SURP Research Day

The Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) culminates in an annual Research Day where students showcase their work to a diverse audience of faculty and students.

SURP Research Day is a time to celebrate summer student research and enable students to experience a conference environment where they can present and discuss their exciting research. It's also a great opportunity for students to network with each other and with graduate students and faculty members. 

SURP Research Day takes place in August. Students present their summer research in either a podium or poster presentation and a keynote address is delivered by a prominent IMS faculty member. The event concludes with an awards ceremony.

SURP Research Day 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mamatha Bhat, MD, PhD

Dr. Mamatha Bhat is a hepatologist and co-lead of Transplant AI Initiative Ajmera Transplant Program Scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. The goal of Dr. Bhat’s research program is to enable a precision medicine approach to long-term complications after liver transplantation through a better understanding of their mechanistic basis. Her research program employs a bench-to-bedside paradigm that connects clinical outcomes with basic research using tools from systems biology, including bioinformatic analysis of ‘omic datasets (e.g., transcriptomic, miRNA, methylation, intestinal microbiome) and machine learning tools.