Lab News

This week, we kicked off our field activities for the FastPheno project with our first flight of the year! This week, we conducted a drone flight and installed control points at the Turkey Point and Pickering sites. Remarkably, temperatures soared to 20 degrees Celsius, a surprising deviation from typical March…

The teams from both Toronto and Quebec convened in person at the University of Laval in Quebec City for a significant meeting. Together, the teams engaged in crucial project discussions and laid out plans for the upcoming year, fostering collaboration and progress.

Hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday season and is feeling refreshed as we kick off the new year together. Cheers to an excellent year ahead, filled with scientific discoveries and remarkable achievements! Let’s make every experiment count and push the boundaries of knowledge in our field !

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!

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…

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…