President’s Medal from the Society of Experimental Biology / en Cosima Porteus receives President’s Medal from Society for Experimental Biology /celebrates/cosima-porteus-receives-president-s-medal-society-experimental-biology <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Cosima Porteus receives President’s Medal from Society for Experimental Biology </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>siddiq22</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-01-23T16:15:50-05:00" title="Monday, January 23, 2023 - 16:15" class="datetime">Mon, 01/23/2023 - 16:15</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/scarborough" hreflang="en">Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-biological-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Biological Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6888" hreflang="en">President’s Medal from the Society of Experimental Biology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Cosima%20headshot%20_0.jpg" width="750" height="491" alt> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">Cosima Porteus, assistant professor in U of T Scarborough's department of biological sciences (supplied photo)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Cosima Porteus</strong>, assistant professor in U of T Scarborough’s department of biological sciences, has received the 2023&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sebiology.org/resource/meet-our-2023-president-medalists.html">President’s Medal</a> from the <a href="https://www.sebiology.org/">Society of Experimental Biology</a> (SEB).</p> <p>The SEB President’s Medals are awarded annually to early-career scientists in recognition of outstanding merit in one of three biology sections – animal, cell&nbsp;and plant. Porteus received her award for the animal biology section.</p> <p>“I am deeply honoured to be acknowledged in this way, especially as I hold previous winners of this medal in such high regard,” says Porteus, who completed her post-doctoral research at the University of Exeter in the U.K. “The SEB became a scientific home-away-from-home as it welcomed me during my time in the U.K. as a post-doc and helped me develop many scientific connections.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/labs/porteus/">Porteus’s lab</a> at U of T Scarborough studies the effects of human-caused pollution and environmental change on aquatic animals. Her research group recently discovered that ocean acidification negatively affects Dungeness crabs in similar ways as other fish. The findings have implications for global food security, marine conservation and commercial fisheries. Her post-doctoral research also looked at how ocean acidification affects the sense of smell in European sea bass.</p> <p>“We found that ocean acidification has a direct effect on the olfactory system of marine fish by reducing their sensitivity to various odorants,” she says. “These responses were consistent with changes I observed in the behaviour of these fish. It was a tremendous amount of work and my most significant contribution to this field to date.”</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">U of T Scarborough</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:15:50 +0000 siddiq22 179295 at