September 17, 2025
Prof Felix Gunawan inaugurates cardiovascular development laboratory with mentorship and learning at the heart
A journey that began in the halls of CSB buildings has brought Felix Gunawan back, now as an Assistant Professor studying cardiovascular development in zebrafish. Previously a Group Leader at the University of Münster in Germany, Gunawan is now co-affiliated with Münster while beginning his role at…
September 16, 2025
Interdisciplinary Insights on Sustainable Agriculture from Prof Yoshioka at Climate Positive Energy Research Day
The University of Toronto’s Climate Positive Energy Initiative (CPE) hosted the much anticipated fourth annual Climate Positive Energy Research Day to bring together researchers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals and students across various disciplines. This exciting event consisted of keynotes…
September 4, 2025
Professor Daphne Goring Elected to the Prestigious Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has elected CSB Professor Daphne Goring as a Fellow in recognition of her research breaking new ground with fundamental discoveries in key areas of plant biology. Goring was selected to receive this honour for revealing details of two opposing elements underpinning…
August 22, 2025
Inspiration leads to Innovation for presenters at Falling Walls Lab Toronto 2025
Falling Walls Lab Toronto 2025 hosted passionate innovators for three-minute presentations at Hart House in front of five judges from business, academia and the non-profit sector. Falling Walls Lab Toronto is a pitch competition that brings together a diverse and interdisciplinary pool of students…
August 14, 2025
Climate Positive Energy Research Day
The Climate Positive Energy Initiative at University of Toronto is developing social, scientific, technical, economic, and policy solutions to transform our energy systems, ensure energy access and production is equitable, and help Canada become a global clean-energy model.
August 11, 2025
Researchers in Christendat lab identify protein that provides plants the ability to grow on land
Researchers in Dinesh Christendat's lab have pinpointed a protein that all land plants need to harvest sunlight and grow on land. Using sequence analysis and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, they identified a protein that is present in land plants but not other organisms and showed that this protein…
August 11, 2025
A daring application and hard work earn Stella Chen the top plant biology undergraduate award
Stella Jiaying Chen was singled out as one of the best plant biology undergraduates in North America, earning the SURF fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists to work in Professor Heather McFarlane’s lab for the Summer of 2025. Chen's plant biology research journey began with one…
August 8, 2025
Big career award from IPGSA for small molecule studies by Prof Shelley Lumba
Professor Shelley Lumba has earned the OlChemIm Award from the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) for “outstanding contributions to plant signaling research on strigolactone and seed germination”.This award is infrequently granted and was only revealed at the IPGSA banquet…
July 11, 2025
Alumni Reunion 2025 lets our guests take on the role of undergraduates in Biology
CSB was out in force with events at University of Toronto’s Alumni Reunion 2025. We held Open Houses in our teaching laboratories that allowed alumni from a variety of departments to take on the role of Biology undergraduates. Alumni learned fundamental lab techniques: how to measure tiny volumes…
July 10, 2025
Sold Out Crowd Learns Secrets of Plants and Fungi from Prof Lumba
As a headlining event for our Department at Alumni Reunion 2025, Professor Shelley Lumba gave a Stress-Free Degree lecture on the "Secret Language between Plants and Fungi" that drew a diverse sell-out crowd of all ages. Lumba started with the engaging idea of the wood wide web, a connected network…