Honoured to be selected as one of the trailblazing Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research by @braincanada.bsky.social! The future of neural stem cell research is bright. braincanada.ca/announcement...

Thank you again for this recognition and for supporting Canada’s future! Cc @wchriuofa.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social

I am elated to be selected as the @killamtrusts.bsky.social Research Accelerator Awardee! Grateful to my trainees and mentors with whom I share this honour. Looking forward to advancing neural stem cell research. CC @stemcellnetwork.ca @canacn.bsky.social www.ualberta.ca/en/research/...

One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology @ualberta.bsky.social is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute @wchriuofa.bsky.social See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025 ar.wchri.org

Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. Through continual innovation, WCHRI researchers are illuminating the path toward a healthier future for women and children. We are lighting the way! Read more in our 2024-2025 annual report: ar.wchri.org/ #WCHRIAR2025

My lab is very grateful to receive funding from the @stemcellnetwork.ca for remyelination and regeneration drug development program to #endMS! Enormous gratitude to Women and Children's Health Research Institute & UAlberta Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences for matching funds.

UHN marks the passing of Dr. James Till, whose work with Dr. Ernest McCulloch first demonstrated the existence of blood-forming stem cells in 1961 at Ontario Cancer Institute, now Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. His work has helped launch the field of #stemcell science.

If you are unable to vote in person, here is the link to apply to vote by mail. It takes 5 minutes but you have to do it ASAP to get the package in time.

UBC’s Dept of Medical Genetics is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Life Sciences Institute. If you’re interested in joining a strong research community in Vancouver, check out the job posting: medgen.med.ubc.ca/assistant-pr... Please share with anyone who might be a great fit!

Our review in J. Neurochem on how neurons regulate neural stem cell fates is live! The paper was led by our talented PhD student @dittmannwith2ns.bsky.social. This review was written as part of my 2024 ISN Young Scientist Lectureship Award onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fellow PIs: I noticed new students are not familiar with Microsoft Office programs as they grew up using ChromeBooks and not PCs. Are there free resources/courses to suggest to these students? I am not interested in using Google docs/sheets for data/writing as they lack many features

Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.

Happy to have collaborated with Dr. Maria Cecilia Angulo’s lab on this important project!

When you think you came up with a new cool idea to test in mammalian system, revisiting Drosophila literature never fails to discover it’s already been done in principle! Fly folks are always ahead of everyone 👏

While evaluating the concluding year, I realized it was grant-heavy: 12 grants submitted in 12 months! Two more are in development but slated for submission in early 2025. In 2025 I look forward to skewing the life-work balance towards life while going back to enjoying writing/editing manuscripts ☺️

Hello my lovely developmental biologists, The International Society for Developmental Biology is here with y'all in this #BlueSky. If you follow us on Twitter (we refuse to call it X), please drop us a follow here! Let's connect! #DevelopmentalBiology #cellbiology

Very pleased with my Canada Research Chair award renewal. Looking forward to pushing the boundaries of stem cell based neurological disease modelling and advancing stem cell-mediated brain regeneration! www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias...

Good news day: our Japan-Canada joint symposium on "Myelin in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration" with Drs. Shernaz Bamji, Norihisa Bizen and Nobuhiko Ohno was selected for Canadian Association for Neuroscience 2024 meeting! Looking forward to visiting beautiful Vancouver in May.

Well, this is pretty neat. Sage has a tool to see how often your work has been cited in policy documents. 32 times for me, which is 32 more than I knew about. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#DepecheMode concert was unadulterated joy and effervescent fun! Pleased they share a fascination for #NeuralCrest derived tissues 😁