27sep10:00 am5:00 pm10:00 am - 5:00 pm Soapbox Science@WOTS: Ask Me Anything
Event Details
Bring your curiosity to this interactive Q&A experience. Scientists will be on hand to answer your questions about everything from heart health and climate change
Event Details
Bring your curiosity to this interactive Q&A experience. Scientists will be on hand to answer your questions about everything from heart health and climate change to children’s brain cancer, mathematics, nutrition, environmental chemistry, antimicrobial resistance, and more.
Curious about black holes, dinosaurs, artificial intelligence, cancer research, climate change, or the future of medicine? Join Soapbox Science for an exciting weekend of discovery, where leading women and non-binary scientists step out of the lab and into the festival to share their research with you.
Soapbox Science is an international public outreach initiative that makes cutting-edge science accessible through informal, engaging conversations. Throughout the weekend, you’ll have the opportunity to meet researchers from universities and institutions across Ontario, hear about their work, and ask questions about some of today’s most fascinating scientific discoveries.
Speakers for this event
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Alexx Riemenschneider
Alexx Riemenschneider
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Cicely Henderson
Cicely Henderson
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Dr. Adebola Adeleye
Dr. Adebola Adeleye
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Dr. Jennifer Williams
Dr. Jennifer Williams
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Dr. Reema Kumar
Dr. Reema Kumar
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Dr. Sarah Aubert
Dr. Sarah Aubert
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Eleanor Cloves
Eleanor Cloves
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Emily Wedde
Emily Wedde
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Ericka De Oliveira
Ericka De Oliveira
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Nowreen Sarwar
Nowreen Sarwar
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Sinthuja Sugathas
Sinthuja Sugathas
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Yubing Chen
Yubing Chen
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Schedule
- 27 September 2026
- 12:00pm Round 112:00pm- 1:00pm
Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
How is climate change affecting food production?
Sinthuja Sugathas
Fermentation of Organic Waste
What really happens to the contents of the green bin once they leave our house?
Dr. Reema Kumar
Nanoscience/Materials Chemistry
How is nanoscience used in our everyday lives and what can it help us achieve in the future?
Emily Wedde
Medical Physics
How do X-Rays work?
Dr. Sarah Aubert
- 1:00pm Round 21:00pm- 2:00pm
Cancer Biology
What is a new discovery in breast cancer biology?
Eleanor Cloves
Nutrition and Epidemiology
Why is there a shift in our diet towards shelf-stable, ultra processed foods as time goes by?
Nowreen Sarwar
Antimicrobial resistance
If antibiotics stop working, what does that mean for everyday people?
Dr. Adebola Adeleye
Mathematics
If my phone can do all the math I need, why do I need to learn it?
Cicely Henderson
- 2:00pm Round 32:00pm- 3:00pm
Women's Cardiovascular Health
How do I keep my heart healthy as I get older?
Dr. Jennifer Williams
Children's Brain Tumors
What's different between a child's and an adult's brain tumor?
Alexx Riemenschneider
Environmental Chemistry & Plastic Additives
Since these plastic additives are 'mobile' and making it into Lake Ontario, what does this mean for our drinking water or the fish we eat?
Ericka De Oliveira
Comparative immunology
Is there a difference between male and female immune responses in fish? Why do you care about sex differences in fish?
Yubing Chen