New funding support for the McFarLab from NSERC
Heather has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant and a Discovery Launch Supplement to support the ongoing research program in the McFarLab.
Category: Congrats
Raegan awarded an NSERC CGS-M
Raegan has been awarded a prestigious national scholarship, an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship at the masters level, to support her research in the McFarLab.
From the CGS-M website: “The objective of the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS M) program is to help develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate and early graduate studies.” Congratulations Raegan!
Jenny awarded an NSERC USRA
Jenny has been awarded a highly competitive NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award to conduct a summer research project in the lab. Jenny has been volunteering in the McFarLab since last year and we’re excited that she’ll be around this summer to conduct an independent research project!
Hsiang-Wen’s review among the top five highly cited articles of 2019
Physiologia Plantarum has named its top five most highly cited articles for 2019, and the review article by Hsiang-Wen Chen (PhD candidate co-supervised at the University of Melbourne) has made the list!
Hsiang-Wen wrote “Cellulose synthesis during cell plate assembly” at the beginning of her PhD studies to tackle questions about the cell plate, the new cell wall that develops between dividing plant cells.
Congratulations, Hsiang-Wen!
Natalie wins award for best talk!
Natalie was awarded the Canadian Society for Plant Biology Eastern Regional Director’s Award for best talk at the meeting on Saturday. She did a fantastic job of speaking about her MSc project in Lacey Samuels’ lab at UBC. Natalie shared the honour (and cash prize!) with Victoria Lesy from Joe Colasanti’s lab at Guelph.
Natalie has been awarded an NSERC Scholarship!
Natalie has been awarded a prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship to support her PhD studies in the McFarLab.
From the CGS-D website: “The CGS D program supports high-calibre students engaged in doctoral programs in all academic disciplines. This support allows scholars to fully concentrate on their doctoral studies, to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields and contribute to the Canadian research ecosystem during and beyond the tenure of their awards.“
Congratulations Natalie!
Happy Birthday McFarlane Lab
Today is our first day at the Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto (and also marks Heather’s appointment as a Canada Research Chair in Plant Cell Biology).