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 out in force to share research activities in Animals, Plants and Bacteria designed by CSB graduate students, staff and Professors. Over four hundred people stayed to…
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…
June 8, 2022
Renewed Canada Research Chair for Prof Fernandez-Gonzalez
Congratulations to Professor Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez on the renewal of his tier two Canada Research Chair in quantitative cell biology and morphogenesis! Professor Fernandez-Gonzalez studies cytoskeletal dynamics and mechanical forces in the assembly and repair of epithelial tissues. His lab…
October 19, 2021
What Sits at the Centre of Wound Healing?
The science of rapid wound healing has new insights due to discoveries in fruit flies from the Fernandez-Gonzalez lab at University of Toronto. The results of their collaboration, community and perseverance were published in the journal Cell Reports as “p38-mediated cell growth and survival drive…
June 22, 2020
Cell biology meets engineering in collaborative XSeed grant for Professor Sergey Plotnikov to study wound closure in fruit flies
CSB Professor Sergey Plotnikov has been awarded XSeed funding to identify protein targets that can accelerate wound healing. The XSeed program catalyzes cross-disciplinary partnerships between investigators from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and other faculties. The grant was…