Soup and Science is held for one week at the start of each fall and winter term. Each day at lunch, undergraduate science students are invited to see and hear some of our coolest professors give short presentations about their research. Then as you mingle over lunch, you will be able to find out more about their research and how you can participate. Come and discover some of the opportunities that exist both within and outside your own departments.
The Winter 2012 edition of Soup and Science took place January 16-20, 2012, 11:30 AM each day, in the Redpath Museum.
Webcasts: Most presentations are now available as webcasts and podcasts and also on YouTube. Both audio and video versions are available. (Some presentations are not available due to copyright or similar concerns.)
Participating professors
Follow the links below to visit participating researchers' websites.
Monday, January 16, 2012
- Prof. Kathleen E. Cullen (Physiology)
Neuroscience: how cognitive, vestibular and other inputs are used to generate internal representation of self motion - Prof. Connie Krawczyk (Microbiology & Immunology)
Immune response to infection, distinguishing pathogens, the nature of inflammation, dendritic cells - Prof. Jeffrey Mogil (Psychology)
Individual differences (genes, environment) in pain and pain inhibition - Prof. Andreas Warburton (Physics)
Experimental high-energy particle physics
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
- Prof. Elaine Davis (Anatomy & Cell Biology)
The role of extracellular matrix proteins in elastic fiber assembly and disease. - Prof. Joelle Pineau (Computer Science)
Reinforcement learning and partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs); robotics; adaptive treatment design - Prof. Debra Titone (Psychology)
Cognitive neuroscience of language - Prof. John White (Physiology)
Vitamin D combats TB
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
- Prof. Karine Auclair (Chemistry)
Antibiotic resistance and green chemistry via biocatalysis (P450 enzymes) - Prof. Gergely Lukacs (Physiology)
Fold or not to fold; cystic fibrosis a paradigm of conformational diseases - Prof. Jaime Palter (Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences)
Large scale ocean circulation, its temporal variability, and its impact on the living ocean. - Prof. Tanja Taivassalo (Kinesiology & Physical Education)
Neuromuscular Disease, Exercise Physiology, Mitochondrial disorders, Skeletal muscle metabolism, Adaptation to exercise.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
- Prof. Hans Larsson (Redpath Museum)
Vertebrate palaeontology and developmental evolution - Prof. Chao-Jun Li (Chemistry)
Green Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, New Reaction Discovery - Prof. David Pearsall (Kinesiology & Physical Education)
Biomechanics, ergonomics, sports equipment development, ice hockey, helmets - Prof. Clark Verbrugge (Computer Science)
Compiler optimizations, concurrency, and analysis of modern computer games
Friday, January 20, 2012
- Prof. Dennis Jensen (Kinesiology & Physical Education)
Exercise & Respiratory Physiology - Prof. Daniel Kirshbaum (Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences)
Convective storms, mountain flows, numerical weather prediction - Prof. Boswell Wing (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Replaying life's tape: Experimental evolution of ancient metabolisms - Prof. Sarah Woolley (Biology)
Neuroethology, learning, songbirds, mate choice
Contact
Victor Chisholm
Undergraduate Research Officer
514-398-5964
[ victor.chisholm [at] mcgill.ca (Email) ]