NEWS
- Congrats to the Mekhail lab (UofT) and Hakem lab (UHN) for being recognized with the University Health Network’s Till and McCulloch Paper of the Year Award! Read more
- Congrats to our summer students, Araad and Abdul, on being recognized with research poster awards at our departmental Undergraduate Research Day!
- Congrats, Defne, on your OGS award!
- Congrats, Anisha, on your CIHR CGS-D award!
- Don’t miss Dr. Mekhail’s recent review in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology entitled “Nuclear and genome dynamics underlying DNA double-strand break repair”! Read more
- Congrats, Mitra, Mia, and Anisha, on the publication of your co-first author paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! Read more at Temerty Medicine News or LMP News
- Congrats, Talya, on the publication of your paper in Cell Reports! Read more
- Congrats Anisha and Defne on your OGS scholarships!
- Congrats Karim on your election to the Royal Society of Canada College. Read more.
- Congrats Negin on receiving the prestigious Vanier Doctoral Scholarship! Well done.
- Congrats Karim on your promotion to full professor. See the official announcement and related Q&A with Karim’s advice to colleagues seeking promotion.
- Congrats Mitra on the acceptance of your excellent review in Trends in Cell Biology.
- Congrats to Guillaume on the publication of your excellent Communications Biology review.
- Congrats, Josh, on completing a stellar Ph.D. and joining the Harvard and Boston community. Wishing you great success in the next step of your clinician-scientist training.
- Karim receives the Undergraduate Teaching Award. Thank you to all of our great students who make it fun to teach and learn.
- Josh received the Stuart Alan Hoffman Prize. Congrats Josh!
- Negin receives the Norman Bethune Award. Congrats Negin!
- Scientists Uncover Key Process in the Manufacture of Ribosomes and Proteins. Congrats Josh, Negin, Janet, all Mekhail lab members, and our excellent collaborators on the Nature paper!
- Medicine-Engineering collaboration uncovers a network of DNA repair protein liquid droplets and nuclear filaments that mediates damaged DNA mobility and repair. Thank you to all of our great collaborators without whom this study would not have been possible!
- Study bridges a divide in cell aging in neurodegenerative diseases; congrats on the Communications Biology paper Lauren and Amanda!
- Autobahns for DNA ambulances: Biology meets aerospace physics in unique U of T collaboration; congrats on the Nature Communications paper Roxanne!
- MD/PhD candidate Josh Abraham awarded the Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award.
- Magnesium connects caloric restriction to genome stability and lifespan; congrats on the Nucleic Acids Res. paper Josh!
- Scientists identify elusive 'DNA ambulance'; congrats on the Nature Commun. paper Daniel!
- Prof. Mekhail awarded tenure
- Prof Mekhail renews the Canada Research Chair (CRCII) in Spatial Genome Organization
- Yeast helps reveal function of a conserved gene linked to different neurodegenerative diseases; congrats on the Dev. Cell paper Jay!
- PhD candidate Jay Salvi and Prof Mekhail on basic research
- Prof Mekhail receives Maud-Menten Prize
- Prof Mekhail's awarded CFI
- DNA 'off switch' reverses premature cellular aging in yeast; congrats on the Dev. Cell paper Janet, Jay and Betty!