Join us at the CAGEF symposium!
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.
Registration starts in the Bahen Atrium at 9am.
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 | (Deborah O’Connor lab, Nutritional Sciences) | |
| 11:00 – 11:40 AM | Keynote: Freeman Lan, PhD (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) | Droplet microfluidics and microbiome research |
| 11:45 – 12:15 AM | Coffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Bahen Atrium |
| 12:20 – 12:40 AM | Speaker TBD |
| 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 | (Nathan Lujan lab, EEB, ROM) | |
| 2:45 – 3:25 PM | Keynote: Collete Picard, PhD (CSB) | Genetic and epigenetic regulators of pollen and germline development |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Coffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Bahen Atrium |
| 4:05 – 4:25 PM | Speaker TBD |
| 4:30 – 4:50 PM | Speaker TBD |
| 4:55 – 5:00 PM | Pauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Closing remarks |
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