June 23, 2022
Long-term Research at CSB supported by NSERC Discovery Grants 2022
Congratulations to five researchers at CSB who have earned Discovery Grants starting in 2022 from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). This program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals over five years rather than supporting a single short-term…
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…
December 17, 2021
Tropepe lab reveals reduced photoreceptor integrity underlying Usher Syndrome
Dr Amanda Miles of the Tropepe lab shows that "Usher syndrome type 1-associated gene, pcdh15b, is required for photoreceptor structural integrity in zebrafish" in the Dec 2021 issue of Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM). Zebrafish protocadherin-15b (pcdh15b) is closest in sequence to the human…
January 14, 2021
Collaboration is key at CSB’s aquatic research facility
Amanda Miles’ PhD studies in Prof…
July 26, 2020
Building excellence in research and teaching: CSB’s new Chair Nicholas Provart
Professor Nick Provart likes building things; he even used his carpentry skills to expand his children’s treehouse while working from home (without losing any fingers). As the new Chair of the Department of Cell & Systems Biology (CSB), he now has the opportunity to build up the academic…
May 5, 2020
Prof Vince Tropepe’s lab using zebrafish as a vertebrate model for Usher Syndrome-linked blindness
CSB Chair Vincent Tropepe has received funding from Fighting Blindness Canada to conduct research using zebrafish to study Usher syndrome, a genetic condition that results in hearing and vision loss. Loss of vision in Usher syndrome is the result of retinal degeneration, but the mechanism through…