From brain leaks and broken bones to witch hunts and potato forecasts: meet DALS 3 -Minute thesis finalists for 2025 -Dal News

This week, dozens of doctoral students were against the chance to fight the highest awards in the 2025 3 -minute thesis competition from Dalhousie, with 10 young researchers brought in the final.

The winners were selected for their success in the rise of the 3MT challenge: part of their master or doctoral labor research in three minutes and only with a PowerPoint film.

The presentations in the heating this year covered a number of topics, from the reduction of broken bones to the use of honey as a biocentimate in environmental health.

Anyone who secures the crown in the 3MT final of DAL next week will be represented in June at the regional 3MT competition at Memorial University. The cash prizes will also be awarded for the three best presentations and People's Choice Award.

The final – instead on Tuesday, March 18 in the McINNES ROOM in the SUB – is open to members of the DAL community and beyond.

How to participate

Regardless of whether you are a student, faculty/employee, family member or friend, everyone is welcome! Can't you join personally? Switch on in a live stream of the event via our YouTube page.

Meet this year's competitors below:

Caitlin McCavour, PhD, plants, food and environmental sciences

From scratch

Problem statement: Improved health of the forest is an important player for improving the resistance of the forest compared to the effects of climate change and forest productivity. However, we do not have enough information about the health of the forest to capture the variability in the province of Nova Scotia and to make well -founded management decisions.

Madeline Kwan, MSC, health and human performance

Medicine for all prescription parx: nature is the greatest medicine for al

Problem statement: Why is nature not accessible as a health intervention for all young people in Nova Scotia and what steps can we take to make it more accessible?

Ebube Thelma Sunny-Ekhalume, MSC, electrical and computer technology

Energy from every movement!

Problem statement: Ebube tries to find new and easily accessible opportunities to create clean and renewable energies to reduce the amount of energy consumption that are obtained from fossil fuels per individual.

Jasmine Friedrich Yap, MSC, Physiotherapy

Snap, crackle, pop! Reduction of fracture risk in domestic care

Problem statement: Jasmine aims to reduce the risk of fracture in older adults, get home care all over Canada, and helps them to age safely at home.

Alexa Wilson, PhD, microbiology and immunology

The herpes virus escape plan – recently unveiled!

Problem statement: We have no remedies for cancer -related herpes viruses: The development of therapeutic agents against cancer -related herpes viruses requires understanding how these viruses replicate and abandoned.

Kapperan Venkatesan, MSC, plants, food and environmental sciences

How does climate change shape the future of a late misfortune?

Problem statement: Caperan becomes interesting how potato production will be influenced by climate change in the future if it continues to be more difficult to control the late misfortune.

Sharon Vogel, PhD, English

Device servant and slaves of the devil? Witchcraft, ruler and skepticism in the early new time

Problem statement: Sharon wonders why early English games appear skeptical about witch allegations, while their source materials condemn witches.

Joshua Ojile, MSC, medical neurosciences

Brain -leck -Alarm: Persecution of the invisible violation

Problem statement: The research of Joshua focuses on evaluating the integrity of the blood brain barrier and the quantification of its leaks, known of which is known

Ahmed Ramadan, PhD, biomedical technology

Leadership of the wave: light base heart therapies

Problem statement: Ahmed examines how light -sensitive proteins can be used to precisely control the electrical activity of the heart in order to potentially treat arrhythmias.

Loveth Ovedje, PhD, law

When the nets appear empty

Problem statement: Loveth is interested in the gap in the legal scholarship, in which developing countries are disadvantaged because they have obstacles to access and the use of climate finance for the development of renewable energies.

Emily McLean, MES, School for Resource and Environmental Studies

Evaluation of the concentrations for metal (Loid) in honey: a global review and localized study in Nova Scotia

Problem statement: Emily examines how honey can be used as a bioindic of environmental health by rating metal concentrations in honey on both local and global level.

Cédric Blais, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology

What is your DNA really for? Unpacking the DNA letter bag​

Problem statement: A large part of the DNA in our cells consists of viruses and may not be useful for us, which makes it difficult to know which parts of our DNA are relevant for critical health problems.

Learn more about the 3 -minute thesis founded by the University of Queensland.