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New opportunity posted: Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement – University of British Columbia
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Congratulations to Reham Alsaadi (University of Ottawa) for winning the PRinCE Jason Young award at the CSMB 2025 meeting - Félicitations à Reham Alsaadi (Université d'Ottawa) pour avoir remporté le prix PRinCE Jason Young lors du congrès 2025.

Congratulations to Mashiat Zaman, Matthew Berg, and Andrey Petropavlovskiy for winning the best presentation award at the CSMB 2025 meeting. - Félicitations à Mashiat Zaman, Matthew Berg et Andrey Petropavlovskiy qui ont remporté des prix de la meilleure présentation lors de congrès SCBM 2025.

Congratulations to all the trainees who won the CSMB 2025 poster awards.Félicitations à tous les étudiants et stagiaires qui ont remporté des prix pour les posters de la CSMB 2025

Congratulations to all the trainees who won the CSMB 2025 travel awards. Bravo à tous les étudiants et stagiaires qui ont gagné les prix de voyage de la CSMB 2025.

Dr. P. Lynne Howell, winner of the 2025 CSMB Jeanne Manery-Fisher Memorial award. Dr. Howell is a Senior Scientist in the Program in Molecular Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children and a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto.

Dr. Schimmer’s clinical practice is focused on treating patients with acute leukemia and related disorders. His laboratory research focuses on developing new therapeutic strategies for leukemia

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Schimmer, winner of the 2025 Canadian Science Publishing Senior Investigator Award. Dr. Schimmer is the Director of Research, a Senior Scientist and a Staff Physician at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto.

Congratulations to Dr. Heather E. McFarlane, winner of the 2025 CSMB New Investigator award. Dr. McFarlane is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Plant Cell Biology at the University of Toronto. She studies plant cell wall synthesis, secretion, signaling, and remodeling.

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Dr. Rainey’s research contributions in the molecular biosciences span structural biology, protein engineering, physical biochemistry, and biomaterials science. Dr. Rainey served as a long time Treasurer for CSMB (2016 to 2024).

Introducing Dr. Jan Rainey - 2025 CSMB Fellow. Dr. Jan Rainey is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University.

He has played a leading role in identifying new plasma membrane and organellar isoforms of the mammalian alkali cation/proton exchanger SLC9 gene family. Dr. Orlowski is a former President of CSMB. He has made many significant contributions to mentorship activities.

Introducing Dr. John Orlowski - 2025 CSMB Fellow. He is a Distinguished James McGill Professor and former Chair of the Department of Physiology at McGill University.

She is an accomplished scholar-activist and public intellectual in Canada, especially with respect to the integration of principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion into research cultures.

Introducing Dr. Imogen Coe - 2025 CSMB Fellow. She is Professor of Chemistry and Biology at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and an affiliate scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is an active researcher and academic leader. She served as CSMB President 2020-2022.

CSMB congratulates the 2025 CSMB Fellows for their excellent scientific accomplishments, as well as their exceptional and sustained service to CSMB and to the general molecular biosciences community in Canada: Dr. Imogen Coe, Dr. John Orlowski, and Dr. Jan Rainey. csmb-scbm.ca/first-cohort...

Jyh-Yeuan (Eric) Lee, Mireille Ouimet, Maxime Rousseaux, Gilda Stefanelli, Martin Duennwald, Walid A. Houry, Dale Martin, Maria Vera Ugalde, Hilla Weidberg, Danny Farhat, Veronica Grybas, Gonca Gursu, Fatemeh Rezaei, Kadambari Vijay Sai, Jenny Zhang, Sandra Youssef, & Karanveer Johal

Thank you to all the organizers of the CSMB 2025 meeting in Ottawa / Merci aux organisateurs du congrès 2025 à Ottawa:

A very exciting and successful meeting at the 2025 CSMB annual conference held at the University of Ottawa (May 26-29 ) - La conférence annuelle 2025 de la SCBM, qui s'est tenue à l'Université d'Ottawa du 26 au 29 mai, a été une grande réussite!
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CSMB Board meeting (May 26). Board members planning the future activities of the Society.
Réunion du conseil d'administration de la SCBM (26 mai). Les membres du Conseil planifient les activités futures de la Société.

We are hiring! We are looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We seek candidates with expertise in classic and/or emerging invertebrate models or innovative cellular systems (e.g., organoids, 3D cultures). @csmb-scbm.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social
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🤔 Are you unsure what jobs you can get with your molecular biosciences degree, other than research? Then join the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social next Thursday, June 19, for our next webinar where we'll hear from three scientists with jobs in scientific writing!

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Fantastic Careers and where to find them Event – Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences Promoting and advancing molecular understanding of biology

Fantastic Careers and Where to Find Them
The CSMB Trainee committee is proud to announce a career development session hosted by the CSMB and Canadian Science Publishing, June 19th, 2025, at 2PM ET. Scan the QR code to register! csmb-scbm.ca/fantastic-ca...

Yesterday, the 2025 CSMB-PRinCE joint meeting in Ottawa wrapped up. It was a great conference with exciting talks from both trainees and PIs. We definitely learned a lot! The future of molecular biosciences in Canada is bright!

See you all next year in Banff! @csmb-scbm.bsky.social

We had a great board meeting last week, discussing opportunities to promote Molecular biosciences in Canada! Thank you to all our board members for their engagement.

New job offer: Postdoctoral Fellow – Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Engineering For Biomedical Applications at Dalhousie University csmb-scbm.ca/postdoctoral... #ScienceJobs

Last talk in this session is from Laura Hulea @laurahulea.bsky.social who is telling us about eIF4A-dependent translation programs in leukemia

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Next up, we have our first trainee talk for this session from Ashwin D'Souza from Dr. Julie Brill's lab @sickkidsto.bsky.social who is telling us about Osbp and PI4KII and secretory granule biogenesis. The microscopy images are beautiful 😍🔬

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