Today, our diverse #UofT community came together to launch Defy Gravity, a bold new fundraising & alumni engagement campaign that will help us create a healthier & more inclusive world. 🌎 #UofTDefyGravity Learn more about #UofT's Defy Gravity campaign: uoft.me/dfg

📢I’m #hiring a Research Assistant in Cell Biology & Biochemistry🔬🧫🦠⚗️🧪🧬. Know anyone who might be interested? linkedin.com/jobs/view/2846… #CellBiology #Microscopy #Biochemistry #molecularbiology Please RT 🙏

So happy to share the excitement and congratulate Ana Pasapera @ana_pasapera on her daughter graduation from the nursing school!!!!

Mark your calendars and start planning your trip to join us this year --- IN PERSON! Dec 3-7 in Washington, DC #cellbio2022 ascb.org/cellbio2022/

Dear all, I am thrilled to announce that I along with Prof. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez @RFG_Lab ( quantmorph.ca)and Prof. Lance Davidson (mechmorpho.org) will be organizing an online Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series.

Join us tomorrow 2-3PM for a talk by Dr. Jennifer Mitchell Mitchell Lab on how external award applications are being reviewed. Snacks & drinks will be provided! Sign up through this QR code that links to a google form. See you there!

Researchers identify how #cells move faster through mucus than blood Nature Physics phys.org/news/2022-07-c…

Researchers from U of T Arts & Science, Johns Hopkins University & Vanderbilt University identify how cells move faster through mucus than blood #UofT 🔬 uoft.me/89W

It was fun and great experience to work with Yun Chen group on the project on viscosity sensing by cells. Our paper is out in Nature Physics: nature.com/articles/s4156… Congrats to Yun, Matt, Ernest (Ernest Iu), and everyone else on the team! It was great collaboration!

Pimp your cells! Calcium protects cells from shear stress-induced damage during #bioprinting. Excited to share our paper BF, doi.org/10.1088/1758-5…. Great work by Lena Fischer, many thanks Ben Fabry, Rainer Detsch, EngelLab, TRR225Biofab!

Don't forget to register and submit an abstract for this years ASMB Fibroblast Workshop! Abstract deadline to be considered for a selected talk is next Friday (19th). For more information visit: asmb.memberclicks.net/fibroblast-wor…

It is exciting to host Adam Martin Adam Martin in Toronto today!

We offer a postdoc position in Active-Matter Physics and Machine Learning at LMU Munich. Please share or apply. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/e3e…

Tony Harris giving an amazing talk to the Victoria College undergrads on how to get research experience. Great seminar series organized by Alex Bogatch.

I learned today that the warranty for Baker biosafety cabinets starts on the day of manufacturing, not the day of purchase or installation. If you get a brand new Baker BSC that was sitting in a warehouse for a year, you lose a year of warranty although paying full price 😠

Just received a conformation that I’ve been promoted to Associate Prof with tenure. Grateful for the support of my colleagues and excited to continue research at UofT. Most importantly, I would never achieve it without my amazing lab members and collaborators. Thank you so much!

If is such a pleasure to host Matthieu Piel for the CSB Research Day

New paper🚨: Ever wonder how plants talk to fungi? When plants are low on phosphate (Pi), they exude #Strigolactones (SLs) in soil to obtain Pi from microbes. We show a broad range of fungi in soil respond to SLs 👇 Is the SL response in fungi conserved? authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsQB3vVUPRm…

Excited to share our latest work on how Ca²⁺ regulates actin in cell protrusions - now available as a preprint on bioRxiv! 🎉 Huge congrats to Ernest Iu for leading the project, and a special thanks to our amazing collaborators! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A real pleasure to host Martin Schwartz Toronto as the external examiner for Fernando Valencia’s PhD defense. Congratulations, Dr. Valencia!