Congratulations Natalie!
Natalie has won the Hilbert and Reta Straus Award here in CSB for her research achievement in plant cell and molecular biology.
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New paper in Trends in Plant Science
Eduardo’s spotlight review on the recent cryo-TEM structure of a higher plant cellulose synthase trimer is now available online at Trends in Plant Science. This paper highlights the structural information presented in Purushotham et al., 2020 Science and discusses the insights that these new data bring to our understanding of cellulose synthesis in higher plants.
New paper in PNAS
Our collaboration with Michael Sauer’s group at the University of Potsdam is now available online with PNAS. This work presents a comprehensive study of Epsin-like accessory proteins in Arabidopsis and reveals the existence of two independent, parallel transport pathways, which originate from spatially separate regions at the trans-Golgi Network.
Heather “visiting” UTM today
Heather is the (remote) invited seminar speaker at the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga today. She will update everyone on the recent research from the lab and join the graduate students for a virtual lunch.
New support for the McFarLab from the Connaught Fund
Heather has been granted a 2-year Connaught New Researcher Award to support the lab’s work on cell wall signalling.
Welcome Erik, Jenny, and Una!
Three new BSc project courses have started in the McFarLab. Erik is undertaking a remote BCB330 project as part of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program. Jenny and Una are conducting Cell & Systems Biology CSB498 projects in the lab. Welcome everyone!
Larissa awarded her MSc!
Larissa Machado Tobias (co-supervised with Gerd Bossinger and Antanas Spokevicius) has been awarded her MSc from the University of Melbourne. Larissa’s thesis received glowing comments from the reviewers and is currently in preparation for publication. She is continuing her scientific career as a lab technician in an industry setting. Congratulations Larissa!
Natalie’s paper now online with Plant Phys
Natalie’s latest paper, the culmination of her MSc project with Lacey Samuels at the University of British Columbia, is now available online with Plant Physiology. There have been exciting rumours about the cover image, so keep a lookout for the October issue of the journal!
Ben awarded his BSc!
Benjamin-Israel Moke has been awarded his BSc from the University of Toronto during the unique online convocation ceremony today. Ben has been a work-study student and volunteer in the McFarLab since September 2019. Next September, he will start life as a graduate student in CSB. Congratulations Ben!
Eduardo awarded a CONACYT PhD Scholarship!
Eduardo has been awarded CONACyT Beca de Posgrado en el Extranjero scholarship from the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology to fund his PhD studies. Congratulations Eduardo!