Conference
Xue and Punita in Ottawa!
Xue and Punita presented our latest work at the 2026 Plant Biology Meeting in Ottawa.
Pan Lab · Updates
Lab News
Research highlights, publications, student achievements, and moments from the lab.
New paper out in New Phytologist!
Our study “Mutual antagonism between auxin and diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 regulates high-temperature-induced hypocotyl elongation” is now online. It shows how auxin and DGAT2 push against each other to shape how plants grow in the heat. Huge congratulations to everyone involved!
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News and milestones
Updates are listed from newest to oldest.
Student award
Welcome, Exmund!
Exmund Asante has won an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) and is joining us for the summer.
Scholarship
Punita wins a CGRS-M!
Punita has been awarded a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s (CGRS-M), one of Canada’s most competitive graduate awards. Congratulations, Punita!
Student milestone
Sophia defends!
Sophia successfully defended her MSc thesis. Congratulations on this milestone, Sophia!
Student milestone
Mohinur defends!
Mohinur successfully defended her MSc thesis. Congratulations, Mohinur!
Scholarship
Another win for Punita!
Punita received the Joan M. Coleman Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).
Presentation award
First place for Sophia!
Sophia took home the first-place oral presentation award at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Eastern Regional Meeting 2025. Well done, Sophia!
Student award
Welcome, Punita!
Punita won an NSERC USRA and is spending the summer in the lab.
Publication
Invited review in Current Opinion in Plant Biology!
Our review “Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling” is now online. Congratulations to all involved!
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Research review in New Phytologist!
Our review “Exploring the connections between ER-based lipid metabolism and plasma membrane nanodomain signaling” is now available in New Phytologist. Congratulations to all involved!
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Welcome, Didier!
Didier won an NSERC USRA and spent the summer with us.
Lab milestone
We are moving to the new lab space.
In December 2023, the Pan Lab moved into its new laboratory space at UTSC.
Invited talk
Xue Pan gives an invited talk at ICAR2023
Xue Pan gave an invited talk at ICAR2023 in Chiba, Japan.
Publication
Membrane Nanodomains review paper is online at Plant Physiology
Our review paper “Membrane nanodomains: Dynamic nanobuilding blocks of polarized cell growth” is now online.
Lab news
Welcome, new lab members!
We welcomed new members to the Pan Lab.
Website launch
PanLab.ca is online!
The Pan Lab website went live in October 2022.
Lab milestone
Pan Lab at UTSC is under renovation
Our laboratory space at the University of Toronto Scarborough was being renovated.
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