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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

📣📣 The CSMB Virtual Seminar Series is back!! Sign up to give a talk using the QR code or via this form: forms.gle/AZpWKX4gTeXS...

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📣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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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🤔 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! Sign up here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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.

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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 🪰

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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!

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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.

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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.

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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 😍🔬 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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.

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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 🪴🔬

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We're back for day 2 of the 2025 CSMB/PRinCE conference and it's a beautiful day in Ottawa! Excited to kick off the day hearing about autophagy and cellular stress responses 🔬 @csmb-scbm.bsky.social

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The inaugural CSMB Fellows were also recognized tonight. Congratulations to Dr. Imogen Coe, Dr. Jan Rainey and Dr. John Orlowski! @csmb-scbm.bsky.social

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The 2025 joint @csmb-scbm.bsky.social and PRinCE meeting kicked off today with the @iubmb.bsky.social keynote lecture delivered by Dr. Julie Forman-Kay from @sickkidsto.bsky.social and @uoft.bsky.social!

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Our next @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar is coming up on Tuesday May 13th at 9am ET! Make sure you tune in to hear about exciting Canadian research 🍁 This month, we'll hear about retro-evolution of the ribosome and Akt signalling in breast cancer. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar series continues tomorrow, March 11 at 9am PT/12pm ET. We have two great speakers lined up who will tell us about their research on the regulation of mRNA translation and an acetyltransferase important in signaling! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw

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csmbtrainees.bsky.social @csmbtrainees.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar series is back for 2025! Make sure you sign up for our February seminar, happening February 11th at 9am PT/12pm ET. We will hear about proteomics and PTMS as well as pathoadaptive strategies from two great Canadian researchers! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw

Flyer advertising the CSMB seminar series on February 11, 2025 at 9am PT or 12pm ET. The two speakers are Dr. Sidhanth Chirukandath from the University of Ottawa speaking about "Proteomics as a tool to identify posttranslational protein modifications in rat ventricular myofibroblasts and mouse myobloast cells" and Zaid Sahid from Toronto Metropolitan University speaking about "You win some, you lose some; gene loss as a pathoadaptive strategy in Shigella flexneri".

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