🎉 Congratulations to @zachtpennington.bsky.social on receiving this year's Banting Discovery Award! I worked closely with Zach when he was a postdoc in my lab and I know he is incredibly deserving of this award. Read more about his award here: psych.ubc.ca/news/zachary...

It was an honour for @franklandlab.bsky.social and I to co-host our (sold-out!) 3rd annual Neural Circuits&Behaviour Satellite Meeting at @canacn.bsky.social. Talks were outstanding top-to-bottom, and a huge congratulations to Jennifer Robinson for her top trainee talk award. See you in Calgary!

Lineup, including trainee talks, is all set for this year's Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite at @canacn.bsky.social, co-hosted with @franklandlab.bsky.social . One week away, with a few tickets remaining for anyone interested! www.eventbrite.com/e/neural-cir...

Exciting Human Neuroscience research being discussed at Krembil Brain Institute today! Keynote by Ed Lein and amazing talks by teams from across the world! Proud partners: @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social @ubc-gc2.bsky.social

It was a blast to put this review together with @adriennekinman.bsky.social and Larissa! The subiculum is a gem of a brain region. Also - the manuscript process at @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social was a pleasure - thoughtful&involved feedback from reviewers&editor that really elevated our manuscript

Tickets are now available for the CAN 2026 public lectures - Je me souviens: Montréal the memory city - May 17 starting at 5PM. Featuring author Eric Andrew-Gee, and researchers Mihaela Iordanova and Blake Richards - www.eventbrite.ca/e/je-me-souv...

Trainees attending @canacn.bsky.social 2026 Meeting - @franklandlab.bsky.social and I are co-hosting the Circuits & Behaviour satellite and seeking 4 trainee speakers (one of whom will receive a $500 "Best Talk" prize). Register by next Friday for consideration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce Dr. Maria Ioannou, from the University of Alberta, has been awarded the CAN 2026 New Investigator Award View her profile: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

Can hardly wait for my first Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting 🇨🇦🧠!!! Also, check out the insane lineup of speakers I get to present with at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour satellite meeting. I AM STOKED!

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This satellite is a highlight of the @canacn.bsky.social meeting. Looking like another excellent lineup!

Registration for the @canacn.bsky.social 2026 Neural Circuits and Behaviour satellite meeting is now live! Looking forward to hosting this event with @franklandlab.bsky.social again, and we're looking to have 4 trainee talks as part of the satellite. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/1984146883...

New paper alert! 🚨 We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales 1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks 2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps. Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

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

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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!

Journals:

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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