Inspiring Minds is a campus-wide partnership between Western Research, the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the Writing Support Centre, Western Communications, Western Libraries, Student Experience, and Western's 11 faculties.
Inspiring Minds seeks to broaden awareness and impact of graduate student research, while enhancing transferrable skills. Being able to communicate your research to broad, interdisciplinary and lay audiences -- both inside and outside academia -- is becoming an increasingly important skill for scholars of all levels.
Inspiring Minds seeks to help graduate students enhance this skill.
This non-competitive showcase highlights work by Master's and doctoral students from all 11 of Western's faculties and schools.
The following series highlights all submissions received from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.Submissions from 2022
Prevention of new and recurrent breast cancer brain metastases using immune response guided radiation therapy, Sawyer Badiuk
Rerouting Neurotrauma Recovery, Eoin N. Blythe
Effectiveness of Machine Learning Classifiers for Cataract Screening, Ronald Cheung
More than just the powerhouse of the cell?, Danielle M. Colussi
E-cigarette Vapour Impairs Pulmonary Surfactant Function, Emma C. Graham, Akasha Tejura, Lynda McCaig, Gloria Shui-Kei Lau, Anne Cao, and Ruud Veldhuizen
Trauma Patterns Among Pedestrians and Cyclists Involved in a Motor Vehicle Collision, Moheem M. Halari, Michael Shkrum, Tanya Charyk Stewart, Kevin McClafferty, Allison Pellar, and Michael Pickup
Identifying Potential Disparities in Paediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Outcomes, Samina Idrees, Kelly Kathleen Anderson, and Janice Tijssen
Novel Device for Improving Stroke Detection During Surgery, Farah Kamar
Lighting Up the Brain to Study Social Interactions, Michaela Kent Ms
Combining techniques to determine the cellular mechanisms responsible for whole-brain function, Sam Laxer
How do the kidneys repair themselves?, Yilong Li
Targeting Sepsis One Step at a Time, Rachel Low
Studying the brain, one neuron at a time., Erwan Martin
‘You are what you eat’: exploring relationships between nutrients and gut function, Karly Masse
An Examination of Global Perioperative Mortality, Kevin McIntyre, Janet Martin, Saverio Stranges, Daniel Lizotte, Yun-Hee Choi, and Ava A. John-Baptiste
HIV-1 Nef and SERINC5; the Front Line of an Evolutionary Arms Race, Mitchell J. Mumby and Jimmy D. Dikeakos
Neuropsychological Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery, Sydni G. Paleczny, Adrian M. Owen, and Kimia Honarmand
How do we predict rewards? : What animal models can reveal about basic behaviours, Harleen Rai
A split in the road: Developing blood vessel models that mimic real life, Sabrina Staples
Understanding and preventing early endothelial changes in diabetic complications, Eric Z. Wang
Investigating oxytocin’s potential as a treatment for empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia, Soojung Yu
Becoming a Detective of How Viruses Exploit Our Cells, Rong Xuan Zang
Opioid Therapy vs Multimodal Analgesia in Head and Neck Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Sondos Zayed, Pencilla Lang, Lucas C. Mendez, Nancy Read, Jinka Sathya, Dwight Moulin, Andrew Warner, and David A. Palma
Searching for the Keys to Activate Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Kelly Zhou and Rithwik Ramachandran
Submissions from 2021
Inequality in the Use of Dental Services as Adolescents Transition to Adults, Naima Abouseta, Noha Gomaa, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Sharat Pani
Tackling Chronic Disease During a Pandemic, Amanda Anton
Self-Referential Processing effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Systematic Review, Zhongjie Bao, Belal Howidi, Amer Burhan Dr., and Paul Frewen Dr.
Rewiring the Immune System to Improve Recovery from Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries, Eoin N. Blythe
Using Spoken Stories to Measure Listening Engagement in Children, Sarah Bobbitt
Fighting drug resistance with a new antibiotic, Denny Chin
Far from home: making stroke diagnosis more powerful at rural hospitals, Kevin J. Chung
Why can bacteria be harmful one day but deadly the next?, Jaclyn Diamond
The Unfolded Protein Response is Required for Antifungal Drug Resistance in Yeast, Malisa N. Fernando Miss
The Seed of Life, Chidambra D. Halari
Investigating a novel system for the detection of Campylobacter jejuni in food safety testing, Kyra Keer
Assessment of Rabies Control in Rural Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Ryan LaPenna, Isaac Moyo, Chris Foggin, Jessica Dawson, Claude Sabeta, and Francisco Olea Popelka
Methylation of DNA in colitis-associated colorectal cancer, Frederikke Larsen
What can the brain tell us about patient subtypes in psychosis?, Liangbing Liang
Casein Kinase 2, Daniel Menyhart
Developing a New Platform for Synthetic Biology, Daniel Peter Nucifora
Association between Testosterone, Androgen Receptor Polymorphisms, and Mood, Christopher Purkis
Psychedelics, and the Search for Higher Consciousness, Sidath Rankaduwa
Immune Response Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Clara Sun
Do our Hands see what our Eyes see?, Michelle A. Sveistrup
MMA: The fight against obstructive sleep apnea, Kody M. Wolfstadt
Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Physical Activity, Jane Yuan