2023 sesbass
the science and environmental studies biotechnology & allied sciences symposium - sesbass 2023
the faculty of science and environmental studies hosted the ses biotechnology and allied sciences symposium (sesbass) on september 21, 22, 2023. this year's theme was technology for a changing world. sesbass 2023 took place in fb 2023 in the cases building at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .
registration
faculty/other $50 cad, 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 /postdocs $25 cad (plus applicable taxes).
registration is now closed. if you are participating in the symposium and have not paid your registration fee, please contact brenda magajna at phd.ses@lakeheadu.ca
schedule
| thursday, sept 21 | ||
| welcome address by dr. todd randall, dean, faculty of science and environmental studies | 9:00 – 9:15 | 15 min |
| materials research | ||
| session chair: dr. sudip rakshit | ||
| keynote speakers: dr. silvio silvério da silva and dr. felipe antunes (zoom) a sustainable future through lignocellulosic biorefineries: bioprocesses and bio-based products as tools for changing the world | 9:15 – 10:15 | 60 min |
| coffee break | 10:15 – 10:30 | 15 min |
| aakash chakraborty sustainability analysis of biorefining processes | 10:30 – 11:00 | 30 min |
| conor mcgovern asymmetric cross-coupling of ferrocenes in chiral ionic liquids | 11:00 – 11:30 | 30 min |
| drs. jinan fiaidhi and sabah mohammed thick data analytics and translational informatics are recharging ai towards better context and precision | 11:30 – 12:00 | 30 min |
| poster session and lunch | 12:00 – 1:00 | 60 min |
| environmental biotechnology | ||
| session chair: dr. wensheng qin | ||
| keynote speaker: dr. virginia walker "why doesn't grass die after a killing frost?"; the answer reveals biotech innovations | 1:00 – 1:45 | 45 min |
| keynote speaker: dr. satinder kaur brar rhodosporidium toruloides as a workhorse: decoding its benefits and burdens in biorefinery | 1:45 – 2:30 | 45 min |
| coffee break | 2:30 – 2:45 | 15 min |
| dr. sarita shrestha algaberry: a special and effective heavy metals remover of polluted water | 2:45 – 3:05 | 20 min |
| dr. janak khatiwada optimization of pretreatments of native freshwater microalgae for reducing sugar extraction and subsequent bioethanol production | 3:05 – 3:25 | 20 min |
| dr. shreeti pradhan (zoom) detection of pathogens using protein quantification | 3:25 – 3:45 | 20 min |
| dr. nadia sufdar ali (zoom) a high throughput screening process and quick isolation of novel lignin-degrading microbes from large number of natural biomasses | 3:45 – 4:05 | 20 min |
| friday, sept. 22 | ||
| welcome address by session chairs | 9:00 – 9:15 | 15 min |
| bio-inspired engineering | ||
| session chairs: drs. muhammad khalid and ali tarokh | ||
| keynote speaker: dr. chengyu li (zoom) deciphering the fluid dynamics of biological locomotion: a computational framework for advancingbio-inspired flow systems | 9:15 – 10:00 | 45 min |
| dr. carlos zerpa examining the combined effect of neck strength and hockey goalie helmet liners in mitigating risk of head injury for measures of angular acceleration during simulated horizontal head collision | 10:00 – 10:30 | 30 min |
| coffee break | 10:30 – 10:45 | 15 min |
| aysan gholami heat transfer enhancement in a microchannel by a flow-induced flapping filament | 10:45 – 11:15 | 30 min |
| muhammad khalidtbd | 11:45 – 12:15 | 30 min |
| poster session and lunch | 11:45 – 12:45 | 60 min |
| medical innovations | ||
| session chair: dr. mike campbell | ||
| keynote speaker: dr. len luyt peptides: transforming natural ligands into therapeutics and imaging agents | 1:00 – 1:45 | 45 min |
| keynote speaker: dr. steven wang (zoom) a hybrid complex-valued neural network framework with applications to electroencephalogram (eeg) | 1:45 – 2:30 | 45 min |
| coffee break | 2:30 – 2:45 | 15 min |
| dr. andrew drainville (zoom) ultrasonic cavitation for controlled pancreatic cancer stroma disruption | 2:45 – 3:15 | 30 min |
| dong zhao synthesis and evaluation of aurora kinase b inhibitor for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics | 3:15 – 3:45 | 30 min |
| yang mao the development of novel pet imaging agents for diagnosing cancer | 3:45 – 4:15 | 30 min |
| awards ceremony and dinner in graduate student lounge in cases | 5:00 – 7:00 | 2 hours |
keynote speakers