Each day at lunch from January 8-12, 2007, students came to the Redpath Museum to see and hear some of our newest professors give short presentations about their cutting-edge research. Everyone then chatted over lunch about how to participate in research. Students saw the interdisciplinary nature of much research at McGill, and that there are many research opportunities outside their own home departments.
Participating researchers
Monday, January 8, 2007 (11:30-1:00)
- Prof. David Green (Redpath Museum)
Landscape ecology and conservation of amphibians - Prof. Marcus Lindström (Chemistry)
Water-based chemistry: recognition and reactivity of organic molecules in water; development of catalysts and reagents for aqueous organic synthesis - Prof. Dieter Reinhardt (Anatomy and Cell Biology/Dentistry-Divison of Biomedical Sciences)
Extracellular microfibrils in health and disease - Prof. Yogita Chudasama (Psychology)
Executive functions of the prefrontal cortex - Prof. Vojkan Jaksic (Mathematics and Statistics)
Mathematical physics, quantum statistical mechanics, random schrodinger operators - Prof. Karim Nader (Psychology)
Memory consolidation
Tuesday, January 9, 2007 (11:30-1:00)
- Prof. Bettina Kemme (Computer Science)
Database systems, distributed systems - Prof. Jon Unruh (Geography)
Post war land and property rights, land tenure and environmental change - Prof. Jorge Viñals (Physics)
Condensed matter physics, materials science, biophysics - Prof. Patanjali Kambhampati (Chemistry)
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy of nanostructures - Prof. Julio Martinez-Trujillo (Physiology)
Physiology of cognition and behaviour - Prof. Boswell Wing (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
High-precision stable isotope geochemistry; recovery of the geochemical memory of large-scale Earth system processes
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 (11:30-1:00)
- Prof. Rüdiger Krahe (Biology)
Processing of sensory information by the brain and animal communication - Prof. Bärbel Knäuper (Psychology)
Identifying and changing maladaptive health beliefs and health behaviors - Prof. Bruno Tremblay (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
Future abrupt reductions in the Summer Arctic sea ice - Prof. Imed Gallouzi (Biochemistry)
mRNA metabolism during the cell cycle; cell differentiation - Prof. Thomas Wihler (Mathematics and Statistics)
Computational methods for solid and fluid mechanics simulations - Prof. Paul Wiseman (Physics/Chemistry)
Biophysics/biophysical chemistry: Measurement of protein transport and interactions in living cells and neurons
Thursday, January 11, 2007 (11:30-1:00)
- Prof. Frieder Schöck (Biology)
Mechanisms of cell shape changes - Prof. Aashish Clerk (Physics)
Theoretical mesoscopic physics - Prof. Michael Sullivan (Psychology)
Psychology of pain and disability - Prof. Ehab Abouheif (Biology)
Interaction and relationships between genotype, phenotype, and environment; effects on morphological diversity - Prof. Maurice Chacron (Physiology)
How neurons process sensory information. Behavior, in vivo electrophysiology, and modeling to link cellular processes to sensory processing - Prof. Brigitte Pientka (Computer Science)
Logical foundations of computer science, theorem proving, foundations of programming languages
Friday, January 12, 2007 (11:30-1:00)
- Prof. Gil Holder (Physics)
Cosmological astrophysics - Prof. Navin Ramankutty (Geography)
Global agriculture and its environmental impacts - Prof. Theodore Perkins (Computer Science)
Modeling dynamics and information processing in biochemical networks - Prof. Stuart Soroka (Political Science)
Comparative and Canadian politics and policy; public opinion and policy; agenda-setting and issue definition; mass media and political communications; social welfare policy; immigration and diversity; quantitative/research methods - Prof. Nathalie Lamarche-Vane (Anatomy and Cell Biology)
Role of Rho GTPases in cell migration, in particular in the developing nervous system and in the cellular processes leading to metastasis - Prof. Michael Riedel (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Gas Hydrates; 2D/3D seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques; Time-lapse (4D) seismic processing and interpretation; physical properties of sediments and their relation to seismic data attributes
Contact
Victor Chisholm
Undergraduate Research Officer
514-398-5964
[ victor [dot] chisholm [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email) ]