May 19, 2023
Science Rendezvous was a huge success for CSB!
On Saturday, May 13th, St George Street was shut down in front of the Ramsay Wright Building for Science Rendezvous 2023. CSB was out in force to share research activities in Animals, Plants and Bacteria designed by CSB graduate students, staff and Professors. Over four hundred people stayed to…
April 4, 2023
CSB project students present their year’s work in research
A year of research by CSB project students culminated in a poster session on March 31st, 2023. The students used the posters to describe their research and results, while answering questions from peers and professors. This presentation represents the final step of their CSB497/498 course.…
January 18, 2023
CSPB awards for CSB’s dedicated plant scientists
CSB students won multiple awards at the annual regional meeting of the Canadian Society for Plant Biology, held at University of Toronto Scarborough on December 3, 2022. Jenny Huang (McFarlane lab) noted that "It was exciting to finally meet all the scientists I had only heard of by name before.…
December 20, 2022
Congratulations to CSB’s Graduate Student Award Recipients!
Congratulations to our Graduate Students who earned recognition for their accomplishments at our Graduate Student Awards on December 19th, 2022! Valerie Anderson Graduate Fellowship Awarded for academic merit to an outstanding student in any subdiscipline of plant biology. Recipient: Saad Hussain…
May 16, 2022
Platform for Plant Stress Signaling Analysis earns crucial NSERC-RTI grant
The Platform for Plant Stress Signaling Analysis at CSB examines the ways plants respond to drought, salt, infection and other stresses. We have been using this platform for 17 years, but many of the instruments are showing signs of wear. To update our facility, a group led by Professor Keiko…
January 4, 2022
Cell wall success with two awards for the McFarlane lab at CSPB 2021!
Our colleagues Natalie Hoffmann and Eduardo Ramirez-Rodriquez won awards for their research on cell wall biosynthesis at the annual Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB) meeting, held virtually on Nov 27, 2021. Congratulations! For plants, we often consider nutrients inside plant cells to be…