April 15, 2025
Gorgeous images win Nikon Small World Toronto competition
The winners of the Nikon Small World Toronto imaging competition have been announced! We are proud that the top three winners as determined by imaging facility managers at SickKids Hospital were from Cell & Systems Biology! These images exploited the newest Nikon AXR NSPARC point-scanning…
October 15, 2024
Drosophila embryo cells align under pressure through unusual cytoskeletal arrangements
The Harris Lab has discovered that the geometry of the fruit fly embryo creates a crystal-like tissue structure. This revelation was published in the prestigious journal Development as “Confinement promotes nematic alignment of spindle-shaped cells during Drosophila embryogenesis“. Professor Tony…
September 18, 2024
Putting a cap on the cortex in Drosophila embryo requires pull from the centrosome
The Harris lab has revealed unexpected details about the puppetmasters of the cell in a new paper from Rebecca Tam in Journal of Cell Biology. Centrosomes are organelles that send microtubule threads throughout the cell. Molecular motors pull on these threads to move cellular structures around…
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…
September 8, 2023
Congratulations 2023 Barrett Award winners!
Students in CSB397, 497, 498, 499 and the Research Opportunities Program presented posters describing their research at the…
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.…