April 14, 2025

Excellence in research shown at end-of-year poster session for undergraduate projects

Students in CSB497, CSB498, and CSB499  presented posters describing their 2024-2025 research projects at the end-of-year CSB Undergraduate Poster Session. Posters were assessed by judges from the Department and eight students earned the F Michael Barrett Award for their excellent presentations.…

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November 28, 2024

CSB support helps Falling Walls Lab Toronto winner get close look at science in Germany

Adnan Sharif broke ground on his interest in plant science research with an undergraduate project on plant immunity in Prof Keiko Yoshioka's lab. He was inspired to move on to graduate studies in the Faculty of Engineering, where he developed sustainable synthetic hydroponic soil. Sharif went on to…

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April 17, 2024

Undergraduate researchers reveal exciting project results at year-end poster session to earn F Michael Barrett Award

On Friday, April 5th, 2024 students from the CSB497, 498 and 499 independent research programs presented their project results in a poster session held in the Ramsay Wright Building. We would like to thank our judges for their time assessing the posters and presentations. The students who excelled…

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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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July 7, 2022

CSB Graduate Wins Award for Best Plant Biology Paper of 2021

Dr Purva KariaThe 2021 Ragai Ibrahim Award for best student paper in plant biology was awarded to CSB…

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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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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…

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March 7, 2021

Professor Keiko Yoshioka goes with optimism to a career in plant science

Professor Keiko Yoshioka recalls the joy of running through fields of grass that were as tall as her near her childhood home in Osaka, Japan. As a young student, she learned the role of agricultural innovation in avoiding worldwide food shortages. Curiosity about the verdant growth around her led…

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