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Calcium signaling triggers early high humidity responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Hussain S, Suda H, Nguyen CH, Yan D, Toyota M, Yoshioka K, Nambara E
2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2416270121

Stress disrupts engram ensembles in lateral amygdala to generalize threat memory in mice

Lesuis SL, Park S, Hoorn A, Rashid AJ, Mocle AJ, Salter EW, Vislavski S, Gray MT, Torelli AM, DeCristofaro A, Driever WP, van der Stelt M, Zweifel LS, Collingridge GL, Lefebvre JL, Walters BJ, Frankland PW, Hill MN, Josselyn SA
2024, Cell, 10.1016/j.cell.2024.10.034

20 years of the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology

Sullivan A, Lombardo M, Pasha A, Lau V, Zhuang J, Christendat A, Pereira B, Zhao T, Li Y, Wong R, Qureshi F, Provart N
2024, Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkae920

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August 11, 2025

Researchers in Christendat lab identify protein that provides plants the ability to grow on land

Researchers in Dinesh Christendat's lab have pinpointed a protein that all land plants need to harvest sunlight and grow on land. Using sequence…

August 11, 2025

A daring application and hard work earn Stella Chen the top plant biology undergraduate award

Stella Jiaying Chen was singled out as one of the best plant biology undergraduates in North America, earning the SURF fellowship from the American…

August 8, 2025

Big career award from IPGSA for small molecule studies by Prof Shelley Lumba

Professor Shelley Lumba has earned the OlChemIm Award from the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) for “outstanding…

July 11, 2025

Alumni Reunion 2025 lets our guests take on the role of undergraduates in Biology

CSB was out in force with events at University of Toronto’s Alumni Reunion 2025. We held Open Houses in our teaching laboratories that allowed alumni…

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