcement Learning
• Luyang Wang, Prion-Like Proteins in Candida albicans are Integral to Filamentous Growth and Pathogenicity
• Shiv Yucel, North American Indigenous Populations in the 19th Century: An Empirical Investigation of the Socio-Economic Factors that Influence Nutrition
• Anji Zhang, Oxytrifluoromethylation: Phthalide synthesis

ALTERNATIVE MODALITIES:

• Angel Bella, Today’s Specials
• Nivaal Rehman, Allez Les Bleus: Solving Poverty and Inequality in France Using the French Football Federation’s Model

3-MINUTE THESIS PRESENTATIONS: TC 22

• Nicholas Damiano, To Diet or not To Diet
• Madhurie Dhanrajh, From Subjugation to Oppression; How Guyana has simultaneously evolved and degraded since independence
• Brianna Lane, Different amounts of hiking trail usage impact soil compaction in the Adirondacks
• Daisy Liu, The Effect of Representation on Uptake of the Female Empowerment Movements: Lessons from Korea and Japan
• Yeo Myong Bang, Dissecting the role of serotonin in intestinal IgA plasma cells during EAE
• Maryam Rehman, Dream Big Disney: Exploring the Walt Disney Company’s Origins in the Entertainment Industry, Current Dominance and Future Role in Planetary Politics
• Quinn Teague-Colfer, “Cultural Genocide” in Xinjiang: International Responses to Chinese Repression of Ethnic Minorities
• Gabby Tsai, The Death Doctor’s Future in Canada

3:15 pm to 4:30 pm: Concurrent panels & Closing Remarks | TC22 & TC24

INTERVENTIONS | TC22

• Omar Kassam, Global Crime and Terror: Money-Laundering and Canadian Real Estate
• Tourang Movahedi, Iran Since 1979
• Tomer Zaidman, Socioeconomic Frameworks for Counterterrorism

INVESTIGATION | TC24

• Nathan Kuehne, Association of two BRM promoter polymorphisms and smoking status with malignant pleural mesothelioma risk and prognosis
• Abdula Maher, The Haunting Dangers of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy In Players of American Football
• Ariel (Da Yeon) Moon, Health care and the Incarceration System
• Zoe Thompson, High throughput RNAi screen to identify genes required for mitochondrial DNA quality control in the Drosophila melanogaster germline