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, University of Alberta


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

Vasiliki Rahimzadeh Evening talk by Vasiliki Rahimzadeh

Dr Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Baylor College of Medicine

Talk given as part of the BETA Dialogues Endowment for Space Science, Ethics, and Philosophy.

Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta
Cost: Free

19:40

Nina Lanza Evening talk by Nina Lanza

Dr Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Lab.

Talk given as part of the BETA Dialogues Endowment for Space Science, Ethics, and Philosophy.

Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta
Cost: Free

20:30

Roundtable discussion

Dr Vasiliki Rahimzadeh Baylor College of Medicine
Dr Nina Lanza Los Alamos National Lab.
Dr Chris Herd EAS
21:00 Close

 

Friday, October 17, 2025

Location: Tory 3-36, University of Alberta


09:00

Opening Remarks, Coffee and chats.
09:30

Karina Sapelnikova Igniting Your Career in Aerospace

Karina Sapelnikova*, Head of Propulsion at PAVE Space, Switzerland, and former student

WATCH NOW
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.