Past Undergraduate and Graduate Research Days

Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day

	17th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 31, 2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Daniela Quail Assistant Professor, McGill University Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre and Department of Physiology "Harnessing the tumor immune microenvironment for cancer therapy"
	16th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 25, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Paul Albert Professor, University of Ottawa Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute "Reconnecting brain serotonin networks for recovery from anxiety and depression"
	15th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 26, 2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Carolyn Baglole Director of McGill Research Centre for Cannabis and Histopathology Technology Platform Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University "Deciphering the medical complexity of cannabis"
	14th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 29, 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Jerod Denton Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center “Emergence of renal potassium channels as drug targets for global health" Photos
	13th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 23, 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Gary Kobinger Director of the Research Centre on Infectious Diseases Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval "The shifting drivers of therapeutic and vaccine development from the Ebola experience"
	12th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 31, 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Jeffrey Holt Harvard University "Adventure in Auditory Sensory Transduction, Structure and Function" Photos
	11th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, April 1, 2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Louis F. Reichardt Director, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry University of California, San Francisco "Cellular interactions that control brain development and synapse formation" Photos
	10th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 27, 2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Pierre Drapeau Department of Neuroscience Université de Montréal "Fishing for causes and cures of neurodegeneration" Photos
	9th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 28, 2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Kurt Haas Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences University of British Columbia "How experience simultaneously sculpts neural circuit structure and function in the awake developing brain"
	8th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 22, 2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Lorne Mendell Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Stony Brook University "Enhancing Circuit Performance in the Injured Spinal Cord"
	7th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 30, 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Edward S. Ruthazer Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery McGill University “Modulation of developing visual system structure and function by sensory experience"
	6th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, April 1, 2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Seth Alper Harvard Medical School "Plasma membrane ion transporter diseases: dispatches from the cellular frontier" Photos
	5th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 19, 2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Josselyn Sheena University of Toronto “Continuing the Search for the Engram"
	4th Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 27, 2009 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Marie Trudel Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal “Insights into Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) pathogenetic and physiologic mechanisms in transgenic mice" Photos
	3rd Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 28, 2008 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Roger Gosden Cornell University Weil Medical College New York City “Germline stem cells and adult ovarian function - settling an old controversy" Photos
	2nd Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 30, 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Molly Shoichet University of Toronto “Tissue Engineering and Durg Delivery Strategies in the Nervous System" Photos
	1st Annual Physiology Undergraduate Research Day Friday, March 31, 2006 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. John Challis Vice-President, Research and Associate Provost, Professor Physiology, Ob/Gyn and Medicine University of Toronto “The timing of birth and later life disease: controls in early pregnancy"

Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day

	28th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 19, 2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Daniël A. Pijnappels Professor of cellular electrophysiology & interdisciplinary translational cardiology, head of the Laboratory of Experimental Cardiololgy at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands "Biological defibrillation" Photos
	27th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 13, 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Maiken Nedergaard Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology. University of Rochester Medical Center, New York Professor of Glial Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Center for Translational Neuromedicine "The Glymphatic System" Photos
	26th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 14, 2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Peter Friedl Director, Microscopical Imaging Centre, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas "Plasticity of Cancer Invasion, Metastasis and Therapy Response"
	25th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 17, 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Robert Wechsler-Reya Director of the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California “Less Heat, More Light: Discovering Smarter Therapies for Pediatric Brain Tumors" Photos
	24th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 18, 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Leonardo Sacconi Researcher at the National Institute of Optics and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy Florence, Italy “Optical dissection of cardiac electrophysiology: from single cell to whole heart" Photos
	23rd Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 12, 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Pamela Ohashi Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancel Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre University Health Network Director, Immune Therapy Program, Ontario Cancer Institute "Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs): A View to the Clinic and Tumor Immunology" Photos
	22nd Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 6, 2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Kevin Foskett Isaac Ott Professor and Chair Department of Physiology Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania "Molecular mechanisms of InsP3R Cell Survival Ca2+ signaling" Photos
	21st Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 1, 2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. James J. Collins Institute for Medical Engineering & Science Department of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Wyss Institute, Harvard University "Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology"
	20th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 2, 2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Ford Doolittle Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dalhousies University "Is "junk" bunk? The ENCODE debate and the meaning of "function""
	19th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 3, 2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Paul Kulesa Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City, MO "Social Networking in the Embryo: How Cells Collaborate to Form the Peripheral Nervous System"
	18th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 4, 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Shmuel Muallem Chief, Epithelial Signaling & Transfer Section Molecular Physiology & Therapeutics Branch NIDCR/National Institutes of Health "Mechanism and Regulation of Epithelial Fluid and HCO3-Secretion"
	17th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 13, 2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Karl Deisseroth Departments of Bioengineering & Psychiatry Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University "Optogenetics: Development and Application"
	16th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 7, 2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Steven Kliewer Departments of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology University of Texas “Nuclear Receptors in Metabolism: From Pharmacology to Physiology"
	15th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 8, 2009 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Michael N. Shadlen Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Washington School of Medicine “How The Brain Decides"
	14th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 9, 2008 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. David Scadden Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University “Stem Cell interactions with their niche" Photos
	13th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 11, 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Reinhart Reithmeier Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto “Trafficking defects of chloride/bicarbonate anion exchanger mutants linked to disease" Photos
	12th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 12, 2006 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Jeff Lichtman Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University “Synaptic Competition in Fluorescent Mice”
	11th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 13, 2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Michael P. Walsh Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Calgary “Mechanisms of Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction”
	10th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 7, 2004 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Steve Goldstein Professor of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Physiology Yale University School of Medicine “The K2P Channels: Background Potassium Pathways Revealed”
	9th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 9, 2003 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Sergio Grinstein Director - Cell biology Program Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute Toronto,Ontario "Dynamic studies of the molecular basis of phagocytosis and bacterial invasion"
	8th Annual Physiology Graduate Research Day Friday, May 10, 2002 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Beverly Koller Associate Professor Department of Genetics University of North Carolina "Remodeling of the cardiovascular system at birth: a multi- disciplinary approach to a complex physiological response."