May 15, 2025

Fresh excitement for the Science Rendezvous festival

CSB shared our stories under shady trees as students, staff and faculty presented at Science Rendezvous 2025. Science Rendezvous is an annual science festival across Canada, and we had many new faces from CSB to present our work on UofT's leafy Front Campus. Squeezing in some neuroscience…

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April 3, 2025

Rising star in plant sciences Heather McFarlane awarded CSMB New Investigator Award

CSB Professor Heather McFarlane has earned the prestigious New Investigator Award from the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB). The CSMB grants this award to rising stars in cell and molecular biology and this award recognizes McFarlane's outstanding research on plant cell wall…

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February 27, 2025

Excellence in Plant Science earns Professor Heather McFarlane the Dorothy Shoichet Award

Congratulations to CSB Professor Heather McFarlane on earning the Dorothy Shoichet Women Faculty in Science…

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December 18, 2024

Graduate student excellence earns impressive awards

Graduate students in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology cover a broad range of fields, including plant science, neuroscience, cell biology, infectious disease research, endocrinology and systems biology. The discoveries these students are making and their contributions to the Department…

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July 26, 2024

Secret of plant cell wall secretion lies in labeling at the correct location

A recent paper from Dr Natalie Hoffmann and Prof Heather McFarlane has revealed unexpected discoveries into how the components of the plant cell wall are assembled. The plant cell wall makes natural fibres durable, makes wood strong, and provides energy in biofuels, all of which make the cell wall…

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May 19, 2023

Science Rendezvous was a huge success for CSB!

On Saturday, May 13th, St George Street was shut down in front of the Ramsay Wright Building for Science Rendezvous 2023. CSB was…

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April 4, 2023

CSB project students present their year’s work in research

A year of research by CSB project students culminated in a poster session on March 31st, 2023. The students used the posters to…

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January 18, 2023

CSPB awards for CSB’s dedicated plant scientists

CSB students won multiple awards at the annual regional meeting of the Canadian Society for Plant Biology, held at University of Toronto Scarborough on December 3, 2022. Jenny Huang (McFarlane lab) noted that "It was exciting to finally meet all the scientists I had only heard of by name before.…

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December 20, 2022

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 19th, 2022! Valerie Anderson Graduate Fellowship Awarded for academic merit to an outstanding student in any subdiscipline of plant biology. Recipient: Saad Hussain…

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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…

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