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Ashley E. Bruce

Professor and Graduate Chair

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Recent Publications

A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat

Avni R, Kamal N, Bitz L, Jellen EN, Bekele WA, Angessa TT, Auvinen P, Bitz O, Boyle B, Canales FJ, Carlson CH, Chapman B, Chawla HS, Chen Y, Copetti D, Correia de Lemos S, Dang V, Eichten SR, Klos KE, Fenn AM, Fiebig A, Fu Y, Gundlach H, Gupta R, Haberer G, He T, Herrmann MH, Himmelbach A, Howarth CJ, Hu H, Isidro y Sánchez J, Itaya A, Jannink J, Jia Y, Kaur R, Knauft M, Langdon T, Lux T, Marmon S, Marosi V, Mayer KFX, Michel S, Nandety RS, Nilsen KT, Paczos-Grzęda E, Pasha A, Prats E, Provart NJ, Ravagnani A, Reid RW, Schlueter JA, Schulman AH, Sen TZ, Singh J, Singh M, Sirijovski N, Stein N, Studer B, Viitala S, Vronces S, Walkowiak S, Wang P, Waters AJ, Wight CP, Yan W, Yao E, Zhang X, Zhou G, Zhou Z, Tinker NA, Fiedler JD, Li C, Maughan PJ, Spannagl M, Mascher M
2025, Nature, 10.1038/s41586-025-09676-7

Adhesion strength, cell packing density, and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion

Winklbauer R, Luu O, Barua D, Nagel M, Huang Y
2025, Development, 10.1242/dev.204663

Shikimate Kinase-Like 1 Participates in an Ancient and Conserved Role Contributing to Chloroplast Biogenesis in Land Plants

Kanaris M, Lee J, Chang B, Christendat D
2025, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msaf129

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November 12, 2025

BCB undergraduate research project in the Provart lab leads to Oat Pangenome Nature paper

An international collaboration published in the esteemed journal Nature features work by Shauna Vronces from her undergraduate research project in…

October 8, 2025

Congratulations to Hyunsuh Lee for earning the Best Presentation award at CSPB

At this year’s Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB) meeting, Hyunsuh Lee from the Yoshioka lab was recognized with the CSPB President’s Award…

October 2, 2025

Developmental biology insights from Bruce lab lead to research on cancer progression

CSB Professor Ashley Bruce has received a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) that leverages her knowledge of embryo…

September 17, 2025

Prof Felix Gunawan inaugurates cardiovascular development laboratory with mentorship and learning at the heart

A journey that began in the halls of CSB buildings has brought Felix Gunawan back, now as an Assistant Professor studying cardiovascular development…

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