Welcome to our newest CSB faculty members!

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology warmly welcomes 3 new faculty members to the department: - Dr. John Calarco (Assistant Professor, Tenure-stream): Mechanisms and function of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in generating physiologically diverse neurons in C. elegans. - Dr. Arneet Saltzman…

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Professor Nick Provart is awarded Genome Canada Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Grant

Congratulations to Professor Nick Provart for his successful Genome Canada Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition grant. Nick's grant was one of only eight proposals to Ontario researchers funded this round. ePlants Pipeline and Navigator for Accessing and Integrating Multi-Level…

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Congratulations to Dr. Chris Garside on his renewal of funding for the WIT program

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Garside on his renewal of funding for the Writing Instructions for Teaching Assistants (WIT) program for 2nd year courses BIO 230, 270 and 271.

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Congratulations to Prof. Maurice Ringuette on the success of his ATLAS proposal

Prof. Maurice Ringuette recently was awarded funding from the Advancing Teaching and Learning in Arts & Science  (ATLAS) initiatives fund for his proposal for Accurate Animations for  CSB327H1F: Extracurricular Matrix Dynamics and Associated Pathologies. Congratulations Prof. Ringuette!……

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Congratulations to Prof. Melody Neumann on the success of her online tool for student group work – 3rd Annual App Challenge Winner

UOFT WINNER IN 3RD ANNUAL APP CHALLENGE TORONTO, ON – APRIL 13 – Melody Neumann, Associate Professor at University of Toronto has won the IMS Global 3rd Annual App Challenge in the Institutional App category for the online tool Team Up!. Working with Laurie Harrison, Director of Online Learning, a…

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Congratulations to Vince Tropepe, Darrell Desveaux and Tony Harris on their promotions to Full Professor!

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology is very happy to announce that Vince Tropepe, Darrell Desveaux and Tony Harris have all been approved for promotion to Full Professor effective 1 July 2016!  This is well-deserved recognition of their strong research, teaching and administrative…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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Congratulations to CSB Faculty for their CIHR Awards

Congratulations to CSB faculty: Tony Harris and John Peever for their successful CIHR Transitional Operating Grants!

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