Molecular mechanisms of mito-cellular communication in human health and disease
As part of our LMP Seminar Series we are delighted to welcome our speaker:
Halil Aydin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Department of Molecular Pathobiology
New York University College of Dentistry
Talk title: "Molecular mechanisms of mito-cellular communication in human health and disease"
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How to join
The event will be in person, no need to register. Students and trainees must attend in person.
For faculty members who need to attend remotely, please register to receive the zoom link. Registration must be received by noon on Tuesday.
If you have any questions, please contact lmp.chairadmin@utoronto.ca for more details.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
11 am - 12 pm
MSB 2170
Medical Sciences Building
University of Toronto
1 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
Details are sent to the LMP community in the Friday events bulletin.
Speaker bio: Halil Aydin, PhD
Dr. Halil Aydin is an Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU in 2025, he was an Assistant Professor and Boettcher Investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and a graduate student at the University of Toronto. He studies the molecular mechanisms of life processes and how they are corrupted by disease. His laboratory works at the nexus of biochemistry, structural cell biology, and molecular neurobiology, utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach that bridges detailed biochemical and cellular studies with molecular imaging and performs robust quantitative analysis of critical cellular mechanisms. The malfunction of essential cellular machines underlies a plethora of errors in key physiological processes and strongly contributes to the development of a growing list of neurodegenerative disorders, metabolic diseases, and age-related illnesses. The long-term goal of his laboratory is to develop innovative approaches to understand how cellular machines function at biochemical depth and decipher the links between cellular dysfunction and its relationship to neurological and metabolic disorders. Dr. Aydin’s awards include the Barth Syndrome Foundation Idea Award, Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award, Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Stuart Alan Hoffman Memorial Prize.
