MSc student Jenny is speaking at the Canadian Society for Plant Biologists Meeting today in Quebec City. Jenny was awarded a CSPB George H. Duff Travel Bursary to attend the meeting!

PhD student Natalie is visiting the Umea Plant Sciences Centre in Sweden today as part of their Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists, where she will present a talk about her research on the relationship between the plant cell wall and the endomembrane system.

Heather returns to the scene of her postdoc today as she visits the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology outside of Potsdam.  She will present a seminar about how changes to cell wall synthesis can also result in changes to Golgi structure and function.

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!

Heather is off to Germany to visit our collaborator Prof. Berit Ebert, at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.  Heather’s trip is generously sponsored by a RUB Visiting International Professor award from the RUB Research School.  On May 15, she will present a research seminar to the Department for Biology and Biotechnology and on May 22, she will give a seminar specifically for students.

Heather is returning to her hometown as the seminar speaker at Queen’s University’s Department of Biology seminar speaker for this week.  She will present about some of the lab’s ongoing work on how changes to cell wall synthesis can also result in changes to Golgi structure and function.

Most members of the McFarLab will be attending the Eastern Regional Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists on Saturday Dec 3, hosted at UTSC.  Carlo, Eduardo, and Jenny will present talks, Yu and Vicky will present posters, and Heather will close out the conference as a plenary speaker.

Heather is the (virtual) invited seminar speaker at the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University today. Thanks to Xiaohui Li for the invitation!

Heather is the invited seminar speaker at the Department of Biology at McGill University today.  She will update everyone on the recent research from the lab and join the graduate students for lunch to talk about her career since graduating with an MSc from McGill.