BiophysTO Seminar Series has been running successfully since 2015. This seminar series was established to expose students from diverse departments to cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on campus, fostering collaboration and the exchange of ideas across departments. The seminar has been continuously been hosted bi-weekly in the Physics Building, where it consistently attracts a strong attendance from students and principal investigators across various departments across the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Currently this series is organized by faculty members Prof. Walid Houry from Diochemistry/Chemistry Dept, Prof. Haissi Cui from the Chemistry Dept. and Prof. Sidhartha Goyal from the Physics Dept.
Current graduate student organizes are Wilson Zeng from Biochemistry, Sasha Woolcott and Rasangi Tennakoon from Chemistry and Zhi Zhang from Physics.
Our undergraduate representative is Sungmin Joo from Physics.
News
Last year, we hosted 15 speakers from across the greater Toronto area. For the 2024/25 series, we already have 12 confirmed speakers and, as promised, we are committed to featuring more physicists. Furthermore, we are excited to welcome Prof. Haissi Cui from the Department of Chemistry and two of her graduate students to the organizing committee. Additionally, we also welcome Sungming Joo, from PSU, has joined to help promote the seminar series to undergraduate students.