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Jan 22, 2026
By welcoming Ashley Libby to our building, the Donnelly Centre is welcoming a return to an older system model; an avian organism more likely to be found in a lab’s lunch fridge than found in their research. The system model of the domesticated chicken, or Gallus gallus domesticus, has fallen out of fashion in recent decades, but Libby was drawn to the model’s reliable breeding schedule and how its embryo and organ system formation is on the timescale of hours, instead of days.
Dec 16, 2025
With snow covering the Donnelly Centre’s grounds, it is officially the season to take some time to appreciate family, friends, and the rest that comes with a much-deserved break.
Dec 11, 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 Benjamin Blencowe, PI at the Donnelly Centre and professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics.
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