News

This year's Dr. Donald Robert Phillips Scholarship seminars by recipients Claire Martin (Jones Lab) and Sara Timpano (Uniacke Lab) will take place on Tuesday, May 9 at 9 am in MacNaughton 113.

These two awards were established in memory of Dr. Donald Robert Phillips, OAC'66, a genetics researcher, and are awarded to graduate students in MCB on the basis of their contributions to research, as evidenced by their published papers, conference presentations, and achievement at the graduate level. 

We hope you will attend.

Congratulations to MCB's Dr. Merrill who was recently awarded an NSERC grant for honeybee research.

URAs/USRAs/MCB-SRAs 2017: MCB is now accepting applications in SCIE 4478. See doccument for details.

Attention Students! Winter 2017 LATE Lab Manual Sales are taking place in SSC 4481 from 8am - 4pm. See poster for details.

New this year! Disease, Development, and Aging (DDA) Journal Club starting January 16th. See poster for details.

Congratulations to Dr. Jim Uniacke’s Lab! 

The Co-op Awards Committee has selected Dr. Jim Uniacke’s Lab from the University of Guelph, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology as this year’s Guelph Co-op Employer of the Year.

This award will be presented at the Co-op Awards Reception taking place in March, 2017.

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Krell, who was recently awarded a Genome Canada/OGI Project Grant.

The proposal entitled ‘Disruptive Innovations in Genomics (DIG) Phase 1’ is a two-year $234,000 (total) award. Peter, in collaboration with Daniel Doucet from Forestry Canada, will be working on developing an ‘antenna in a box’ system for early detection of invasive insect species.

MCB Delivers Holiday Spirit!

On Friday, December 16th, 2016, volunteers from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph delivered $550.00 worth of pet supplies to the Guelph Humane Society!

We thank you all for your generous donations and support! We thank Pet Culture Guelph for providing supply discounts.

Congratulations to Michal Pyc who won the  CSPB best student oral presentation award for his talk at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB) Eastern Regional Meeting on November 19th, 2016.