On Saturday, the Ensminger Lab was host to the Canadian Association for Girls in Science (CAGIS). It was exciting to show the girls around the lab and showcase what we do!
Outreach event for Canadian Association for Girls In Science (CAGIS) Read More »
This last week was the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists’ Annual Conference at the University of Laval in Quebec City! Our lab members Qi, Emilie, Bridget, Siyu, Anchalya and Noelle went and all presented talks and posters in various sessions throughout the week. Bridget got an honourable mention for the President’s Award in recognition of
Great Success at CSPB ! Read More »
The Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) awards the Graduate Student Award on a competitive basis to graduate students at the University of Toronto for projects that broaden the students’ research experience in a manner not possible within the scope of their current degree program. Congrats to Siyu on this excellent achievement ! With this
Siyu wins CGCS Graduate Student Research Award Read More »
This week marked our first venture this year into the field for the FastPheno project ! Collection of drone data as well as ground truthing hyperspectral data, fluorescence were done, as well as needle tissue sampled for pigment analysis. There was still snow on the ground but that didn’t stop us from completing measurements. This
First Field Campaign of the year! Read More »
UTM was hit with a big snow storm today, which reminded us here at the lab that it is still winter, despite the higher than normal temperatures this year! The environmental signals used by trees to sense seasonality and trigger dormancy and development of cold acclimation, are the decrease in temperature and the length of
Snow Days, S-“no” Problem Read More »
Happy holidays and happy new year! It is the first week back from the winter break and in this new year, we hope to accomplish more of our resolutions and research goals !
Happy New Year from the Ensminger Lab! Read More »
Congrats to Bridget on the award for her oral presentation at the 2022 AGU conference ! In her presentation, titled: “Coming in hot: increased carbon losses and reduced growth under warming in two genotypes of field-grown white spruce” ! Bridget presented her work on climate change impacts and the effect of warming in different white spruce
Bridget wins the Forest Ecophysiology Oral Presentation Award at AGU 2022! Read More »
The Douglas-fir transcriptome has gotten a great new update! The paper “A long-read and short-read transcriptomics approach provides the first high-quality reference transcriptome and genome annotation for Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir) “ was accepted early this month. With conifer transcriptomes still needing to be refined and completed, this paper provides a novel approach which led to a new reference transcriptome and genome
Exciting paper accepted this month in G3! Read More »
Grad students Siyu, Bridget, Anchalya and Noelle represented the Ensminger lab wonderfully at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Eastern Regional Meeting! They were the first talks of the day in the same session and and gave everyone an understanding on their amazing work on conifer biology and abiotic stress. Speaking of stress, it seems
The Ensminger Lab kicks off the CSPB ERM abiotic session talks! Read More »
The FastPheno project has stunning new images of our sample trees, made possible by postdoc Aravind’s hard work. We use drone-based Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing for fast and cost-effective monitoring and estimation of tree-level physiological parameters in large forests. These photos are not only pretty to look at as they also boast
Our drone data reaches new heights! Read More »
