March 24, 2016
CSB researcher Belinda Chang finds secrets to animal evolution in their eyes
Humans sometimes describe eyes as the window to the soul but for most animals, eyes are all about vision and vision is all about survival. Evolutionary biologist Belinda Chang leads a lab that is devoted to understanding how animals see. For the complete article discussing Professor Chang’s work as…
February 11, 2016
Alan Moses awarded a Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology
Congratulations go out to Alan Moses who has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology. This is one of 34 new CRCs awarded by the University of Toronto this year.
July 17, 2015
CSB Leads an African-Canadian Meeting to Address the Growing Problem of Coconut Disease in the Ivory Coast and Associated Gender Equity Issues
CSB faculty Keiko Yoshioka, along with co-organizers Shiho Satsuka (U of T Anthropology) and Yaima Arocha Rosete (Sporometrics), held a week-long African-Canadian Collaborative meeting & training workshop to bring together plant pathologists and other researchers to work on techniques for…
July 15, 2015
Congratulations to CSB Faculty for their CIHR Awards
Congratulations to CSB faculty: Tony Harris and John Peever for their successful CIHR Transitional Operating Grants!
July 15, 2015
Congratulations to CSB Faculty for their NSERC Awards
Congratulations to CSB faculty: Thomas Berleth, Les Buck, Dinesh Christendat, David Lovejoy, Jennifer Mitchell, Peter McCourt, Sergey Plotnikov, Maurice Ringuette, and Melanie Woodin for their successful NSERC Discovery Grants. Special congratulations to Les Buck for receiving an NSERC Discovery…
May 22, 2015
CSB Senior Lecturer Melody Neumann receives the Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award!
Congratulations to CSB Senior Lecturer Melody Neumann who is a recipient of this year’s Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Awards. Dr. Neumann is an exceptional biology teacher that has made outstanding contributions to teaching innovation and course design. These innovations are best…
March 26, 2015
Congratulations to Nick Provart and John Peever on their promotions to Full Professor!
The Department of Cell & Systems Biology is very happy to announce that Drs. Nicholas Provart and John Peever have been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations on an important and well-deserved recognition.
February 17, 2015
Prof. Vince Tropepe appointed as new CSB Departmental Chair
Congratulations to Prof. Vince Tropepe on his appointment as CSB Departmental Chair for a five year term.
February 17, 2015
Congratulations to Prof. John Peever for great public interest on his work on how much sleep we really need.
Congratulations to Prof. John Peever who represented the University of Toronto and the American Physiological Society on an international panel of experts appointed to determine how much sleep people of all ages need. The study and recommendations are available here. The current edition of the U…
December 15, 2014
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Mitchell for great public interest in her new Genes & Development paper
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Mitchell on her recent Genes & Development paper: A Sox2 distal enhancer cluster regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation potential Harry Y. Zhou, Yulia Katsman, Navroop K. Dhaliwal, Scott Davidson, Neil N. Macpherson, Moorthy Sakthidevi, Felicia Collura…