Event Program (2024)

Time

Item

Location

9:30 – 9:40 AM

Opening Remarks: Dr. Deborah O’Connor

University Room

9:40 AM – 10:40 AM

Invited Speaker Address: Dr. Daniel Drucker

Senior Scientist, Sinai Health, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Peptides and the Banting and best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology

Topic: “Next Generation GLP-1: New Mechanisms and Indications"

University Room

10:40 – 11:40 AM

Poster Presentations (Light refreshments available)

Terrace Room

11:40 – 12:25 PM

Post Doctoral Oral Presentations

University Room

12:25 – 1:25 PM

Lunch

Terrace Room

1:25 – 2:25 PM

Poster Presentations (Light refreshments available)

Terrace Room

2:25 – 4:05 PM

Graduate Students Oral Presentations

University Room

4:05 – 4:30 PM

Break

Terrace Room

4:30 – 5:30 PM

Presentation of Graduate Student Oral and Poster Awards and Undergraduate Awards

University Room

5:30 – 6:30 PM

6:30 – 7:30 PM

 

 

7:30 – 7:45 PM

Networking time (Research Day Speaker/EP speaker and Graduate students - Light refreshments available

Edna Park Lecture: Dr. Eileen Kennedy

Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Title: "Transforming Food Systems: What Needs to be Done?"

Networking time (Alumni with EP speaker)

University Room