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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Congratulations to CSB Faculty for their NSERC Awards

Congratulations to CSB faculty: Thomas Berleth, Les Buck, Dinesh Christendat, David Lovejoy, Jennifer Mitchell, Peter McCourt, Sergey Plotnikov, Maurice Ringuette, and Melanie Woodin for their successful NSERC Discovery Grants. Special congratulations to Les Buck for receiving an NSERC Discovery…

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CSB Senior Lecturer Melody Neumann receives the Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award!

Congratulations to CSB Senior Lecturer Melody Neumann who is a recipient of this year’s Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Awards. Dr. Neumann is an exceptional biology teacher that has made outstanding contributions to teaching innovation and course design. These innovations are best…

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Congratulations to Nick Provart and John Peever on their promotions to Full Professor!

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology is very happy to announce that Drs. Nicholas Provart and John Peever have been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations on an important and well-deserved recognition.

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Prof. Vince Tropepe appointed as new CSB Departmental Chair

Congratulations to Prof. Vince Tropepe on his appointment as CSB Departmental Chair for a five year term.

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Congratulations to Prof. John Peever for great public interest on his work on how much sleep we really need.

Congratulations to Prof. John Peever who represented the University of Toronto and the American Physiological Society on an international panel of experts appointed to determine how much sleep people of all ages need.  The study and recommendations are available here. The current edition of the U…

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Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Mitchell for great public interest in her new Genes & Development paper

Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Mitchell on her recent Genes & Development paper: A Sox2 distal enhancer cluster regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation potential Harry Y. Zhou, Yulia Katsman, Navroop K. Dhaliwal, Scott Davidson, Neil N. Macpherson, Moorthy Sakthidevi, Felicia Collura…

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Congratulations to Prof. Melanie Woodin on her successful ALS Canada – Brain Canada Discovery Grant

Congratulations to Melanie Woodin on her successful ALS Canada - Brain Canada Discovery Grant "Synaptic Inhibition in the Motor Cortex of an ALS Mouse Model"

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Prof. Ulli Tepass named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Professor and Chair Ulli Tepass who was just elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - one of the highest scientific honours given in Canada!  The Royal Society of Canada’s citations for Ulli states: Ulrich Tepass, Department of Cell & Systems Biology Tepass is an…

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Prof. Eiji Nambara ranked among 19 U of T scholars recognized as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers!

Congratulations to Professor Eiji Nambara who was one of only 19 U of T scholars recognized as the most highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters.  The distinction was given to ~3000 researchers globally who wrote the greatest numbers of publications officially designated by Essential Science…

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