@GartonLab

Hiring! Engineering living therapies | At the interface of protein design & mammalian synthetic biology | @BME_UofT | Tweets are by lab members unless signed-MG

 Toronto, Canada
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Joined August 2018
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Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering have successfully utilized an artificial intelligence (AI) framework to redesign a crucial protein involved in the delivery of gene therapy: uoft.me/a6T
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So proud to be a part of Myoxa & proud of our team for winning at our first ever pitch competition! Thank you @MbD_UofT & @UofTPRiME for encouraging cutting-edge, life saving research 🫀
Garton Lab@GartonLab9 May 2023
Congratulations to Garton Lab trainees on winning $25,000 at the pitch competition! Myoxa Therapeutics is developing new hypoxia-resistance mechanisms to improve stem-cell derived cell therapies for heart failure and beyond! 🧫🧬
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Awesome pitch by students from the @GartonLab Great job guys!! 👏🏼
Medicine by Design@MbD_CCRM9 May 2023
At the Building a Biotech Venture Pitch Competition, 6 teams delivered compelling pitches & Myoxa Therapeutics (@bme_uoft) & Specifix Dx (@UofT_LMP) won $25k & $10k in funding ➡️mbd.utoronto.ca/news/pitch-c… Partners: #MedicinebyDesign, @UofTPRiME, @H2i_UofT, @TalkBoutiqueInc.
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At the Building a Biotech Venture Pitch Competition, 6 teams delivered compelling pitches & Myoxa Therapeutics (@bme_uoft) & Specifix Dx (@UofT_LMP) won $25k & $10k in funding ➡️mbd.utoronto.ca/news/pitch-c… Partners: #MedicinebyDesign, @UofTPRiME, @H2i_UofT, @TalkBoutiqueInc.
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First three teams have pitched at the Building a Biotech Venture Pitch Competition! ➡️Drug discovery team CApt Dynamics @ShanaOKelley lab. ➡️Cell therapies team Myoxa Therapeutics @GartonLab. ➡️Small molecule development team Neuropeutics @JanuceRobertson lab.
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Michael Garton (@GartonLab @bme_uoft) is using stem cells & synthetic biology to develop therapeutic tissues that can not only replace damaged tissues but also enhance them to be better than nature: mbd.utoronto.ca/news/merging…
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New preprint ProteinVAE: Variational AutoEncoder for Translational Protein Design biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #compchem #deeplearning #MachineLearning

ProteinVAE: Variational AutoEncoder for Translational Protein Design

There have recently been rapid advances in deep learning models for protein design. To demonstrate proof-of-concept, these advancements have focused on small proteins with lots of data for training....

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First publication officially out in @BioDesignR spj.sciencemag.org/journals/… Thank you to @shahin_s_h & Dr. Garton (@GartonLab) for their support and this opportunity to share the effective MP design methods with the major advancement of @DeepMind ’s Alpha Fold #AcademicTwitter
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Very proud to count myself among those joining the @UofTPRiME community as part of the 2022 PRiME Fellowship!! Thankful for your support @FPRoth & @GartonLab!
PRiME - Precision Medicine Initiative at UofT@UofTPRiME2 Sep 2022
📣 Announcing the winners of the 2022 PRiME Fellowship Competition! Our fellows are working on novel therapeutics, vaccines, DNA nanotechnology and omics approaches. Read More: bit.ly/3q1GEwS @UofTPharmacy @uoftmedicine @uoftengineering @UofTArtSci @UofT

2022 PRiME Fellowship Awardees Announced — PRiME Next-Generation Precision Medicine

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 PRiME Fellowship Competition! PRiME Fellows represent the next generation of scientific leaders, testing bold ideas that enable interdisciplinary research...

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A new academic-industry partnership between @GartonLab and Myo Palate @bme_uoft aims to lower cultivated meat costs. We're excited and honoured to support this impactful work! news.engineering.utoronto.ca…

New academic-industry partnership aims to lower the cost of cultivated meat

Professor Michael Garton (BME) partners with Myo Palate on project focused on efficiently growing animal muscle cells outside the body

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Meet Lucy Ma (Engineering Science (2T2 + PEY), Biomedical Systems), our Canadian Space Health Undergraduate Research Awardee! She is working with the @GartonLab at @UofT this summer on a controlled gene circuit for cellular radiation protection using tardigrade genes. Ad Astra!🚀
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Michael Garton's (@GartonLab) life as a professional mountaineer was changed by a fall from Europe's tallest rock face. A year in hospital made him realize he wanted to make a positive impact through science. Read his #PeopleofMedicinebyDesign profile: mbd.utoronto.ca/news/people-…
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Thrilled to be part of the @MbD_UofT Grand Questions Team led by @mcguiganlab alongside @garybader1, @GartonLab, Andrew Woolley, @leochou0814 and @LabMcgaha to combine tissue engineering, synthetic and systems biology to track the history of a cell. Come join us for your PostDoc!
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Very exciting plans for @GartonLab with @yunli , @StephIrisPro, @mcnostro among others, enabled by visionary support from @MbD_UofT.
Medicine by Design@MbD_CCRM13 May 2021
Michael Garton @GartonLab and his #GrandQuestions team want to take a great leap forward in merging synthetic biology with stem cell biology, creating new #regenmed tools to “upgrade” tissues before they are used in transplants. Learn more: mbd.utoronto.ca/news/grand-q…
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Great things never come from comfort zones.
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The Global Speaker Series invites #regenmed leaders to engage with the #MedicinebyDesign community. Join Bryan Dickinson, PhD, at his virtual talk on Oct 20. mbd.utoronto.ca/event/global… In partnership with @McEwenInstitute. Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi….
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Only 2 days left to register for 3rd PEDS Protein Engineering and Design Webinar featuring Birte Höcker (@unibt) and Shahir Rizk's group (@IUSouthBend)! #proteinengineering #proteindesign
PEDS: Protein Engineering, Design & Selection@ProtEngDesSel12 Oct 2020
Join us for the 3rd @ProtEngDesSel Protein Engineering & Design webinar on 21 October 2020, 11am ET. Featuring talks from Birte Höcker (@unibt) and Shahir Rizk's group (@lowrizk, @IUSouthBend), who will present their Editor's Choice article. Register: crowdcast.io/e/pedswebinar3/…

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Application deadline is soon! SCN is excited to offer an online 3-day workshop focused on synthetic biology. The live discussions & attendee coursework/presentations will be held each Tuesday over a 3 week period on Nov. 24, Dec. 1 & 8 2020. To apply: stemcellnetwork.ca/training/…
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#Postdoctoral fellow @toronto - cutting-edge of protein design and mammalian cell design. #Synthetic #biology, #biochemistry #postdocs #postdoc postdocjobs.com/posting/7070…
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