June 23, 2022
Long-term Research at CSB supported by NSERC Discovery Grants 2022
Congratulations to five researchers at CSB who have earned Discovery Grants starting in 2022 from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). This program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals over five years rather than supporting a single short-term…
June 20, 2022
Tamar Mamourian’s Thriving Legacy
Tamar Mamourian is a powerhouse of knowledge in designing and implementing policy to benefit the University…
June 17, 2022
Professor Melody Neumann earns U of T’s highest teaching honour
Melody Neumann, Associate Professor in CSB and Director of the Human Biology Program, has been awarded the President's Teaching Award, the highest honour for teaching at the University of Toronto. This award recognizes Prof Neumann's sustained and ongoing excellence in Educational Leadership,…
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…