diff --git a/colab/celery.py b/colab/celery.py
index 5c6e1eb..6bd2d25 100644
--- a/colab/celery.py
+++ b/colab/celery.py
@@ -14,13 +14,6 @@ app = Celery('colab')
 app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
 app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
 
-app.conf.update(
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.database:DatabaseBackend',
-)
-app.conf.update(
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.cache:CacheBackend',
-)
-
 
 @app.task(bind=True)
 def debug_task(self):
diff --git a/colab/plugins/gitlab/celery.py b/colab/plugins/gitlab/celery.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d19e21..0000000
--- a/colab/plugins/gitlab/celery.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
-import os
-
-from celery import Celery
-
-# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
-os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'colab.settings')
-
-from django.conf import settings
-
-app = Celery('colab')
-
-app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
-app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
-
-app.conf.update(
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.database:DatabaseBackend',
-)
-app.conf.update(
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.cache:CacheBackend',
-)
diff --git a/colab/settings.py b/colab/settings.py
index 6f98e25..7498880 100644
--- a/colab/settings.py
+++ b/colab/settings.py
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'haystack',
     'hitcounter',
     'taggit',
-    'djcelery',
 
     # Own apps
     'colab.home',
diff --git a/colab/signals/celery.py b/colab/signals/celery.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d19e21..0000000
--- a/colab/signals/celery.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
-import os
-
-from celery import Celery
-
-# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
-os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'colab.settings')
-
-from django.conf import settings
-
-app = Celery('colab')
-
-app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
-app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
-
-app.conf.update(
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.database:DatabaseBackend',
-)
-app.conf.update(
-    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.cache:CacheBackend',
-)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2eadb06..ef8fb19 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     'diazo>=1.0.5',
 
     # Async Signals
-    'django-celery==3.1.16',
+    'celery>=3.1',
 
     ### Move out of colab (as plugins):
 
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