Relive SCIspire 2020
We are excited to have hosted SCIspire virtually on October 17th, 2020. Watch the videos below to capture the best moments of SCIspire 2020, and find out about the research conducted by our speakers and panelists and how they recommend students to become involved.
Watch our speakers presentations
Dr. Daryl Haggard
Department of Physics / McGill Space Institute, McGill University
Daryl Haggard is an Associate Professor of Physics at McGill University and in the McGill Space Institute. She studies the Galactic center and Sgr A* (the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy), electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, accreting compact objects, and supermassive black hole/galaxy co-evolution, all using multi-wavelength, multi-messenger, and time domain surveys. Haggard was awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as a collaborator of the Event Horizon Telescope, for the first image of the hot plasma and photons at the edge of a black hole. She holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Multi-messenger Astrophysics and was a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the Gravity & the Extreme Universe program. Haggard completed a PhD and MSc in Astronomy at the University of Washington, an MSc in Physics at San Francisco State University, and a BA in philosophy at St. John's College, Santa Fe.
Jake Stillwell
BSc, University of New Brunswick
Jake is a recent graduate of UNB, earning a Bachelor of Science in Biology-Physics with a concentration in Cell and Molecular Biology. His research, supervised by Dr. Janice Lawrence, uses genetic approaches to detect and characterize benthic, toxin-producing cyanobacteria found in the Wolastoq. When he's not in the lab, you can find him hiking, volunteering, or obsessing over music.
Dr. Stijn de Baerdemacker
Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick
Dr. Stijn de Baerdemacker is an associate professor in the department of Chemistry at the University of New Brunswick. As Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry, Dr. Stijn De Baerdemacker is focusing on finding smart theoretical methods by translating ideas from mathematical physics, theoretical physics and machine learning into meaningful chemical descriptors, he and his research team are building new computational methods. Ultimately, the tools De Baerdemacker and his team develop will help to fully harness the power of quantum for the development of smart technological devices, renewable energy sources and efficient drugs.
Melina Paz
BSc, University of New Brunswick
Melina Paz is an undergraduate student at UNB finishing her last year of the Biology-Chemistry program. Although her current research under Dr. Yang Qu involves studying Catharanthus roseus enzymes for medicinal alkaloid production, her summer research with Dr. Sara Eisler allowed her to participate in the beginning stages of the development of a new Lyme Disease testing method. When not in the lab, she can be found cooking, reading, writing, or spending time with those she loves!
