LMP1001H, LMP1002H, LMP1003H: Student Seminar Series in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

The Student Seminar Series courses are mandatory courses that you will take during your Master’s or PhD program. The purpose of these courses is to improve your presentation skills and to provide opportunities to think critically about research.

The Student Seminar Series Courses (LMP1001/2/3) consist of two different seminar series:

The Graduate Student Seminar Series; and
The LMP Seminar Series.

Both series will take place on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.

Start date for student seminars is Wednesday, October 7, 2026.

Start date for LMP Seminar Series is Wednesday, September 23, 2026.

The information on this page is available as a downloadable PDF.

Jump to the schedule for 2026/2027

Graduate Student Seminar Series

Time: 10 - 11 am
Location: MSB 4279 and MSB 4171
Start date for Fall 2026 - Wednesday, October 7, 2026.

Student seminars are held in two simultaneous sessions. Two students who are assigned to the same research group will present their work in each session.

You will be assigned to one of the groups based on your stated preference or the preference of your supervisor. In the first year of your program, you will receive an email notification from the graduate office to fill out a form to select your group. You will remain in this group throughout your program.

The research groups are:

Brain and Neuroscience (Neuro)
Cancer, Development and Aging (Cancer)
Cardiovascular, Physiology and Metabolism (Cardio)
Molecular and Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (MCB)
Infectious Diseases, Inflammation and Immunology (ID)

LMP Seminar Series

Time: 11 am - 12 pm
Location: MSB 2170
Start date for Fall 2026 - Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Speakers from the University of Toronto and the wider scientific community present their research. We select speakers to reflect the diverse research areas of LMP that include both clinical and fundamental science. We ensure our selection of speakers reflect our principles of diversity and inclusion.

All are welcome to attend these seminars, which are held in the Medical Sciences Building at the University of Toronto. Details of upcoming seminars are listed in our events calendar.

Which course should I be enrolled in?

The course you will be enrolled in depends on your year of study and whether you are an MSc student, a regular entry PhD student (i.e. you have completed an MSc or an equivalent degree) or a direct entry PhD student (i.e. you have entered the PhD program directly after completing your BSc, or you have transferred from the MSc to the PhD program).

Course code	MSc	PhD	PhD Direct Entry
LMP1001H (Fall/Winter: 1 year)	Year 1: attend		Year 1: attend
LMP1002H (Fall/Winter: 1 year)	Year 2: attend and present		Year 2: attend and present
LMP1003H (2 years) Fall/Winter: 1st Year		Year 1: attend	Year 3: attend
LMP1003H (2 years) Fall/Winter: 2nd Year		Year 2: attend and present	Year 4: attend and present

Each year you will be automatically enrolled in your required course in ACORN. You will see an “IPR” (In progress) next to the corresponding course code course in ACORN until you have completed the requirements and pass. Once you pass the course you will see a “CR” (credit) on your student record listed in the Winter term.

Course requirements

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Graduate Student Seminar Series:

You do not make a presentation.
You must attend a minimum of 10 student seminars throughout the academic year.
You have the option to attend student seminars outside your group, but at least 5 of the 10 seminars must be from within your own group.

LMP Seminar Series:

You must attend a minimum of 10 faculty-led seminars throughout the academic year.

You will receive a CR for this course at the end of the year.

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Graduate Student Seminar Series:

You will make a presentation on a day assigned to you at the beginning of the year. See the schedule below.
You must attend a minimum of 10 student seminars throughout the academic year.
You have the option to attend student seminars outside your group, but at least 5 of the 10 seminars must be from within your own group.

LMP Seminar Series:

You must attend a minimum of 10 faculty-led seminars throughout the academic year.

You will receive a CR for this course at the end of the year.

LMP1003H Student Seminar Series III

Year one

Graduate Student Seminar Series

You will not make a presentation in your first year.

You must attend a minimum of 10 student seminars throughout the academic year.
You have the option to attend student seminars outside your group, but at least 5 of the 10 seminars must be from within your own group.

LMP Seminar Series: You must attend a minimum of 10 faculty-led seminars throughout the academic year.

Year two

Graduate Student Seminar Series

At the beginning of your second year, you will be assigned a day on which you will make a presentation. See the schedule below.
You must attend a minimum of 10 student seminars throughout the academic year.
You have the option to attend student seminars outside your group, but at least 5 of the 10 seminars must be from within your own group.

LMP Seminar Series: You must attend a minimum of 10 faculty-led seminars throughout the academic year.

You will receive a CR for this course at the end of the second year.

How to register your attendance

You will record your attendance in Quercus at the beginning of each seminar you attend. Please be sure to bring a device with you to be able to log in.

Presentation requirements

Each presenting student is expected to:

Write and submit a 250-word abstract.
Give a maximum 20-minute presentation.
Have a 5-minute Q&A.

Each seminar room will be moderated by a faculty member who will provide feedback at the end of each session.

All faculty, including your supervisor(s), are welcome to attend your seminar.

Abstract submission

Deadline: by Monday at 10 am the week before your presentation - not the week of your presentation.

For example, if you present on October 7, you must submit an abstract by Monday, September 28.

For your presentation you are required to submit an abstract. This abstract will be a summary of your research and will be posted on our website.

You must submit a presentation title and abstract (~250 words) for your seminar by Monday at 10 am the week before your presentation using our online form.

Submit your abstract now

LMP1001H, 1002H, 1003H presenter schedule for 2026-2027

Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 10 am.

Fall term 2026

Week	Date	Group	Room	Presenter 1	Presenter 2
1	October 7, 2026	Cardio/Cancer	MSB 4171	Tara Lazetic	Catherine Yu Chieh Lin
		ID	MSB 4279	Yijia Liu	Kathryn Marie Lloyd-Smith
2	October 14, 2026	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Majed Abdul-Samad	Susanna Fang
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Ting-Wen Yeh	Xavier Edward Rutherford
3	October 21, 2026	Cardio/MCB	MSB 4171	Jeffrey Jaekyung Eo	Kaden David Gougeon Mckeen
		ID	MSB 4279	Michelle Sofia Allkanjari
4	October 28, 2026	Cancer	MSB 4171	Dusan Pesic	Kattreen Kamel Hanna
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Isabela Martins Melo
5	November 4, 2026	Cardio/MCB	MSB 4171	Xinyin Wang	Angela Zhou
		ID	MSB 4279	Omar Mehdi Rahman	Lina Faheem Siddiqi
6	November 11, 2026	Cancer	MSB 4171	Jinzhen Hu
		ID	MSB 4279	Eduardo Suarez Lopez	Babishaa Sauntharrajan
7	November 18, 2026	Cardio/MCB	MSB 4171	Keemo Althea Delos Santos	Junlin Ren
		ID	MSB 4279	Sarayna Audra Balasubramaniam
8	November 25, 2026	Cancer	MSB 4171	Jonas Lehar
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Huanyi Zhang	Youngkyung Jung
9	December 2, 2026	Cardio/MCB	MSB 4171	Ford William Laurent Manuel Camacho	Abigail Kirsten Delizo
		ID	MSB 4279	Kathryn Marie Lloyd-Smith
10	December 9, 2026	Cancer	MSB 4171	Yuexin Li
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Nathaniel Isaac Lee Frost	Yuxin Mei

Winter term 2027

Week	Date	Group	Room	Presenter 1	Presenter 2
12	January 6, 2027	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Gary Sun	Jamie Lucille Turner
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Nadia Sophia Khan
13	January 13, 2027	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Connie Melissa Di Raimo	Ghazal Goodarzi
		ID	MSB 4279	Ariana Papalambropoulos
14	January 20, 2027	Cancer	MSB 4171	Joshua Luigino Viesturs Freimanis
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Natalia Isabel Lazo Herzka
15	January 27, 2026	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Christy Ho	Chiara Amelie Johnson-Murialdo
		ID	MSB 4279	Yan Zhuo Tan
16	February 3, 2027	Cancer	MSB 4171	Che Ryn Park
		Neuro	MSB 4279	William Stager	Thomas Alexander Burke
17	February 10, 2027	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Abdul Hadi Khalid	Mohammad Sadegh Kord Ali
		ID	MSB 4279	Claire Xueling Yang
18	February 17, 2027	Cancer	MSB 4171	Ellie Jialing Wan
		Neuro	MSB 4279	JiaHao Zhang	Liming Wan
19	February 24, 2027	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Haomin Leng	Jaeeun Lee
		ID	MSB 4279	Patricia Lumanto
20	March 3, 2027	Cancer	MSB 4171	Xinyi Xu
		Neuro	MSB 4279	Ella Vivien Crain Morales	Ren Minamisono
21	March 10, 2027	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171	Holly Stibbe	Taylor Elizabeth Ireland
		ID	MSB 4279	Michael Peng
22	March 17, 2027	Cancer	MSB 4171
		Neuro	MSB 4279
23	March 24, 2027	MCB/Cardio	MSB 4171
		ID	MSB 4279

Contacts

Course Coordinators

Dr. Stephen Girardin
stephen.girardin@utoronto.ca

Dr. Paul Hamel
paul.hamel@utoronto.ca

Teaching Assistant

Anca Maglaviceanu
anca.maglaviceanu@mail.utoronto.ca

Graduate Office

April Morris and Beatrice Wong: lmp.grad@utoronto.ca