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The Department of Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) advances research and teaching in the most dynamic and vital areas of biological research
Meet our Faculty
Explore who’s behind our latest outstanding publications.
Eliana Gonzales-Vigil
Assistant Professor
Jennifer A. Mitchell
Professor
Shelley Lumba
Assistant Professor
Recent Publications
Two-phase kinetics and cell cortex elastic behavior in Xenopus gastrula cell-cell adhesion
Parent SE, Luu O, Bruce AE, Winklbauer R
2023, Developmental Cell, 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.11.014
Dynamic changes to the plant cuticle include the production of volatile cuticular wax–derived compounds
Chen JY, Kuruparan A, Zamani-Babgohari M, Gonzales-Vigil E
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2307012120
Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2
Alderson TR, Pritišanac I, Kolarić Đ, Moses AM, Forman-Kay JD
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2304302120
Latest News
March 19, 2024
EPIC Future Leaders Prize for Dr Jonathan Burnie’s virology research
Dr Jonathan Burnie has earned the EPIC Future Leaders Prize from the Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium. Dr Burnie is a graduate from the…
March 14, 2024
A role for androgens in building muscle and making neurons: Sabrina Tzivia Barsky earns Christine Hone-Buske Award
Sabrina Tzivia Barsky, a grad student in the Monks lab at UTM, has earned the Christine Hone-Buske Award from Cell & Systems Biology for her…
March 7, 2024
Blocking the signal: Dr Sylvia Mutinda earns Provost Post-doctoral Award to understand how parasitic plants eavesdrop on crops
Dr Sylvia Mutinda is a scientist from Kenya who works on a parasitic plant, Striga hermonthica, that infests crops in Africa. She will be coming to…
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