Ariane Beland and Ray Tran attended Canada's premier stem cell research event, The Till & McCulloch Meetings, in hosted in Mont-Tremblant by the Stem Cell Network and
. Ariane presented a poster titled "Response to Shear Stress of Progeroid Endothelial Cells", while Ray's was titled " Mechanical tension patters from microscale cultures increases nuclear PDX1 expression levels in induced-pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic progenitors".