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Arthur Leung @aleungplants.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I accidentally said bamboo was C4 when i meant sugarcane...... grateful to have this opportunity to give a talk and also to hear about amazing science going on in the department! 🐛🌱🐟

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Now it wouldn’t be #Atwood2026 without our Grad Appreciation Night! That’s all folks, tune back next time for #Atwood2027! Cheers, Mete Yuksel & Sherry Du

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Nora Kroeger from the Johnson lab takes home the #Atwood2026 Golden Blurb!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares (Atwood Lecturer) tells us about forest resilience and adaptive capacity in an era of rapid global change — and oaks are her star witness 🌳 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Youngseo Jeong from the Mideo lab tells us about malaria parasite evolution in immunodeficient hosts — bad news for the mice in their study, interesting findings for the rest of us 🐁🦠 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Is what is in the air in the genome?…Irtaqa Arif from the Johnson and Ness labs tells us about the effects of air pollution on inherited mutation rate 💨🧬 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Daniel Fusca from the Cutter lab tells us about recent adaptation in Caenorhabditis. Worms adapt too! 🪱 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Elizabeth Makovec from the Anreiter and Sztepanacz labs tells us about how sex-specific regulation of a pleiotropic gene shapes dispersal — same gene, his and hers. 🧬 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Dr. Chelsea Rochman tells us about the legacy of Don Jackson’s work in EEB!!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Taylor Naaykens from the D’Aloia Lab soaks up the #Atwood2026 spotlight with her talk on a sponge-fish symbiosis 🧽🐟 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Takuji Usui @usuitakuji.bsky.social from the Frederickson lab hosts the ultimate plus-one debate: should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? 🦠💃 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Shelley Wang from the Fortin lab branches out into the future and asks where boreal trees will leaf us by 2126 🌲🍃 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Dr. Nicole Mideo kicks off the latest session by telling us about Dr. Helen Rodd’s work on Trinidadian guppies!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Dr. Laura Melissa Guzman (Rising Star in Ecology) has got #Atwood2026 buzzing this morning with her talk on how pollinator trends can inform conservation solutions 🐝

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Had such a great time talking to the amazing UToronto EEB department yesterday as part of the @eebatwood.bsky.social symposium! 🦎🦎🦎

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

@jameststroud.bsky.social delivers an incredible talk at the end of a long day of research talks! He tells us about the importance of long term research, mapping multi species fitness landscapes, connecting pattern and process, and delivers some great advice for trainees!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

An amazing slew of lightning talks!!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Louisa Bartkovich from the Bontrager lab is on the road to discovery with her talk on "Does the road taken matter?: Flowering time sensitivity to spring warming trajectories in Clarkia pulchella?"

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Carrie Pratt is making a splash 🌊🐛— two streams, one city, and some gut feelings about fungi 😉

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Amanda Peake from the @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social lab is done leaf-ing us in suspense as they tell us the tiny indel with big shape-shifting drama in morning glory!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Robin Lloyd from the Rollinson lab cracks the case on CO₂, turtle eggs & who comes out which shell 😉

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Jacob Haney from the Rochman lab is plastically fantastic ♻️🌊 - his work addresses if plastic pollution is a novel habitat in the Anthropocene?

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Adam Lee's got us falling 🍂🦋and decodes how autumn cues shape a monarch’s glow-up

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Nehal Naik from the Johnson lab goes bee-yond buildings 🐝🏙️ and tells us how the built environment influence plant-pollinator interactions

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Dr. Tianna Peller breaks down how yesterday’s leftovers fuel tomorrow’s planet 🌍♻️ — Nutrient recycling across time and space in a changing world

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Dr. Fortin kicks off the second section of the day by telling us about connections between theory and empiricism!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Flood mitigation, field site, or both? Zoë Kang from the Brothers lab tells us about aquatic carbon dynamics in Toronto's newest flood control project #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Arthur Leung from the Sage lab tells us about the facultative induction of an evolutionary precursor to C4 photosynthesis — plants rehearsing before the main event 🤩 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Which plants are (spatiotemporally) cooked? Grace Walker Mitchell from the Gilbert lab tells us about predicting extinction risk in plant metapopulations #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New neighbourhood, who dis? Gihyun Yoo from the Weir lab asks about the prevalence of parapatric speciation! 🐦 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Abby Turner from the Rodd lab tells us about rapid reversible colour change in male Poecilia reticulata — fashion-forward, evolutionarily speaking #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Mete Yuksel from the Osmond and Mideo labs tells us about a null model for the recombination landscape evolution! Unfortunately these landscapes aren’t so pretty…and models are needed to tell you what patterns to expect #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Prof. Art Weis tells us about genomic evidence for stablizing selection on th goldenrod gall fly! 🪰 #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Prof. Aneil Agrawal starts off our first full talk session strong with an EEB 20th Anniversary Legacy Talk #Atwood2026

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The #Atwood2026 Colloquium Committee kicks off our first day with opening remarks!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚨 ONE DAY LEFT! 🚨 Meet Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares, our #Atwood2026 Memorial Lecturer! 🌿🛰️🌳 Learn more about their work here: cavenderlab.oeb.harvard.edu Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium! 🦎🦎🦎

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

2 days left! ✨ Meet Dr. James Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social, the #Atwood2026 Rising Star in Evolution! 🦎🌡️🌎 Learn more about their work here: sites.gatech.edu/stroudlab/ Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

T-minus 3 days… Meet Dr. Guzman, the #Atwood2026 Rising Star in Ecology! 🐝💻🪲 Learn more about their work here: edslab.org Atwood schedule: eeb.utoronto.ca/events/atwoo...

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Atwood 2026 is just around the corner! 🕺💃 The schedule will be released soon, but there will be an incredible lineup of talks from students, postdocs, faculty, and invited speakers. 😎 The artwork this year was made by the wonderful Martin Henry, Michelle Liu, & Youngseo Jeong.

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Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hey hey! Congrats to Frederickson Lab member Chris Carlson for taking home the Golden Blurb!

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Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Great talk from Kevin Ricks this afternoon!

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Nathan Lujan @potamophile.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Great talk on population genomics of the Xingu River Volta Grande by PDF Tobit Liyandja from the Lovejoy and Lujan labs at the EEB-Toronto Atwood Colloquium!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#Atwood2025 ends with Grad Appreciation Night! That’s all from us this year, see you next year for #Atwood2026 Signing off, Irtaqa Arif and Sherry Du

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Asher Cutter @asherdcutter.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Fantastic Atwood Colloquium this year at @uoft.bsky.social featuring amazing line up of EEB grad student and postdocs, plus Rising Stars @cbo.bsky.social and @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Atwood Lecture by @fukamit.bsky.social made all the more special by live support from the Atwood family!

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Chris Carlson takes home the Golden Blurb! Congratulations Chris! #Atwood2025

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Keep both eyes open for our #Atwood2025 Memorial Lecturer: Dr. Tadashi Fukami talks about plant-pollinator-microbe interactions and effects towards two-eyed seeing 👀

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Last but not least, our final elevator talk session! (1/2) #Atwood2025

Krystyn Forbes from the Layton & D'Aloia labs

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We can’t resist Prof. Alison Hill’s talk on the risk of drug resistance evolution for infectious diseases! 💊💉 #Atwood2025

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Atwood 2026 @eebatwood.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Kevin Ricks from the Frederickson lab gets down and duckweed-y in his talk about "Plant-microbe symbiosis mediates local adaptation in Lemna minor" 🪴🦠 #Atwood2025

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