2025 Open Science in Action Symposium: Trainee Abstracts

At the 7th Annual Open Science in Action Symposium, which took place on Oct. 29, 2025 at UCalgary, trainees took the stage to share their innovative research in new and creative ways — from short videos to e-posters and flash talks.

🎥 Watch their ideas in action and see how their abstracts highlight how open, collaborative, and community-engaged approaches.

Abstract titles and timestamps:

0:14 - SeizureBiomeDB: A Unified Database of Gut Microbiome Alterations in Pediatric
and Adult Epilepsy. Walji Z., Dave P., Ali M., Negmeldin O., Shearer J., Mu C.

11:40 - Multimorbidity Indices Predicting Addictions and Other Mental Health-Related Outcomes: A
Systematic Review. Barry, R., Anderson, J., Chowdhury, M.Z.I., Seitz, D.

1:12 - Velcro in the Blood: How a Sticky Protein Could Link Diabetes and Stroke
Brandt P.J., Stys P.K.

12:28 - An Open Science Integrative Portal for Patient-derived iPSCs and Associated Data
Goldsmith T.M., Ferry N., Chen C.X-Q., Aprahamian N., Nicouleau M., You Z., Das S., Abou-Haidar
R., LaFleur K., Boivin M., Wang P., Karamchandani J., Durcan T.M.

10:50 - An Open-Source Closed-Loop Behavioural Control System for the Raspberry Pi.
Sanson J.A., Kiddle E.K., Jose-Paulo P.J., Drew S., & Cone, J.J.

2:23 - OpenBehaviorLab: An Open Platform for Fast, Reliable, Spatiotemporal Behavior
Quantification. Wang, A.1, Li, M.2, Stellwagen D.1

7 - 8:20 - Longitudinal EEG correlates of student competency and expertise development
McCance, C., Cortese, F., Burles, F., Hecker K.

9:57 - Treatment Planning for Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation Experiments in Humans with
BabelBrain: The 3 Yr Experience

3:28 - Bone Bank: Connecting Data to Drive Bone Health Innovation in Cerebral Palsy
Hodgson E., Rande A., Condliffe E.G., Gabel L.

9:10 - Investigating Multimodal Alzheimer’s Disease Data Gaps
Singhal M., Lin J., Rittner L., Bento M.

6:37 - Feasibility and Family Impacts of Robotic Walking: How data sharing can impact device
implementation. Youngblood, J.L., Rande, A., Norman, B.M., Condliffe, E.G.

7:31 - Toward Fair and Explainable ML for Pediatric Mental Health: Behavioral and Neuroimaging
Perspectives. Soltan Bayazidi A., Bento M.

4:35 - Towards Transparency and Openness in Non-Human Primate Research
Cook, T., Gacoin, M., Yang, J., Wang, J., Cléry, J.

5:50 - Identifying arousal inputs to the intergeniculate leaflet (the non-photic gateway to the
circadian clock) in Hamsters. Scotland M., Horsley K., McCance C., Antle M.