Schedule

8:30 - 9:30 AM Chairs: Dr. Joe Rubin and Ryan Suleman The Age of Misinformation and Disinformation Invited Speaker: Joe Schwarcz, McGill University, Montreal, QC We live in an age where the latest research in science is just a few keystrokes away. Unfortunately, the same can be said for access to pseudoscience. Snake oil salesmen have a long history of plying their trade, but never before have they been as great a menace to the public as today. Having donned labcoats emblematic of science, or the tailored suits of politicians, they are harder to spot. Fostering critical thinking among the public is more crucial then ever. 9:30 - 10:30 AM MICROFOME Session

Chair: Dr. Terrence Bell Co-creation and collective knowledge in project planning Invited Speaker: Geneviève Lajoie, INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier Becoming independent, self-driven, and accountable as a scientific professional Invited Speaker: Terrence Bell, University of Toronto - Scarborough

This meeting is for members of the CSM Council. Lunch will be served at 12:00 and meeting will start at 12:30 PM

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) information session Presenter: John Cull, Program Officer, Discovery Grants (Genes, Cells and Molecules Evaluation Group) This presentation includes NSERC general and program updates as well as the 2025 Discovery Grants (DG) and Research Tools & Instruments (RTI) Competition Outcomes. Zoom Link for Virtual Registrants: https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/84104179347?pwd=lmv4fSdrdrFT2i9uYVLv4ZZus0PhqR.1 ID du zoom: 841 0417 9347 Code secret: 923078

One or two membranes ? Diversity and evolution of the cell envelope across the tree of bacteria Simonetta Gribaldo, Pasteur Institute-Paris, France Zoom Link for Virtual Registrants: https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/84104179347?pwd=lmv4fSdrdrFT2i9uYVLv4ZZus0PhqR.1 ID du zoom: 841 0417 9347 Code secret: 923078

Identification and initial characterization of a new biosurfactant produced by Burkholderia cenocepacia 6:00 PM - 6:20 PM -Presented by Maude Dagenais Roy, INRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Cultivation and whole genome sequencing of cyanobacterial consortia enriched from Canadian alkaline soda lakes 6:20 PM - 6:40 PM -Presented by Ruchita Solanki, University of Calgary ETI prevents the emergence of high-biofilm forming small colony variants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cystic fibrosis-like environment 6:40 PM - 7:00 PM -Presented by Océane Goncalves, Université de Sherbrooke Mutant Warfare: Cracking the Code of Anti-Phage Resistance in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM -Presented by Mawra Gohar, University of Calgary Structural insights into peptidoglycan O-acetylation in Gram-negative bacteria 7:20 PM - 7:40 PM -Presented by Tyler Malloch, Wilfrid Laurier University Using enhanced green fluorescent protein as cargo to compare and quantify E. coli outer membrane vesicle to cell fusion events from a hypervesiculating mutant 7:40 PM - 8:00 PM -Presented by Genevieve Loiselle, University of Manitoba