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.

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Submissions from 2023

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The relationship between cortisol, perceived stress, and dental caries experience in adolescents and young adults, Naima Abouseta, Sharat Chandra Pani, Noha Gomaa, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Ali Tassi

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Combining non-invasive methods to guide brain surgery in children with epilepsy, Juan S. Bottan, Renee-Marie Ragguett, Lingkai Tang, Matea Zuljevic, Greydon Gilmore, Andrea Andrade, Michael T. Jurkiewicz, Emma G. Duerden, Maryam Nabavi Nouri, Roy Eagleson, and Sandrine de Ribaupierre

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A Real Headache - Understanding Treatment Response to Migraine, Chloe L. Cheung

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Insights into the debated gating of mtCU using computational modelling, Danielle M. Colussi

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Exploring the roles of Kindlin 1 and Kindlin 2 in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Anamika Dutta

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Which impacts? Peripheral nerve magnetic stimulation at powerline frequencies, Eleonore Fresnel

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Finding Drug Targets in the Liver to Treat Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases, Chen Jun Gao

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Thinking Abilities in People with Seizure Conditions: Which Are Impaired?, Hannah G. Gray, Karnig Kazazian, Conor Wild, Dr. Derek B. Debicki, Dr. Adrian M. Owen, and Dr. Teneille Gofton

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Are you an optimist or a pessimist? : Developing a rodent translatable task, Ashlyn Hersey

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Let's Move! Motion Correction for MRI, Miriam Hewlett

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Are we there yet?: The availability of surgery in Canada and the impact of traveling to access it in high-income countries, Curtis D. Jeffrey

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Is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging the Key to Finally Understanding how the Brain Works?, Sam Laxer

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Impact of Access to Oral Health Care on Oral Health and Multimorbidity, Luis Limo

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Long-term effects of adolescent cannabis use and its interaction with schizophrenia, Pedro Marinho

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Perceptual hierarchy to beat perception across modalities, Zhaleh Mohammad Alipour

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Using a Map of the Fly Brain to Create Multi-tasking AI, Jacob Morra

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Determining a New Way to Diagnose Epilepsy, Keza T. Motlana

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Shining Light on Hearing, Literally!: Using Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy for Assessing Speech Processing in Unresponsive Patients with Acute Disorders of Consciousness, Reza Moulavi Ardakani

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Why do women with breast cancer mostly die of heart attack?, Sepideh Nikfarjam

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Neuropsychological Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery: A Pilot Feasibility Study, Sydni G. Paleczny

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Rare but real; Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases of the Childhood, David Piskin

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Sensing Pressure with Light, Lee Sikstrom

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Blowing cold air to treat acute brain injuries, Olivia Tong

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MRS2: A Prospective Drug Target in Gastric Cancer:, Sukanthathulse Uthayabalan

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Creating Radiation Treatment Plans with Artificial Intelligence, Edward Wang, Hassan Abdallah, Jonatan Snir, Jaron Chong, David A. Palma, Sarah A. Mattonen, and Pencilla Lang

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From Doubts to Decision: Decoding Immigrant Vaccine Hesitancy in the Fight Against COVID-19, Yasaman Yazdani

Submissions from 2022

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Prevention of new and recurrent breast cancer brain metastases using immune response guided radiation therapy, Sawyer Badiuk

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Rerouting Neurotrauma Recovery, Eoin N. Blythe

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Effectiveness of Machine Learning Classifiers for Cataract Screening, Ronald Cheung

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More than just the powerhouse of the cell?, Danielle M. Colussi

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E-cigarette Vapour Impairs Pulmonary Surfactant Function, Emma C. Graham, Akasha Tejura, Lynda McCaig, Gloria Shui-Kei Lau, Anne Cao, and Ruud Veldhuizen

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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

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Identifying Potential Disparities in Paediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Outcomes, Samina Idrees, Kelly Kathleen Anderson, and Janice Tijssen

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Novel Device for Improving Stroke Detection During Surgery, Farah Kamar

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Lighting Up the Brain to Study Social Interactions, Michaela Kent Ms

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Combining techniques to determine the cellular mechanisms responsible for whole-brain function, Sam Laxer

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A Quantitative Study on Gender Positivity and Gender Distress in Transgender and Gender-­Nonbinary Communities: Predictive Factors and Impact on Health, Lux Li

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How do the kidneys repair themselves?, Yilong Li

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Targeting Sepsis One Step at a Time, Rachel Low

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Studying the brain, one neuron at a time., Erwan Martin

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‘You are what you eat’: exploring relationships between nutrients and gut function, Karly Masse

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An Examination of Global Perioperative Mortality, Kevin McIntyre, Janet Martin, Saverio Stranges, Daniel Lizotte, Yun-Hee Choi, and Ava A. John-Baptiste

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HIV-1 Nef and SERINC5; the Front Line of an Evolutionary Arms Race, Mitchell J. Mumby and Jimmy D. Dikeakos

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Neuropsychological Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery, Sydni G. Paleczny, Adrian M. Owen, and Kimia Honarmand

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How do we predict rewards? : What animal models can reveal about basic behaviours, Harleen Rai

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A split in the road: Developing blood vessel models that mimic real life, Sabrina Staples

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Understanding the sleep quality of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), Misa Tanaka

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Understanding and preventing early endothelial changes in diabetic complications, Eric Z. Wang

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Investigating oxytocin’s potential as a treatment for empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia, Soojung Yu

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Becoming a Detective of How Viruses Exploit Our Cells, Rong Xuan Zang

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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

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Searching for the Keys to Activate Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Kelly Zhou and Rithwik Ramachandran

Submissions from 2021

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Inequality in the Use of Dental Services as Adolescents Transition to Adults, Naima Abouseta, Noha Gomaa, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Sharat Pani

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Tackling Chronic Disease During a Pandemic, Amanda Anton

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Self-Referential Processing effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Systematic Review, Zhongjie Bao, Belal Howidi, Amer Burhan Dr., and Paul Frewen Dr.

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Rewiring the Immune System to Improve Recovery from Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries, Eoin N. Blythe

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Using Spoken Stories to Measure Listening Engagement in Children, Sarah Bobbitt

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Fighting drug resistance with a new antibiotic, Denny Chin

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Far from home: making stroke diagnosis more powerful at rural hospitals, Kevin J. Chung

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Why can bacteria be harmful one day but deadly the next?, Jaclyn Diamond

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The Unfolded Protein Response is Required for Antifungal Drug Resistance in Yeast, Malisa N. Fernando Miss

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The Seed of Life, Chidambra D. Halari

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Investigating a novel system for the detection of Campylobacter jejuni in food safety testing, Kyra Keer

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Assessment of Rabies Control in Rural Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Ryan LaPenna, Isaac Moyo, Chris Foggin, Jessica Dawson, Claude Sabeta, and Francisco Olea Popelka

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Methylation of DNA in colitis-associated colorectal cancer, Frederikke Larsen

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What can the brain tell us about patient subtypes in psychosis?, Liangbing Liang

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Casein Kinase 2, Daniel Menyhart

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Developing a New Platform for Synthetic Biology, Daniel Peter Nucifora

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Association between Testosterone, Androgen Receptor Polymorphisms, and Mood, Christopher Purkis

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Psychedelics, and the Search for Higher Consciousness, Sidath Rankaduwa

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Immune Response Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Clara Sun

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Do our Hands see what our Eyes see?, Michelle A. Sveistrup

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MMA: The fight against obstructive sleep apnea, Kody M. Wolfstadt

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Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Physical Activity, Jane Yuan