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 and Jennifer A. Mitchell
Genes & Dev. 2014. 28: 2699-2711
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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"
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 international leader in the analysis of epithelial cell polarity and cell adhesion using the genetic model organism, the fruit fly. He was among the first to characterize an epithelial polarity factor in 1990, and since then has made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of the molecular regulation of cell polarity and adhesion and the developmental significance of these processes. The fundamental insights that this work has generated are relevant for our understanding of human disease, including blindness and most forms of cancer.
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 Indicators℠ as Highly Cited Papers — ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication.
Prof. Darrell Desveaux receives the 2014 C.D. Nelson Award in Plant Biology
Congratulations to Darrell Desveaux for being awarded the C.D. Nelson Award in Plant Biology from the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists. The Award is given for outstanding research contributions to plant biology, with special consideration given to originality and independence of thought. As part of the award, Darrell will give a special award seminar at the 2015 Annual Meeting for the Canadian Society for Plant Biology to be held in Edmonton AB.
More information on the award can be found here.