When researchers published the full genome sequence of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 1996, the Boone-Andrews Lab saw the finish line: a complete, global genetic interaction network map. Read our research retrospective in Donnelly News! thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/yeast-g...

Congratulations to our winners of the 2026 Dorrington Graduate Research Award! This year, Ali Fathi, Jacob L. Fine, and Levon Tokmakjian join the growing list of exemplary graduate students supported by the Dorrington family during their studies. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

Genetic code similarity does not tell the full evolutionary story. A new study by Donnelly researchers in the Blencowe Lab has illuminated a potentially frequent mechanism that generates evolutionary divergence between primate species: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

This research highlight showcases the work of Igor Stagljar, who was recently interviewed by Donnelly News for the story "Stagljar Lab collaboration identifies CLIC1: a potential therapeutic target for glioblastoma" Read the full news piece below: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/staglja...

Our 20th Anniversary Symposium was a day of celebration and an invitation to reflect on how far we've come as a centre! Relive the day with our post-symposium coverage in the latest piece in Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/looking...

Glioblastoma is the deadliest form of brain cancer, and there is a high demand to understand the biology of the signalling involved in the disease. The Stagljar Lab in the Donnelly Centre has found a new potential therapeutic target for glioblastoma: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/staglja...

Byu Ri Sim is the winner of the 2026 Jennifer Comyn Graduate Award for Cancer Research! Byu Ri is investigating how the hyperactive pathway signalling behind colorectal cancer cells can be exploited to identify new therapeutic avenues. Read more here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2026-je...

We are looking to hire a Financial Administrator! Our financial team provides a wide range of analysis, reporting, and administration, as they oversee the building's research grants, financial statements, discrepancies, and financial reports. Learn more below: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Congratulations to Donnelly PI Gary Bader, for receiving a Connaught Innovation Award! Read about all the 2025-26 Connaught Innovation Award winners in U of T Celebrates: www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/1...

We're beyond happy to announce that molecular geneticist and RNA biologist Syed Nabeel Haider Shah is this year's Charles H. Best Fellow! Read about his research in the latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/Syed-Na...

Today we're highlighting Henry Krause's lab, which was recently featured in our latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/krause-...

The Krause Lab has discovered a new potential treatment avenue for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Read the full story in our latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/krause-...

This Science Snapshot comes from a bench in the Shoichet Lab:

Congratulations to Stephane Angers and all the hard-working teams funded by Genome Canada's Genomic Application Partnership Program! Angers will be the academic leader alongside Tracy Stone, Director of ProteinQure, in this GAPP-funded project: www.ontariogenomics.ca/awarded-proj...

When faced with a mountain of gene expression data, reducing the computational complexity for analyzing a cell’s RNA transcripts is an invaluable development. Read about how our researchers accomplished it in our latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/bader-l...

Our 2025 Annual Report is now available! This magazine-style report showcases our most popular research stories and news highlights, in addition to covering a breakdown of our faculty, students, awards, and funding. Read the 2025 Annual Report now: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

Yesterday, the Donnelly Centre welcomed potential future scientists to our building! Andy Fraser and Jovana Drinjakovic toured a local middle school group from King Edward Junior and Senior Public School, teaching them about the exciting work we do beneath the Donnelly roof!

The Donnelly Centre is hiring a new Research and Communications Officer! As a vital part of our administration team, this role covers the external and internal communications of our community. Learn more about the role and apply at the link below: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

A huge congratulations to the six Donnelly Centre labs that received funding through CIHR's Project Grant Program! Read about the funded labs and projects in our most recent piece in Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

Congratulations to Donnelly Centre PI @johnomix.bsky.social, for receiving the Connaught New Researcher Award! The funding will go towards the Morris Lab, for the project "Identification of causal genetic variation and genes for human bone health"

Research can take many forms. As a part of our 20th Anniversary Retrospective series, we sat down with Donnelly PI Mikko Taipale, to talk about his 2020 paper “An efficient KRAB domain for CRISPRi applications in human cells” Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/how-sid...

Today we're highlighting the research of Donnelly's newest faculty member, Ashley Libby! Read about Libby's work in our most recent story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/chicken...

Please give a warm welcome to Donnelly's newest faculty member, Dr. Ashley Libby! Learn why she was drawn to the domesticated chicken as a system model, and discover the research the Libby Lab will be tackling at the Donnelly in our most recent story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/chicken...

Welcome back to the bench! The Donnelly Centre is officially open for 2026, and we're so excited to see how our community's research develops in the new year. This photo shows the Spirit of Discovery statue outside the Donnelly building, dressed for the winter weather!

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!

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-...

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. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/winter-...

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...

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...

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. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

Today we're highlighting Gary Bader, who we recently interviewed for our 20-Year Anniversary retrospective series. Read the full story below: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/power-d...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2025-yi...

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."

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...

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...

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-...

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: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/how-don...

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.

Have you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain of a hackathon? Our most recent article covers everything, from the creation of the winning projects to the private judging deliberations. Read it here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/anatomy...