#Atwood2025

#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

Chris Carlson takes home the Golden Blurb! Congratulations Chris! #Atwood2025

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

Check out these wonderful pictures from our first day of #Atwood2025!

Make space for our rising star in Ecology: Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor!
Dr. Gaynor talks about sharing space on a crowded planet 🌎 #Atwood2025

Chris Carlson from Osmond & Frederickson labs

Grace Walker Mitchell from Gilbert lab

Wanzhang Wang from Rollinson lab

More highlights from our second session of elevator talks! Again, well done everyone! #Atwood2025 (2/2)

Simran Hansra from Rochman lab

Elizabeth Makovec from Sztepanacz lab

Alan Bui from Jackson lab

Highlights from our second session of elevator talks! #Atwood2025 (1/2)

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky from the Mahler lab gives a tree-mendous talk on deforestation and elevation interact to shape functional community structure in Anolis lizards! 🌳🦎 #Atwood2025

Laini Tailor from the Andrade Lab untangles the web of knowledge on the invasiveness, mating systems, and plasticity in spiders 🕷️ #Atwood2025

Erik Curtis from Krkośek lab

Isaiah Box from the Andrade lab

Abigail Turner from the Rodd lab

More highlights from today's first elevator talks! #Atwood2025 Well done everyone! (2/2)

Ellen Nikelski from the Weir lab helps us understand genomic signals of mitonuclear coevolution: A case study in the Pipra manakin complex! 🐦 #Atwood2025

Michelle Liu from the Agrawal lab gets expressive in her talk on expression divergence in response to sex-biased selection! ♂️♀️🪰 #Atwood2025

Spotted: Dylan Kaufman from the Rollinson Lab at #Atwood2025. What could he be talking about? Seasonal variation and survival in spotted salamanders? 🦎 Stay tuned.
XOXO, Gossip Girl.

Jaime Grimm from the Krkošek lab reels in fresh insights on Salmon and sovereignty – Lesson from co-producing research 🐟 #Atwood2025