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And that's a wrap on 2025! We are closed from December 24th to January 2nd, to give us time to recoup, regroup, and return with a restored passion in the new year.
From all of us here at Donnelly, we wish you a happy, healthy, and wholly restful break. We'll see you back at the bench in 2026!
From all of us here at Donnelly, we wish you a happy, healthy, and wholly restful break. We'll see you back at the bench in 2026!
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And that's a wrap on 2025! We are closed from December 24th to January 2nd, to give us time to recoup, regroup, and return with a restored passion in the new year.
From all of us here at Donnelly, we wish you a happy, healthy, and wholly restful break. We'll see you back at the bench in 2026!
From all of us here at Donnelly, we wish you a happy, healthy, and wholly restful break. We'll see you back at the bench in 2026!
The Donnelly Centre is looking for a new team member!
We're hiring a Financial Assistant to help process a variety of activities and prepare information for budget planning and reporting.
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We're hiring a Financial Assistant to help process a variety of activities and prepare information for budget planning and reporting.
See below for more information: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Finance Assistant
Finance Assistant
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December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Donnelly Centre is looking for a new team member!
We're hiring a Financial Assistant to help process a variety of activities and prepare information for budget planning and reporting.
See below for more information: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
We're hiring a Financial Assistant to help process a variety of activities and prepare information for budget planning and reporting.
See below for more information: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
With snow covering the Donnelly Centre’s grounds, it's officially the season to take some time to appreciate family, friends, and the rest that comes with a much-deserved break! Read the holiday wishes of our director Stephane Angers 🇨🇦 below.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
With snow covering the Donnelly Centre’s grounds, it's officially the season to take some time to appreciate family, friends, and the rest that comes with a much-deserved break! Read the holiday wishes of our director Stephane Angers 🇨🇦 below.
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Our third installment in Donnelly's 20th Anniversary Retrospective Series covered Benjamin Blencowe and his lab!
Learn more about Blencowe's career-long investigation into alternative splicing in the most recent story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
Learn more about Blencowe's career-long investigation into alternative splicing in the most recent story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
December 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Our third installment in Donnelly's 20th Anniversary Retrospective Series covered Benjamin Blencowe and his lab!
Learn more about Blencowe's career-long investigation into alternative splicing in the most recent story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
Learn more about Blencowe's career-long investigation into alternative splicing in the most recent story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
When the first draft sequence of the human genome was published in 2001, scientists began to redirect their research questions to better reflect new understandings. Among them was Ben Blencowe, PI at the Donnelly Centre.
Full story available here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
Full story available here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
When the first draft sequence of the human genome was published in 2001, scientists began to redirect their research questions to better reflect new understandings. Among them was Ben Blencowe, PI at the Donnelly Centre.
Full story available here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
Full story available here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...
The Donnelly Centre has selected Molly Shoichet and Mikko Taipale as the winners of the 2025 Terrence Donnelly Innovation Award, funding $375,000 in support of research projects with a focus on knowledge mobilization and potential for commercialization.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Donnelly Centre has selected Molly Shoichet and Mikko Taipale as the winners of the 2025 Terrence Donnelly Innovation Award, funding $375,000 in support of research projects with a focus on knowledge mobilization and potential for commercialization.
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Today we're highlighting Gary Bader, who we recently interviewed for our 20-Year Anniversary retrospective series. Read the full story below:
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December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today we're highlighting Gary Bader, who we recently interviewed for our 20-Year Anniversary retrospective series. Read the full story below:
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Gary Bader was early in his career when he realized the widespread need to visualize biological pathway data. Learn about how he filled the gap with the visualization software platform Cytoscape.
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Get the full story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/power-d...
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Gary Bader was early in his career when he realized the widespread need to visualize biological pathway data. Learn about how he filled the gap with the visualization software platform Cytoscape.
Get the full story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/power-d...
Get the full story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/power-d...
Today we're highlighting Jack Greenblatt and the Greenblatt Lab, recently featured in the first instalment of our 10-part retrospective news series highlighting two decades of breakthroughs at the Donnelly Centre:
Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today we're highlighting Jack Greenblatt and the Greenblatt Lab, recently featured in the first instalment of our 10-part retrospective news series highlighting two decades of breakthroughs at the Donnelly Centre:
Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
A huge congratulations to Donnelly PI Philip Kim, for being awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair position in Machine Learning in Protein and Peptide Science!
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A huge congratulations to Donnelly PI Philip Kim, for being awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair position in Machine Learning in Protein and Peptide Science!
Two decades ago, the environment surrounding molecular biology was moving so quickly, University of Toronto professor Jack Greenblatt could only keep up if he predicted its direction.
Read the full story here [5-minute read]: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
Read the full story here [5-minute read]: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Two decades ago, the environment surrounding molecular biology was moving so quickly, University of Toronto professor Jack Greenblatt could only keep up if he predicted its direction.
Read the full story here [5-minute read]: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
Read the full story here [5-minute read]: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...
Our next Science Snapshot comes from the research of Ameer Sarwar, a PhD Candidate out of the Gillis Lab developing computational methods to improve and derive biological insights. This figure was in a paper recently published in Genome Biology, available here:
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November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our next Science Snapshot comes from the research of Ameer Sarwar, a PhD Candidate out of the Gillis Lab developing computational methods to improve and derive biological insights. This figure was in a paper recently published in Genome Biology, available here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Some of our favourite images from last Wednesday, courtesy of photographer Dewey Chang. Read the highlights of Donnelly's 20th Anniversary celebration here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Some of our favourite images from last Wednesday, courtesy of photographer Dewey Chang. Read the highlights of Donnelly's 20th Anniversary celebration here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...
Yesterday, we gathered in the Donnelly Centre atrium and raised a glass to an incredible milestone: the Donnelly Centre has served as a global hub of collaboration for twenty years!
Read about our celebration: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...
Read about our celebration: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Yesterday, we gathered in the Donnelly Centre atrium and raised a glass to an incredible milestone: the Donnelly Centre has served as a global hub of collaboration for twenty years!
Read about our celebration: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...
Read about our celebration: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...
Today, we're celebrating a two-decade milestone: on November 5th, 2005, we broke ground at the Donnelly Centre!
Thank you to everyone who has made Donnelly the building it is today!
Thank you to everyone who has made Donnelly the building it is today!
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today, we're celebrating a two-decade milestone: on November 5th, 2005, we broke ground at the Donnelly Centre!
Thank you to everyone who has made Donnelly the building it is today!
Thank you to everyone who has made Donnelly the building it is today!
The Donnelly Sequencing Centre team takes pride in two things: A uniquely quick turnaround time, and their ability to take on the difficult projects most sequencing centres refuse.
Read about the DSC in our most recent news story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/new-ins...
Read about the DSC in our most recent news story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/new-ins...
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Donnelly Sequencing Centre team takes pride in two things: A uniquely quick turnaround time, and their ability to take on the difficult projects most sequencing centres refuse.
Read about the DSC in our most recent news story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/new-ins...
Read about the DSC in our most recent news story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/new-ins...
Our latest snapshot comes from PhD student Cheng Xing, from the Bader Lab. This image shows a 3D reconstruction of human liver tissue, with a labelled map of four different organelles found in the sample.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Our latest snapshot comes from PhD student Cheng Xing, from the Bader Lab. This image shows a 3D reconstruction of human liver tissue, with a labelled map of four different organelles found in the sample.
Congratulations to this year's eight Yip Award winners! Read the full list of the 2025 awardees and their projects in this brief 2-minute read:
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The 2025 Yip Award winners' projects: from engineering Bioink to investigating the ribonucleosome
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October 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Congratulations to this year's eight Yip Award winners! Read the full list of the 2025 awardees and their projects in this brief 2-minute read:
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Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Athanasios Litsios of the Andrews-Boone Lab!
The Weill Institute at Cornell University hosted the select group of eight scholars for a symposium. Litsios presented "The spatiotemporal proteome of the eukaryotic cell division cycle."
The Weill Institute at Cornell University hosted the select group of eight scholars for a symposium. Litsios presented "The spatiotemporal proteome of the eukaryotic cell division cycle."
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Athanasios Litsios of the Andrews-Boone Lab!
The Weill Institute at Cornell University hosted the select group of eight scholars for a symposium. Litsios presented "The spatiotemporal proteome of the eukaryotic cell division cycle."
The Weill Institute at Cornell University hosted the select group of eight scholars for a symposium. Litsios presented "The spatiotemporal proteome of the eukaryotic cell division cycle."
From long non-coding RNAs to metabolites, read about the individual research of awardees Oliver (Lingfeng) Ma, Jeremy Chan, and Kenny Rebelo.
Learn more in the latest story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2025-do...
Learn more in the latest story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2025-do...
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
From long non-coding RNAs to metabolites, read about the individual research of awardees Oliver (Lingfeng) Ma, Jeremy Chan, and Kenny Rebelo.
Learn more in the latest story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2025-do...
Learn more in the latest story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2025-do...
We interviewed Dr. Derek van der Kooy for our latest news story "Mimicking the brain’s natural firing patterns could be the next phase of neural mapping" available to read here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/mimicki...
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We interviewed Dr. Derek van der Kooy for our latest news story "Mimicking the brain’s natural firing patterns could be the next phase of neural mapping" available to read here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/mimicki...
A group of University of Toronto researchers are exploring past the status quo of optogenetic stimulation, into an approach that mimics our brain's natural firing patterns.
Read about it on our website: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/mimicki...
Read about it on our website: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/mimicki...
Mimicking the brain’s natural firing patterns could be the next phase of neural mapping
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October 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A group of University of Toronto researchers are exploring past the status quo of optogenetic stimulation, into an approach that mimics our brain's natural firing patterns.
Read about it on our website: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/mimicki...
Read about it on our website: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/mimicki...
Last Friday, the CBC interviewed Dr. Artem Babaian about how American funding cuts have impacted his research at the Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms (RNAlab) at Donnelly.
Listen to the full 8-minute interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen to the full 8-minute interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Last Friday, the CBC interviewed Dr. Artem Babaian about how American funding cuts have impacted his research at the Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms (RNAlab) at Donnelly.
Listen to the full 8-minute interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen to the full 8-minute interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
The Donnelly Centre is thrilled to welcome Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani to our community! Read about his journey, his research, and his plans for the future in our most recent article:
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How Khalid Al-Zahrani will shape his space at the Donnelly Centre
Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani’s new lab at the University of Toronto will use novel CRISPR applications and functional genomics to identify the genes that drive cancer growth, and develop targeted therapies. ...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Donnelly Centre is thrilled to welcome Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani to our community! Read about his journey, his research, and his plans for the future in our most recent article:
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A warm welcome to Donnelly's newest Faculty member, Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani! Our next news story will talk about his research and his journey; from elementary school trips to Canada Science and Technology Museum, to the first time he did bench work.
September 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A warm welcome to Donnelly's newest Faculty member, Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani! Our next news story will talk about his research and his journey; from elementary school trips to Canada Science and Technology Museum, to the first time he did bench work.