CAGEF Symposium Agenda
Join us at the CAGEF symposium on October 27, 2026!
Register for free online here.
Lunch and coffee breaks are included and take place in the Bahen Atrium (just outside the auditorium).
Date
October 27, 2026 – 10 AM to 5 PM.
Doors open at 9am. Coffee and a light breakfast will be available in the Bahen Atrium.
Location
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, room 1130
40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Agenda
| 9:00 – 10:00 AM | Registration in Bahen Centre for Information Technology Atrium |
| 10:00 – 10:05 AM | David Guttman, PhD (CAGEF) | Welcome and Opening remarks |
| 10:05 – 10:25 AM | Pauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Introduction to CAGEF |
| 10:30 – 10:50 AM | Sara Shama (Deborah O’Connor lab, Nutritional Sciences) | Mother’s milk microbiota is associated with the developing gut microbial consortia in very-low-birth-weight infants |
| 11:00 – 11:40 AM | Keynote: Freeman Lan, PhD (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) | Single-Cell Microbial Genomics: From Hidden Diversity to Accessible Technologies |
| 11:45 – 12:15 AM | Coffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Bahen Atrium |
| 12:20 – 12:40 AM | Annie Pu (Jen Gommerman lab, Immunology) | Mining for disease-associated microbial metabolites in an age-dependent model of multiple sclerosis |
| 12:45 – 1:05 PM | Xiaoyi Hu (David Guttman Lab, CSB) | Pseudomonas syringae Population Structure across Ecological Scales. |
| 1:10 – 2:15 PM | Lunch in Bahen Atrium |
| 2:20 – 2:40 PM | Sarah Babaei (Nathan Lujan lab, EEB, ROM) | Orinoco Flow: Interglacial Fragmentation and Environmental Heterogeneity Drive Diversification in an Upper Orinoco Endemic Catfish Clade |
| 2:45 – 3:25 PM | Keynote: Colette Picard, PhD (CSB) | Two closely related DNA methylation readers recruit distinct repressive complexes to maintain silencing in Arabidopsis reproductive tissues |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Coffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Bahen Atrium |
| 4:05 – 4:25 PM | Delphine Dufour, PhD (Celine Levesque lab, Dentistry) | Quorum sensing as an architect of the vesicle proteome |
| 4:30 – 4:50 PM | John Calarco, PhD (CSB) | Small but mighty: using a tiny worm to shed light on microexon splicing |
| 4:55 – 5:00 PM | Pauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Closing remarks |
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