In collaboration with the Yoshioka, Provart, and Desveaux labs, the McFarLab has been awarded funding from the NSERC Research Tools and Instruments program to revitalize critical infrastructure in the department.

You can read more about the award in the news post on the CSB website.

Heather has been granted an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. The Early Researcher Awards program provides funding to new researchers working at publicly funded Ontario research institutions to build a research team and will fund a graduate student position and several undergrad positions in the coming years. Undergrads should check CLNX for open work-study positions in the McFarLab.

The McFarLab welcomes nine (9!) summer undergraduate students to the lab this week:

Terrence Amponsah joins the group as a BCB430 student to add new functions to one of our image analysis macros for ImageJ.

Rowan Brookman will continue his summer NSERC-USRA and CSB498 project work as a UTEA winner.

Lella Erceg has transitioned from being a volunteer to a CSB498 project student.

Eskandar Mohammad joins the group as our new summer work-study student.

Li Quan Soh has joined the group as a BCB330 student to conduct network analysis of cell wall glycoproteins.

Leonardo Tullo joins the group as a new volunteer student working with Eduardo.

Rylan Vincent will be working virtually while he also conducts a CSB397 research abroad project.

Carlos Wang will continue volunteering virtually and working on his meta-analysis project.

Vicky Zhu has transitioned from being our fall-winter work study student to having a project of her own as a CSB URA winner.

Welcome to the McFarLab, everyone!

If you’re wondering how these students came to join the group, check out the info on joining the McFarLab team. (hint: Rowan, Eskandar, and Rylan have all participated in the CSB Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Focus Program!)

Today, we welcome another BSc student, Rylan Vincent, to the McFarlab. Rylan is a 3^rd year undergraduate student, double majoring in Cell and Molecular Biology: Focus in Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and he will join Eduardo’s project.

This week, Hongyu (Vicky) Zhu joins the lab as an undergraduate work-study student.  She will help us keep the lab in good working order, so we’re excited to have her as part of the McFarLab team!

This week, the McFarLab welcomes new undergraduate students to the lab for the fall & winter terms.  Carlos Wang will continue volunteering virtually and working on his meta-analysis project, Lella Erceg joins the lab as a volunteer and will work with Raegan on developing and evaluating real-time sensors of cell wall signalling.  Rowan Brookman will continue his summer NSERC-USRA project as a CSB498 student.

Two new grad students join the lab today: Jenny and Yu.  Jenny Huang recently completed her BSc in Pharmacology & Toxicology at U of T and has re-joined the McFarLab as an MSc student. Jenny will study cell wall glycoproteins.

Yu Zhu comes to us after completing his BSc at China Agricultural University and an MSc at Fudan University in China and joins the McFarLab as a PhD student.  Yu project will focus on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of cell wall signaling.