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On the Podium Speaker Series 2016 Currie Gymnasium, Mcgill Athletics Complex On the Podium Speaker Series 2016 Currie Gymnasium, McGill Athletics Complex Wednesday May 18 10:50 Robert Zatorre: From Perception to Pleasure: The Brain Basis of Music 11:30 Natalya Gomez: The Physics of Ice Sheets, Sea Level and the Solid Earth 12:20 Lyle White: The Search for little green bugs on Mars and other really, really cold worlds! 13:00 Hans Larsson: Forces of Evolution: Exploring Behavioural and Physical Forces of Evolutionary Change 13:40 Megan Eva: The 'sickness' in our genes 14:20 Frank Wolf: A Rowboat's View of Climate Change in the Arctic 15:00 Brigitte Vachon: Big Science: a personal perspective 15:40 John Bergeron: Some Canadian Heros in Science 16:20 Isabelle Gagnon: Concussion in Kids and Teens: How Research Changes the Landscape 17:00 Raymond Wang: Science Fairs - Innovation & You Thursday May 19 9:00 Frank Wolf: A Rowboat's View of Climate Change in the Arctic 9:50 Kumudu Jinadasa: A Life in Space 10:40 Feiona Jaffer: Biologic Medicines: The Pros and Cons of Being Big! 11:30 David Thomas: How to Discover New Medicines Friday May 20 8:00 In Conversation: Featuring the Platinum Award Winners of the Canada Wide Science Fair 2016 9:00 Jaymie Matthews: Can Godzilla Play Hockey? 9:50 Joe Schwarcz: Have you Ever Wondered... 10:40 Jaymie Matthews: Exploring Planets Far, Far Away 11:30 Jon Sakata: What Songbirds can tell us about Human Communications On the Podium Speaker Series 2016 Program All talks will take place in the Currie Gymnasium within the McGill Athletics Complex. From Perception to Pleasure: The Brain Basis of Music Robert Zatorre Wednesday, May 18: 10:50 AM In this lecture, Dr. Zatorre will present evidence from cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging relevant to music. The unique architecture of human cortical circuits is responsible for our ability to perceive musical patterns. Phylogenetically more ancient subcortical dopamine mechanisms respond to musical pleasure. The interaction between these two systems is believed to be responsible for our ability to derive pleasure from complex sound patterns such as music. A Canada Research Chair at McGill University, Robert Zatorre explores the operation of what he calls molecular machines, the physically and functionally interacting components of cells. The cells of any organism are regularly passing on information in the form of biochemical signals, which usually direct the cell to make internal physiological responses to changes in the surrounding environment. Such signals are also associated with the development of many different types of inflammatory and degenerative diseases, such as cancer and viral or bacterial infections. Researchers have become interested in identifying the nature and function of these signaling mechanisms, which could reveal new avenues for treating these diseases at the molecular level. The Physics of Ice Sheets, Sea Level and the Solid Earth Natalya Gomez Wednesday, May 18: 11:30 AM Did you know that Montreal used to be covered by a layer of ice more than 3 kilometers thick? That that ice moved the land beneath our feet? And that if ice in Antarctica were to melt in the future, sea level would fall in Antarctica, but water levels in North America would rise more than you might think? Melting of the polar ice sheets is expected to raise water levels and displace communities around the world in the coming centuries. An important task of climate change research is to understand the response of these ice sheets to climate warming and estimate their contribution to future sea-level rise. Natalya Gomez discusses the surprising physics of melting ice sheets and rising seas in response to climate change, what we can learn about the fate of the polar ice sheets from looking to the past, and the adventures of doing research in some of the most remote and hard-to-get-to parts of the world. Natalya Gomez is a new professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at McGill University and a Canada Research Chair in the Geodynamics of Ice Sheet - Sea Level Interactions. Natalya spent her summers growing up camping and hiking her way around the awe-inspiring landscapes in Canada and United States with her family, and she loved physics and math in high school, but it wasn’t until she took a life-changing course called “Physics of the Earth” in her third year of an undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of Toronto that discovered the field that captured her curiosity and put all her interests together. She went on to do a PhD in Geophysics at Harvard University with the professor of that class, then moved to New York City to do research on monitoring ice sheets before starting at McGill in 2015. She loves to obsess over complex numerical modeling problems on powerful computer clusters, but at the same time thinks climate science communication and education for people at all levels is both extremely important and extremely cool. The search for little green bugs on Mars and other really, really cold worlds! Lyle White Wednesday, May 18: 12:20 PM This presentation will summarize current and future planetary exploration missions with the primary objectives of searching for microbial life within in our solar system especially on Mars, Europa and and Enceladus, all of which are frozen worlds. Humanity has initiated a new and exciting wave of planetary exploration over the next 10-20 years that have the potential to answer one of the key questions of our times: Are we alone in this universe? The possibility of life on such solar system bodies will be put in context with our research of microbial life existing in extreme cryoenvironments on earth. Dr. Whyte is a Professor at McGill University in Montreal, a founding member of the newly launched McGill Space Institute (MSI) and former Canada Research Chair (CRC). He received his PhD from the U. of Waterloo and led the NSERC CREATE Canadian Astrobiology Training Program. He is currently a member of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars 2018 Landing Site Selection Working Group which will determine where the ExoMars rover will land. Prof. Whyte’s research focuses on examining microbial biodiversity and ecology in polar environments with the primary goals of determining the low temperature limits of microbial life on earth, how this effects global biogeochemical cycles, and lately exploring potential biotechnology applications of cold adapted microorganisms. His research also has significant astrobiology implications and the search for microbial life on Mars, Europa, and Enceladus. Forces of evolution: exploring behavioural and physical forces of evolutionary change Hans Larsson Wednesday, May 18: 1:00 PM Evolution was once considered a slow and steady process that, when spanning millions of years, led to the great biodiversity we have today. The fossil record tells a different story, with large stretches of time preserving relatively little change and short periods of rapid change. In this talk, Hans Larsson will show how novel environments and physical forces may shape large-scale evolutionary change. Hans Larsson is a Canada Research Chair in Vertebrate Palaeontology at McGill University. He focuses on large-scale questions of biological evolution spanning palaeontology to embryology. His goal is to connect the dynamics of ecology and developmental biology to evolutionary patterns and processes. He does this by finding and collecting new fossils, pouring over museum collections, developing methods to explore anatomical change, generating models of evolutionary relationships and ecological diversity, and examining developmental mechanisms in living embryos. The 'sickness' in our genes Megan Eva Wednesday, May 18: 1:40 PM Every year infectious diseases are responsible for 25% of all deaths, and even among those that survive, they are responsible for significant illness. The type of infection, the pathogen that causes it, the environment, and even your genetic makeup determine whether or not you become sick, and how sick you become. Megan Eva will show that by studying the genes important to fight infection we can better understand not only how and why we become sick, but also why a cough for some is a severe illness for others. Megan Eva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University. She is a member of the Complex Traits Group at McGill and works under the supervision of Dr. Danielle Malo. Her research focuses on identifying and studying the functions of genes critical in the fight against typhoid fever. A Rowboat's View of Climate Change in the Arctic Frank Wolf Wednesday, May 18: 2:20 PM Thursday, May 19: 9:00 AM Frank Wolf presents a unique look at climate change from the perspective of a rowing expedition through the Northwest Passage. In 2013 he and three others attempted the feat not only to see if it could be done- but to intimately investigate the ramifications of a warming Arctic. Combining his expedition experience, interviews with indigenous residents, and NASA climate change data, Frank gives an informative and entertaining talk about an issue affecting the entire planet. Frank Wolf is Canada’s most diverse adventurer. In the past 20 years, he’s done an impressive single- season canoe expedition across Canada, whitewater kayaked in Cambodia and Laos, cycled from the Yukon to Nome, Alaska in the dead of winter, sea kayaked around British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii, hiked, packrafted and sea kayaked the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and supertanker route from Alberta’s tar sands to the Pacific Ocean, and last summer he was part of a four-person team to row the Northwest Passage. The common thread between all of Wolf’s expeditions is a mind-boggling degree of difficulty, revealed through creative (some might say impossible) route selection and personal suffering along the way.
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