Many pathways to an exciting career revealed at the CSB/HMB backpack to Briefcase event

Thank you to all the alumni who answered the call to share their career paths and job advice at our "backpack 2 Briefcase" event with HMB and CSB undergraduates! What are the career options for CSB and HMB students? After introductory remarks from Professor Eba Kurz, students travelled between…

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Congratulations to CSB’s talented 2025-2026 graduate award recipients!

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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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 for Best Oral Presentation, an award given to students whose talk is judged to demonstrate excellence in both research and communication.…

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Interdisciplinary Insights on Sustainable Agriculture from Prof Yoshioka at Climate Positive Energy Research Day

The University of Toronto’s Climate Positive Energy Initiative (CPE) hosted the much anticipated fourth annual Climate Positive Energy Research Day to bring together researchers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals and students across various disciplines. This exciting event consisted of keynotes…

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Climate Positive Energy Research Day

The Climate Positive Energy Initiative at University of Toronto is developing social, scientific, technical, economic, and policy solutions to transform our energy systems, ensure energy access and production is equitable, and help Canada become a global clean-energy model.

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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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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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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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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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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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