📣CSMB Seminar Series is back in full swing!

Join us today at 8:30AM PST/11:30AM EST on Zoom for an exciting start to our Seminar Series! We will hear from two industry speakers on AI in science and technology:

1. Calvin Chan, Canadian Science Publishing
2. Danie Descoteaux, Elsevier🧪🥼

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Don't miss out on this great webinar where we'll hear from scientists who have found jobs in scientific writing. Sign up below!

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‪@csee-scee.bsky.social members—join us for a practical webinar on peer review, hosted by the @cdnsciencepub.com team. Learn how to write strong reviews and get involved as a future reviewer.

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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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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

Congratulations to postdoc Omid Gholamalamdari for presenting his work on nucleolar 💧 subcompartmentalization in C. elegans 🪱 at @csmb-scbm.bsky.social 👏

Thanks to the organizers for giving him this opportunity!

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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The awesome talks at the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social conference continue to roll on! Now we're hearing from Dr. Diane Haakonsen, a new PI at @sinaihealth.bsky.social, about the integrated stress response.

For the third talk in this session @csmb-scbm.bsky.social, we're hearing more about intrinsically disordered regions in the nucleolus from Omid Gholamalamdar, a postdoc in the Weber lab @weber-lab.bsky.social

#CSMB2025 in Ottawa’s been a blast so far! Thanks for the hospitality @csmb-scbm.bsky.social 😁

Next up is Ji-Young Youn @jiyoungyoun.bsky.social! We're hearing about her work using proteomics to study translation control, stress granules and intrinsically disordered proteins
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We're back for the last day of the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social 2025 conference and it's a wet day in Ottawa. We're in the "Translation regulation and RNA granules" session and we just had a really nice talk from Ethan Greenblatt @vancityflyguy.bsky.social about translation control during development 🪰

Huge thanks to the organizers of the @csmb-scbm.bsky.social meeting on proteostasis for giving us a chance to present our work. Awesome lineup of talks, the proteostasis field is healthy in Canada. Kudos to the federal agency reps for the discussion and for supporting biomedical research in Canada!

Last talk of the day at the 2025 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social conference comes from Dr. Rongmin Zhao @utsc.bsky.social telling us about ER-localized HSP90 in plants 🌱

We've been so amazed by the diversity of research going on in our community. It's awesome!

Next up, we're hearing more about glioblastoma from another trainee, Saeid Shahidi from @uhn.ca. Saeid is telling us about the role of mitochondria-associated membranes in the secretome and tumor progression.

Congratulations to Prof McFarlane on her New Investigator award. She is truly a rising star!

Second talk of this session at the 2025 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social conference is another trainee talk! Andrey Petropavlovskiy from the Sanders lab @uofguelph.bsky.social is tell us about ER stress-induced S-acylation of BiP in glioblastoma.

We're back after the break with Dr. Matthew Wohlever from the University of Pittsburgh. We're hearing about how Msp1 is the bouncer at the mitochondrial door. Our interest has been piqued 🤔

The final talk before the break is from Dr. Mojca Mattiazzi Usaj from @torontometsci.bsky.social who tells us about vacuolar pH and endocytosis during aging.

If you're not here @csmb-scbm.bsky.social, Dr. Mattiazzi will present at our monthly seminar on June 10 📆 Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw

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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Next up in this session @csmb-scbm.bsky.social, Dr. Kelly Kim from Michigan State University tells us about how tail-anchored proteins get targeted to the appropriate membrane.

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We're back for the afternoon session at the 2025 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social conference with the "Protein Trafficking and Mistargeting" session. Dr. Mike Downey from @uottawa.ca starts us off talking about polyP functions in bacteria 🦠

Discussing some tough topics re: Research in Canada at @csmb-scbm.bsky.social & PRinCE meeting.
Thank you to the panelists:

Catherine McLeod (Executive VP of CIHR)
Sylvain Charbonneau (President of CFI)
Michael Rowell (Director of Policy, U15)
Alison Evans (Research Canada President and CEO)

The first poster session of the 2025 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social conference was a hit! We saw so much exciting science from really talented trainees. The future of molecular biosciences in Canada is bright 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬

If you missed out, make sure to stop by the second poster session later tonight.

The PRinCE community also award the inaugural Jason Young Memorial Award to Reham Alsaadi from @uottawa.ca at the 2025 CSMB-PRinCE joint meeting. Congratulations Reham and thank you for your exciting talk about your work on ER-phagy and Salmonella infection 🦠 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social

Our first @csmb-scbm.bsky.social award lecture took place yesterday for the CSMB New Investigator award. Congratulations to Dr. Heather McFarlane from @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social! Your lecture about molecular mechanism of plant wall signaling and responses was very interesting 🪴🔬