CAGEF Symposium 2026

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 AMRegistration in Bahen Centre for Information Technology Atrium
10:00 – 10:05 AMDavid Guttman, PhD (CAGEF) | Welcome and Opening remarks
10:05 – 10:25 AMPauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Introduction to CAGEF
10:30 – 10:50 AM(Deborah O’Connor lab, Nutritional Sciences) |
11:00 – 11:40 AMKeynote: Freeman Lan, PhD (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) | Droplet microfluidics and microbiome research
11:45 – 12:15 AMCoffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Bahen Atrium
12:20 – 12:40 AMSpeaker TBD
12:45 – 1:05 PMXiaoyi Hu (David Guttman Lab, CSB) | Pseudomonas syringae Population Structure across Ecological Scales.
1:10 – 2:15 PMLunch in Bahen Atrium
2:20 – 2:40 PM(Nathan Lujan lab, EEB, ROM) |
2:45 – 3:25 PMKeynote: Collete Picard, PhD (CSB) | Genetic and epigenetic regulators of pollen and germline development
3:30 – 4:00 PMCoffee/Tea break and vendor tables in Bahen Atrium
4:05 – 4:25 PMSpeaker TBD
4:30 – 4:50 PMSpeaker TBD
4:55 – 5:00 PMPauline Wang, PhD (CAGEF) | Closing remarks

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