Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)
Advancing research and teaching in the most dynamic and vital areas of biological research
- Fascinating to see these plans for our new home! We’ve been grateful that renovations have updated our current 50+ year old buildings. Now we’re eager for construction to start so we can have purpose built 21st century lab space! urbantoronto.ca/news/2026/02...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)What does university feel like in an age of AI & accelerating change? In our first-ever student issue , 🎒 #UofT students reflect on uncertainty and hope — from setbacks to finding community — and how it’s shaping life after graduation. ➡️ magazine.utoronto.ca
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Looking for an academic job? Check out GetHIRED! from @socdevbio.bsky.social! This course provides expert advice and stories from leading investigators and reading and writing assignments that guide you through preparing all your job packet materials. www.sdbonline.org/gethired
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Feb. 26 | Annual #BHM Luncheon 2026 Join the #UofT community for the annual tradition of celebrating #BlackExcellence while providing a welcoming & inclusive community space. ⏰ 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. 📍 Hart House More info ➡️ bit.ly/4qcHQKx
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)📬 Our January 2026 C-SPIRIT newsletter is out now! Featuring a new Aim 6 blogpost, recent member publications, upcoming events, and more. 🌱 Read it here: msunatsci.createsend1.com/t/y-e-awultd... Subscribe: forms.gle/hWQycasrts2m... #PlantScience
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Naidoo, Tam, and Harris @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social show that, over the early #Drosophila embryo, a composite of actomyosin and plasma membrane folds conveys cortical tension, and regulation involves PM topography modulation by Arp2/3. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Actin #Cytoskeleton #Development
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Cell Bio 2026 is built by scientists, for scientists—and it starts with your ideas. Submit a scientific session proposal and help shape the program. 🗓 Deadline: February 22, 2026 ascb.org/cellbio2026/
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)#UofT ranked 1st in Canada, among top 30 globally, in all subjects: Times Higher Education 🍁 uoft.me/c7J
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Senior Scientist – Translational Genomics, Translational Medicine AstraZeneca - Cambridge, UK Read the full job description and apply⤵️ jobrxiv.org/job/senior-s... #ScienceJobs
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Sr. Scientist, Biology AstraZeneca - Hamilton, Canada Read the full job description and apply⤵️ jobrxiv.org/job/sr-scien... #ScienceJobs
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)How do we get molecules where they need to be, when they need to be there? Molly Shoichet, a #UofT University Professor & cell and tissue engineer is making a difference in human health. 👩🔬 uoft.me/shoichet-m
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)🌈 Download JCB's CELLULAR DIVERSITY poster! 📩 Sign up to receive our future special collections and download this beautiful artwork by Bianca Dunn to display at home or in the lab 👉 info.rupress.org/jcb-collecti...
- CSB has amazing undergrads! A BCB project student in the @bar-plantbio.bsky.social lab developed a visualizer for the Oat Pangenome, leading to a paper in Nature! csb.utoronto.ca/bcb-undergra...
- This video provides a nice summary of the work they did!
- Full details from this international collaboration to map the Oat Pangenome can be found in the @nature.com paper. This is a technical tour-de-force that tackles gene-expression diversity in the allohexaploid oat pangenome! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)On Jan 27, join us for a Fireside Chat: International Students: Life After Graduation. We will screen a short documentary that follows six international students after graduation. A discuss featuring some of these students will follow. Register: uoft.me/c6R
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Abstracts submissions are open for Early Career Summer Conference 2026. Hear from invited speakers and network with fellow early career members between the 6—7 July. Registration opens 28 January: microb.io/ECConf26Abstracts #ECConf26
- 🧪🪼 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” csb.utoronto.ca/events/brady...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Join us on Monday, January 19, 2026 from 12 - 1 p.m. EDT for our first Seminar Series of 2026. Dr. Rayzel Shulman from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto will join us to discuss improving the transition to adult diabetes care. www.eventbrite.com/e/network-fo...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org Please share!
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)🚨 Don’t forget to add your fun fact about your favorite organism ‼️ Thank you to everyone who has already contributed 👏
- 🎁 Season of Sharing with the Society for Developmental Biology⭐️ This season, we’re inviting our community to share fun, bite-sized facts about their favorite organisms 🐸🐔🐟🪱🦋🐍 👉 Share yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)The Young Investigator Travel Award provides support for young researchers (postdoctoral researchers and graduate students) to attend SMBE2026. 📨 Award applications smbe2026.org/abstracts #SMBE2026
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Do you know a @utoronto.ca student interested in participating in our 2026 Summer Research and Training Program? ☀️ 🌟 Applications are due on January 30th! 🌟 healthypopulationsnetwork.utoronto.ca/nhp-summer-p...
- 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-...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution @smbe-idea.bsky.social 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Welcome back to campus for Winter 2026, #UofT! Happy New Year 💙
- 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! csb.utoronto.ca/events/cheng...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Happy holidays, #UofT 💙 The university will be closed from Dec. 24, 2025 to Jan. 2, 2026. To find resources for the U of T community, please visit utoronto.ca/utogether. We wish you a safe & restful winter break! ❄️
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)We were delighted to welcome our most recent Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows to our offices at @biologists.bsky.social for leadership training. Find out more about our PI fellows and how to apply here: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)We are #hiring! This IMPRS PhD project @algazuccaro.bsky.social group @unicologne.bsky.social explores plant–microbiome interactions. 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 5, 2025 ✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de ℹ️ IMPRS: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs 🔗 Group: ag-zuccaro.botanik.uni-koeln.de
- 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! csb.utoronto.ca/events/csb-s...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)From #AI to clean tech to life-saving health care breakthroughs, Ontario’s universities are developing future-ready talent, fuelling job growth & boosting the provincial economy. Learn more at ontariosuniversities.ca #ONpse
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Inside and out, this building is designed to shrink its carbon footprint while inspiring the next generation of researchers. U of T Magazine: UTM’s New Science Building is a model of sustainability 🌱 bit.ly/48gKBmX
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)‘Thank you all’: President Melanie A. Woodin releases first holiday message to the #UofT community 💙 uoft.me/holiday25
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/48JF6Pg
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)#UofT's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections @uoftlibraries.bsky.social is turning 70! Visit now until Dec. 23 for a special tour to mark the anniversary. 📖 bit.ly/70RB
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)From celebrating the history of vanilla to love advice in Sanskrit, #UofTArtSci community members published a diverse range of books in 2025. Add to your reading list: bit.ly/48UX9kD
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)#UofT geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar draws on billion-year-old water discovery to aid green energy transition 💧 uoft.me/rwib
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)In his year-end message, Interim Dean Stephen Wright extends his gratitude and wishes the #UofTArtSci community a restful holiday break. Read his holiday message here: www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/message...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
- 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...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants. Please share and get in touch if interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
- Congratulations to HMB professor Naomi Levy-Strumpf on earning the Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award from @utoronto.ca!
- 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! csb.utoronto.ca/events/csb-s...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Postdoc positions focused on gene editing using protoplasts and plant regeneration for genetic improvement of forest trees at NC State 🌳 jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
- 🚨Innovative paper alert! Ami Sangster in the Moses lab @utoronto.ca found that protein language models could identify features they weren’t trained on! Read for more on this discovery! 🧪💻 moses.csb.utoronto.ca/2025/11/24/e...
- Sangster’s paper in PLoS Comp Biol shows how “Zero-shot segmentation using embeddings from a protein language model identifies functional regions in the human proteome”! They apply zero-shot segmentation without training/fine-tuning, so can generalize to rare and poorly annotated protein segments!
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)The Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers provides up to $250K to new, Black-led research initiatives at @utoronto.ca driving innovative solutions to major research challenges. 🤝🏽 Coordinated by the Connaught Fund & BRN. The NOI deadline is Feb. 9, 2026: buff.ly/8mDhBH9 #UofT
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Dalhousie offers generous Killam scholarships for both Canadian and international students. My lab is looking for graduate students, and is an exciting opportunity, especially for folks looking to do science in an interesting part of the world.
- “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/...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few... Are you aware of others? 🧪 #plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity 🤜🤛 and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)💰DID WE MENTION THERE IS AN HONOURARIUM FOR SPEAKERS💰 #Seminar #Neuroscience #Canada #postdoc #research 🔵 Deadline: Nov. 21, 2025 🔵 More details: tinyurl.com/72dmv4f8 🔵 Application: tinyurl.com/4h5atuvb 🔵 Mailing list: forms.gle/CJEGWiQ8SvkZ... @canacn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)Attending CSPC 2025? Don’t miss the opening plenary, Canada at a Crossroads: Science, Technology, and Innovation in a Changing World at 1:10pm, Wed Nov 19. @sciencepolicy.ca #CPSC2025 www.sciencepolicyconference.ca
- Reposted by Cell & Systems Biology (CSB)We're hiring! My dept. is looking for a candidate with a research program focusing on plant systems. All areas of molecular and cellular biology research will be considered. Not sure if you'd fit? Reach out to me. Please share! #microsky
