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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

See also Graduate Student Seminar Course Requirements

If you are giving a seminar this term, please be sure to notify your supervisor and committee members of your scheduled date. About two weeks before your presentation date, send them a reminder. If your supervisor is not a regular at the seminars, encourage them to come along with you every Wednesday.

Remember that the student seminar series is a required course (BCH2020/BCH2022) and that a satisfactory record of attendance (you must attend at least 70% of all student seminars) is needed to obtain credit. You are required to attend even if you have been given permission to write your thesis.

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

September 2026

    Host Name
Sept. 9 First Day/ Welcome Back/ Mad Libs MSB 2170
 
Haley Wyatt
Sept. 16 Grace Parish (John Parkinson) / Nicholas Silver (Watts lab) MSB 2170

 
TBA
Sept. 23 Prabhsimran (Simran) Khroud (Peter Kim) / Fermisk Saleh (Carol Schuurmans) MSB 2170
 
TBA
Sept. 30 TBA TBA TBA

October 2026

     
Oct. 7 Andria Henry (Warren Lee) / Shi Bo Cao (Roman Melynk) MSB 2170
 
TBA
Oct. 14 George Connell Lecture: Shawn Ferguson MSB 2170 TBA
Oct. 21 Sayantani Upadhyay (Julie Forman-Kay) / Ruikai Wu (Walid Houry) MSB 2170
 
TBA
Oct. 28 No seminars; Reading Week MSB 2170  

November 2026

 
 
 
Nov. 4 Nikki Zamani Farahani (Jason Maynes) / Haoxuan (Christoph) Qing (Julie Forman-Kay) MSB 2170
 
TBA
Nov. 11 Ian Douglas (Justin Nodwell) / Taylor Battellino (Mike Norris) MSB 2170
 
TBA
Nov. 18 Guest Speaker:  Toronto Condensate Network (Hosted by: Hyun Kate Lee & Julie Forman-Kay) MSB 2170
 
Hyun Kate Lee & Julie Forman-Kay
Nov. 25 Tianhao Cheng (Alan Davidson) / Nicholas Chan (Jason Maynes) MSB 2170 TBA

December 2026

     
Dec. 2 Student Information Session - Guest to be confirmed MSB 2170
 
TBA
Dec. 9 George Connell Lecture: Sophie Gobeil MSB 2170
 
TBA
Dec. 23 No Seminar (U of T closed for Holiday Break on Dec 24)
 
MSB 2170 TBA
Dec. 30 U of T closed for holiday Break     

January 2027

     
Jan. 13 Randy Yoo (Jean-Philippe Julien) / Wei Sheng Yap (Peter Kim) MSB 2170 TBA
Jan. 20 George Connell Lecture: Richard Kriwacki MSB 2170
 
TBA
Jan. 27 George Connell Lecture: Katie Cockburn MSB 2170 TBA

February 2027

     
Feb. 3 Candela Bosco Suarez (Angus McQuibban) / Robert Jomphe (Peter Kim) MSB 2170 TBA
Feb. 10 Licheng (Amy) Qian (Karen Maxwell) / Angelina Kim (Spencer Freeman) MSB 2170 TBA
Feb. 17 Zeynep Baltaci (Hyun Kate Lee) / Chloe Zhang (Lynne Howell) MSB 2170 TBA
Feb. 24 George Connell Lecture: Mary Allen MSB 2170 TBA

March 2027

     
March 3 George Connell Lecture: Brandon Findlay MSB 2170
 
TBA
March 10  Umayeer Milky (Grant Brown) / David Van Ommen (Mike Norris) MSB 2170 TBA
March 17 Irene Abraham (Haley Wyatt) / Tian Huang (Julie Forman-Kay) MSB 2170
 
TBA
March 24 Bella Kim (Karen Maxwell) / Benjamin Beavington (Mike Norris) MSB 2170
 
TBA
March 31 George Connell Lecture: Paul Duprex MSB 2170 TBA

April 2027

     
April 14-16 First Talk Symposium MSB 2170 TBA

First Talk Symposium

These will be held in the second week of April in Sidney Smith Hall(SS), 100 St. George Street, Room 1073.
For the first talk symposium, each talk should be no more than 12 mins, allowing an additional 3 mins for questions. 

April 13, 2026

Room 1073, Sidney Smith Hall
Moderators: 
Trevor Moraes & Haley Wyatt





Student Presenting




Supervisor / Co-Supervisor
9:15 - 9:30  Lucas Anderson  Jason Maynes
9:30 - 9:45 Trevor Bell  Trevor Moraes
9:45 - 10:00 Ana Paola Cano Morris  Lea Harrington
10:00 - 10:15 Lina Al Halabi  Amra Saric
10:15 - 10:30 Seoyoun (Kelly) Jung  Walter Kahr
10:30 - 10:45 Break  
10:45 - 11:00 Zeynep Baltaci Huyn (Kate) Lee / Jonathon Ditlev
11:00 - 11:15 Chiara D'Addario  Christine Bear / Trevor Moraes
11:15 - 11:30 Ayeisha Desjardins   Alex Palazzo
11:30 - 11:45 Amrita Dhindsa  Jean-Philippe Julien
11:45 - 12:00    
     

April 14, 2026

Room 1073, Sidney Smith Hall
Moderators: 
Trevor Moraes & Haley Wyatt





Student Presenting 




Supervisor / Co-Supervisor
9:15 - 9:30 Aakash Natarajan  Karen Maxwell
9:30 - 9:45 Krishna Gandhi   Mathieu Lemaire / Daniela Rotin  
9:45 - 10:00 Jill Greenlaw Alan Davidson
10:00 - 10:15  Léo Sanghoon Han Spencer Freeman
10:15 - 10:30 Christian Jacobsen-Perez Lynne Howell
10:30 - 10:45 Break  
10:45 - 11:00 Nourhan Almasri Spencer Freeman / Lisa Robinson
11:00 - 11:15 Tiana Mong-Teng Lee  Trevor Moraes
11:15 - 11:30 Katherine Matthew  Andreas Schulze
11:30 - 11:45 Matthew McCarthy   Karen Maxwell
11:45 - 12:00 Daniel Dai Yu Spencer Freeman / Aleixo Muise 
     

April 15, 2026

Room 1073, Sidney Smith Hall
Moderators: 
Trevor Moraes & Haley Wyatt





Student Presenting




Supervisor / Co-supervisor
9:15 - 9:30 Sarina Doshi Frank Sicheri 
9:30 - 9:45 Mithusha Peragerasingam  Robert Screaton
9:45 - 10:00 Tanya Yutong Shi Walter Kahr
10:00 -10:15 Zach Thow Michael Norris
10:15 - 10:30 Jie (Cynthia) Wu Grant Brown
10:30 - 10:45 Break  
10:45 - 11:00 Yifan Xian James Rini
11:00 - 11:15 Jiayi (April) Yu Frank Sicheri 
11:15 - 11:30 Zoe Ang Ahilya Sawh
11:30 - 11:45 n/a n/a
11:45 - 12:00 n/a n/a