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The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors?  Samuel Dumas: I’m in my third year, and my major is mathematics. What is your research? My research focuses primarily on invertebrate biodiversity. It’s a project in urban ecology and I’m working with the stormwater ponds in Brampton. What’s really cool about them is

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors?  Jackson Leslie: I’m in my fourth year. I specialize in Neuroscience, and I do a major in Fundamental Genetics. What is your research? Right now, I am doing research in Dr. McLaurin’s lab at Sunnybrook. My project looks at combinatorial therapies for Alzheimer’s disease—we

The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors?  Emilie Nero: My name is Emilie Nero. I am in fourth year now, and I’m doing a double major in Biology and Health and Disease. What is your research? We’ve all heard of microplastics and how they’re getting into very weird matrices. We’ve heard

The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Sara Ciganovic: I’m in fourth year, and I’m doing a pathobiology specialist. What is your research? My lab studies how the brain develops and the stem cells that are creating the brain using mice models. We’ve done a lot of sequencing analysis on the

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Maximus Caron: I’m in fourth year and my majors are forest conservation and human geography, and then I have a minor in political science. What is your research? I was working with the City of Mississauga as an invasive species forester and summer student.

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Naomi: I’m going into third year, and my major is psychology. What is your research? There’s something that’s been studied for a long time with a probe tone method that’s pretty well known—people widely agree on certain sounds to fit with a musical tonality.