join us in celebrating pride! drop by the picnic tables outside the dining hall between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to take part in show your pride event activities including:

lawn games
crafts and donations for the gilbert centre
painting picnic tables with designs in recognition of two spirited folks and allies
wellness information and supplies
pizza and cake pops (will be available at 12pm)

this event is open to 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 , faculty, and staff

zotero is a free and convenient tool that can be used to help you manage information for your research, insert citations into your writing and easily create bibliographies. this session will provide an overview of how zotero can support your work throughout the research process, with hands-on opportunities to practice using the tool.

after attending this workshop, you will have learned how to use zotero to:

• save time with the research process
• create better citations and bibliographies
• organize all the books / articles you find during the research process
• use advanced features in zotero

looking for healthy patient models for for 1.5 hour time slots on july 4 and 5, 2024 to help emergency medicine physicians train in bedside abdominal ultrasound.

demographics:
females: age 15-50 (reproductive age, healthy uterus/ovaries)
males: age 15-65.

to register, please sign-up here: https://nosm.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/sv_egmpnj05ym4vjdi

join dr. aislin mushquash, associate professor, clinical psychologist, and the director of the coping research lab,as she discusses resilience, human development / trust, and the implementation and evaluation of the e-mental health joypop app.

grad student izzy malik, who is doing a review of e-mental apps and the implementations of ai, will join dr. mushquash to present.

tomatoes! peppers! basil! support the lu greenhouse and stock up on your veggie essentials.

join student accessibility services in celebrating red shirt day of action for accessibility and inclusion as part of national access ability week! put on your favourite red shirt and make a pledge to improve accessibility and inclusion in your community. pledge sheets and information will be available in the chancellor paterson library main floor from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. all are welcome!

please join the faculty of social sciences and humanities for the spring jibe, a fundraiser in support of the student engagement fund. 

$2 donation for each buffet/entree (dine-in)

wednesday, may 29, 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.

masala grille, 170 algoma st. n., thunder bay

you are invited to attend a seminar presented by dr. tao tao on may 13, in cb 4058 at 10 am.

department of biology & biotechnology phd program special seminar
title: progress in human assisted reproductive technologies
presenter: dr. tao tao, phd, hcld
time: may 13, 2024, monday from 10 am to 11 am
place: cb 4058
host: dr. wensheng qin

abstract:
since the delivery of louise brown in 1978, the first child born as a result of in vitro fertilization (ivf), the advances in the field of assisted reproductive technologies have been remarkable. innovations in the areas of the treatment of infertility and improvements in laboratory techniques have enabled many couples to achieve their dream of having a child. this presentation reviews important advances that have made the field of assisted reproduction a dynamic subspecialty including in vitro fertilization, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, preimplantation genetic testing, embryo culture, embryo cryopreservation et al and provides insight into some exciting areas of research that will continue to revolutionize the field in the future.

dr. tao’s biography:
dr. tao is a cfas certified art laboratory director and abb board certified embryologist, andrologist and high complexity clinical laboratory director (hcld). he received his phd in embryo biotechnology from china agricultural university and the institut fur tierzucht und tierverhalten, fal, germany (joint program), and completed extensive post-doctoral training at the university of missouri. dr. tao has worked in the field of assisted reproductive technologies for over 30 years. from 1988 to 1999, dr. tao had been engaged in the studies on embryo biotechnologies, including nuclear transfer, gene transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in vitro maturation, in vitro fertilization, embryo freezing and embryo splitting in the pig, cow, rabbit, goat, and mouse. in 2000, dr. tao joined conceptia reproductive clinic, moncton, nb, canada, as a senior embryologist. he established all art programs and ran the ivf laboratory. with his added expertise, conceptia reproductive clinic became one of the top fertility clinics in canada at that time. dr. tao then joined several other fertility clinics in north american as ivf laboratory director between 2005 and 2018. during these years, he acquired extensive knowledge in the areas of human icsi, ivf, ivm, tesa, egg freezing, pgt, assisted hatching, blastocyst culture and vitrification, cryopreservation. dr. tao also served as an assistant professor in the ob/gyn department at the mercer university school of medicine. he has over 40 publications in peer review journals to his credit. dr. tao currently join ivf canada inc as a laboratory scientific director. dr. tao’s 30 years of experience in assisted reproduction has been an asset to establishment and the continuing growth of our art program. dr. tao is a member of many professional associations, such as canadian fertility & andrology society; the american society for reproductive medicine; european society of human reproduction and embryology. currently dr. tao co-supervises biotechnology phd student devon dickson with dr. wensheng qin on a project of mitochondrial dna content as a novel biomarker to improve embryo implantation potential.

please join the computer science department for the upcoming thesis defense:

presenter: subrata das

thesis title: exploring name-based bug detection in python

abstract: names of source code elements provide useful contextual information about the code and development tasks. prior studies leverage the similarity between the names of arguments and method parameters to detect bugs that are caused by accidentally swapping arguments while calling methods. this requires establishing the mapping between method calls and their definitions. however, it is a challenging task to establish the mapping because of the complexity involved with the process (e.g., missing external libraries). this thesis aims to understand the performance of name-based argument-related bug detection techniques in python, a popular general-purpose, statically typed programming language.

towards this direction, this thesis conducts a study that first investigates the similarity between arguments and their method parameters in python code. this thesis establishes the mapping between method calls to their definitions and evaluates the performance of existing name-based techniques to detect swapping argument-related bugs in python. finally, a technique has been developed that uses argument usage patterns and their expression types with name-based similarity matching to improve the performance of detecting argument-related bugs. evaluation of the proposed technique with a large collection of open-source python projects showed that the technique can detect argument-related bugs with high accuracy even when the function definitions are missing. one potential solution to prevent argument-related bugs from occurring is to recommend arguments as a developer types the code. thus, the second part of the thesis focuses on argument recommendation. in particular, this thesis investigates the efficacy of large language models in recommending arguments of api method calls.

committee members:
dr. muhammad asaduzzaman (supervisor, committee chair), dr. salimur choudhury (co-supervisor, queen’s university), dr. garima bajwa, dr. zubair fadlullah (western university)

please contact grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca for the zoom link. everyone is welcome.

please join four social justice studies ma 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 in celebrating the completion of their research and creative projects. each student will make a 15-minute presentation, followed by a question and answer period. you can join in person or via zoom.

in-person: regional centre (rc) 1001

zoom: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/99091419053

1. alanna morgan, “cancer healing narratives in anishinaabe traditional healing.”
2. laija beaulieu, “the lived experiences of caregivers of children with congenital cytomegalovirus receiving healthcare in a remote and rural area of northern canada.”
3. sam cousin, “end of radio: an experiment of cultural reproduction about the inherent powers of technology, autonomy, and creativity.”
4. emily faubert, “you are not alone: art, alienation, and the accessible future.”

to read the presentation abstracts, please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ob7zivgbnmub1i2o0t_goa-urswc75meqz5iayt5m24/edit?usp=sharing.