Trinity College Undergraduate Research Conference

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TCURC 2026: SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2026 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

10:00 am to 11:15 am: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, TC22, TC24

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room

• Marta Tavares Fernandes, Innocence Lost: The Intrinsic Good of Unreflexive Caring in Childhood
• Ezinne Arki, The Effect of Olfaction on Memory: Multisensory Integration vs Unimodal Encoding
• Amir Samadi, Investigating the functional necessity of anticipatory AON activity in context-dependent odour memory
• Maya Rueda-Cohen, Measuring Perceptual Distortions of Body Image with a 3D Avatar: Assessing the Somatomap 3D App
• Nathaniel Dickie,  Equality versus Choice: A Defense of Educational Adequacy and Community Self-Determination

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room

• Crystal Zhang, Rational Resistance: Feminist Refusal Discourses of Marriage in South Korea and the Co-Production of Neoliberal Governmentality
• Sharmeen Imran, Speech-Makers and Truth-Takers: Satire and Resistance to Legal Professionalization in 19th Century New York
• Christina (Dianya) Tan, Negotiated Power & Constrained Agency: Representations of Women in Popular Songs by Women Rappers (2017-2024)
• Leo Smucker, Harley MS 1251: Life, Death, Memory, and Female Book Ownership in the Later Middle Ages
• Khaliun Enkhbold, The Quiet Architecture of Gendered Expectations and Their Influence on Interpersonal Dynamics

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 -TC22

• Jiani Wu, Periodic & aperiodic components of longitudinal EEG power spectra in mild cognitive impairment patients
• Nikita Yang, Linking Neural Synchrony to Spatial Memory Deficits in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
• Anwesha Mukherjee, Investigating Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Fragile X Syndrome Using Human Cortical and Thalamic Organoids
• Sky Wang, Study of Synaptic Density Changes in the FMR1 Knockout Mice Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Jia Nitin Vedante, Identifying the role of Sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus (SLD) Astrocytes in Regulating REM Sleep in Mice *Runner Up Winner – 10-Minute Presentations

BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC24

• Ariana  Abbaszadeh, The Right to Race: FIA Governance and the Suppression of Driver Expression in Formula 1
• Joseph Choi, Police Associations and the Politics of Fear: How Police Unions Leverage Crime Narratives in Canada
• Xian Ning (Crystal) Lim, Testing the Roles of Environmental and Biotic Heterogeneity in Restoration
• Sarina Hamzehian, Helping or Harming? How Undergraduate Students Make Sense of AI in Their Academic Careers

11:30 am to 12:45 pm: Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, TC22, TC24

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room

• Olivia Hofman, Retaining the Periphery: Strategies of Metropoles in the Struggle Against Secession
• Martin Vanhille, Matt Pindera, Jason Bouramia, The Sentiment of Survival: How Budapest’s Civil Society Navigates Democratic Backsliding
• Esme Smolynec, The Polar Sea Voyage: What do debates over the Northwest Passage tell us about Canadian Sovereignty?
• Gabrielle Bridi, The Triangle Factory Fire: Gender, Space, and the Tragedies of Capital

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room

• Benjamin Doan, Developing and validating self-tracing system in in vivo model for refinement of stem cell treatment
• Veronique Aynedjian, Factors Influencing Surveillance Adherence in Rectal Cancer Patients Managed with Watch-and-Wait (WW) at Princess Margaret Hospital
• Ellie Bagrin, Efficacy of Intravenous Iron Therapy Across a Diverse Patient Population: A Narrative Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
• Jana Mahmoud, Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Pain Recurrence Following Trigeminal Neuralgia Surgery
• Shivangi Roy, Melatonin Demonstrates Significant Anticancer Potential Through Systematic Analysis

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – TC22

• Maia Klatt-Sautner, Toxic Supply, Desperate Demand: Understanding Canada’s Opioid Crisis and Strategies for a Coordinated Response
• Sena Yenilmez, Canada’s Fragmented Healthcare System: How Can We Bridge the Gap Between Canada and Higher-Performing Universal Care Providing Countries
• Lianne Ohayon, Learning from COVID-19: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Healthcare in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland
• Emily Ng, Preventing Dementia: A Comparative Analysis of Dementia Prevention Policies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan
• Isabela Calderone, To Live or Not to Live?: Analyzing the Role of Stigma in Extending MAiD Eligibility for Mental Illness *1st Place Winner – 10-Minute Presentations

BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC24

• Daniel Fragomeni, Tenofovir Alafenamide and Placental Fatty Acid Transporters in HIV-Positive Pregnancies
• Caitlin Adams, An oral cell line prototype of antiretroviral therapy-associated IRIS for an HIV/HHV-8 co-infection
• Vasilisa Kuzmanova, pcdh15 isoforms function in different organs to mediate the development of inner hair cell and UV cone morphology
• Laiba  Butt,  The Role of the Complement System in Primary Membranous Nephropathy (PMN) and podocyte cell injury
• Jiahao (David) Geng, Novel Sponge-Derived Aeroplysinin (Ap) Compounds Activate the Nrf2-Keap1 Pathway to Protect Cells from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

Research Poster Presentations | Trinity College front hall

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

• Foluwa Ajani, The Evaluation of the Bond Strengths of Dental Adhesives on 3D-Printed Ceramic Crown Material
• Nuzhat Azim,  Insulin Resistance and Mood Disorders: Evidence From Randomized Controlled Trials
• Madeline Bank, Lending an Ear: Christian Voices Under Muslim Rule in the Medieval Mediterranean
• Kate Beshiri, Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health: Regression Analysis of Wildlife Habitat Capacity and Relative Soil Organic Carbon in Eastern Canada
• Micah Cao, Sharia in Song: Jurisdiction, Legal Pluralism, and the Fanfang in Song China
• Yu Wa (Chloe) Chan, Exploring Modulation of APRIL-BCMA Signaling to Delay the Onset of Good’s Syndrome in Thymoma Patients
• Rebecca Chau, Accenting Bias: How Race, Gender, and Language Shape Experiences of Canadian General Surgeons
• Elizabeth Chen, DNA Quantification and Copy Number Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells from Breast Cancer
• Elsa Cheung, Inhibition of Synaptic Transmission using the AAV-Syn1-rtTA Construct Tet-ON System to Verify Motor Neuron Function in the cSCI Rat Model
• Gabbai, Comparison between left-right ovarian stromal blood flow, ARK1C3 concentrations, and PCOM in patients with PCOS
• Bilge Güven,  Well-Being in Post-Secondary Education: A Longitudinal Investigation of Self-Determination Theory Applications
• Maya Honda-Granirer, Investigating Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder Patients *Runner Up Winner – Poster Presentations
• Ashmeer Isahac,  Verifying Mathematics by Machine: Type Theory and Computer-Checked Proofs
• Joseph Katz, Multi-Agent AI Evaluation of Donor Suitability in Liver Transplantation
• Roman Krukowski, The Effects of Simultaneous Phage and Carbapenem Therapy on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
• Chiara-Marie Marchesano, Using total-columns of CO₂, CH₄, and CO to investigate emissions from Toronto
• Lauren McGuire, Application of Siltuximab in Chronic Graft vs Host Disease Post Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
• Emily Ng, Light-Driven Ethane Dehydrogenation for Ethylene and Hydrogen Co-Production.
• Reena  Obmina, Modernising ePlant: API Redevelopment, Quality Control, and Performance Optimisation for the Bio-Analytic Resource
• Benjamin Panet, Examining the Evolution of Long-Wavelength Sensitive Rhodopsin in Holometabola Insects
• Parmin Sedigh Tonekaboni, To Transplant or Not to Transplant (Pre-Emptively): The Benefits and Downfalls of Pre-Emptive Kidney Transplantation
• Anka Stefanovic, Interpreting the pathogenicity of ATM variants
• Natalie Su van Lieshout, Roots in Concrete: The Multifaceted Community Role of Indigenous-Led Urban Garden Initiatives (IUGIs) in Toronto
• Hammad Umar, Mini-Review: The Current Progress in the Field of Cardiac Regenerative Medicine and the Major Challenges to Clinical Translation
• William Unal Ferreira Da Silva, Chemogenetic Inhibition of Prefrontal Cortical Neurogliaform Cells Impairs Social Memory in Mice: A Three-Chambered Social Approach Study
• Ashley Wai, “It is a good way to track where is my stress level and then I can find the resources to help me:” Investigating Optimal Approaches for Implementing a Comprehensive EHR-Integrated Psychosocial Screening Tool in Routine Pediatric Oncology
• Kuan-Wei Wu, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Taiwan’s Nuclear Dilemma
• Jie Xiong, Impact of B-catenin overexpression on adhesion of limbal epithelial stem cells
• SPECIAL EXHIBIT – Antonella Pecora Ruiz, Reese Kurian, & Roselaide Decker – Poxes & Passports: An Exhibition on Vaccination Histories *1st Place Winners – Poster Presentations

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | Seeley Hall

• Adelia Luba, Corridor Urbanism: Tracing geopolitical implications of lithium mining across northern Argentina & Chile
• Carol Lu, Investigating the Role of Aquaporin-4 in Optic Nerve Fluid Accumulation in Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome Using a Hindlimb Unloading Mouse Model
• Yinghao Liu, Bone Marrow Adipocytes: Can they be Transformed to Fibroblasts by Leukemia?
• Alysa Leigh, Psychological Effects of Large-Scale Mining on Indigenous Communities in Canada
• Artin Khiabani, Taylor Voted Democrat, So I’m Voting Democrat: Celebrity Endorsement and the Limits of Private Political Expression
• Eunsong (Bianca) Jeong, Children Without Protection: Understanding child trafficking and possible prevention measures
• Abraar Hussain, The Role of Anatomical Compression of the Facial Nerve (CN VII) in the Pathogenesis of Bell’s Palsy
• Yuheng Huang, Exploring Matcha as a Preventive Strategy to Alzheimer’s Disease
• Gravity Guignard, Harnessing Neural Stem Cells for Adult Neurogenesis
• Robbie Gray, The Intersection of Housing Instability and HIV/AIDS in Toronto: How to Better Treat the Most Vulnerable
• Caitlin Evran, Echoes of Adversity: The Prevalence and Associations of Invisible Symptoms with Adverse Childhood Experiences, Attachment Style, Self-Compassion, and Care Preferences in People with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Catherine Donkin, Examining the Status of Gender-Affirming Healthcare for Ontario Adults
• Amber Chow, Why did Canada’s pandemic response fail to institutionalize ventilation as a public health intervention, what mitigation efforts were attempted, and what federal actions are still available to reduce airborne disease risk in public buildings?
• Deen Choudhry, A Multilateral Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation Responses
• Elizabeth Chen, Understanding Phenotypic and Genotypic Alterations in Human Pulmonary Fibrosis Using iPSC-derived and Primary Fetal Lung Cell Co-Culture Model
• Nicholas Amenta,  Research by Committee: How campus citizen science can usher in a new era of experiential learning at the University of Toronto
• Rie Aiyama,  Voices of the Future: A Study of Youth Protest Culture in Japan
• Maria Jose Acosta, Hybrid Antigen Generation For Neisseria gonorrhoeae Vaccine Development

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | Seeley Hall

• Daisy Zhao, The Effect of the COVID-19 Recession on Crime Rates: A Case Study of Toronto Neighbourhoods
• Jiayi Zhang, Understanding the Impact of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Multiple Sclerosis Progression
• Victoria (Yixin) Wang, Love and Duty: An Iconographical Analysis of Botticelli’s Primavera  *Runner Up Winner – 3-Minute Thesis Presentations
• Derin Taylan,  Examining the Relationships Among Dietary Fat Intake, BDNF Levels, and PMDD Symptom Scores Across Temporal Subgroups of PMDD
• Nishat Fatima Syeda, The association between social isolation (SI) and depression, anxiety, and overall mental health among individuals with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): A cross-sectional analysis
• Alexander Simmons, Forgotten: Sudans Civil War
• Chaehwan Shin, From Deterrence to Bargaining: North Korea’s Nuclear Program in the U.S.-China Power Struggle
• Jia Sharma, Privacy, Secrecy, and the Public Good: The State Secrets Privilege in American Constitutional Practice
• Ahzem Rudani, Exploring the influence of internal biofilm environments on efflux pump-mediated antibiotic resistance in H. pylori  *1st Place Winner – 3-Minute Thesis Presentations
• Amelie Pinard,  CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully): Beyond Clinical Implications
• Gabriel Pascual, Investigating Seizure Susceptibility in Interneurons and Pyramidal Neurons via Neurofibromin Mutations
• Simon  O’Connor, Failures in Counterterrorism: Exploring British ‘Criminalization’ of the IRA
• Katharine Morley, Flattening the Curve: Exploring Genetic Contributions to the Prevalence and Severity of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) and Sex-Related Risk
• Chihiro Mori, Comparative Analysis of AI innovation Ecosystems: A Citation Network Study of the University of Toronto and the University of Tokyo
• Anjali Mohile, The Missing Link in the Trauma Chain of Survival
• Jack McMahon Ackhurst, Rhetoric or Reality: Donald Trump’s New Approach to American Foreign Policy
• James  Mar, Investigating the Selectivity of the Organoarsenical Antibiotic Arsinothricin in Human and Bacterial Glutamine Synthetase

TCURC 2025: SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, Junior Common Room, TC22, TC24

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room

• Daria Synelnykova – Reclaiming Ukrainian Agency: The Role of Ukrainian Dissidents in Shaping the Global Cold War and Contributing to the USSR Collapse
• Kaelem Moniz – Fujimori’s Shadow: A Study of Extractive Colonialism in Peru
• Azucena Qadeer – Success Through Failure: The Stain of the Shining Path
• Isebela Sousa – A Freeze in the Mediterranean: 50 Years Since the Division of Cyprus

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room

• Clive Stevens – Refusing to Rest in Peace: How Modern Medical Care in North America Allows Terminally Ill Cancer Patients to Refuse a Traditional Good Death
• Maya Kazemi – The Impact of COVID-19 on the disruption of care for individuals with HIV/AIDS
• Raina Uppal – The Effect on Abortion of Mandatory Waiting Period Laws: A Case Study of Arkansas, 2015
• Hongzip Kim – Designing Curriculum for Teaching Programming with Comics

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – Junior Common Room

• Nicholas Amenta, Gwendolyne Depoorter, Miyuki Nakano, and Muskan Virk – Reintroduction of the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee to the Greater Toronto Area
• Rosalia Caramazza, Theodora Ghosh, Dewi Leksono, and Nevan Kho – Urban Green Infrastructure: A Vertical Aquaponics Ecosystem Design
• Sharanya Shankar – Examining the Sustainability of Food Prescription Programs in Canada: A Series of Semi-structured Interviews with Community Partners
• Samuel Hoogsteen – Taxing What Isn’t There; the effect of municipal vacancy taxes in Canada.
• Yuewen Luo – Counting Permutations in $S_{2n}$ and $S_{2n+1}$

BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC22

• Erika Teeter – GLP-1/E2 as a Potential Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease: Restoring Cognitive Function
• Yanbing Shi – Potential Therapeutic Effects of Drug-R on Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury
• Laiba Irfan Butt – Using Salivary Cortisol to evaluate the stress response for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulations (RTMS) guided by task-evoked brain activity
• Tavie Johnson – Exploring Antioxidant Therapies in Epilepsy
• Sara Ziadat – Blood-Brain Barrier-Exclusion Scoring to Reduce Risk of Neurotoxicity in Drug Discovery

BREAKOUT ROOM #5 – TC24

• Eugene Seo – The gut microbiome and immune correlates of healthy aging in HIV
• Victoria Sephton – From the Backyard to the Bench: Defining Exposomic Influences on the Adaptive Immune Landscape
• Aditya Khan – Endemicity and Eradication of Diseases In the Presence of Vaccination and Reinfection in a SEIRV Model
• Bhavnoor Pannu – A Dual Scoping Review of Factors Causing Misdiagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, Junior Common Room, TC22, TC24

BREAKOUT ROOM #1 – Combination Room

• Maria Saqqur – Tunisia and Egypt: Transitional Justice and Politics of Accountability
• Sanya Pasricha – Examining the Relationship Between the Type of Actor and Prevelance of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones(1989-2021)
• De Xin (Daisy) Zhao – Foreign Intervention and Famine: Investigating the Root Causes of Food Insecurity in Niger and Malawi

BREAKOUT ROOM #2 – Divinity Common Room

• Amelia Wallworth –  “[B]ut at night she would sneak back to nurse her babies”: Absences and Presences of  Decision-Making within Enslaved Women’s Corporeal Capacity for Nourishment
• Arlo Grzyb-Reed – The Materiality of Pen and Ink Through the Hands of Writers: The Case of the Sinistral Scribe
• Sebastian Vidal-Waldron –The Eagle against the Tricolour: Exploring the Parallels Between the Development of General Aleksandr Vasil’evich Suvorov’s Tactics and Revolutionary France
• Anthony Popov – Reasoning with the Masses in London through Rhyme: Political Ballads and Popular Culture in the Age of the Glorious Revolution, c. 1678—1690

BREAKOUT ROOM #3 – Junior Common Room

• Sara Eftekharzadeh – Examining coping behaviors in response to potentially morallY  injurious events (PMIE) in individuals with low and high severity of  PTSD symptoms
• Emma Watt-Hill – Exploring Children’s Moralisation of Effort (ChiME): Do Children Prefer Hard-Working Individuals?
• Nikita Yang – Neural and Behavioral Effects of Face Inversion in Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Anorexia Nervosa
• Annie Li – Narratives of Victim Precipitation in Police Accountability Reports: The Case of the SIU’s Response to Suicide-by-Cop Declarations
• James Wang – Superintelligence and the Burden of Intelligence: A Zapffean Critique of AI

BREAKOUT ROOM #4 – TC22

• Eliza McCann – The effect of sex differences on deep brain stimulation in a rodent model of PTSD
• Amir Samadi – Spatial Memory Performance and Consolidation Deficits in a Pre-Plaque TgCRND8 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Zoe Augspach – Multiple Sclerosis and the Epstein-Barr Virus
• Roxanne Huang – Characterizing Cellular miRNA Downregulation During Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Infection

BREAKOUT ROOM #5 – TC24

• Hudson Wentzell – Molecular evolution of cetacean visual genes
• Sunny Chen – Characterizing the LINC Complex in Stem Cell Expansion During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
• Athena Cheng – Investigating the Osteogenic Potential of Adult Tissue-Resident Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
• Kenza Boumehdi – How does nuclear organization vary throughout developmental time?

Research Poster Presentations | Trinity College front hall

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

• Jacqueline Zhao – Perceptions of AI in Education among ADHD-diagnosed Early Adolescents Undergoing an AI-Based Assistive Intervention
• Zach Lidder – The impact of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
• Ian Magnuson – Tuft Cells and IL-25: Decoding the Chicken-or-Egg Mystery of Crohn’s Disease
• Lavinia Ricca – Using Bacteriophages to Battle Medullary Thyroid Cancer
• Nandita Jayadevan – Can Machine Learning Decode Neuron Shapes Across Species?
• Lilah Williamson – Designing a Canadian Youth Climate Corps
• Zaina Etoom – Storm Beneath the Skin: Investigating the Environmental Drivers of Atopic Dermatitis
• Hailey Shi – Uncovering the origins of uterine leiomyomas: female sex hormones and gene translocation
• Zoe Voudouris – The Effects of Synthetic Glucocorticoid Exposure on Epididymal Epithelial Cells of Adult Male Guinea Pigs
• Elizabeth Kam – Investigating the Impact of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure
• Artin Khiabani – Fundamental Fairness Beyond Legal Counsel: Envisioning a Less Lawyer-Centric Refugee Status Determination System in Canada
• Yixuan Peng – The Living Dead’s Brain: Investigating Insular-Amygdala-DMN Connectivity in Cotard Syndrome
• Willow Teter – Returns to Education for Canadian Postsecondary Students
• Ani Khachatrian & Shivanshi Dhuria – Investigating Impaired Secretory IgA Responses in Disease States Across Mucosal Surfaces
• Larissa Pringle – A Screen for Cytochrome P450 Bioactivated Small Molecules that Kill C. elegans.
• Desmond Bradshaw – Evaluating the Relevance of WHO’s Tuberculosis Treatment Guidelines to the Challenges of Adherence to Decentralised and Integrated Care Models
• Jannat Islam – Reframing Romance: Otome Games and the Female Gaze
• Jayden Tang – Conversational Dynamics With AI: The Effect of Closeness on Moral Judgement in Robot and Human Conditions
• Caroline Andersen – Intergenerational consequences of maternal depression during pregnancy
• Emma Balmakoon – When Sleep Turns Fatal: a-Synuclein and its Potential Silent Trigger of Sporadic Fatal Insomnia
• Chiara Puglielli – Do We Know What Fascists Hate? A Qualitative Evaluation of How Theorists Understand “Enemies” in Contemporary Fascist Regimes
• Anastasia Leshchik – SiNc or Swim: Synthesis of Biocompatible Silicon Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy
• Rebecca Chau – Resveratrol and the Overlapping Biology of Aging and Cancer: A Nutrient-Based Approach to Prevention and Therapy
• Sofia Penttilä – A Tale of Two Conditions: Untangling the Correlative and Causal Links Between Migraine and Multiple Sclerosis
• David Badillo Avila – A Comprehensive Atlas of T Cell Glycosylation

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | Seeley Hall

• Laurence Yang – Reevaluating Platonic Justice: A Critical Analysis of Karl Popper’s Critique
• Desiree Menezes – From Silicon Valley to the Global South: A Critical Examination of the Neocolonial Impact of AI
• Beatrix Stone – Evaluating the Social Relationships Between Gang Members and Their Communities in Western Canada 
• Esme Smolynec – Resisting Manifest Destiny: The Hawaiian Stand Against American Annexation
• Isa Oliveira Taranto – A Green Hell: Addressing concerns of migrant health in the Darién Gap
• Amelie Pinard – Psychological Determinants of Generational Poverty in Canada – A Case Study Comparison
• Tushti Hari – Press Start for Healing: The Paradigm Shift of Video Games in Relationship Therapy
• Gabrielle Dumé – Games for Good – The Implementation of Gamification in Health Promotion Materials in Barbados
• Maddux Ma – Virtual Care in Ontario: A Promising Route for Improving Access to Primary Healthcare
• Anjali Joshi-Dave – Public Health Without Borders – Preserving Public Health in Times of Crisis
• Caitlin Walsh – Reforming Policy on Climate Change and Zoonotic Disease: A Focus on Avian Flu
• Lianne Ohayon – Policy Brief: Tackling Postpartum Depression with Culturally Sensitive Healthcare Initiatives
• Sia Issar – Deepfake Pornography and Gendered Harm: The Case for Legal Intervention

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | Seeley Hall

• Paulina Turczynska – Impact of the FUS P525L Mutation on Glial Cells in ALS: Localization, Stress Response, and Gender Differences
• Gravity Guignard – Primitive Neural Stem Cells
• Cordelia Simmons – Therapeutic potential of miR-19a-mediated STAT1 inhibition for increasing cartilage growth in osteoarthritis
• Shivangi Roy – Systems biology analysis of vitamin D3 reveals new anticancer properties
• Julia Barbat – Probing Loop Attachment of a Copper-based spin label for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies
• Julia Freischlag – Uncovering Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: gene discovery and tailored treatment options
• Caitlin Evran – Filling the Vision Gap: Using pluripotent stem cells and adjuvant pharmacological agents to successfully replace malfunctioning RPEs in juvenile Stargardt’s macular dystrophy.
• David Lee – Differential Toxicity in Colon Cancer Cells: NS Polypeptides as a Targeted Therapy
• William Malzar – Et Tu, Brute?: An Investigation Into the Link Between Antibody-Dependent Enhancement and Dengue Severity in Flavivirus-Immune Patients
• Maria Goemans, Ivy Chen, Karin Jacubkova, and Carter Hajt – Differential Interactions of Phragmites australis Native and Invasive Subspecies with Mycorrhizal Fungi Species in Southern Ontario
• Stefan Pereira – Why is Antimicrobial Resistance So High?: A Case Study of India & Bangladesh

TCURC 2024: SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2024 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Room, TC22, TC24

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, 3, & 4 | Combination Room, Divinity Common Room, TC22, TC24

Research Poster Presentations | Trinity College front hall

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | Seeley Hall

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | Seeley Hall

* All 1st place and Runner-Up presenters in each category received gift certificates from the University of Toronto Bookstore.  Congratulations!

TCURC 2023: SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3 | Larkin Classrooms 200, 211, & 214

Concurrent Research Panels | Breakout Rooms 1, 2, & 3 | Larkin Classrooms 200, 211, & 214

Research Poster Presentations | Buttery

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part I | GIT

Three Minute Thesis Presentations – Part II | GIT