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Swimming on borrowed time 

Lakes give us so much — safe drinking water that is fundamental to our survival, and the simple joy of being on the water. But every lake tells a story—and increasingly, that story is one of decline. Nutrients from cities and from farms, combined with climate change, are fertilizing our lakes, turning many lakes from clear, to green. The consequences affect us downstream: unsafe swimming, health risks, and rising costs for drinking water. 

This threat isn’t new. We’ve understood the science behind it for decades. As a water quality scientist and a swimmer, Dr. Baulch knows people value water, and are invested in solutions. So how do we come together to fix our water quality problems? This talk will explore local insights, technological solutions and the power of remembering just how important water is to us. By looking for pragmatic solutions on land, we can address these growing problems in lakes, safeguarding the joy of swimming and our fundamental need for safe water. 

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Reprogramming our immunity: The code that could save us 

Can we escape illness by reprogramming our immune system?  

Let’s think for a moment about our immune system as a biological computer, it can perceive, assess, plan and deliver tailored responses. It can even evaluate and store the outcome. If our immune system learns from its history of injury and illness, could we teach it new behaviours, or reprogram it if it went astray? Using the latest advances in natural language processing, generative AI and quantum supercomputing we have been working to answer that very question. This talk will explore the world of digital immune doppelgangers and how we can use them to learn more about certain illnesses and possibly escape their grip by combining known medicines in new ways. Pandemics, cancer, autoimmune diseases…could we outsmart them all by hacking the immune system’s code? One day soon your physician may be prescribing you the latest update to your own immune operating system. 

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