Cameron Parro has been awarded the Janssen Graduate Award for Equity & Inclusion, an annual award recognizing a graduate student in health sciences or neuroscience within the Department of Cell & Systems Biology based on academic merit.

Pauline Shen has been awarded an SGS Conference Grant from the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies in support of her research presentation at the 2025 Zebrafish Neurobiology Conference.

Oscar has been recognized at the Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD) for his outstanding research presentation. This award highlights his excellent communication skills and innovative contributions to undergraduate research. Congratulations!

Altered locomotion and anxiety after exposure to SiO2 nanoparticles in larval zebrafish. https://rdcu.be/enz92 This work opens up our long-term collaboration with Kai Huang, where we assess the impact of nanoparticles on the nervous system for future nano medicine development.

This summer, Yapeng will be using our 3D virtual reality system to dissect neural mechanisms of spatial navigation using zebrafish, supported by a UTEA. Congratulations! *This cool VR system was developed by Toby Yang, who was a CSB498 student.

Ahmed has just been selected as a recipient of the 2024-25 CSB TA Teaching Excellence Award for his outstanding work in BIO130H1. He was nominated by students in this course. Congratulations!

See the news here: https://braincanada.ca/announcements/brain-canada-grants-2-1-million-to-early-career-researchers-nationwide/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7241866011694571520/

We are thrilled to announce that Asia Anwary has been awarded the Best Poster at the CSB Undergraduate Research Poster Session 2024. Asia embarked on her research journey in our lab as a CSB498Y student. Asia’s project explored spatial navigation in juvenile zebrafish, investigating how they learn and utilize spatial information in changing environments. Her…

Congratulations to Ashenafee Mandefro for receiving admission to U of T Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) Program, Data Science for Biology Concentration, starting in the fall of 2024! Ash is a 4th year undergraduate at UofT, a Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Specialist. Since September 2023, he has been working on his BCB430 project, and developing…

A fantastic piece designed by our talented summer student Michelle Sun (with ESROP and CSB USRA)! It summarizes well our lab life. Thank you!