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!

This Wednesday we shared our work at U of T Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD). Michelle gave an outstanding presentation on the virtual reality setup. Ambrose and Will discussed their idea of applying RNN in VR and won the best poster! Congratulations to everyone on your fantastic work! This marks our fruitful summer.

In the news: https://connaught.research.utoronto.ca/researchers https://csb.utoronto.ca/connaught-award-for-aquatic-vr-to-understand-neural-dynamics/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/university-of-toronto-cell-and-systems-biology_connaught-award-for-aquatic-vr-to-understand-activity-7135341806447194112-6jKB/

More details are here: https://csb.utoronto.ca/csb-researchers-earn-multiple-nserc-awards/

Congratulations to Bohan Yao for receiving his U of T Excellence Award (UTEA) which funds him to conduct research in Lin’s lab over the summer of 2023! He is a year-3 undergraduate in Cell and Molecular Biology at UofT, and he will be conducting research on the effects of fasting versus fed conditions on the…