Previous Years
Open the tabs below for information about past Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Symposiums.
View the Life Sciences Symposium Brochure 2023-2024
The following students won awards for Outstanding Presentation at the 2024 Symposium:
- Matin Borhani – Thesis: “Cerebral blood flow responses following high-intensity dynamic resistance exercise across menstrual cycle phases” supervised by Dr. Baraa Al-Khazraji
- Arraksana Nanthakumar – Thesis: “Practical strength training combined with protein supplementation to improve muscle mass, strength, and physical function in overweight/obese older individuals” supervised by Dr. Stuart Phillips
- Abonti Nur Ahmed – Thesis: “The gastro-intestinal mucosal biopsy optimization protocol: a study to determine the optimal protocol for processing human duodenal biopsies for cytokine profiling” supervised by Dr. David Armstrong
- Amber Shin – Thesis: “The relationship between vision screening results and socioeconomic status among pediatric patients” supervised by Dr. Kourosh Sabri
- Ariana Shivji – Thesis: “Synthesis and characterization of [18F]-DCFPyL precursor and reference standard utilizing good laboratory practices” supervised by Dr. Saman Sadeghi
- Ayushka Tiwary – Thesis: “Exploring student experiences with food (in)security” supervised by Dr. Ana Tomljenovic-Berube
View the Life Sciences Symposium Brochure 2021-2022
The following students won awards for Outstanding Presentation at the 2022 Symposium:
- Jayco Cheng – Thesis: “Is there a correlation between Kaiso expression and PD-L1 expression in triple negative breast cancer?” supervised by Dr. Juliet Daniel
- Clare Edwards – Thesis: “Do macrophages with Tet2 mutations have impaired pneumococcal immunity?” supervised by Dr. Dawn Bowdish
- Ana Featherson – Thesis: “Do pyruvate kinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase facilitate Eutrema salugineum‘s ability to withstand limiting phosphate conditions?” supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Weretilnyk
- Lydia Leung – Thesis: “Does the institutional radiation-sparing approach used to treat ATRT patients at SickKids Hospital improve overall survival in any of the three ATRT molecular subgroups?” supervised by Dr. Annie Huang & Dr. Adam Fleming
- Swara Patel – Thesis: “Is there an association between excess body weight (EBW) and mixed features in bipolar disorder (BD)?” supervised by Dr. Flavio Kapczinski & Dr. Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso
- Amy Qiao – Thesis: “Interrogating the hematopoietic differentiation potential of acute myeloid leukemia patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells” supervised by Dr. Mick Bhatia
- Radha Sharma – Thesis: “What is the effectiveness of mobile health clinics in our ever-changing world?” supervised by Dr. Tim O’Shea & Dr. Larkin Lamarche
- Sanya Vij – Thesis: “Examining the role of artificial intelligence/machine learning applications in detecting the spread of health misinformation on social media platforms” supervised by Dr. Cynthia Lokker
- Hannah Whitelaw – Thesis: “What features are associated with neoplastic disease-related fractures and can be identified through radiographic images?” supervised by Dr. Megan Brickley
Honourable Mentions: Melanie Bercovitch, Olivia Hamilton, Ekam Sandhu, Kesha Shah
