Second Year Learning Community explores career opportunities at the Michener Institute

CSB undergraduates toured the Michener Institute of Education in Toronto’s Discovery District on March 10th, 2025 to learn about the programs offered at the Michener as members of our second year learning community (SLC) program. The SLC brings together like-minded students to promote networking…

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Explore The Life Inside the Cell through an art project by BIO130 students

Exhibition Overview The Life Inside the Cell is an exhibition of artwork that showcases the creative talents of students from the BIO130 course, with the support of the Cell and Systems Biology Department. As part of a course project, students transformed their learning into artistic expression,…

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Congratulations to Professor Woodin on her appointment as President of University of Toronto

Professor Melanie Woodin, an internationally recognized neuroscientist at CSB, has been named the University of Toronto’s 17th president! An accomplished leader, Woodin is current Dean of Arts & Science at U of T, president of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience and serves on the board…

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Laptop or Lab? Research opportunity in Chang lab leads BCB student to embrace both

A Research Opportunity in the Chang lab led Alena Qin, a student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program, to an appreciation for hands-on experimentation.  Students in Arts & Sciences can engage in research opportunities through the Research Opportunities Program. Qin was…

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Excellence in Plant Science earns Professor Heather McFarlane the Dorothy Shoichet Award

Congratulations to CSB Professor Heather McFarlane on earning the Dorothy Shoichet Women Faculty in Science…

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Supporting the Talented Women Scientists in CSB on IDWGS

We are proud to recognize the accomplishments of our women colleagues on 2025's International Day of Women & Girls in Science and to offer our support all year long. This year saw many accomplishments from women scientists at CSB! Follow the links below for more details on some of these…

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Restoration of Rapid Wound Repair Despite Immunosuppressants

Researchers at U of T have determined that immunosuppressants used with transplant recipients slow wound repair by inhibiting the growth of cells adjacent to wounds. They have found ways to restore rapid wound repair in an in vivo animal model. Prof Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez in the Institute of…

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New tools give an AI boost to plant scientists at the BAR

Huge amounts of biological data generated from plant genomes can now be more rapidly assessed alongside literature describing plant genes thanks to new tools developed by CSB and CS researchers. Prof. Nicholas Provart founded the globally recognized Bio-Analytic Resource (BAR) server 20 years ago…

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Nambara lab reveals plants’ exquisitely tuned responses to high humidity

CSB plant scientists have identified the finely tuned way plants adjust to high humidity conditions. Canadian crops will experience high humidity conditions more often due to increased rainfall and flooding, which enhances the importance of these insights. Professor Eiji Nambara led this research…

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Graduate student excellence earns impressive awards

Graduate students in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology cover a broad range of fields, including plant science, neuroscience, cell biology, infectious disease research, endocrinology and systems biology. The discoveries these students are making and their contributions to the Department…

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