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Soup and Science, 37th edition
(February 26 - March 1, 2024)
Winter 2024 Speakers
Monday February 26, 2024
Prof. John Stix
Department of
Earth & Planetary Sciences
How to predict a volcanic eruption
Prof. Virginie Millien
Department of Biology
Mouse tale in a warming world
Student Speaker
Benjamin Kinder
Department of Neuroscience
Improving modelling of aperiodic neural dynamics
Prof. Sara Knox
Department of Geography
Wetlands in a changing world: processes, feedbacks and the climate benefits of wetlands
Prof. Maureen McKeague
Department of Chemistry
From Helix to Healing: Exploring DNA and RNA drugs and diagnostics
Tuesday February 27, 2024
Prof. Kai Wang
Department of Physics
Quantum meta-photonics
Prof. Mallik Mahmud
Department of Geography
The new sea ice regime in the Arctic
Student Speaker
Grace Parish
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
Searching for new antimicrobials in the Canadian High Arctic
Prof. Rees Kassen
Department of Biology
How little things answer big questions about evolution
Prof. Emerson Krock
Faculty of
Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Fibromyalgia, autoantibodies and bacterial cross-reactivity
Wednesday February 28, 2024
Prof. Mehdi Dagdoug
Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Missing data treatment in surveys
Prof. Don Baker
Department of
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Deccan Traps and global change before the Impact: How volcanism set the stage for the dinosaurs demise
Student Speakers
Olivia Grossi
Gault Nature Reserve
Gault Nature Reserve : A summer in conservation near Montreal
Prof. Robert Fajber
Department of
Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
What goes up must come down: modelling evaporation and the global water cycle
Maya Goss
Christopher Barbarie
Department of Physics
Cosmology from the High Arctic
Thursday February 29, 2024
Prof. Siva Reddy
School of Computer Science
Department of Linguistics
ChatGPT, is natural language understanding solved?
Prof. Derek Ruths
School of Computer Science
Bot or Not? The central challenge facing bot detection
Student Speaker
Yashar Habashi
Interdepartmental Honors program
in Immunology
Mapping immune landscapes in syngeneic murine models of minimally and highly invasive brain metastases
Prof. Anthony Mittermaier
Department of Chemistry
Biomolecular Dynamics
Prof. Natalie Zeytuni
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Unravelling the molecular secrets of bacterial pathogenicity
Friday March 1, 2024
Prof. Hans Larsson
Department of Biology
Macroevolution @ McGill
Student Speaker
Élia Painchaud-Lakatos
Department of Psychology
Aversive Olfactory Imprinting in C. Elegans Using Optogenetic Stimulation
Prof. Ajitha Thanabalasuriar
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Vaping away immune cell function
Prof. Abigail Gerhold
Department of Biology
Maintaining mitotic fidelity in complex in vivo environments
Previous Editions
Visit the pages below for information on previous editions of Soup and Science.
- 36th edition: Sept 2023
- Snacks and Science: July 2023
- 35th edition: March 2023
- 34th edition: September 2022
- 33rd edition: January 2022
- 32nd edition: Fall 2021
- Sun and Science: July 2021
- 31st edition: February 2021
- 30th edition: September 2020
- Sun and Science: May - August 2020
- 29th edition: January 2020
- 28th edition: September 2019
- 27th edition: January 2019
- 26th edition: September 2018
- 25th edition: January 2018