Gregory presents at the CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics

2026 , 05 - 01

The talk was titled: Following every hunch in the bunch: a combinatorial pipeline approach to omics data.

Here’s the link to the conference.

The Schwartz Lab receives TRANSCAN-3 funding as part of a multinational project for biliary tract cancer!

2025 , 10 - 01

2025 , 09 - 01

Gregory presents at the Data Sciences Institute: AI in Genomics!

2025 , 08 - 18

The Schwartz Lab receives The Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto (MMT) Research Fund!

2025 , 08 - 15

Gregory presents at the Allan Slaight Breakthrough Forum: From Tumour Complexity to Translational Breakthroughs!

2025 , 07 - 22

Richard presents his poster “SPAGHETTI enhances phase contrast microscopy quantitative analyses using large-scale H&E morphological models through a generative deep learning approach” at ISMB/ECCB 2025!

2025 , 07 - 20

The Schwartz Lab receives a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant!

2025 , 07 - 15

Gregory presents at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre!

2025 , 06 - 24

Fatema, Deisha, Joshua, and Victoria’s article “CellNEST reveals cell–cell relay networks using attention mechanisms on spatial transcriptomics” is now published in Nature Methods!

2025 , 06 - 06

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02721-3

Code: https://github.com/schwartzlab-methods/CellNEST

Code: https://github.com/schwartzlab-methods/CellNEST-interactive

Christie presents her poster “Does single-cell gene expression reflect RNA abundance?” at AACR 2025!

2025 , 04 - 01

2025 , 01 - 01

2024 , 11 - 22

Conor, Christie, and Javier’s article “TooManyCellsInteractive: A visualization tool for dynamic exploration of single-cell data” is now published in GigaScience!

2024 , 08 - 28

Try it: https://tmci.schwartzlab.ca

Paper: https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giae056/7738847

Code: https://github.com/schwartzlab-methods/too-many-cells-interactive

Code for TooManyCells (à la Python): https://github.com/schwartzlab-methods/too-many-cells-python

Richard, Almas, and Victoria receive Ontario Graduate Scholarships, congrats!

2024 , 07 - 08

In collaboration with the Faryabi lab, our new paper “AnnoSpat annotates cell types and quantifies cellular arrangements from spatial proteomics” is out in Nature Communications!

2024 , 05 - 03

Deisha receives the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program! Way to go!

2024 , 04 - 01

Deisha joins the lab as a Master’s student. Welcome!

2024 , 03 - 27

Fatema, Josh, and Deisha’s preprint “NEST: Spatially-mapped cell-cell communication patterns using a deep learning-based attention mechanism” is out now on bioRxiv!

2024 , 03 - 22

Richard (Ph.D. student) and Victoria (Master’s student) join the lab. Welcome!

2024 , 01 - 01

Gregory presents at the Biophysics Seminar Series at the University of Toronto

2023 , 11 - 09

Fatema, Christie, Lin, and Almas present at the CBMP retreat and Fatema wins best poster presentation!

2023 , 10 - 24

Gregory is featured on Meet PM Research!

2023 , 09 - 19

Read about it here: https://www.uhnresearch.ca/news/meet-dr-schwartz-pmresearch

Deisha presents at the MBP Summer Student Poster day and wins best poster. Congrats!

2023 , 08 - 15

Deisha wins the Arthur Axelrad award for the top research poster displayed at the Summer Student Poster Day.

Conor and Christie’s article “TooManyCellsInteractive: a visualization tool for dynamic exploration of single-cell data” is on bioRxiv!

2023 , 06 - 21

Check out the paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.16.544954v1

Explore the tool here: https://github.com/schwartzlab-methods/too-many-cells-interactive

Christie is awarded the Data Sciences Institute Doctoral Student Fellowship, way to go!

2023 , 06 - 08

Find more about her award here: https://datasciences.utoronto.ca/data-sciences-institute-announces-doctoral-student-fellows-for-2023/

Gregory joins the Vector Institute as a Faculty Affiliate

2023 , 06 - 06

Javier Ruiz-Ramírez joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher, welcome!

2023 , 06 - 05

Lin and Almas present at the Medical Biophysics Symposium

2023 , 05 - 30

Deisha Paliwal joins the lab as a summer student

2023 , 05 - 01

Gregory presents at the 2023 Artathon

2023 , 05 - 01

Fatema is featured in an article on Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs!

2023 , 04 - 26

From mitigating weather disasters to mapping genetic diversity: U of T’s Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc announces first cohort

Gregory presents at the Transcription, Chromatin and Epigenetics (TranCE) Club

2023 , 04 - 14

Christie passes her qualifiers! Way to go!

2023 , 04 - 13

The Tikhonova and Schwartz Labs are awarded the SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Fund!

2023 , 03 - 31

The Schwartz Lab is awarded the NSERC Discovery Grant!

2023 , 03 - 01

Fatema is awarded the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

2023 , 03 - 01

Lin Yang joins the lab as a PhD student!

2023 , 01 - 02

Lin Yang from the Department of Medical Biophysics joins the lab.

Almas Khan joins the lab as a PhD student!

2023 , 01 - 02

Almas Khan from the Department of Medical Biophysics joins the lab.

Gregory is awarded the Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

2022 , 11 - 17

Gregory is now the Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Read more about the award at UHN and the Chairs website.

Our tools were highlighted at the Data Sciences Institute!

2022 , 10 - 04

Conor Klamann’s work on an interactive TooManyCells interface is absolutely incredible and featured by the Data Sciences Institute.

Check out the article at https://datasciences.utoronto.ca/building-data-science-software-to-help-the-fight-against-cancer/

Ho Seok Lee joins the lab as a Software Developer!

2022 , 09 - 12

Ho Seok Lee joins the lab as a Software Developer, welcome!

Fatema is awarded the Next Generation Research Fellowship Fund

2022 , 07 - 19

Fatema is awarded the Next Generation Research Fellowship Fund, congrats!

Fatema Zohora joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!

2022 , 07 - 04

Fatema Zohora joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow, welcome!

Gregory presents at the Summer Student Seminar

2022 , 06 - 14

Gregory presents at the Summer Student Seminar.

Christie presents at the DSI Student-Led Reproducibility Challenge

2022 , 05 - 19

Christie presents at the DSI Student-Led Reproducibility Challenge.

Gregory presents at the Leukemia Academic Rounds

2022 , 05 - 09

Gregory presents at the Leukemia Academic Rounds.

The Schwartz Lab receives support from the DSI Research Software Development Support Program

2022 , 04 - 01

The Schwartz lab receives support from the Data Sciences Institute Research Software Development Support Program.

Featured in: https://datasciences.utoronto.ca/advancing-data-science-discovery-via-software-development-support/

Christie Lau joins the lab as a PhD student!

2022 , 01 - 04

Christie Lau from the Department of Medical Biophysics joins the lab.

The Schwartz Lab receives the CCS Challenge Grant

2022 , 01 - 01

The Schwartz lab receives the Canadian Cancer Society Challenge Grant with Catherine O’Brien to study drug-tolerant persisters.

Viet Hoang joins the lab as a Bioinformatics Analyst!

2021 , 11 - 26

Viet Hoang joins the lab as a Bioinformatics Analyst, welcome!

Lab Opening

2021 , 10 - 04

The lab is opening in October! Join our team to help develop new methods and algorithms to help us understand treatment-resistance in cancer and create new computational tools to improve diagnosis and guide therapy. We are accepting applications for all levels, from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow, as well as software engineers and bioinformaticians.