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From August 9–12, members of the Ensminger Lab travelled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to participate in the Canadian Society for Plant Biologists’ CSPB 2025 Conference. This annual meeting brings together plant scientists from across Canada and beyond to share cutting-edge research, network, and explore the latest advances in plant biology. Nova Scotia’s capital, Halifax, provided a beautiful […]

🏆 Congratulations to Grace Vera Cheng, Winner of the 2025–2026 Seminar Series T-Shirt Design Contest at UTM! We are proud to share that our M.Sc. student Grace Vera Cheng has won the 2025–2026 Seminar Series T-Shirt Design Contest! 🎉

With longer days and warmer temperatures, we’re excited to launch our next round of experiments. The team is getting ready to head back into the field and the greenhouse to continue exploring plant growth, physiology, and resilience in changing environments.🌳🌳 Stay tuned, new data, discoveries, and updates are on the way as the season unfolds!

Happy New Year, everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and are feeling recharged for an exciting year ahead. Wishing you a year full of groundbreaking discoveries, successful experiments, and inspiring collaborations. Let’s keep pushing the frontiers of science together!

Our Drone Crew, Emilie, Sylvain, Gregory, Siyu, and Luke, recently completed an exciting drone flight mission at both the Turkey Point and Pickering sites. Armed with a new technology, the team deployed a UAV equipped with a lidar and hyperspectral camera, capable of capturing unparalleled data from above. Before taking to the skies, the crew

Congratulations to Maria Proskurina and Samira Kamal Eddin who presented their ROP research at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fair on August 20th, 2024. Maria presented her in-depth study on drought tolerance in Picea glauca, utilizing both destructive and non-destructive methods. Meanwhile, Samira explored the impact of soil moisture on the turgor loss point across various

At our Pintendre experimental site in Quebec, part of the Fastpheno project, Grace and Emilie embarked on a field mission to collect fresh plant samples. Their objective? To determine the turgor loss point (TLP), a key indicator of plant water stress. In simple terms, TLP is the water potential level at which plants begin to

Preparations are underway for the garden plot drought experiment for this summer, on White Spruce in a controlled environment! Christina, Grace, Samira and Emilie went out to label trees for destructive versus non-destructive sampling. We are excited to see the results of the experiment in the coming months!

Our team, Emilie, Grace and Samira, headed to Pickering for the first campaign of the year, which involved tree selection and sampling! We are looking forward to an exciting field season ahead!

Interested in contributing to scientific research from the comfort of your own home? The Ensminger Lab is looking for volunteers to aid in our creation of a tree monitoring algorithm this summer! Volunteers will receive a certificate listing the number of hours worked and duties fulfilled at the end of your volunteering time.  A $30