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Past Undergraduate and Graduate Research Days

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Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day

17th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 31, 2023

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Daniela Quail
Assistant Professor, 海角社区
Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre and Department of Physiology


"Harnessing the tumor immune microenvironment for cancer therapy"

16th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 25, 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Paul Albert
Professor, University of Ottawa
Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

"Reconnecting brain serotonin networks for recovery from anxiety and depression"

15th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 26, 2021

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Carolyn Baglole
Director of 海角社区 Research Centre for Cannabis and Histopathology Technology Platform
Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 海角社区

"Deciphering the medical complexity of cannabis"

14th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 29, 2019

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Jerod Denton
Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

鈥淓mergence of renal potassium channels as drug targets for global health"

Photos

13th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 23, 2018

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Gary Kobinger
Director of the Research Centre on Infectious Diseases
Faculty of Medicine, Universit茅 Laval

"The shifting drivers of therapeutic and vaccine development from the Ebola experience"

12th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 31, 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Jeffrey Holt
Harvard University

"Adventure in Auditory Sensory Transduction, Structure and Function"

Photos

11th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, April 1, 2016

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Louis F. Reichardt
Director, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry
University of California, San Francisco

"Cellular interactions that control brain development and synapse formation"

Photos

10th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 27, 2015

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Pierre Drapeau
Department of Neuroscience
Universit茅 de Montr茅al

"Fishing for causes and cures of neurodegeneration"

Photos

9th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 28, 2014

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Kurt Haas
Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
University of British Columbia

"How experience simultaneously sculpts neural circuit structure and function in the awake developing brain"

8th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 22, 2013

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Lorne Mendell
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Stony Brook University

"Enhancing Circuit Performance in the Injured Spinal Cord"

7th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 30, 2012

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Edward S. Ruthazer
Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery
海角社区

鈥淢odulation of developing visual system structure and function by sensory experience"

6th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, April 1, 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Seth Alper
Harvard Medical School

"Plasma membrane ion transporter diseases: dispatches from the cellular frontier"

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5th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 19, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Josselyn Sheena
University of Toronto

鈥淐ontinuing the Search for the Engram"

4th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 27, 2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Marie Trudel
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montr茅al

鈥淚nsights into Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney
Disease (ADPKD) pathogenetic and physiologic
mechanisms in transgenic mice"

Photos

3rd Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 28, 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Roger Gosden
Cornell University
Weil Medical College
New York City

鈥淕ermline stem cells and adult ovarian function - settling an old controversy"

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2nd Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 30, 2007

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Molly Shoichet
University of Toronto

鈥淭issue Engineering and Durg Delivery Strategies in the Nervous System"

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1st Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day
Friday, March 31, 2006

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. John Challis
Vice-President, Research and Associate Provost,
Professor Physiology, Ob/Gyn and Medicine
University of Toronto

鈥淭he timing of birth and later life disease: controls in early pregnancy"

Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day

28th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 19, 2023

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Dani毛l A. Pijnappels
Professor of cellular electrophysiology & interdisciplinary translational cardiology, head of the Laboratory of Experimental Cardiololgy at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands

"Biological defibrillation"

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27th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 13, 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Maiken Nedergaard
Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology. University of Rochester Medical Center, New York
Professor of Glial Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Center for Translational Neuromedicine

"The Glymphatic System"

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26th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 14, 2021

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Peter Friedl
Director, Microscopical Imaging Centre, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

"Plasticity of Cancer Invasion, Metastasis and Therapy Response"

25th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 17, 2019

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Robert Wechsler-Reya
Director of the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California

鈥淟ess Heat, More Light: Discovering Smarter Therapies for Pediatric Brain Tumors"

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24th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 18, 2018

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Leonardo Sacconi
Researcher at the National Institute of Optics and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy
Florence, Italy

鈥淥ptical dissection of cardiac electrophysiology: from single cell to whole heart"

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23rd Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 12, 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Pamela Ohashi
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancel Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
University Health Network
Director, Immune Therapy Program, Ontario Cancer Institute

"Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs): A View to the Clinic and Tumor Immunology"

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22nd Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 6, 2016

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Kevin Foskett
Isaac Ott Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

"Molecular mechanisms of InsP3R Cell Survival Ca2+ signaling"

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21st Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 1, 2015

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. James J. Collins
Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Wyss Institute, Harvard University

"Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology"

20th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 2, 2014

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Ford Doolittle
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dalhousies University

"Is "junk" bunk? The ENCODE debate and the meaning of "function""

19th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 3, 2013

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Paul Kulesa
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, MO

"Social Networking in the Embryo: How Cells Collaborate to Form the Peripheral Nervous System"

18th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 4, 2012

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Shmuel Muallem
Chief, Epithelial Signaling & Transfer Section
Molecular Physiology & Therapeutics Branch
NIDCR/National Institutes of Health

"Mechanism and Regulation of Epithelial Fluid and HCO3-Secretion"

17th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 13, 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Karl Deisseroth
Departments of Bioengineering & Psychiatry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University

"Optogenetics: Development and Application"

16th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 7, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Steven Kliewer
Departments of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
University of Texas

鈥淣uclear Receptors in Metabolism: From Pharmacology to Physiology"

15th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 8, 2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Michael N. Shadlen
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
& Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Washington School of Medicine

鈥淗ow The Brain Decides"

14th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 9, 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. David Scadden
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University

鈥淪tem Cell interactions with their niche"

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13th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 11, 2007

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Reinhart Reithmeier
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto

鈥淭rafficking defects of chloride/bicarbonate anion exchanger mutants linked to disease"

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12th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 12, 2006

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Jeff Lichtman
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

鈥淪ynaptic Competition in Fluorescent Mice鈥

11th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 13, 2005

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Michael P. Walsh
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Calgary

鈥淢echanisms of Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction鈥

10th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 7, 2004

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Steve Goldstein
Professor of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Yale University School of Medicine

鈥淭he K2P Channels: Background Potassium Pathways Revealed鈥

9th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 9, 2003

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Sergio Grinstein
Director - Cell biology Program Hospital for Sick Children
Research Institute
Toronto,Ontario

"Dynamic studies of the molecular basis
of phagocytosis and bacterial invasion"

8th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day
Friday, May 10, 2002

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Beverly Koller
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics
University of North Carolina

"Remodeling of the cardiovascular system at birth: a multi-
disciplinary approach to a complex physiological response."

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