Biology Seminar Series

When: Fridays, 12-1pm (unless otherwise indicated)

Where: Zoom

Every Friday during the academic year, the Department of Biology hosts an exciting seminar given by a guest speaker. Topics cover every aspect of biology, from whole organisms to molecular biology. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Date	Speaker	Title	Host	Poster
Sep. 11, 2020	Chris Lowden, PhD student, University of Toronto Mississauga	Deciphering the Transcriptional Mechanisms Orchestrating Cellular Metabolism in the Brain	Dr. Mary Cheng	Poster/Bio
Sep. 11, 2020	Dr. Hossam Abdel Moniem, PDF, University of Toronto Mississauga	Mapping the flow: Building, testing, and using connectivity models in urban landscapes	Dr. Helene Wagner	Poster/ Bio
Sep. 18, 2020	Dr. Kim Joe, McMaster University	Lessons learned from teaching a large introductory psychology course: What works and what doesn’t, and what isn’t worth the effort	Dr. John Ratcliffe	Poster
Sep. 25, 2020	Dr. Heather McFarlane, University of Toronto	Sending the right signals for plant cell wall synthesis and remodelling	Dr. Ingo Ensminger	Poster
Oct. 2, 2020	Dr. Julian Resasco, University of Colorado Boulder, USA	Biodiversity under environmental change in large-scale and long-term studies	Dr. Helene Wagner	Poster Bio
Oct. 9, 2020	Dr. Mark Lange, Washington State University, USA	Evolution of chemical diversity in glandular trichomes – from seed ferns of the Late Carboniferous to present day cannabis	Dr. Michael Phillips	Poster Bio
Oct. 23, 2020	Dr. Josef Penninger, Live Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia	ACE2- from discovery to COVID-19	Dr. Mary Cheng	Poster
Oct. 30, 2020	Dr. Alemu Gonsamo, McMaster University	Changes in phenology and carbon uptake of the high latitude ecosystems during the satellite era	Dr. Ingo Ensminger	Poster https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/91056436115
Nov. 6, 2020	Dr. Judith Denkinger, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador	Humpback whales off Ecuador in a changing climate	Dr. Christoph Richter
Nov. 13, 2020	Dr. Stefan Grunder, RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Neuropeptides - agonists and modulators of DEG/ENaC channels	Dr. Adriano Senatore
Nov. 20, 2020	Dr. Aleeza Gerstein, University of Manitoba	Drug resistance and virulence in human fungal pathogens through the lens of evolutionary genetics	Dr. Marcus Dillon
Nov. 27, 2020	Dr. Imogen Coe, Ryerson University, Canada	TBA	SUPER SPEAKER
Dec. 4, 2020	Jiashu Liu, University of Toronto Mississauga	TBA	Dr. Baohua Liu
Dec. 4, 2020	Dr. Qianshi Lin, University of Toronto Mississauga	TBA	Dr. Sasa Stefanovic

Upcoming Seminar:

Our seminar series has concluded for the year. Please check back in the fall for the new seminar schedule.

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