June 8, 2022
Renewed Canada Research Chair for Prof Fernandez-Gonzalez
Congratulations to Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez on the renewal of his tier two Canada Research Chair in quantitative cell biology and morphogenesis! Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez studies cytoskeletal dynamics and mechanical forces in the assembly and repair of epithelial tissues. His lab…
May 16, 2022
Platform for Plant Stress Signaling Analysis earns crucial NSERC-RTI grant
The Platform for Plant Stress Signaling Analysis at CSB examines the ways plants respond to drought, salt, infection and…
April 11, 2022
Congratulations to F Michael Barrett Award 2022 winners from CSB!
Students taking our CSB497/CSB498/CSB499 courses earned valuable experience in CSB research labs, gaining skills and knowledge in specific fields including developmental biology, plant biology, and stem cell biology. Our professors welcome the curiosity and questioning that these undergraduates…
April 5, 2022
CSB Professor Shelley Lumba aims to alleviate global hunger by preventing crop loss caused by parasitic plants
Professor Shelley Lumba was recently appointed to the post of Associate Professor in Cell & Systems Biology to pursue her work on the molecular signalling that activates germination in parasitic plants. Her work was profiled in a piece from UofT News titled "Researcher aims to alleviate global…
April 4, 2022
Guzzo lab assesses UV technology to inactivate HIV-1 and hCoV-229E
Prof Christina Guzzo's lab has published a study in Virology Journal looking at UV treatment to inactivate Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the seasonal human coronavirus 229E. Her students Arvin Persaud and Jonathan Burnie published their results as "A UV-LED module that is highly effective at…
March 11, 2022
David G Butler (1936-2022), Professor of Endocrinology
We are sad to share the news that our emeritus Professor David G Butler passed away in February 2022. Born in Vancouver, BC, David Butler obtained his PhD with Professor Ian Chester-Jones at the University of Sheffield in 1964 and was recruited to the Department of Zoology that same year. He began…
January 24, 2022
Striving for Innovative Discoveries Yields Crucial Funding for CSB in 2021
The Department of Cell and Systems Biology, (CSB) here at the University of Toronto is striving towards innovative insights in the field of molecular sciences and systems biology. Our research projects include neurological development, cancer, fundamentals of transcriptional regulation and much…
January 4, 2022
Cell wall success with two awards for the McFarlane lab at CSPB 2021!
Our colleagues Natalie Hoffmann and Eduardo Ramirez-Rodriquez won awards for their research on cell wall biosynthesis at the annual Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB) meeting, held virtually on Nov 27, 2021. Congratulations! For plants, we often consider nutrients inside plant cells to be…
December 17, 2021
Tropepe lab reveals reduced photoreceptor integrity underlying Usher Syndrome
Dr Amanda Miles of the Tropepe lab shows that "Usher syndrome type 1-associated gene, pcdh15b, is required for photoreceptor structural integrity in zebrafish" in the Dec 2021 issue of Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM). Zebrafish protocadherin-15b (pcdh15b) is closest in sequence to the human…
December 17, 2021
Congratulations to CSB’s Graduate Student Award Recipients!
Congratulations to our Graduate Students who earned recognition for their accomplishments at our Graduate Student Awards on December 10th, 2021! Valerie Anderson Graduate Fellowship Awarded for academic merit to an outstanding student in any subdiscipline of plant biology. Recipient: Matthew…