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 Lakehead University.
Registration
Faculty/Other $50 CAD, Students/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
