Video Recap
FULL Schedule
Links to recordings of presentations will be shown below. Simply click the watch now button to view.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Location: Tory 3-36, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ
| 09:00 |
Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgement |
WATCH NOW | Chris Herd Carlos Lange |
ISSET Director ISSET Deputy Director |
| 09:10 |
A Potential Biosignature on Mars: Implications for Mars Sample Return |
WATCH NOW | Chris Herd | Professor, EAS |
| 09:55 |
Revealing the Martian Soundscape |
WATCH NOW | Nina Lanza | |
| 10:40 |
What Making and Modeling Martian Meteorites Teaches Us About Mars |
WATCH NOW | 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 |
WATCH NOW | Hilda Ma | Postdoctoral fellow, Surgery |
| 11:35 |
What Are the Changes in Bone Marrow Induced by Radiation Exposure Mimicking Space |
WATCH NOW | 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 |
WATCH NOW | Mackenzie O'Neill | Graduate student, History |
| 13:50 |
Systematic Review of Spaceflight-Induced Changes in Birds |
WATCH NOW | 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) |
WATCH NOW | Carlos Lange | Professor, ISSET Deputy Director |
| 15:10 |
ISSET: Origins and Future Prospects |
WATCH NOW | Chris Herd | Professor, ISSET Director |
| 15:30 |
Origins of ISSET/AlbertaSat |
WATCH NOW | Chris Robson* | Wyvern |
| 16:05 |
Origins of ISSET/AlbertaSat |
WATCH NOW | 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 | ||||||||
Friday, October 17, 2025
Location: Tory 3-36, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ
| 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 |
WATCH NOW | Henry Nguyen | Student, Space Exploration Alberta Robotics Club |
| 13:50 |
Burnwire Release Mechanism for the Ex-Alta 3 CubeSat |
WATCH NOW | Will Marquis | Student, AlbertaSat |
| 14:10 |
Preliminary Design of PRIMAVERA: Preliminary Investigation Mission to Achieve Venusian Reconnaissance in Atmosphere |
WATCH NOW | Sam Leader | Student, AlbertaSat |
| 14:30 |
A Small Fish for a Big Problem: Zebrafish as a Model for Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS) |
WATCH NOW | Shayleen Ghassemi | Student, Biology |
| 14:50 |
Understanding Microgravity Induced Bone Loss |
WATCH NOW | Svetlana Komarova | Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering |
| 15:10 |
Quails as a Novel Model To Study Physiological Effects of Space Radiation |
Presented by Svetlana Komarova (see above) | Mason Kruger | Student, Biomedical Engineering |
| 15:30 |
PAULL (Propulsion for uAlberta Undergraduate Liquid Launches) |
WATCH NOW | Connor McNeill | Student, Student Team for Alberta Rocketry Research |
| 15:50 |
Health Effects of Space Travel |
WATCH NOW | Gerlinde Metz* | Professor, University of Lethbridge |
| 16:30 | Close | |||
* Speaker presented remotely.
Evening talk by Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
Evening talk by Nina Lanza
Igniting Your Career in Aerospace