🇨🇭🔜🇨🇦 Stühle are on their way, and soon a husband will be too! 🥳

⁦@wbderry⁩ live at Grossman’s!

Excited to host this symposium on spatial biology The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) !

Dear Americans of All Other Races, Many of the protections you have in terms of medical autonomy & mandatory consent are directly related to Black Americans fighting against inhumane acts performed against us. It’s more than Tuskegee. It’s Henrietta Lacks, Vertus Hardiman, & more

I am excited to begin my new role as Director of the LTRI and Sinai Health VP Research! Lots of fantastic opportunities ahead. Today: we are hiring for 2 critical positions for the office: 1) Executive Assistant; 2) Scientific Communications Officer. Come join our team!!! 1/6

Big, exciting changes are afoot at the LTRI. gingraslab is at the helm and the future is bright! Join us in Toronto!

Mass extinctions☄️☠️ have shaped life on Earth🌍🌏🌎, but which species survive these events? In our new paper (Alex Schier @annika_nichols_ Walter Salzburger Lab), we find that being active during the night🌃🌕 might have conferred an advantage to vertebrates through mass extinctions

👇We are hiring! Prof in #Synthetic Biology or #Bioengineering

Bina Koterniak from the Calarco Lab Cell and Systems Biology is kicking off the first TAWM. Learn more about her work on "Tissue- and developmentally regulated splicing in C. elegans and a genome-wide search for microexons" Dec. 12th in the CCBR Red Room!

Rachel Webster from the Department of Molecular Genetics, U of T Derry and Kafri Labs will be sharing her work on how "CDK-4 regulates nucleolar size and anabolic metabolism at the cost of late life fitness in C. elegans" at TAWM. Learn more on Dec. 12th 4-5pm in the CCBR Red Room!

The next Toronto Area Worm Meeting is Jan 16th 4-5 pm in the CCBR Red Room. This session will feature a trainee talk by Sebastian Fuentes from ClaycombLabUT as well as lightning talks by Dr. Ahilya Sawh Ahilya Sawh, Dr. Peter Roy, Dr. Arneet Saltzman, and Dr. Brent Derry @wbderry!

The next Toronto Area Worm Meeting (TAWM) is Feb. 13th 4-5pm in the CCBR Red Room, featuring a talk by Dr. Ben Mulcahy from the Zhen Lab Department of Molecular Genetics, U of T!

Also speaking at the next TAWM meeting is Daniel Fusca, a PhD Candidate in the Cutter lab University of Toronto EEB! Check out our speaker spotlight on Daniel below.

Do fish sleep? Yes! (they also yawn) - Our work on the genetics of widespread temporal niche partitioning in cichlids: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Do you like Developmental Biology? like going to meetings in beautiful places? Are you Canadian or like hanging out w/ Canadians? If you answered yes to these question please save the date! The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology meeting will be held on May 25-28, 2025 in Kelowna

Postdoc positions in the Miguel Ramalho-Santos Lab! Please RT. Upcoming departure of several very successful lab members + new funding = postdoc positions! Exciting new avenues in mouse development, hypertranscription, dormancy and environment-epigenome interactions. mrsantoslab.org

Chromatin scientists, want to reorganize genomic loci as you wish? Out today in Cell--We made a tool that uses surface tension of engineered condensates to reposition DNA loci across microns of space in living cells in just a few minutes: VECTOR cell.com/cell/abstract/…

my hopes for gen z taking over the academic review process is that it will be matched for harshness, but at least more efficient

We are recruiting a colleague in the Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto. We are looking for an assistant professor in the broad area of functional genomics: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As… closing date is Jan 16, 2025 Donnelly Centre University of Toronto Temerty Medicine