Atwood 2026
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The social media hub for all things happening at the UofT EEB Atwood colloquium! #Atwood2026 #EEBTurns20 | April 23-24th, 2026 | IG: @atwood_eeb | https://eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwood-colloquium-in-ecology-evolution-2/
I accidentally said bamboo was C4 when i meant sugarcane...... grateful to have this opportunity to give a talk and also to hear about amazing science going on in the department! 🐛🌱🐟
Atwood 2026@eebatwood.bsky.social · 3mo agoArthur Leung from the Sage lab tells us about the facultative induction of an evolutionary precursor to C4 photosynthesis — plants rehearsing before the main event 🤩 #Atwood2026
Now it wouldn’t be #Atwood2026 without our Grad Appreciation Night! That’s all folks, tune back next time for #Atwood2027! Cheers, Mete Yuksel & Sherry Du
Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares (Atwood Lecturer) tells us about forest resilience and adaptive capacity in an era of rapid global change — and oaks are her star witness 🌳 #Atwood2026
Youngseo Jeong from the Mideo lab tells us about malaria parasite evolution in immunodeficient hosts — bad news for the mice in their study, interesting findings for the rest of us 🐁🦠 #Atwood2026
Is what is in the air in the genome?…Irtaqa Arif from the Johnson and Ness labs tells us about the effects of air pollution on inherited mutation rate 💨🧬 #Atwood2026
Daniel Fusca from the Cutter lab tells us about recent adaptation in Caenorhabditis. Worms adapt too! 🪱 #Atwood2026
Elizabeth Makovec from the Anreiter and Sztepanacz labs tells us about how sex-specific regulation of a pleiotropic gene shapes dispersal — same gene, his and hers. 🧬 #Atwood2026
Dr. Chelsea Rochman tells us about the legacy of Don Jackson’s work in EEB!!
Taylor Naaykens from the D’Aloia Lab soaks up the #Atwood2026 spotlight with her talk on a sponge-fish symbiosis 🧽🐟 #Atwood2026
Takuji Usui @usuitakuji.bsky.social from the Frederickson lab hosts the ultimate plus-one debate: should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? 🦠💃 #Atwood2026
Shelley Wang from the Fortin lab branches out into the future and asks where boreal trees will leaf us by 2126 🌲🍃 #Atwood2026
Dr. Nicole Mideo kicks off the latest session by telling us about Dr. Helen Rodd’s work on Trinidadian guppies!
Dr. Laura Melissa Guzman (Rising Star in Ecology) has got #Atwood2026 buzzing this morning with her talk on how pollinator trends can inform conservation solutions 🐝
Had such a great time talking to the amazing UToronto EEB department yesterday as part of the @eebatwood.bsky.social symposium! 🦎🦎🦎
Atwood 2026@eebatwood.bsky.social · 3mo ago@jameststroud.bsky.social delivers an incredible talk at the end of a long day of research talks! He tells us about the importance of long term research, mapping multi species fitness landscapes, connecting pattern and process, and delivers some great advice for trainees!
@jameststroud.bsky.social delivers an incredible talk at the end of a long day of research talks! He tells us about the importance of long term research, mapping multi species fitness landscapes, connecting pattern and process, and delivers some great advice for trainees!
Louisa Bartkovich from the Bontrager lab is on the road to discovery with her talk on "Does the road taken matter?: Flowering time sensitivity to spring warming trajectories in Clarkia pulchella?"
Carrie Pratt is making a splash 🌊🐛— two streams, one city, and some gut feelings about fungi 😉
Amanda Peake from the @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social lab is done leaf-ing us in suspense as they tell us the tiny indel with big shape-shifting drama in morning glory!
Robin Lloyd from the Rollinson lab cracks the case on CO₂, turtle eggs & who comes out which shell 😉
Jacob Haney from the Rochman lab is plastically fantastic ♻️🌊 - his work addresses if plastic pollution is a novel habitat in the Anthropocene?
Adam Lee's got us falling 🍂🦋and decodes how autumn cues shape a monarch’s glow-up
Nehal Naik from the Johnson lab goes bee-yond buildings 🐝🏙️ and tells us how the built environment influence plant-pollinator interactions
Dr. Tianna Peller breaks down how yesterday’s leftovers fuel tomorrow’s planet 🌍♻️ — Nutrient recycling across time and space in a changing world
Dr. Fortin kicks off the second section of the day by telling us about connections between theory and empiricism!
Flood mitigation, field site, or both? Zoë Kang from the Brothers lab tells us about aquatic carbon dynamics in Toronto's newest flood control project #Atwood2026
Arthur Leung from the Sage lab tells us about the facultative induction of an evolutionary precursor to C4 photosynthesis — plants rehearsing before the main event 🤩 #Atwood2026
Which plants are (spatiotemporally) cooked? Grace Walker Mitchell from the Gilbert lab tells us about predicting extinction risk in plant metapopulations #Atwood2026
New neighbourhood, who dis? Gihyun Yoo from the Weir lab asks about the prevalence of parapatric speciation! 🐦 #Atwood2026
