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2025 CSMB Awards – Call for nominations

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Call for nominations – CSMB Awards

https://csmb-scbm.ca/awards/2025-csmb-awards-call-for-nominations

The deadline for nominations for the CSMB 2025 awards has been extended to January 15, 2025. 

CSP Senior Investigator Award

The award recognizes exceptional Canadian scientists with a record of outstanding achievement in molecular biosciences research who have also demonstrated exceptional teaching, leadership and/or contributions to the broader community. 

More: https://csmb-scbm.ca/awards/canadian-science-publishing-senior-investigator-award/

Jeanne Manery Fisher Memorial Lecture

In honor of the late Jeanne Manery Fisher, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, an eminent woman will be selected by the Society every second year for her scientific accomplishments and will present a keynote lecture at the Society’s Annual Meeting. 

More: https://csmb-scbm.ca/awards/csmb-jeanne-manery-fisher-memorial-lecture/

CSMB New Investigator Award

The Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) New Investigator Award was established by the Society to recognize and support the next generation of scientists in Canada. The award is given based on (i) excellence in research and (ii) demonstration of leadership.

More: https://csmb-scbm.ca/awards/csmb-new-investigator-award/

Frances Sharom Science Communication Award

This annual award is for any member of the CSMB, but submissions are especially encouraged from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career researchers.

https://csmb-scbm.ca/awards/the-frances-sharom-science-communication-award

Awards will be presented at the next CSMB annual meeting.

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Become a member or renew your membership to show your support for the CSMB:

https://csmb-scbm.ca/membership

Imogen Coe wins a King Charles III Coronation Medal

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Congratulations to Imogen Coe who recently won a King Charles III Coronation medal!

Dr. Imogen R. Coe is a professor of Chemistry and Biology at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and an affiliate scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is an active researcher and former academic leader, being the founding dean of the Faculty of Science at TMU. Dr. Coe is also an award-winning scholar-activist in Canada and is widely known and recognized for her work on the integration of principles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) into research cultures in science.

The Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience) awards King Charles III Coronation Medals to those whose work furthers the charity’s mission of fostering science culture in Canada, including those who:

  • have made significant contributions to engaging the public and policy-makers with science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM) in Canada;
  • are combating mis- and disinformation in STEMM; and/or
  • are fostering inclusive communities within STEMM.

Call for nominations – CSMB Committees

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CSMB members are invited to apply to become at-large or student members of CSMB committees.

Membership structure and mandate:   This webpage shows the CSMB committee structure , with links below to the mandates of each committee. We will appoint student and at-large members to our committees, each for a 2-year term.

To apply , please fill in the following form: https://csmb-scbm.ca/about-us/csmb-committees/application/

The application deadline is on July 22, and appointments will be announced in August.

Professor Philippe Crine: a hero for children with hypophosphatasia

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We invite you to read this article a great Canadian scientist whose research had an important impact

Professor Philippe Crine: a hero for children with hypophosphatasia 

Michel Chrétien, Trang Hoang, Michel Bouvier, Mieczyslaw Marcinkiewicz, Michael Whyte, Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, zjae061, https://doi.org/10.1093/jbmr/zjae061

Published: 16 April 2024

We also invite you to read the story of the development of Asfotase Alpha, written by his colleagues, Michel Bouvier, Trang Hoang and Michel Chrétien.

 

Read our year-end newsletter

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We invite you to read our year-end newsletter today!

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Message from the Trainee committee for the 66th Annual Canadian Society for Molecular Bioscience (CSMB) 2023 meeting in Ottawa.

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Join us at the 66th annual Canadian Society of Metabolic Biosciences (CSMB) conference at the University of Ottawa (May 30 – June 2, 2023)! With the theme of “Metabolic regulation of cell signaling,” this conference brings together top minds in the field to explore cutting-edge research on cellular metabolism in health and disease.

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Join us for the first CSMB Virtual Seminar – February 14, 2023 9AMPT/12PM ET

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Feb 14 CSMB Virtual seminarWe invite you to the first CSMB Virtual Seminar which will take place on Tuesday February 14th, 2023 at 9am PT/12 pm ET. We will hear exciting work from Dr. Michael Downey (University of Ottawa) who will tell us about “Systems biology of polyphosphate” and trainee Laura Orofiamma (Toronto Metropolitan University) whose talk is titled “Metabolic control of clathrin-mediated endocytosis by AMPK impacts integrin traffic and cell migration”.

The goal of this seminar series is to highlight the amazing and innovative research being carried out in Canada, including the work of our trainees. This is the first seminar in our series, which will occur on the second Tuesday of every month at 9am PT/12pm ET. Please feel free to circulate the information about these seminars with you colleagues. Everyone is welcome!

To sign up for the seminar, please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/mbfWtAkQxBR3qADaA

Sincerely,

Cathy Cozma

CSMB Trainee Committee Member and Seminar Organizer