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Recent Publications
Idiosyncratic epistasis leads to global fitness–correlated trends
Bakerlee CW, Nguyen Ba AN, Shulgina Y, Rojas Echenique JI, Desai MM
2022, Science, 10.1126/science.abm4774
Autophagy is required for self-incompatible pollen rejection in two transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
Macgregor SR, Lee HK, Nelles H, Johnson DC, Zhang T, Ma C, Goring DR
2022, Plant Physiology, 10.1093/plphys/kiac026
Elevated tyrosine results in the cytosolic retention of 3‐deoxy‐ d ‐arabino‐heptulosonate 7‐phosphate synthase in Arabidopsis thaliana
Kanaris M, Poulin J, Shahinas D, Johnson D, Crowley VM, Fucile G, Provart N, Christendat D
2021, The Plant Journal, 10.1111/tpj.15590
Latest News
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…
April 5, 2022
CSB Professor Shelley Lumba aims to alleviate global hunger by preventing crop loss caused by parasitic plants
Professor Shelley Lumba was recently appointed to the post of Associate Professor in Cell & Systems Biology to pursue her work on the molecular…
April 4, 2022
Guzzo lab assesses UV technology to inactivate HIV-1 and hCoV-229E
Prof Christina Guzzo's lab has published a study in Virology Journal looking at UV treatment to inactivate Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the…
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At CSB, our Professors create modern, interactive instruction for an engaged student body and our Sessional Lecturers provide a personal approach. Our exceptional students, post-docs and professors are recipients of prestigious honours. We will continue to produce outstanding discoveries that enhance and challenge our understanding of living organisms

Congrats to the @tepasslab! Crumbs complex–directed apical membrane dynamics in epithelial cell ingression https://rupress.org/jcb/article/221/7/e202108076/213229/Crumbs-complex-directed-apical-membrane-dynamics#.Yoy6Ji51PY8.twitter
In @Dev_Bio_Journal, past president @Planaria1 writes: “Simply put, we have but barely scratched the surface of development: we do not know what is already possible. The sheer number of species out there waiting to show us what is indeed biologically possible is staggering.” https://twitter.com/Planaria1/status/1528071356545392641

A few thoughts about the exciting future of Developmental Biology
And accompanied by a couple of figures designed by the talented @molecularmirror
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Great work from Prof Ba! Before this impressive discovery, Alex Nguyen Ba earned his PhD in the @AMosesLab as part of our Genome Biology and Bioinformatics specialization. Check out this link for more on this program: https://gbb.csb.utoronto.ca

New research by @UTMBiology's Alex Nguyen Ba and team shows that different combinations of genetic mutations can have an impact on the evolutionary process—and it could help us understand diseases and lead to more precise medicine.
Read the #UTM story at http://bit.ly/3yFIIA8.