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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧬Join our interdisciplinary research community and help advance discovery, medicine, and human health. Recent PhD graduates have until Nov. 3 to apply for the Charles H. Best Postdoctoral Fellowship at #UofT's Donnelly Centre, offering $60K for one year. Learn more: tinyurl.com/4rv5jdxt

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In Jack Greenblatt's speech at his "retirement" party, he reminded all of us that he's not actually retiring. The trailblazer still has 5 years of grants left and concrete plans to carry out the research paths he’s been following for nearly 5 decades. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As a part of our Summer Undergraduate esearch Program, 3rd year U of T student Elizabeth Choi has written her first-ever science communications piece: a highlight of Cindi Morshead's career-long investigation into neural stem cells: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/rebuild...

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Rebuilding the brain: The Morshead Lab’s mission to awaken neural stem cells

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Program officially concluded last Thursday, bringing over fifty trainees and guests to the 2nd floor of the Donnelly Centre! Read the full coverage here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Spanning eight years and over 4,800 experiments, a Hughes Lab global collaboration has concluded with the creation of the Codebook: an enormous database that has illuminated how transcription factors influence human gene regulation: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/the-cod...

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The Codebook: cracking the puzzle of human transcription factors

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants have funded Liliana Attisano for $9 million! Attisano will collaborate with Jeff Wrana from LTRI to investigate how cancers adapt and resist treatment. Read the full story below: www.tfri.ca/our-research...

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The Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant in regulation and targeting of cancer cell state plasticity via hippo-morphogen signalling networks

Cancer is notoriously difficult to treat largely because of its remarkable ability to adapt. Much like a shapeshifting supervillain, some ca...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Congratulations to our scientists! Announced earlier this week, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has funded four projects in the labs of Charlie Boone, Peter Roy, Gary Bader, and Stephane Angers. Read more in our official announcement: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/canadia...

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From mosquito insecticide to biobank analysis: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research funds four Donnelly projects for over $4.6 million

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Over 2,000 pathogens engage with the human species in the ever-evolving battlefield of infection and immune defence. To better understand pathogens, the Taipale Lab has built the eORFeome, a scalable genomics screening platform. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/the-eOR...

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How the Taipale Lab built the next biggest tool to aid in understanding the host-pathogen arms race

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We are proud to announce the nine graduate students being awarded the 2026 Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Awards! thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2026-ce...

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The 2026 Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Awards fund nine early researchers at the Donnelly Centre

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Donnelly Centre is hiring a Research and Communications Officer! This role covers the external and internal communications of our community: from news stories and social media, to web page management and event support. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When researchers published the full genome sequence of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 1996, the Boone-Andrews Lab saw the finish line: a complete, global genetic interaction network map. Read our research retrospective in Donnelly News! thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/yeast-g...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Congratulations to our winners of the 2026 Dorrington Graduate Research Award! This year, Ali Fathi, Jacob L. Fine, and Levon Tokmakjian join the growing list of exemplary graduate students supported by the Dorrington family during their studies. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Genetic code similarity does not tell the full evolutionary story. A new study by Donnelly researchers in the Blencowe Lab has illuminated a potentially frequent mechanism that generates evolutionary divergence between primate species: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly researchers report a new mechanistic understanding of the rapid evolutionary change among primate species

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This research highlight showcases the work of Igor Stagljar, who was recently interviewed by Donnelly News for the story "Stagljar Lab collaboration identifies CLIC1: a potential therapeutic target for glioblastoma" Read the full news piece below: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/staglja...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Our 20th Anniversary Symposium was a day of celebration and an invitation to reflect on how far we've come as a centre! Relive the day with our post-symposium coverage in the latest piece in Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/looking...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Glioblastoma is the deadliest form of brain cancer, and there is a high demand to understand the biology of the signalling involved in the disease. The Stagljar Lab in the Donnelly Centre has found a new potential therapeutic target for glioblastoma: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/staglja...

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Stagljar Lab collaboration identifies CLIC1: a potential therapeutic target for glioblastoma

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Byu Ri Sim is the winner of the 2026 Jennifer Comyn Graduate Award for Cancer Research! Byu Ri is investigating how the hyperactive pathway signalling behind colorectal cancer cells can be exploited to identify new therapeutic avenues. Read more here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2026-je...

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Byu Ri Sim wins the 2026 Jennifer Comyn Graduate Award, to support his research of colorectal cancer

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We are looking to hire a Financial Administrator! Our financial team provides a wide range of analysis, reporting, and administration, as they oversee the building's research grants, financial statements, discrepancies, and financial reports. Learn more below: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Congratulations to Donnelly PI Gary Bader, for receiving a Connaught Innovation Award! Read about all the 2025-26 Connaught Innovation Award winners in U of T Celebrates: www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/1...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We're beyond happy to announce that molecular geneticist and RNA biologist Syed Nabeel Haider Shah is this year's Charles H. Best Fellow! Read about his research in the latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/Syed-Na...

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Nabeel Shah’s system-level RNA research earns him the title of 2025’s Charles H. Best Fellow

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Today we're highlighting Henry Krause's lab, which was recently featured in our latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/krause-...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Krause Lab has discovered a new potential treatment avenue for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Read the full story in our latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/krause-...

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The Krause Lab investigates diet-microbiota-host interactions to find better treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This Science Snapshot comes from a bench in the Shoichet Lab:

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Congratulations to Stephane Angers and all the hard-working teams funded by Genome Canada's Genomic Application Partnership Program! Angers will be the academic leader alongside Tracy Stone, Director of ProteinQure, in this GAPP-funded project: www.ontariogenomics.ca/awarded-proj...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When faced with a mountain of gene expression data, reducing the computational complexity for analyzing a cell’s RNA transcripts is an invaluable development. Read about how our researchers accomplished it in our latest piece by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/bader-l...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Our 2025 Annual Report is now available! This magazine-style report showcases our most popular research stories and news highlights, in addition to covering a breakdown of our faculty, students, awards, and funding. Read the 2025 Annual Report now: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yesterday, the Donnelly Centre welcomed potential future scientists to our building! Andy Fraser and Jovana Drinjakovic toured a local middle school group from King Edward Junior and Senior Public School, teaching them about the exciting work we do beneath the Donnelly roof!

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Donnelly Centre is hiring a new Research and Communications Officer! As a vital part of our administration team, this role covers the external and internal communications of our community. Learn more about the role and apply at the link below: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Research & Communications Officer

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A huge congratulations to the six Donnelly Centre labs that received funding through CIHR's Project Grant Program! Read about the funded labs and projects in our most recent piece in Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Congratulations to Donnelly Centre PI @johnomix.bsky.social, for receiving the Connaught New Researcher Award! The funding will go towards the Morris Lab, for the project "Identification of causal genetic variation and genes for human bone health"

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Research can take many forms. As a part of our 20th Anniversary Retrospective series, we sat down with Donnelly PI Mikko Taipale, to talk about his 2020 paper “An efficient KRAB domain for CRISPRi applications in human cells” Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/how-sid...

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How a “sidetrack project” led to one of Mikko Taipale’s most influential papers

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Today we're highlighting the research of Donnelly's newest faculty member, Ashley Libby! Read about Libby's work in our most recent story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/chicken...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Please give a warm welcome to Donnelly's newest faculty member, Dr. Ashley Libby! Learn why she was drawn to the domesticated chicken as a system model, and discover the research the Libby Lab will be tackling at the Donnelly in our most recent story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/chicken...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Welcome back to the bench! The Donnelly Centre is officially open for 2026, and we're so excited to see how our community's research develops in the new year. This photo shows the Spirit of Discovery statue outside the Donnelly building, dressed for the winter weather!

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

And that's a wrap on 2025! We are closed from December 24th to January 2nd, to give us time to recoup, regroup, and return with a restored passion in the new year. From all of us here at Donnelly, we wish you a happy, healthy, and wholly restful break. We'll see you back at the bench in 2026!

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Donnelly Centre is looking for a new team member! We're hiring a Financial Assistant to help process a variety of activities and prepare information for budget planning and reporting. See below for more information: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

With snow covering the Donnelly Centre’s grounds, it's officially the season to take some time to appreciate family, friends, and the rest that comes with a much-deserved break! Read the holiday wishes of our director Stephane Angers 🇨🇦 below. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/winter-...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Our third installment in Donnelly's 20th Anniversary Retrospective Series covered Benjamin Blencowe and his lab! Learn more about Blencowe's career-long investigation into alternative splicing in the most recent story by Donnelly News: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

When the first draft sequence of the human genome was published in 2001, scientists began to redirect their research questions to better reflect new understandings. Among them was Ben Blencowe, PI at the Donnelly Centre. Full story available here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/benjami...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The Donnelly Centre has selected Molly Shoichet and Mikko Taipale as the winners of the 2025 Terrence Donnelly Innovation Award, funding $375,000 in support of research projects with a focus on knowledge mobilization and potential for commercialization. thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Today we're highlighting Gary Bader, who we recently interviewed for our 20-Year Anniversary retrospective series. Read the full story below: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/power-d...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Gary Bader was early in his career when he realized the widespread need to visualize biological pathway data. Learn about how he filled the gap with the visualization software platform Cytoscape. Get the full story: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/power-d...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Today we're highlighting Jack Greenblatt and the Greenblatt Lab, recently featured in the first instalment of our 10-part retrospective news series highlighting two decades of breakthroughs at the Donnelly Centre: Read the full story here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A huge congratulations to Donnelly PI Philip Kim, for being awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair position in Machine Learning in Protein and Peptide Science!

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Two decades ago, the environment surrounding molecular biology was moving so quickly, University of Toronto professor Jack Greenblatt could only keep up if he predicted its direction. Read the full story here [5-minute read]: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/jack-gr...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our next Science Snapshot comes from the research of Ameer Sarwar, a PhD Candidate out of the Gillis Lab developing computational methods to improve and derive biological insights. This figure was in a paper recently published in Genome Biology, available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Some of our favourite images from last Wednesday, courtesy of photographer Dewey Chang. Read the highlights of Donnelly's 20th Anniversary celebration here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Yesterday, we gathered in the Donnelly Centre atrium and raised a glass to an incredible milestone: the Donnelly Centre has served as a global hub of collaboration for twenty years! Read about our celebration: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/donnell...

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Donnelly Centre @donnellycentre.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Today, we're celebrating a two-decade milestone: on November 5th, 2005, we broke ground at the Donnelly Centre! Thank you to everyone who has made Donnelly the building it is today!

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