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! csb.utoronto.ca/event/csb-se...

ARIA 2025 is Toronto’s leading showcase of research and innovation. On November 13 at MTCC, explore applied R&D in AI, robotics, health tech and sustainability. Get a first look at the technologies shaping the future. Register: bit.ly/ARIA25 #ARIA2025 #UofT #UofTCompSci

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 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

‘The @utsc.utoronto.ca community has given me a lot’: Maydianne Andrade reflects on 25 years of research, leadership and impact 🔬 buff.ly/fE95KZ4 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork

Sign up for Backpack 2 Briefcase before September 30! Connect with alumni through networking events and learn about how an A&S degree can lead to exciting career paths. Register now: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/experiential-learning/backpack-2-briefcase-program

To celebrate National Postdoc's theme of communicating your science and research, we share advice and tips from our #SciCommConnect webinar which discussed practical ways to help researchers deliver their message. Find out more: thenode.biologists.com/scicommconne... #LovePostdocs #NPAW2025

Insights into sustainable agriculture provided in stimulating sessions featuring Prof Keiko Yoshioka at Climate Positive Energy Research Day csb.utoronto.ca/yoshioka-cli...

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...

"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do." ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.

NEW Researcher Profiles in Altmetric Altmetric tracks research items and where they are mentioned or cited online. Searching by researcher name wasn't a feature unless you imported your own from a repository or CRIS Today we are launching a global researcher search feature. 1/5

Arabidospis ... the last annual MASC (Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee) report (2024-2025) is available ! – Arabidopsis, arabidopsisresearch.org/masc-publica...

Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889

Welcome to Lansing, #GLPSC2025 attendees! PRI and @chooselansing.bsky.social are thrilled to host you for three days of networking, collaboration, and cutting-edge #plantscience at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference. Let’s expand horizons in plant science together! 🌍 #ChooseLansing

📬 The first edition of the IRN Insider is now in your inbox! Our monthly newsletter will highlight upcoming events, funding and research opportunities, and inspiring stories from researchers across the tri-campus. Take a look: buff.ly/OuhBeVc Subscribe: buff.ly/CbQDZC3 #UofTIRN #UofTIndigenous

University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...

Bikechain is your campus go-to for repairs, rentals & all things cycling (and yes, it’s open to the wider community too!). Celebrate the new school year at Bikechain’s back-to-school bike parade on Sept. 9. The ride departs from #UofT Student Commons at 3 p.m. on the St. George campus. 🚲 #MyUofT

17 #UofT faculty members elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 🍁 uoft.me/bOo

Prof Shelley Lumba will be part of a special screening of Ildikó Enyedi’s film Silent Friend at TIFF, which centres on a majestic Ginkgo biloba over the centuries At a post-film Q&A, Lumba will discuss her research on the ways plants silently interact with the world 🧪🌱 tiff.net/industry-slo...

Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish: www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Upcoming #UofTArtSci deadlines: 🔹Sept. 9: Last day to request Fall 2025 graduation 🔹Sept. 15: Recommended deadline for A&S students to arrive on campus 🔹Sept. 15: Last day to enrol in F&Y courses More details: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/dates-deadlines/academic-dates

The Royal Society of Canada has elected UofT Professor Daphne Goring as a Fellow of the Society! Goring is recognized for her fundamental research in key areas of plant biology, particularly plant sexual reproduction. Congratulations, Daphne! csb.utoronto.ca/daphne-gorin...

📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature #13: University of Manitoba Team members contribute to Aims 1 & 3 by discovering bioactive metabolites and mapping the genes and pathways behind them. We are lucky to have these dedicated researchers as a part of C-SPIRIT 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #PlantScience

We’re officially a registered non-profit! 🎉 This milestone opens doors to more impact, stronger partnerships & new ways to celebrate Black excellence in STEMM across Canada. 🚀 Stay connected, become a member & join us on this journey — we’re just getting started. 😉 #CBSN #BlackExcellenceInSTEMM

The @rheelab.bsky.social at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute is now #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how #nematodes respond to chemical and environmental cues as part of @c-spirit.org and @waliianhydro.bsky.social. 🪱 Apply now at: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs

In photos: #UofT kicks off fall term with move-in days, a clubs fair & first-day fun #MyUofT 📸 uoft.me/bts-photos

📢 The August 2025 issue of C-SPIRIT News is live! Inside: 🧪 Aim 4 blog post w/ Nicola Patron 🌍 Spotlight on University of Tsukuba 📚 New community papers 📅 Upcoming events and more! Read 👉 createsend.com/t/y-10BF2EE5... Sub 👉 forms.gle/MtFfdJoPaeWw... Learn more 👉 c-spirit.org #plantscience

Modelling sleep states in zebrafish, and conservation of multi-stage sleep in fish! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Submit your talk or poster abstract by 3 September for the ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 that is taking place in Philadelphia, US, 6–10 December 2025! 🧪 www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/... #LifeSciences #CellBiology #research #conference @ascbiology.bsky.social

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

"Postdoctoral Research in Plant Science at University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK *Application Deadline: 9/26/2025" Read more here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM750/post-doctoral-research-fellow-in-plant-science-fixed-term #PlantSciJobs

Anticipation & big dreams: Meet 5 new #UofT students #MyUofT 💙 uoft.me/bN3

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415... with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

This is just the first effort of our foray into cichlid behaviour and genetics! If you are interested in working on the evolution, genomics, and neurobiology of sleep and chronobiology @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social in beautiful Toronto, please reach out! shafer-lab.netlify.app

Welcome from UofT President and Cell & Systems Biology Professor Melanie Woodin!

#DYK: There are many funding opportunities open to #UofTArtSci students! Awards may be based on financial need, leadership, academic achievement and many other outstanding qualities. Learn about awards: bit.ly/3VaW7ds #MyUofT

📢 Calling all @utoronto.ca BRN faculty! Be featured on our Interactive Researcher Map – the first resource of its kind at #UofT and in Canada! By adding your profile, you'll increase the visibility of your research and strengthen your connection to the BRN 🤝🏽 buff.ly/uIWTDxk

🚨 Less than 1 week left to register for #GLPSC2025! Join us September 12–14 in Lansing, MI for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, and help expand the horizons of #plantscience across the Great Lakes region and beyond! ⏳ Register by August 31: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

Discover over 300 student clubs and organizations at U of T! Visit this year's Club's Fair on August 28 at Front Campus to find out more! Details: utsu.ca/orientation/ #MyUofT

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

CSB Professor Keiko Yoshioka and Nicole De Long (Vineland Research and Innovation Centre) shared insights on the future of sustainable food production and agriculture solutions at Climate Positive Energy Research Day cpe.utoronto.ca/highlights-f...

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Congratulations, Dr Natalie Hoffmann!

🧪🌱Plants started off as aquatic organisms. But how did they make the jump to land? The Christendat lab show in @molbioevol.bsky.social that SKL1 is necessary for chloroplast formation and this function is conserved in land plants from liverworts to flowering plants! www.utoronto.ca/news/researc...

Congratulations to Prof Shelley Lumba on earning the OlChemIm award from @ipgsa2025.bsky.social for “outstanding contributions to plant signaling research on strigolactone and seed germination”! 🧪🌱 csb.utoronto.ca/big-career-a...

Recruitment is now open for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral Programme. ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine experimental and computational approaches. www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos... 🧬🖥️🔬#postdocjob

Stella Jiaying Chen was singled out as one of the best plant biology 🧪 🌱 undergraduates in North America, earning the SURF fellowship from ASPB @aspbofficial.bsky.social to work in Professor Heather McFarlane’s lab @utoronto.ca for the Summer of 2025. csb.utoronto.ca/a-daring-app...

Discover MyRoad, a platform dedicated to research training and mentorship in the fields of obesity, diabetes, and cardiometabolic diseases. New opportunities are available this fall, including cohort-based training, travel awards, and health research exchange competitions. www.myroadplatform.ca/en