🚨 ONE DAY LEFT! 🚨
Meet Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares, our #Atwood2026 Memorial Lecturer! 🌿🛰️🌳
Learn more about their work here: cavenderlab.oeb.harvard.edu
Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...
Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium!
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2 days left! ✨
Meet Dr. James Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social, the #Atwood2026 Rising Star in Evolution! 🦎🌡️🌎
Learn more about their work here: sites.gatech.edu/stroudlab/
Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...
T-minus 3 days…
Meet Dr. Guzman, the #Atwood2026 Rising Star in Ecology! 🐝💻🪲
Learn more about their work here: edslab.org
Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...
Atwood 2026 is just around the corner! 🕺💃 The schedule will be released soon, but there will be an incredible lineup of talks from students, postdocs, faculty, and invited speakers. 😎
The artwork this year was made by the wonderful Martin Henry, Michelle Liu, & Youngseo Jeong.
Hey hey! Congrats to Frederickson Lab member Chris Carlson for taking home the Golden Blurb!
Great talk from Kevin Ricks this afternoon!
Great talk on population genomics of the Xingu River Volta Grande by PDF Tobit Liyandja from the Lovejoy and Lujan labs at the EEB-Toronto Atwood Colloquium!
#Atwood2025 ends with Grad Appreciation Night!
That’s all from us this year, see you next year for #Atwood2026
Signing off,
Irtaqa Arif and Sherry Du
Fantastic Atwood Colloquium this year at @uoft.bsky.social featuring amazing line up of EEB grad student and postdocs, plus Rising Stars @cbo.bsky.social and @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Atwood Lecture by @fukamit.bsky.social made all the more special by live support from the Atwood family!
Keep both eyes open for our #Atwood2025 Memorial Lecturer:
Dr. Tadashi Fukami talks about plant-pollinator-microbe interactions and effects towards two-eyed seeing 👀
Candace Ma from the Kotanen lab
Denny Maranga from the Evans lab
Martin Henry from the Stinchcombe lab
More pics from our final elevator talk session! Round of applause for our speakers! 👏 #Atwood2025 (2/2)
Galento Galvez from the D'Aloia lab
Hayden Fargo from the Johnson lab
Krystyn Forbes from the Layton & D'Aloia labs
Zifang Xiong from the Mahler lab
Last but not least, our final elevator talk session! (1/2) #Atwood2025
We can’t resist Prof. Alison Hill’s talk on the risk of drug resistance evolution for infectious diseases! 💊💉 #Atwood2025
Kevin Ricks from the Frederickson lab gets down and duckweed-y in his talk about "Plant-microbe symbiosis mediates local adaptation in Lemna minor" 🪴🦠 #Atwood2025
Vicki M. Zhang from the Kotanen lab invades the #Atwood2025 stage with her talk on "Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian arctic"! 🌱❄️
Thomas Dudgeon from the Evans lab quacks open the secrets about testing trade-offs in the fossil record: socio-sexual vs natural selection in the evolution of duck-billed dinosaurs. 🦆🦕🦴 #Atwood2025
Mikaeel Abbas from the Wright lab is leaf-ing no chromosome unturned in their talk: "Do plants have toxic Y chromosomes?" 🌱 #Atwood2025
Closing off the first half of our second #Atwood2025 day, Alan Bui talks about FREED: Field Research in Ecology and Evolution Diversified! 🌿🌍✨
Arielle Rothman from the Cutter lab takes us on a journey from cells to species: linking sperm gigantism to reproductive morphology! 🪱 #Atwood2025
Vivien Luu from the Claramunt lab heats things up with her talk on climate and the lineage diversification of neotropical ovenbirds (Aves: Furnariidae)! 🔥🐦 #Atwood2025
Thomas Wildeboer from the Sztepanacz & Parins-Fukuchi labs drops pleio-truths on the effect of pleiotropy on extinction risk over macroevolutionary time 🧬 #Atwood2025
Markelle Morphet from the Mandrak lab threads a tale: "Finding a needle in a haystack: eDNA as a tool to classify agricultural drains based on sensitive species." 🧬🪡 #Atwood2025
Francis Nuamah from the Rochman lab spills the micro-tea in their talk: "Here today, gone tomorrow: the fate of microplastics in a lake’s water column." ♻️💧 #Atwood2025
Prof. Marie-Josée Fortin fosters a diverse talk on functional diversity and connectivity to foster forest resilience to global change! 🌲🌎 #Atwood2025
Our Rising Star in Evolution, Dr. Brandon Ogbunu presents a panorama on Pandemics, Population Genetics and a Science in Peril 🧬 #Atwood2025
I am having a blast at the University of Toronto EEB #Atwood2025 colloquium! I've been inspired by the well-crafted, groundbreaking student talks and the thoughtful conversations about the practice of science. A huge honour to be here
Grateful to be part of this Univ of Toronto EEB event
Check out these wonderful pictures from our first day of #Atwood2025!
