Recent Highlights
July 2025
Jack Li is awarded Talk Prize at Toronto RNA Enthusiasts Day 2025.
July 2025
Jacob Fine is awarded the 2025 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
May 2025
Ben is elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (read more).
2025
- Jack Li is awarded Talk Prize at Toronto RNA Enthusiasts Day 2025.
- Jacob Fine is awarded the 2025 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
- Ben is elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (read more).
- Kenny Rebelo receives the Jennifer Dorrington Graduate Research Award.
- Yolanda Liu is awarded the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
2024
- Warren Winick-Ng is awarded the Robert Home Research Fellowship.
- New publication: Efficient, specific, and combinatorial control of endogenous exon splicing with dCasRx-RBM25.
- Jacob Fine is awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
- Jack Li is awarded the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
- Kenny Rebelo is awarded the School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant.
Li JD, Taipale M, Blencowe BJ. Efficient, specific, and combinatorial control of endogenous exon splicing with dCasRx-RBM25. Mol Cell. 2024 Jul 11;84(13):2573-2589.e5.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.05.028
2023
- New publication: Systematic analysis of alternative exon-dependent interactome remodeling reveals multitasking functions of gene regulatory factors (read more).
- Kenny Rebelo is awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
- Mackenzie Moore and Jacob Fine are awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award (read more).
- Jacob Fine is awarded the Carelton E. Perrin Award and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Roth JF, Braunschweig U, Wu M, Li JD, Lin ZY, Larsen B, Weatheritt RJ, Gingras AC, Blencowe BJ. Systematic analysis of alternative exon-dependent interactome remodeling reveals multitasking functions of gene regulatory factors. Mol Cell. 2023 Dec 7;83(23):4222-4238.e10.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.10.034
2022
- Jack Li is awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award (read more).
- Steven Dupas wins Best Poster Prize for the 2022 Donnelly Retreat.
- New publication: Systematic exploration of dynamic splicing networks reveals conserved multistage regulators of neurogenesis.
- Steven Dupas is awarded an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Doctoral Award.
- Guillermo Parada is awarded the 2022 Charles H. Best Fellowship (read more).
- New publication: Systematic mapping of nuclear domain-associated transcripts reveals speckles and lamina as hubs of functionally distinct retained introns (read more).
Han H, Best AJ, Braunschweig U, Mikolajewicz N, Li JD, Roth J, Chowdhury F, Mantica F, Nabeel-Shah S, Parada G, Brown KR, O'Hanlon D, Wei J, Yao Y, Zid AA, Comsa LC, Jen M, Wang J, Datti A, Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis T, Weatheritt RJ, Greenblatt JF, Wrana JL, Irimia M, Gingras AC, Moffat J, Blencowe BJ. Systematic exploration of dynamic splicing networks reveals conserved multistage regulators of neurogenesis. Mol Cell. 2022 Aug 18;82(16):2982-2999.e14.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.06.036
Barutcu AR, Wu M, Braunschweig U, Dyakov BJA, Luo Z, Turner KM, Durbic T, Lin ZY, Weatheritt RJ, Maass PG, Gingras AC, Blencowe BJ. Systematic mapping of nuclear domain-associated transcripts reveals speckles and lamina as hubs of functionally distinct retained introns. Mol Cell. 2022 Mar 3;82(5):1035-1052.e9.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.12.010
2021
- Ulrich Braunschweig is awarded the Donnelly Centre Research Excellence Award (read more).
- Shagheyegh Farhangmehr is awarded the University of Toronto Open Scholarship.
- Steven Dupas is awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award.
2020
- Steven Dupas is awarded an NSERC Canada Doctoral Graduate Scholarship.
- Kenny Rebelo is awarded the Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award.
- Shaghayegh Farhangmehr is awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
- Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis accepts a prestigious Investigator position in the RNA Laboratory of the Center for Cancer Research at NIH, and will open his lab later this year.
- New publication: Systematic multi-site genomic editing using a hybrid CRISPR-Cas platform reveals gene paralog interactions and essential alternative exons (read more).
- Justin Lim is awarded an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Doctoral Graduate Scholarship.
- New publication: Autism-misregulated eIF4G microexons control synaptic translation and higher-order cognitive functions (read more).
- Zheng Luo is awarded the CH Best Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- New publication: Alternative splicing regulatory networks: Functions, mechanisms, and evolution.
Barutcu AR, Wu M, Braunschweig U, Dyakov BJA, Luo Z, Turner KM, Durbic T, Lin ZY, Weatheritt RJ, Maass PG, Gingras AC, Blencowe BJ. Systematic mapping of nuclear domain-associated transcripts reveals speckles and lamina as hubs of functionally distinct retained introns. Mol Cell. 2022 Mar 3;82(5):1035-1052.e9.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.12.010
Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis T, Niibori R, Salter EW, Weatheritt RJ, Tsang B, Farhangmehr S, Liang X, Braunschweig U, Roth J, Zhang S, Henderson T, Sharma E, Quesnel-Vallières M, Permanyer J, Maier S, Georgiou J, Irimia M, Sonenberg N, Forman-Kay JD, Gingras AC, Collingridge GL, Woodin MA, Cordes SP, Blencowe BJ. Autism-Misregulated eIF4G Microexons Control Synaptic Translation and Higher Order Cognitive Functions. Mol Cell. 2020 Mar 19;77(6):1176-1192.e16.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.01.006
Ule J, Blencowe BJ. Alternative Splicing Regulatory Networks: Functions, Mechanisms, and Evolution. Mol Cell. 2019 Oct 17;76(2):329-345.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.09.017
2019
- Ben is elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (UK).
- Drice Challal is awarded an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- New publication: Autism spectrum disorder: insights into convergent mechanisms from transcriptomics.
Quesnel-Vallières M, Weatheritt RJ, Cordes SP, Blencowe BJ. Autism spectrum disorder: insights into convergent mechanisms from transcriptomics. Nat Rev Genet. 2019 Jan;20(1):51-63.
doi: 10.1038/s41576-018-0066-2
2018
- New publication: Efficient and accurate quantitative profiling of alternative splicing patterns of any complexity on a laptop.
- Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis is awarded the inaugural Donnelly Centre Research Excellence Award.
- Rasim Barutcu is awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Eesha Sharma receives the Jennifer Dorrington Graduate Research Award.
- Serge Gueroussov receives the Barbara Vivash Award in Molecular Genetics for the most outstanding PhD thesis defended in 2017.
Sterne-Weiler T, Weatheritt RJ, Best AJ, Ha KCH, Blencowe BJ. Efficient and Accurate Quantitative Profiling of Alternative Splicing Patterns of Any Complexity on a Laptop. Mol Cell. 2018 Oct 4;72(1):187-200.e6.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.08.018
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