20th Anniversary Meeting of the Minds Schedule
Friday March 20th – Saturday March 21st, 2026
Schedule at a Glance
Friday
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Poster Presentations (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm) [Poster Titles below]
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Mitacs Advisor Presentation (4:15 pm – 4:45 pm)
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Dean of SGS Presentation (4:45 pm – 5:15 pm)
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Networking & Social Event [Registration Required]
Saturday
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Oral Presentations (10:30 am – 4:40 pm)
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Keynote Address (5:00 pm – 5:50 pm)
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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
