"Sun and Science" became the virtual edition of our popular Soup and Science series. Students and community members heard from outstanding McGill professors across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions in dynamic breakout rooms.听Click on the session date to view the听 video recording of the presentation.
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School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Coughing? Choking? No Voice? What went wrong with your throat?
Department of Physiology
Interrogating immune responses in bats
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Imane Chafi
Faculty of Engineering
Cress - MEI Mapping Tool : A Software Engineering Web Interface to Classify Musical Neumes
Jessica Ford
Redpath Museum
STEMM Diversity @ McGill
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Department of Geography
Changing Arctic Landscapes
Department of Chemistry
Modern Mass Spectrometry: So Much More than Molecular Weight
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Department of Physics
The Diversity of Exoplanets
Department of Physics
Why Physics Matters (McGill Physics Outreach)
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Prof. Christophe Dubach
School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering
Language Design, Compilation and Hardware Synthesis for Machine Learning Acceleration
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Department of Physics
Supersonic Sandstorms on Lava Planets
Department of Biochemistry
Damage, Repair and Cancer: How do you keep your DNA safe?
Fiona D'Arcy, PhD Candidate
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Join for the Rocks, Stay for the S'mores! Students of McGill Outreach in Earth Sciences
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Department of Geography
COVID-19 mobility response: A country comparison
Department of Biology
Protecting biodiversity in all its complexity
School of Computer Science and Department of Linguistics
Building computers that understand and interact in human language
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Department of Chemistry
How to turn crustacean or insect shells
into new plastics
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Prof. Bastien Castagner
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Understanding and manipulating the human gut microbiota
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Prof. John White
Department of Physiology
Vitamin D and
COVID-19
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Ada McVean
Department of Chemistry
More than just blowing things up: McGill Chemistry Outreach Group
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Department of Psychology
Measuring and Mitigating Implicit Biases in Judgment
Department of Geography and Institute for the Study of International Development
Capital has no homeland 鈥� and neither does faith
Prof. Shirin A.
Enger
Department of Oncology and Medical Physics Unit
Fighting cancer with physics and scientific computing
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Tuesday July 7, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Strength below the Continents
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Interactions between geometry, algebra and quantum theory
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Department of Geography
Global lakes and rivers: putting the world's water resources on the map
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Prof. Samantha Gruenheid
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New links between the gut and the brain in Parkinson鈥檚 Disease
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Department of Physics
HIRAX and the Search for Dark Energy
Department of Psychology
Familial and environmental contributions to risk for depression: The role of the positive valence system
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Integrating humans into Earth System models
School of Computer Science
Machine Learning on Graph Data
Department of Geography
For Peat Sake: carbon cycling from bogs to your garden
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School of Computer Science Using artificial brains to understand real brains
Department of Geography
Northern housing and Indigenous Peoples鈥� health
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Department of Physics
Searching for cosmic dawn
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Prof. Mathieu Roy
Department of Psychology
No pain no gain: how does the brain decide between pain and monetary rewards?
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Friday June 12 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
What are microbes eating and why?
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Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics
Singing cells? Label free imaging inside cells using optical harmonics
Julie Alexia-Dias
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The opioid epidemic: mathematical pharmacokinetic modelling of fentanyl and naloxone.
Michelle Yang
Department of Psychology
Psychophysiological markers in PTSD treatment
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Undergraduate Student Panel
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Dylan Wong
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Investigating Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase as a
Novel Biomarker for Checkpoint Blockade
Morgan Sweeney
Department of Psychology
Magic of the Mind
Nadia Blostein
Cognitive Science
The Modular Organization of Heritability
Across the Cortex
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Laura Meng
Neuroscience
Using a mouse model to treat Anorexia nervosa
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Redpath Museum
Mouse tale in a warming world
Department of Physics
May the force be with you!
Department of Chemistry
A Solid Case for New, Cleaner Chemistry
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Department of
Physics
Making the Largest 3D Maps
of our Universe
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Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Ancient and future
earthquakes
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Department of
Chemistry
Tracking Cell Metabolism and
Communication
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Prof. Thomas Brunner
Department of Physics
Understanding our Universe through neutrinos
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Prof. Yajing Liu
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Earthquakes and faults
Prof. Anna Hargreaves
Department of Biology
Life at the edge: understanding species current and future geographic distributions
Prof. Eric McCalla
Department of Chemistry
Accelerating advanced battery materials research
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Sun and Science was produced by
Preeti听Purba-Singh, Research Office of the Faculty of Science
Eduardo Ganem Cuenca,听Research Office of the Faculty of Science