Undergraduate science students:
the Fall 2018 edition of Soup and Science will take place:
- September 17-21, 2018,
- at 11:30 AM each day,
- in the Redpath Museum.
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.
Participating professors
The preliminary list of presenters is as follows plus others may be added. Follow the links below to visit participating researchers' websites.
Monday, September 17, 2018
- Prof. Gil Bub (Physiology)
The dynamics of excitable cell networks found in the heart and brain - Prof. Piotr Przytycki (Mathematics & Statistics)
Geometric group theory: triangulations, cubulations, arcs and curves on surfaces - Prof. Dieter Reinhardt (Anatomy and Cell Biology + Dentistry)
Extracellular Matrix, Connective Tissue Disorders, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Protein Chemistry - Prof. Christie Rowe (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Earthquakes and Ore Deposits - Prof. Jennifer Sunday (Biology)
Ecology and Biogeography of Environmental Change
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
- Prof. Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger (Medical Physics)
Medical radiation physics, brachytherapy, Monte Carlo simulations, patient specific dosimetry - Prof. Amy Blum (Chemistry)
Creating novel nanostructured devices and materials through self assembly - Prof. Maurice Chacron (Physiology)
Neuromodulation, neural coding, computational modeling, electrophysiology, behavior. - Prof. Catherine Ferland (Anesthesia)
The pain processing and underlying mechanisms leading to chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) - Prof. Jin Guo (Computer Science)
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve Software Engineering problems - Prof. Grant McKenzie (Geography)
Spatiotemporal models of human activity behavior
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
- Prof. Abigail Gerhold (Biology)
The study of cell division in situ - Prof. Yi Huang (Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences)
Atmospheric Radiation and Physical Climatology - Prof. Christopher Pack (Neurology & Neurosurgery)
The relationship between neural activity and mental activity - Prof. Martin Richer (Microbiology & Immunology)
CD8 T cells, cytokines, chronic infection, autoimmunity - Prof. Robert Rutledge (Physics)
Observational high energy astrophysics; behavior of neutron stars and black holes
Thursday, September 20, 2018
- Prof. H. Cynthia Chiang (Physics)
Observational cosmology - Prof. Graham MacDonald (Geography)
Land use and food systems - Prof. Masha Prager-Khoutorsky (Physiology)
How the brain regulates basic functions of the body, such as hunger, thirst, and hormonal levels - Prof. Mike Strauss (Anatomy and Cell Biology)
Structural biology, structural virology, cell biology, electron microscopy - Prof. Jason Young (Biochemistry)
Molecular chaperones: the cellular system for protein quality control
Friday, September 21, 2018
- Prof. Melanie Dirks (Psychology)
Youth social competence, youth psychopathology - Prof. Arnold Hayer (Biology)
Collective cell migration - Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux (Geography & Institute for the Study of International Development)
Land, environment & development - Prof. William Pastor (Biochemistry)
Transcriptional regulation in early human development - Prof. Tami Pereg-Barnea (Physics)
Unconventional superconductors, topological insulators and topological superconductors
Classroom announcements to download
PPT announcement slide, Soup and Science, Sep 2018
PDF announcement slide, Soup and Science, Sep 2018
Contact
victor.chisholm [at] mcgill.ca (Victor Chisholm), Student Affairs Administrator, 514-398-5964