CSB Research Day 2025 on May 1st at University of Toronto Scarborough gave us a chance to share fun times with our colleagues, gain important insights into their research and celebrate their accomplishments.
Students, staff and faculty were welcomed by Professors Rene Harrison and Adam Mott and introduced to our venue, the impressive Sam Ibrahim Building. Our keynote speaker Prof Costin Antonescu of TMU revealed fascinating details from his work on receptor signaling at the nanoscale.
From our experienced slate of speakers, two talks stood out as Best Oral Presentations: CSB Chair Nicholas Provart presented the awards to Brittany Dugan (Peever & Watts labs) for her talk on “REM sleep behaviour disorder in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy” and Phoebe Bhagoutie (Saltzman lab) won her award for revealing “Heterochromatin readers CEC-3 and CEC-6 regulate the duration of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in response to heat stress”.
Some students presented their work in three minute Lightning Talks and the audience voted for Christine Nguyen (Nambara Lab) as giving the best talk for her presentation on “Characterizing the function of a novel abscisic acid transport inhibitor in Arabidopsis thaliana”.
Most of our students presented their work in two poster sessions featuring animated expositions and excited queries. Judges assessed their research and presentations to award Outstanding Poster Presentations to
Norman Stewart (Ito lab)
Angela Sidsworth (Goring lab)
Mila Gorchkova (Anreiter lab)
Ernest Liang (Calarco Lab)
Irina Alymova (Peever lab)
Clare Breit-McNally (Desveaux & Guttman labs)
We were excited to welcome back alumni Luís Abatti, Laura Canales Sanchez, Sonhita Chakraborty, and Calvin Mok for our career and development panel. We are grateful for their participation and their thoughtful insights on life beyond graduate school.
The team organizing CSB Research Day and running registration did an amazing job. Our warmest thanks go to Raquel Singh, Janis Cheng, Jiahao Chris Li (Chris also provided the photos in the gallery), Tamar Av-Shalom, Aiman Farheen, Rubesan Christian Joy Rajakumar, Denise Horsley and Professors Harrison and Mott.
We are grateful to our sponsors, New England Biolabs Canada, Ontario Genomics and TACT Genomics for their support.
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who presented their impactful work!
