Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!

this is an absolutely fantastic review at the interface of emerging biological principles, neuronal/network computation, and statistical physics (among other disciplines). huge congrats to @rgast.bsky.social and co-authors for this great cross-disciplinary synthesis for the field

With many new neurotechnologies, only about five percent of experiments yield significant results.

Scientific program chairs @rcbagot.bsky.social and @markcembrowski.bsky.social have put together a great program: can-acn.org/meeting-2026... - Now is your chance to contribute also!

Share your research at the next Canadian Neuroscience Meeting May 18-21, 2026 in Montreal! Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities! can-acn.org/meeting-2026/

Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab. (1/2) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

yes!!! so excited to have you join zach - amazing to have you here soon!

🎉 Huge congrats to Nazreen Khan on receiving the President’s Service Award for Excellence! Naz’s dedication, care, and behind-the-scenes brilliance make a lasting impact in the department.🌟 Learn more about Naz: focusonpeople.ubc.ca/awards/2025-...

incredible visit from @cannabrain.bsky.social here at @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social - super intriguing findings on the BLA and stress. also apparently he has great taste in both shirts and drinks

Join Riya from @markcembrowski.bsky.social's lab for a look at a day in the life of a @sbmeubc.bsky.social Synergy Research Program student! This summer, she studied the hippocampal-amygdaloid transition area (HATA), a brain region that may play a role in major depressive disorder.

Excited to share this huge team effort collaboration supervised by Stephanie Page in Translational Neuroscience @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social to generate a spatio-molecular resource of the hippocampus in human 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our department at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) is running two faculty searches. One is a joint hire with the Institute for Healthy Aging, one a cohire with the Math Dept cps.med.ubc.ca/careers-2/ Click on “Faculty Positions” on the page. Please help spread the word!

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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

congratulations to all the graduate program in neuroscience awardees, including our lab's own regan campbell and margarita kapustina!!

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/10)

@ubcmedicine.bsky.social PhD student Adrienne Kinman was profiled by the @theglobeandmail.com as one of Canada's next generation of researchers making breakthroughs in health and medicine: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

huge congratulations to @adriennekinman.bsky.social for being featured by the Globe & Mail as an emerging leader in canadian research!! we have been so fortunate to have her in the lab during her phd - excited to see what she'll do next as a postdoc with @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social at princeton!

We’re thrilled to see #BrainCanada funded researchers Mark Cembrowski & Grant Bruno featured in The Globe and Mail's spotlight on rising science leaders! Nous sommes fiers de soutenir ces brillants chercheurs! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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ubc has just opened up a new 4-story ~$60m(!!) gym. floor balanceability scores a perfect four stars imo. big day

Congrats to the 2025 cohort of McKnight Scholars! www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/2...

been an unreal few months of awards for our lab members! congrats to the team (including bsky'ers @briannabristow.bsky.social @neurosully.bsky.social), and a huge thanks to all the funding agencies that have supported them for their great work

Congratulations to UBC’s Dr. Brian Kwon & Dr. Mark Cembrowski, awarded over 6,5 M$ from Brain Canada to advance neuroscience research! Félicitations à Brian Kwon et Mark Cembrowski de l’UBC, qui reçoivent plus de 6,5 M$ pour faire avancer la recherche ! www.newswire.ca/news-release...

New Paper alert 🎉🎉🎉 Mild TBI results in extensive gene dysregulation! #cellreports #neurotrauma #hippocampus #postdoc @markcembrowski.bsky.social @briannabristow.bsky.social

delighted for this support to launch a new multimodal neuroscience platform here at UBC, @ubc-gc2.bsky.social ! huge thanks to @braincanada.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social @sbmeubc.bsky.social for making this vision possible. exciting times ahead

great evening w @charan-neuro.bsky.social ! thanks @danipalombo.bsky.social for flawlessly organizing the visit, all the way down to the weather itself

congratulations to lab member kate dunne, BSc honours! she has graduated with two major distinctions from her program and is off to NYU for her grad school in neuro. hard to say goodbye after two years in the lab, but kate's a star and NYU is very lucky to have her

CAN 2025 was probably the best conference i've ever been to. great to see the neuro community and to have our lab members rock their posters and presentations. huge thanks to @cannabrain.bsky.social @rcbagot.bsky.social and @canacn.bsky.social for putting together such a super event!

fantastic day at the 2025 Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite meeting! great talks by trainees Xin Zhao, Govind Peringod, Luca Pancotti, and Peiying Wen, and congrats to Govind for his top trainee talk award! so cool to see all the great circuits and behaviour work across the country

It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025 *Stress and astrocytes Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !

To all those descending onto Toronto for the @canacn.bsky.social annual meeting, as program chair I hope you have an exciting meeting and enjoy our featured speakers @franklandlab.bsky.social @yulonglilab.bsky.social @neurovoice.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social and Kerry Ressler #CAN2025

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

Join us for the CAN 2025 Public lectures, titled: Neuroscience of memory and tools for making our memories stronger, featuring two memory experts from Toronto: Drs. Sheena Josselyn and Morgan Barense. The event will be hosted by Dr. Iva Zovkic can-acn.org/meeting-2025...

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Female brain holds the key to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Epp-Sargin lab collaboration led by @dterstege.bsky.social featuring @liisagalea.bsky.social is out in Science Advances. We uncover the mechanisms that make females more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s - in mouse models and human brains 🧠

Election day in a country that has had a fair and free vote for generations. Where all the opposition parties are free to take power. Where virtually everyone will accept the election result. After my last year, it’s a history and a privilege I’m more grateful for than ever. Let’s get at it.

likely my favourite week i've ever had as a PI. celebrating the defense of dr. @neurosully.bsky.social and hanging out with awesome neuro peeps on both sides of the border - @tuthill.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @unidentifieditem.bsky.social @kiransoma.bsky.social and many other wonderful folks

A huge thank you to @canacn.bsky.social for this award, I am honoured! I feel so fortunate to help represent the great science we have here in Canada - immensely grateful to all of our lab members present&past, and our great environment here at @ubccps.bsky.social and @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social !!

University of Toronto names Melanie Woodin as school’s first-ever female president, by Joe Friesen www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @uoft.bsky.social

Program for the "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" CAN 2025 satellite is now available! We have a great day planned, and are especially looking for trainees to join the event - we'll select four trainees for talks, with a prize for best trainee talk. Details: www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

Canada offers fellowships to foreign grad students and postdocs. Have a look and share with anyone who could be interested or who is affected by the current situation in the US.

This has been devastating. 3 of our neuroscientists are not being renewed, one of which is a core director!

Our latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this cool study by the @markcembrowski.bsky.social lab! They describe a new hippocampus cell population that responds to novel stimuli. But hold on to your seat: they don't if the object is presented again. Even 100 days later! When the behavioral memory has long faded!! 🤯🤯😱🤩

Ticket sales for the CAN 2025 "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite event have opened! Lots of exciting talks, including the keynote address from @sjo09.bsky.social. Trainees, we'll select 4 trainee attendees for talks, along with a "Best Talk" award. Details: www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

save the date (may 21) for the second-annual "neural circuits and behaviour" satellite meeting at the @canacn.bsky.social annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social&myself. fantastic lineup of speakers, and we'll be looking for 4 trainees to speak as well (with a prize for best talk)!