Graduate Student Seminars
This page provides the schedule overview for Wednesday Noon Student Seminar Series and Connell Lectures, as well as the First Talk Symposium.
For PhD Examination Seminars and Departmental Seminars, please see the Upcoming Events Page
For Seminars hosted across the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, please visit Cette Semaine
Student Seminar Schedule
All seminars are held on Wednesdays 12 pm-1 pm.
For regular seminars, each talk should be no more than 20 mins, allowing an additional 5 mins for questions.
MSB - Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle
PGCRL - Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning Auditorium, 686 Bay St., Rm 02.9330
September 2025 |
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| Sept. 10 | First Day/ Welcome Back/ Mad Libs | MSB 2170 |
Trevor Moraes |
| Sept. 17 | George Connell Lecture: Dr. David Bhella Professor of Structural Virology Director, Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging Associate Director, MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research |
MSB 2170 |
Michael Norris |
| Sept. 24 | Le Yao Li (Joel Watts)/ Wade Burson (Angus McQuibban) | MSB 2170 |
Joel Watts |
October 2025 |
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| Oct. 1 | Jiaming (Caitlyn) Xu (Trevor Moraes) / Zaky Hassan (James Rini) | MSB 2170 |
Hue Sun Chan |
| Oct. 8 | Retreat (Oct 9-10) No Seminars |
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| Oct. 15 | Min Jin (James Rini) / David Van Ommen (Mike Norris) | MSB 2170 |
Alex Ensminger |
| Oct. 22 | No seminars | MSB 2170 | |
| Oct. 29 | Reading week - 2nd Year Student Info Session MaRS / JEP student seminars @ 4pm (online - zoom) | ||
November 2025 |
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| Nov. 5 | No seminar | MSB 2170 |
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| Nov. 12 | Katy Myler (Justin Nodwell) / Mazen Aljghami (Walid Houry) | MSB 2170 |
Alex Palazzo |
| Nov. 19 | No seminar | MSB 2170 |
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| Nov. 26 | No seminar | MSB 2170 | |
December 2025 |
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| Dec. 3 | No seminar | MSB 2170 |
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| Dec. 10 | George Connell speaker: Dr. Derrick Gibbings Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine for Macromolecular Imaging Associate Vice-President, Research Support and Infrastructure University of Ottawa |
MSB 2170 |
Palazzo Lab |
| Dec. 17 | Cross Appointment Seminar: Chantel Trost Seminar title: CRISPR–Cas Systems and Their Inhibitors: Breaking Complexes, Reimagining RNA Delivery, and Reframing Immunity |
MSB 2170 | Lea Harrington |
January 2026 |
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| Jan. 7 | No Seminar | ||
| Jan. 14 | George Connell speaker: Dr. Siyuan (Steven) Wang Associate Professor of Genetics and Cell Biology – Yale School of Medicine |
PGCRL Auditorium |
Sawh Lab |
| Jan. 21 | Jiacheng (Jason) Yu (John Rubinstein) / Yi (Tina) Qiu (Alex Palazzo) | PGCRL Auditorium | Jonathan Ditlev |
| Jan. 28 | Nadia Diakiw (Amra Saric & Peter Kim) / Guillermo de Paz (Spencer Freeman) | PGCRL Auditorium |
Jonathan Ditlev |
February 2026 |
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| Feb. 4 | Zi Hao (Nemo) Liu (Julie Forman-Kay) / Amy Qian (Karen Maxwell) | PGCRL Auditorium | Simon Sharpe |
| Feb. 11 | Hyunjin (Lillian) Kim (Stephane Angers) / Alyssa Vander Zee (Karen Maxwell) | PGCRL Auditorium | Simon Sharpe |
| Feb. 18 | Reading Week - No Seminars | ||
| Feb. 25 | George Connell speaker: Dr. Ann Gregory Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences – University of Calgary |
PGCRL Auditorium | Maxwell Lab |
March 2026 |
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| March 4 | Yuchen Zheng (Aleixo Muise) / Valerie Chow (Justin Nodwell) | MSB 2170 |
Alex Palazzo |
| March 11 | Shamitha Aravind (Grant Brown) / Zaky Hassan (James Rini) | MSB 2170 | Haley Wyatt |
| March 18 | Fermisk Saleh (Carol Schuurmans) / Cam (Jianqiao) Li (Scott Prosser) | MSB 2170 |
Carol Schuurumans |
| March 25 | Min Jin (James Rini)/ Taylor Battellino (Mike Norris) | MSB 2170 |
Alex Ensminger |
April 2026 |
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| April 1 | George Connell speaker: Dr. Lauren Porter Stadtman Investigator – National Library of Medicine and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – NIH |
MSB 2170 | Davidson Lab |
| April 13-15 | No seminar - First Talk Symposium | TBA | Trevor Moraes and Haley Wyatt |
| April 22 | George Connell speaker: Dr. Richard Kriwacki St. Jude Faculty Member and Co-Leader of Cancer Biology Program – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Adjunct Associate Professor of Molecular Sciences, UT Health Science Centre, Memphis |
MSB 2170 | Lee Lab |
| April 29 | George Connell speaker: Dr. Chi-Min Ho Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology – Columbia University |
MSB 2170 | Rubinstein Lab |
First Talk Symposium
These will be held in the second week of April in -Room TBC- (more information to follow at a later date). For the first talk symposium, each talk should be no more than 12 mins, allowing an additional 3 mins for questions.
April 6, 2026
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | ||
April 7, 2026
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April 8, 2026
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | ||