This week, Heather is attending Plant Canada 2024, the joint meeting of The Canadian Phytopathological Society The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists, The Canadian Botanical Association, The Canadian Weed Science Society, The Canadian Society of Agronomy, The Canadian Society for Horticultural Science, and The Canadian Association for Plant Biotechnology. Heather will give a plenary talk on Monday afternoon on the conference theme “Plants: Adapting to a Changing World“

Please come say hi, especially if you are interested in our open postdoctoral position https://csb.utoronto.ca/job/postdoctoral-fellow-in-plant-cell-wall-signaling/

Heather and PhD student Eduardo are attending the ASPB meeting, Plant Biology 2024 in Honolulu, HI this week. Eduardo is supported by an ASPB travel award and will present a poster, and Heather will speak in the concurrent session on Cell Walls and Bioenergy on Monday, organized by Nick Carpita.

Please come say hi, especially if you are interested in our open postdoctoral position https://csb.utoronto.ca/job/postdoctoral-fellow-in-plant-cell-wall-signaling/

Today is Science Rendezvous!  Everyone is welcome at the UofT St. George campus in downtown Toronto to see demonstrations, participate in hands-on activities, and learn about the scientific research going on at UofT. There will be activities for all ages, from primary school children to adults. The Department of Cell & Systems Biology will have a table with lots of hands-on activities, including sticker printing, microscope demos, and activities that Heather contributed about plant cell walls.

Update: the day was a huge success with loads of visitors to campus! Thanks to all of the volunteers and visitors who participated!

Today Heather is presenting the McCully Lecture at the Carleton University Department of Biology in Ottawa.

This afternoon is the CSB Undergraduate Research Day!  Everyone is welcome and you can see poster presentations from our CSB498/CSB499 students: Demi, Gaeun, and Vicky F.

PhD student Yu is presenting a poster today at the Canadian Society for Plant Biologists Eastern Regional Meeting in Montreal, hosted by Concordia University.

Today, Heather is the seminar speaker at the Department of Biology at Western University in London, ON.

Today, Heather returns to the site of her PhD in Vancouver as the seminar speaker for the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia.

Heather and PhD student Eduardo are both in Ventura California, attending the Gordon Research Conference on Single Cell Approaches in Plant Biology, where they will both present posters.

Heather arrived early to participate in the Plant Cell Atlas Core Network Participant meeting.

PhD student Natalie is speaking at the Plant Cell Wall Meeting in Malaga, Spain today. Her talk is titled “Low substitution xyloglucan disrupts trafficking to the cell wall”. Natalie was awarded a SGS Travel Award to attend the meeting!