荔枝成人app Undergraduate Research Conference
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE!
罢丑别听荔枝成人app 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 荔枝成人app 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 officially looking for CONFERENCE PRESENTERS!听 Do you have interesting and unique research to share?听 Proud of a paper or research project?听 Interested in presenting at an official ACADEMIC CONFERENCE?听 Submit a program proposal to present at TCURC 2025!听 Program proposals can already be submitted .听 The deadline to is January 31st!
Also make sure you SAVE THE DATE – SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 for the conference!
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Interested to know more about the conference?听 Check out the schedule and list of presenters for the 10th annual conference in 2024 below…
TCURC 2024: SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2024
CONFERENCE PROGRAM (IN-PERSON)
9:00am to 9:30am: Conference Registration (Seeley Hall – 荔枝成人app)
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)
Lounge Stations & Areas
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 Rooms
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 Rooms
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 | 荔枝成人app front hall
Research Posters
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 荔枝成人app, 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
Presentation order
- 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
Presentation order
- 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 荔枝成人app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 is organized by 荔枝成人app鈥檚 Academic Dons & Academic Peer Advisors, in collaboration with the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program.