Geographic Information Systems in the Study and Monitoring of the Environment

Cities, Intelligent Energy Networks and the Decarbonisation of Built Environments: Do These Climate Change Adaptations Keep 1.5 Alive?

Rethinking the way we farm

Lineage recording reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity and paths of tumor evolution

Sonic hedgehog causes replication stress promoting cancer initiation in medulloblastoma

CRHPVN neurons decode stress controllability and regulate defensive behavior selection

Plenary 2: Applications of High Performance Magnets in Green Energy

The importance of diversity for excellence in science

Looking towards 2022: International year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development

Collaborating on Digital Oral History Curriculum Content and Building K-16 Student Engagement through UC Library Resources

New Frontiers In Energy Blockchain Applications

Clean Market Place Panel Q/A

Resource allocation of a deep-diving Arctic seabird, the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia), in response to sea-ice variation during the chick-rearing period

Contaminants of growing concern: Poly- and Perfluoroalkylated Substances (PFAS) and their physiological consequences in seabirds

Causes and consequences of interindividual variation in glucocorticoid secretion: Experiments in free-living kittiwakes

Understanding the spatio-temporal seabird population responses to climate change.

Keynote

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A keynote speech with Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK **Speaker**: Bina Agarwal **Biography**: Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was Professor and Director at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. She was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi.

Agarwal has been President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and Vice President of the International Economics Association. She holds honorary doctorates from ISS, The Hague, and the University of Antwerp, and is an elected member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy as well as a Fellow of The World Academy of Science (TWAS).

She has written extensively on agrarian change, environmental governance, property and land rights, food security, and poverty and inequality, especially from a gender and political economy perspective. Her 13 books include the award-winning, A Field of One’s Own (Cambridge University Press,1994); Gender and Green Governance (Oxford University Press, 2010); Gender Challenges (OUP, 2016), a three volume compendium of her selected papers, and Gender Inequalities in Developing Economies (2021, in Italian trans.). She has written for the New York Times, and writes often for Indian Express, Times of India and Outlook.

Among her many awards and honours are several book prizes; a Padma Shri prize in 2008 from the President of India; the Leontief Prize 2010 ‘for advancing the frontiers of economic thought’; the Louis Malassis International Scientist Prize 2017; Order of Agricultural Merit, France, 2017; and the International Balzan Prize 2017, ‘for challenging established premises in economics and the social sciences by using an innovative gender perspective’.

Rethinking the way we farm - Bina Agarwal

**Session Chair**: Rahul Satija, New York Genome Center
 
 **Presenter**: [Jonathan Weissman, Whitehead Institute](https://wi.mit.edu/people/member/weissman)
 
 Lineage Recording Reveals the Phylodynamics, Plasticity and Paths of Tumor Evolution

KEYNOTE: Jonathan Weissman, Lineage recording reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity and paths of tumor evolution


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**Chair:** Katalin Toth, University of Ottawa

**Speakers:** Lukas Tamayo-Orrego, Nuria Daviu Abant, Claire Gizowski

**Description:** Join us on the Main Stage to hear from the CIHR Brain Star Awardees.



CIHR Brain Star Award talks

**Session Chair:**
 Constantinides

**Speakers:**
 Kimihiro Ozaki (Japan)
 Ayman EL-Refaie (USA)
 Thomas M. Jahns (USA)

**Panel moderator**: Elizabeth Pollitzer, Founder and Director of Portia (UK) and the Gender Summits 
**Panel members**: 
**Ana Lucía Martinez Abarca**, Professor and Chair of Bioethics in the Human Medicine Career, University of the Americas, Ecuador 
**Edna Patricia Matta-Camacho**, Assessment Officer at the Therapeutic Products Directorate in Health Canada; developing Health Canada's Sex and Gender Action Plan 
**Amira Shaheen**, Assistant Professor in Epidemiology and Population Health at An-Najah National University, Palestine, currently leading a project to enhance healthcare system responses to gender-based violence; 2019 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation award winner

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**Panel moderator**: Shobhana Narasimhan, Professor of Theoretical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India 
**Panel members**: 
**Marian Nkansah**, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; 2021 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation awardee 
**Maryse Nkoua Ngavouka**, Lecturer in Physics at University Marien Ngouabi, Congo-Brazzaville; 2018 OWSD Early Career Fellow 
**Jana Rodriguez Hertz**, Full Professor of Mathematics at Southern University of Science & Technology, China; OWSD Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2016-2021 
**Kate Shaw**, Researcher in Physics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); founder and co-coordinator of the ICTP Physics Without Frontiers programme

Clean Energy and Blockchain

**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/sDvAiaFdq5qBsfnKlC4ZQcmCLLo1oO2yvz0rFi2BjFg5JfzjzHCHqcpjUfA9594.3bgkF-G95Clramln?startTime=1633435108000) 

**Session Chair: **Ruth Dunn 
**Session Description:** Recent assessments of species and ecosystem responses to environmental change have highlighted an urgent need to better understand the mechanistic links between the patterns of change, individual responses, and population processes. Without this link our ability to assess the vulnerability of seabird populations to environmental stressors, such as contaminants, disease, overfishing and re-organization of trophic food webs, and to establish effective management programs is severely limited. Conservation physiology is a rapidly growing field, and there is considerable scope to apply its recent developments to seabird conservation issues. The 21st century has seen the development of new metabolic, endocrine and molecular approaches that allow detailed quantification of physiological traits in free-living birds, bringing the study of physiology out of the laboratory and into the wild. For example, recent work measuring fine-scale energetics has illustrated how many applied problems in conservation boil down to issues of energy intake or energy output. Endocrine and molecular markers of exposure to stressful events during different stages of the annual cycle provide insight into physiological carry-over effects on patterns of survival and reproduction. Developments in the field of historical ecophysiology allow us to examine individual seabird responses to climate change on a millennial scale. Such approaches have the potential to identify when, where, and why seabird populations are vulnerable before catastrophe strikes, thus vastly improving our conservation efforts. This symposium will focus on the potential of physiology to provide mechanistic answers to applied conservation questions from marine reserve design, to pollution monitoring, to seabirds as indicators of climate change responses.

Symposium 1 - Conservation physiology in seabirds: Understanding mechanisms, causes and consequences in a changing world I

symposium

**Sponsored by:** Wildlife Acoustics 
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**Session Replay:** [Click here](https://zoom.us/rec/share/4kT3ddvUL0dfY69v6W1gYLCOPFN-Cf77hgwRuCJzVYmScwyZ4uSuahQB6iz8DLAE.0qlaX4h4Uw30xmJr?startTime=1633435207000) 

**Session Chairs: **Francis Daunt, Sue Lewis 
**Session Description:** Research on seabird ecology has demonstrated remarkable variation among species and populations due to differences in intrinsic processes and environmental conditions. As a result, it has been challenging to unravel key ecological processes that underpin the relationship between seabirds and their environment, which has hampered our ability to make accurate forecasts of future population change. A powerful way of identifying key ecological processes is to undertake studies at multiple colonies or populations. Over the last decade, there has been a marked increase in this approach in a range of fields including population and foraging dynamics, including the first formal meta-analyses, providing robust insights into fundamental relationships. This symposium will showcase the latest research in this fast moving and critically important field.

Life Sciences