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Dinesh Christendat
Professor
Felix Gunawan
Assistant Professor
Ashley E. Bruce
Professor and Graduate Chair
Recent Publications
A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat
Avni R, Kamal N, Bitz L, Jellen EN, Bekele WA, Angessa TT, Auvinen P, Bitz O, Boyle B, Canales FJ, Carlson CH, Chapman B, Chawla HS, Chen Y, Copetti D, Correia de Lemos S, Dang V, Eichten SR, Klos KE, Fenn AM, Fiebig A, Fu Y, Gundlach H, Gupta R, Haberer G, He T, Herrmann MH, Himmelbach A, Howarth CJ, Hu H, Isidro y Sánchez J, Itaya A, Jannink J, Jia Y, Kaur R, Knauft M, Langdon T, Lux T, Marmon S, Marosi V, Mayer KFX, Michel S, Nandety RS, Nilsen KT, Paczos-Grzęda E, Pasha A, Prats E, Provart NJ, Ravagnani A, Reid RW, Schlueter JA, Schulman AH, Sen TZ, Singh J, Singh M, Sirijovski N, Stein N, Studer B, Viitala S, Vronces S, Walkowiak S, Wang P, Waters AJ, Wight CP, Yan W, Yao E, Zhang X, Zhou G, Zhou Z, Tinker NA, Fiedler JD, Li C, Maughan PJ, Spannagl M, Mascher M
2025, Nature, 10.1038/s41586-025-09676-7
Adhesion strength, cell packing density, and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion
Winklbauer R, Luu O, Barua D, Nagel M, Huang Y
2025, Development, 10.1242/dev.204663
Shikimate Kinase-Like 1 Participates in an Ancient and Conserved Role Contributing to Chloroplast Biogenesis in Land Plants
Kanaris M, Lee J, Chang B, Christendat D
2025, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msaf129
Latest News
November 12, 2025
BCB undergraduate research project in the Provart lab leads to Oat Pangenome Nature paper
An international collaboration published in the esteemed journal Nature features work by Shauna Vronces from her undergraduate research project in…
October 8, 2025
Congratulations to Hyunsuh Lee for earning the Best Presentation award at CSPB
At this year’s Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB) meeting, Hyunsuh Lee from the Yoshioka lab was recognized with the CSPB President’s Award…
October 2, 2025
Developmental biology insights from Bruce lab lead to research on cancer progression
CSB Professor Ashley Bruce has received a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) that leverages her knowledge of embryo…
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