Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Shelley Lumba is an Early Career Researcher. She joined the Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor in September 2016. Shelley received her B.Sc. Honours degree in 2000 and Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Genetics in 2007 from the University of Toronto. She conducted post-doctoral studies and became a research associate at the University of Toronto from 2007 to 2016. Overall, her collective research has been cited over 2700 times and her h-index is 12 (Google Scholar). Due to the potential of her research to become world leading, she has been awarded highly competitive grants such as the New Frontiers in Research Fund and an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement. The DAS Program aims to provide additional funding to researchers with superior, highly innovative and original research programs. She has published in top journals including Science, Nature Plants (accepted), Nature Chemical Biology and Developmental Cell.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT