The 2025 CEN Annual Conference in a Nutshell

The winter storm did not dampen the spirits of the 45th CEN Annual Conference. It was a great event, thanks to everyone's participation and commitment!

This year's highlights:

• Around 120 people joined the event between Thursday 13 and Friday 14 February 2025.
• Jérôme Comte, professor and regular member of the CEN, presented the work he is doing in his laboratory at the INRS on the microbiome as a sentinel of aquatic ecosystems in a changing North.
• Jedidat Matoush, Assistant Coordinator of the Cree Nation Research Institute (CNRI), presented her PhD work at the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, and discussed data governance, the protection of Eeyou knowledge, and the definition of research protocols and evaluation processes for research in the Eeyou Istchee through the CNRI.
• Warwick Vincent, Full Professor at Ulaval and a regular member of CEN, spoke about his rich career and innovative research on microbial ecology and ecosystem responses to environmental change.
• Daniel Fortier, professor at UdeM and regular member of CEN, presented the orientations of the Northern Gradient research axis of the CEN scientific programme.
• 10 students presented their work in the form of a traditional oral presentation
• 3 students presented their work in the form of a reinvented presentation
• 10 students presented their work in the form of an express speech
• 63 student scientific posters were visited

Thank you and congratulations to all the guest speakers, students, postdocs and research professionals.

The evening of 13 February took place at the artisan pub Le Gambrinus, near the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. It was an opportunity to network over a good meal and a drink, hosted by the CEN Student Committee!

The CEN Annual Conference Organising Committee would like to congratulate the winners of the Awards of Excellence and the Prix Coup de Coeur for the 45th CEN Annual Conference:

• Gaël Machemin: award for best 2nd cycle oral communication
• Ludovic Landry-Ducharme: award for best 3rd cycle oral communication
• Lucile Cosyn-Westeen: first prize for best express speech
• Gabriel Bergeron: second prize for best express speech
• Anne Joseph: third prize for best express speech
• Émilie Desjardins: first prize for best poster
• Laurianne Dumont: second prize for best poster
• Gabrielle Côté: third prize for best poster
• Étienne Tremblay: Coup de cœur award for poster communication
• Érika Boisvert-Vigneault: Coup de cœur award for reinvented communication
• Emmanuelle Gouin: award for student involvement in the CEN student committee
• Matthieu Weiss-Blais: award for student involvement in the CEN student committee

Thank you to our partners and financial contributors:

Photo gallery of the 45th annual CEN conference

If you would like to see all the photos from the conference, please contact coordination@cen.ulaval.ca.