"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. Click on the session date to view the video recording of the presentation.
Thursday July 30, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Prof. Nicole Li-Jessen
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Coughing? Choking? No Voice? What went wrong with your throat?
Prof. Judith Mandl
Department of Physiology
Interrogating immune responses in bats
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
Thursday July 23, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Prof. Wayne Pollard
Department of Geography
Changing Arctic Landscapes
Prof. Christopher Thibodeaux
Department of Chemistry
Modern Mass Spectrometry: So Much More than Molecular Weight
Prof. Eve Lee
Department of Physics
The Diversity of Exoplanets
Lisa Dang
Department of Physics
Why Physics Matters (McGill Physics Outreach)
Tuesday July 21, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Prof. Christophe Dubach
School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering
Language Design, Compilation and Hardware Synthesis for Machine Learning Acceleration
Prof. Nicolas Cowan
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Department of Physics
Supersonic Sandstorms on Lava Planets
Prof. Alba Guarné
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
Thursday July 16, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Prof. Siva
Reddy
School of Computer Science and Department of Linguistics
Building computers that understand and interact in human language
Tuesday July 14, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Prof. Audrey Moores
Department of Chemistry
How to turn crustacean or insect shells
into new plastics
Prof. Bastien Castagner
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Understanding and manipulating the human gut microbiota
Prof. John White
Department of Physiology
Vitamin D and
COVID-19
Ada McVean
Department of Chemistry
More than just blowing things up: McGill Chemistry Outreach Group
Thursday July 9, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux
Department of Geography and Institute for the Study of International Development
Capital has no homeland – and neither does faith
Prof. Shirin A.
Enger
Department of Oncology and Medical Physics Unit
Fighting cancer with physics and scientific computing
Tuesday July 7, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Prof. Brent
Pym
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Interactions between geometry, algebra and quantum theory
Prof. Bernhard Lehner
Department of Geography
Global lakes and rivers: putting the world's water resources on the map
Tuesday June 30 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Prof. Samantha Gruenheid
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New links between the gut and the brain in Parkinson’s Disease
Thursday June 25 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Prof. Anna Weinberg
Department of Psychology
Familial and environmental contributions to risk for depression: The role of the positive valence system
Tuesday June 23 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Prof. Eric Galbraith
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Integrating humans into Earth System models
Friday June 19 | 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Wednesday June 17 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Prof. Mathieu Roy
Department of Psychology
No pain no gain: how does the brain decide between pain and monetary rewards?
Friday June 12 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Prof. Nagissa Mahmoudi
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
What are microbes eating and why?
Prof. Paul Wiseman
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
Wednesday June 10 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Undergraduate Student Panel
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
Laura Meng
Neuroscience
Using a mouse model to treat Anorexia nervosa
Friday June 5, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Wednesday June 3, 2020 | 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Friday May 22, 2020 | 1:00 - 2:15 PM
Prof. Thomas Brunner
Department of Physics
Understanding our Universe through neutrinos
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
Sun and Science was produced by
Preeti Purba-Singh, Research Office of the Faculty of Science
Eduardo Ganem Cuenca, Research Office of the Faculty of Science