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Advancing research and teaching in the most dynamic and vital areas of biological research
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January 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
🧪🪼 We are pleased to welcome Prof Brady Weissbourd of @picowerinstitute.bsky.social this Friday Jan 23 at 11am in RW432.
Join us to cogitate on “Mechanisms of robustness in jellyfish neural networks”
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January 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Join us this Friday as we welcome Prof Owen Tamplin @otamplin.bsky.social for his talk on “The blood stem cell microenvironment: development and function across the lifespan”. We look forward to seeing you at 11 am in RW432! csb.utoronto.ca/events/owen-...
January 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Happy New Year! 🥳 CSB Friday seminars resume Jan 9 with a fascinating talk by Prof Cheng Huang @huangchengwashu.bsky.social on “Decoding dopamine-mediated learning algorithms in the Drosophila brain”! 🧪🪰
Join us at 11am in RW432!
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January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
We are pleased to welcome Prof Christopher Grefen for his talk on “Insertion pathways for membrane proteins in the plant ER” this Friday, Dec 12. See you at 11am in RW432!
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December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We are pleased to welcome Prof Ingo Braasch @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social on Friday, Dec 5 for a fascinating talk on “A Blast From the Past: ‘Living Fossils’ Bridge Gene Regulation Across Long Evolutionary Distances in Vertebrates”! Join us at 11am in RW432 csb.utoronto.ca/events/csb-s...
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Join us tomorrow, Nov 28 as we welcome Prof Eurico Morais-de-Sá @polarityi3s.bsky.social for his talk on "From protein localization patterns to understanding how epithelial cells move and divide". See you in RW432 at 11am for this fascinating presentation!
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November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“Characterization of Immunity-Inducing Rhizobacteria Highlights Diversity in Plant–Microbe Interactions” by Mack Loranger in the Yoshioka Lab is the Editor’s Pick in @phytobiomesjournal.bsky.social! Congratulations! 🧪🌱 #PlantScience #SoilScience apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We are pleased to welcome Prof Mehran Dastmalchi @mehran-plantsci.bsky.social of @utscbiology.bsky.social this Friday, Nov 21 to hear how “An odd mutant phenotype yields “parts” for synthetic biology”.
Join at at 11am in RW432!
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November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Join us today (Nov 14) as we welcome Prof Hiroshi Maeda @hiroshi-maeda.bsky.social for his talk on “Tackling the complexity of plant metabolic network from Arabidopsis to Caryophyllales”. See you at 11am in RW432!
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join us today (Nov 7) at 11 am in RW432 for Prof Tatsuya Tsukahara‘s talk on “Sensory neuron plasticity sculpted by the internal and external world“ csb.utoronto.ca/events/csb-s...
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Join us Friday, Oct 24 as we welcome Prof David Bilder of UCBerkeley for his talk on “Invertebrate oncology: tumor-host interactions in the Drosophila model“. 🧪🪰
See you in RW432 at 11 am!
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October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We are pleased to welcome
Prof Marcela Rojas-Pierce on Friday, Oct 17 for her talk on “Phosphorylation in stomatal vacuole fusion and target protein degradation in plants” 🧪🌱
Join us at 11am in RW432!
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We are pleased to welcome Prof Kristen Lynch for her talk on “Tuning Immune Response Through RNA Processing”
Please join Cell & Systems Biology on Friday Oct 10 in RW432 at 11am for this riveting presentation!
October 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Join us Friday, Oct 3 in welcoming Prof Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social to speak on “Molecular and mechanical basis for collective cell migration”. We will be meeting at 11am in RW432. See you there! csb.utoronto.ca/event/csb-se...
September 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis.
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis
#SystemsBiology
#ScienceJobs
September 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Join Cell & Systems Biology on Friday, Sept 26 for “Into the wild and digital: Virus hunting beyond the traditional” from Prof Paul Rivarez @viromehunter.bsky.social. See you in RW432 at 11 am!

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September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Join us Friday, Sept 19th at 11am as we welcome Dr Xiaolan Zhang of the College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University to speak on “New components in the CLAVATA signaling pathway to control shoot apical meristem size” csb.utoronto.ca/event/csb-se...
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#DYK there is #SciArt on display around the CSB Buildings @utoronto.ca?
Keep your eyes open for gorgeous images created by our @uoftartsci.bsky.social students, from their research and as artwork
You can also view these images in our online gallery!
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July 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Do you want to earn a trip to Berlin to present at an international meeting?
Will you showcase a
breakthrough that creates a positive impact on science and society?
An idea that will shake the world?
Apply now for Falling Walls Lab Toronto 2025!
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July 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Last week’s CSB Research Day 2025 was full of learning, with fascinating presentations by our students!
🏆 Brittany Dugan 🧪🧠 (Peever lab) and Phoebe Bhagoutie 🧪🪱 (Saltzman lab) were judged as giving the Best Oral Presentations. Congratulations!
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May 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We’re grateful to Prof Costin Antonescu @costinant.bsky.social of @torontometsci.bsky.social for his enlightening keynote talk on “Receptor signaling at the nanoscale: how organization of signals at the plasma membrane regulate signaling specificity and outcome”
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It’s CSB Research Day! Looking forward to fascinating talks from CSB grad students
May 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We look forward to welcoming Prof Liwen Jiang of CUHK for his talk on “Organelle Biogenesis and Function in Plants”! Join us Friday, May 2 in RW432
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April 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Please join us Friday Apr 25 as we welcome Prof Auinash Kalsotra @kalsotra-lab.bsky.social of @mcbillinois.bsky.social for his talk on “Post-transcriptional control of cell plasticity in tissue development, regeneration, and disease”.
See you in RW432 at 11am!
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April 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM