Schedule
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Location: Tory 3-36, 海角社区
| 09:00 |
Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgement |
Chris Herd Carlos Lange |
ISSET Director ISSET Deputy Director |
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| 09:10 |
A Potential Biosignature on Mars: Implications for Mars Sample Return |
Chris Herd | Professor, EAS | |
| 09:55 |
Lasers and Acoustics on Mars |
Misc. | ||
| 10:40 |
What Making and Modeling Martian Meteorites Teaches Us About Mars |
Sophie Benaroya | Graduate student, EAS | |
| 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:15 |
Simulated Microgravity Models Sex Differences in Knee Osteoarthritis Through a CD36-Regulated Mechano-Metabolic Circuit |
Hilda Ma | Postdoctoral fellow, Surgery | |
| 11:35 |
What Are the Changes in Bone Marrow Induced by Radiation Exposure Mimicking Space |
Abibah Kromah | Undergraduate student, Biomedical Engineering | |
| 12:00 | Break | |||
| 13:30 |
Robots and Red Stars: The Evolution of Humanizing Technology in Soviet Space Propaganda, 1957–1973 |
Mackenzie O'Neill | Graduate student, History | |
| 13:50 |
Systematic Review of Spaceflight-Induced Changes in Birds |
Lev Sushanek | Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering | |
| 14:10 |
Circular Space: Recycling Waste and Printing the Future with Regolith |
Rafiq Ahmad | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering | |
| 14:30 | Break | |||
| 14:50 |
Never Miss a Chance To Go to Mars (Origins of ISSET/AlbertaSat) |
Carlos Lange | Professor, ISSET Deputy Director | |
| 15:10 |
Origins of ISSET/AlbertaSat |
Chris Herd | Professor, ISSET Director | |
| 15:30 |
Origins of ISSET/AlbertaSat |
Chris Robson | Wyvern | |
| 16:05 |
Origins of ISSET/AlbertaSat |
Ian Mann | Professor, ISSET Member and Co-founder | |
Evening Sessions:
Location: Horowitz Theatre, Students Union Building, 8900 114 St NW, Edmonton.
| 18:40 | Doors open | ||||||||
| 19:00 |
Opening remarks and welcome |
Chris Herd | ISSET Principal Director | ||||||
| 19:05 |
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| 19:40 |
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| 20:30 |
Roundtable discussion |
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| 21:00 | Close | ||||||||
Evening talk by Vasiliki Rahimzadeh 
Evening talk by Nina Lanza
Friday, October 16, 2025
Location: Tory 3-36, 海角社区
| 09:00 |
Opening Remarks, Coffee and chats. |
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| 09:30 |
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| 10:30 | Break | |||
| 13:30 |
KIPP: The Problem Child |
Henry Nguyen | Student, Space Exploration Alberta Robotics Club | |
| 13:50 |
Burnwire Release Mechanism for the Ex-Alta 3 CubeSat |
Will Marquis | Student, AlbertaSat | |
| 14:10 |
Preliminary Design of PRIMAVERA: Preliminary Investigation Mission to Achieve Venusian Reconnaissance in Atmosphere |
Sam Leader | Student, AlbertaSat | |
| 14:30 |
A Small Fish for a Big Problem: Zebrafish as a Model for Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS) |
Shayleen Ghassemi | Student, Biology | |
| 14:50 |
Understanding Microgravity Induced Bone Loss |
Svetlana Komarova | Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering | |
| 15:10 |
Quails as a Novel Model To Study Physiological Effects of Space Radiation |
Mason Kruger | Student, Biomedical Engineering | |
| 15:30 |
PAULL (Propulsion for uAlberta Undergraduate Liquid Launches) |
Connor McNeill | Student, Student Team for Alberta Rocketry Research | |
| 15:50 |
Health Effects of Space Travel |
Gerlinde Metz | Professor, University of Lethbridge | |
| 16:30 | Close | |||
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