September 11, 2026
Summer at the lab bench yields stunning breakthroughs and earns prizes
We were excited to see this year's crop of summer students present the fruits of their research at the 2026 Summer undergraduate poster session. Students summarized a summer of intensive experiments in their posters and answered probing questions from attendees at the session. It was an impressive…
April 2, 2026
A year of deep research leads to a culminating event for fourth year students
Fourth year students in CSB can join our research laboratories to conduct projects in their favourite topic as part of CSB497, 498 or 499 courses. Their final task after generating data and analyzing results is to present their conclusions at our annual Undergraduate Poster Session. This year, the…
February 6, 2026
Technical innovations in the Plotnikov lab reveal machinery behind cell migration in unprecedented detail
An international team led by a UofT lab has revealed a novel regulatory system behind cell migration and shown how the different parts work together. This publication in the journal Current Biology adds to our understanding of how healthy bodies are maintained, as cell migration is crucial to the…
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…
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…
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…
July 1, 2023
New appointments show that CSB is building and broadening
CSB is building on excellence and broadening our research thanks to two recent appointment by the University of Toronto. Congratulations, Professor Plotnikov! On July 1st, our colleague Sergey Plotnikov received tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor.Plotnikov is a world leading researcher,…
May 18, 2023
CSB Researchers earn multiple NSERC awards
Congratulations to Professors in CSB who earned NSERC Discovery and NSERC-RTI grants! NSERC Discovery Grants The Discovery Grant program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals. These grants recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.…
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…
August 2, 2022
Microscopic detectors of viscosity – Plotnikov lab collaboration reveals how cells measure fluid thickness and move faster despite resistance
Researchers at University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University have identified a specific cellular structure that allows cells to sense fluid thickness. In their recent Nature Physics article, the group explains how cells respond to thickened fluids and details the effect of viscosity on cell…
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