top of page

20th Anniversary Meeting of the Minds Schedule

​​Friday March 20th – Saturday  March 21st, 2026​

Schedule at a Glance

Friday 

 

  • Poster Presentations (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm) [Poster Titles below]

  • Mitacs Advisor Presentation (4:15 pm – 4:45 pm) 

  • Dean of SGS Presentation (4:45 pm – 5:15 pm)

  • Networking & Social Event [Registration Required]

 

Saturday 

 

  • Oral Presentations (10:30 am – 4:40 pm) 

  • Keynote Address (5:00 pm – 5:50 pm)

  • Dinner and Awards (5:50 pm – 7:00 pm) [Registration Required]

Saturday Session Schedule: Oral Presentations

BMO Auditorium

10:45 AM

11:05 AM

11:50 AM

12:10 AM

1:15 PM

1:35 PM

1:55 PM

2:15 PM

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

3:40 PM

4:00 PM

 

Lena Dabbas

Chelsea White

Shara Merrill

Angela Brooks

Mia Lahiji

Taylor Semeniuk

Genoa Alger

A K M Iftekhar

Kelly Liland

Heather Davis

Chiedozie Alumona

Derek Novosad

 

SA6010

10: 45 AM

11:05 AM

11:50 AM

12:10 AM

1:15 PM

1:35 PM

1:55 PM

2:15 PM

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

3:40 PM

4:00 PM

 

Ty Dudas

Keva Klamer

Jeroen Zewald

Akeem Bamigbola

Vicky Thwaites

Erik Vilu

Carmen Agenbacht

Maryam Kiakojouri

Tara Laverty

Valerie Lapointe

Anuradha Rai Chowdhury




 

SA6008

10: 45 AM

11:05 AM

11:50 AM

12:10 AM

1:15 PM

1:35 PM

1:55 PM

2:15 PM

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

3:40 PM

4:00 PM

 

Emma Neigel

Jocelyn McKnight

Nikeet Pradhan

Luiz Madeira

Emily Lewis

Daniela McGonigal

Nathan Fuehrer

Dean Stewart

Sally Sade

Jane O'Connor

Connor Bunnage

Joshua Kuzminski


 

SA6012

10: 45 AM

11:05 AM

11:50 AM

12:10 AM

1:15 PM

1:35 PM

1:55 PM

2:15 PM

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

3:40 PM

4:00 PM

 

Davide Pafumi

Stacie Nelson

Dennis Toporkov

Carrigan Dawson

Madison Gal

Brooke Third

Madeleine Froehlich

Danielle Low

Nicola Herman

Milan Baral




 

Oral Presentation Titles, and all Abstracts, will be provided to attendees in the Meeting of the Minds Magazine, also available here:

FRIDAY: POSTER PRESENTATIONS 

 

Eric Albers: Information-geometric classification of EEG signals with motor imagery tasks 

Bisi Amanwi: Sex-specific transcriptional responses to a high-fat, high-sugar diet in mouse skeletal muscle 

Rouaa Ahmed Suliman Mohamed Ali: An anatomical approach to studying the sensory abilities of a critically endangered species. 

Upekkha Abhayarathne: Assessment of Spongospora subterranea in soil, rotational crops and weeds of southern Alberta using molecular methods 

Chloe Brennan: Prevalence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bovine Respiratory Disease Pathogens via Mobile Genetic Elements 

Kyra Bruce: Negotiating Masculine Identities in Online Gym Communities and the Role of the Manosphere: A Qualitative Study of Albertan Men 

Layton Byam: Association Between Religious Upbringing and Well-Being in 2SLGBTQ+ Adults: A Proposed Study 

Matthew Cameron: Effects of LWW31 on translation initiation and its interaction with eIF5B 

Ryley Chalack: Analyzing Engineered Amyloid Folds Using Electron Microscopy and AUC 

Bentara Wadu Mesthrige De Silva: A Graph-Based Approach to Reducing Chemical Systems Without Losing Key Dynamics 

Natasha Dhiman: Approximation of Zeta Function on the critical line 

Brittnee Ellingson: Paternal Preconception Tactile Stimulation Modulates Medial Prefrontal Cortex Morphology in Young Offspring in a Sex- and Hemisphere-Dependent Manner in Long-Evans Rats 

Beruwalage Fernando: Can Proteins Change the Fate of Cancer? 

Roza Gabdullina: Development of an RNA Toehold Switch Assay for Clubroot Detection 

Mary-Lou Gregoire: Paternal Pre-Conception Tactile Stimulation in Long-Evans Rats: Method Development for Thalamic Measurement in Offspring 

Wilson Holt: Developing the C–H Functionalization of Monofluoroalkenes Towards Pseudopeptides 

Amanda Huber: Formation of hippocampal neural ensembles during instrumental learning 

Yagika Kaushik: When Internal Clocks Are Disrupted: Changes in Hippocampus Activity During Learning and Memory 

Sandeep Kaur: Temporal Analysis of Novel Object Recognition Behavior in Control and hTau-KI Mice 

Julian Ketler: Field evaluation of fungicides for control of black dot in potato 

Letitia Koen: Macro-level Social Progress Index Scores and children’s and adolescents’ physical activity in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: An exploratory cross-sectional study using multilevel modelling 

Alexandra Lennox: Lethbridge Youth Prosperity: Increasing Youth Worker Retention 

Audra Lutterotti: Fluorinative Strain-Release 1,3-Difunctionalization of [1.1.1]Propellane 

Matheson Mah: Resilience and Risk: Examining Resilience and Limit-Setting Behaviour in Sports Gambling 

Jocelyn McKnight: 'Let's Fight the Drums Because the Moon Is Fighting Me': A Cognitive and Corpus Study on Semantic Changes in War and Violence Vocabulary  

Shara Merrill: Constructal Simulations: From Flow to Form 

Amirhossein Moshrefi: Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression with Psilocybin Treatment via Home Cage Behavioural Monitoring

 

Amirhossein Moshrefi: Data-Driven Inference of Honeybee Behavioural Dynamics using Automated Hive Monitoring 

Ahmed Mohamedeen: Improving reasoning capabilities of Large Language models (LLMs) using Causal Chains 

Jordyn Musial: The Clockwork Casino: Neural Signatures of Reinforcement in Slot Machine Play 

Thamara Salazar Barrientos: Group 3 and 13 Phosphasalen Complexes: Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry

Grace Seeley: Concealing Faith in Queer Spaces: The Impact of Anti-Religious Stigma on Concealment, Health Outcomes, and Belonging in LGBTQ+ Communities 

Jerrica Thompson: Synthesis of Group 13 Phosphasalen Complexes 

Emily Trew: Pincer-Supported Cobalt Complexes 

Makena Wood: Effects of Teachers’ Strike on Adolescent Executive Function and Social-Emotional Competencies: Examining the Aftermath of the 2025 Alberta Teachers’ Strike in a Grade 8 Population in Lethbridge, Alberta 

Isabella Yip: Guard Your Heart: Lived Experiences of Sexual Shame, Coping, and Healing After Purity Culture 

Vlad Zaitsev: An Exhaustive Search for Unbiased Skew-Type Hadamard Matrices of Order 36 

bottom of page