New finding from the lab. This surprised us since it went against the common assumption that increasing peri-infarct blood flow is best for stroke recovery. Congrats to Kamal and the team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MD, author & longevity researcher Peter Attia recently featured a #UVic Medical Sciences-led study published in Nature Metabolism about the link between diabetes and dementia. Read the story: peterattiamd.com/link-between... Or the paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39496927/#fu...

Was a pleasure to contribute a little to this new work from Tuan Trang and Yuta Kohro molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

new paper from Boas group journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nice little story here about my award winning student Kamal www.uvic.ca/health/stori...

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to share our new study showing that perivascular macrophages promote vascular function in the brain. A greater collaboration with the great Melanie Greter. Huge congratulations to everyone involved! @UZH_en @ImmunityCP

If you are interested in glia, are in Canada (yes, Canadians have glia too), and coming to Toronto for @canacn.bsky.social, then you cannot miss our upcoming CANGlia satellite symposium! Please register and submit an abstract, we’ll see you there! 🥂

It’s pretty easy to “apply” for a PhD in Canada, and a little different from most US places, just send a cover letter, CV and undergrad transcript to a PI you’d like to work with. Put some effort into it, make sure you convey what you’re applying for and why.

Fantastic new work led by @milenevandal.bsky.social showing that loss of brain endothelial CD2AP in mice alters memory and cerebrovascular function. Interestingly, mutations in CD2AP are known to predispose to Alzheimer’s disease! #cerebrovascular

New paper led by @silvia-anderle.bsky.social Lifestyle matters for genetic Alzheimer’s disease risk: APOE4 reduces neurovascular function most in an already-stressed system,  when neurons are active and mice do less exercise. I'll tell you all about it! 🧪 #neuroscience #alzheimers rdcu.be/d74uh

This week, we submit abstracts to attend the Brain Barriers 2025 meeting at @cshlaboratory.bsky.social and you should too, submission deadline is January 24th ! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp... This meeting, hosted at a prestigious Institution, is an absolute must for scientists in this field 😇

Paper is out today @biophysj.bsky.social! Amyloid beta Aβ1-40 activates Piezo1 channels in 🧠 capillary endothelial cells Congratulations 🎉 to @xinruilimemily1.bsky.social and Luc Willemse. We enjoyed having Luc in the lab as a visiting student. So proud of Emily and Luc! doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

First, in rats (PMID: 22654062); then, in primates (PMID: 27830790); and now in humans (again) nature.com/articles/s41... This is precisely why we need animal research! Huge congratulations to the authors on this impressive work!

Congrats to the team! Here we directly image and quantify cerebral #angiogenesis and pruning in vivo. Found interesting regional differences and dependence on #notch signalling. Where you look does matter! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Come join us! can-acn.org/research-ass...

lol. Proofs arrive at 11:24pm on Friday night. You have 48 hours!!

Highly recommend these free videos for people new to microscopy www.ibiology.org/online-biolo...

Re-sharing this for those that didn’t see this on X last week. More new stuff coming soon! www.nature.com/articles/s42...