Happy holidays from the BrainsCAN team! ❄️☃️🌟🎁

Did you hear about the coolest, new, ultra-sensitive technique for detecting brain-wide changes? Check out this study below led by Drs. Gabriel Devenyi and Mallar Chakravarty of the @douglasresearch.bsky.social. 👇👇👌🌎

Come join our awesome team of researchers! 👋🏻☺️

It's like stepping into a brain! 🤯🧠

Thanks to everyone who took the time to visit our booth at #AAIC25! We had a wonderful time and met some amazing people being part of the CIHR Institute of Aging's Canadian Pavilion. Until next year!

#AAIC25 is almost done, but don't miss the opportunity to see @maximoprado.bsky.social, Vania Prado, and a panel of experts discuss improving preclinical testing to increase successful treatment of neurodegenerative disease! Today at 10am. More: touchscreencognition.org/aaic-2025/

Great to have all our leaders out supporting the team and young talent at #AAIC25! Shout out to @lisasaksida.bsky.social, @timbussey.bsky.social, @maximoprado.bsky.social, and Vania Prado.

Prado lab postdocs making their mark and having fun at #AAIC25 @touchscreencog.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social @pradobsky.bsky.social

Last day of #AAIC25 for the exhibitors! Energy is still high 😎 come by our booth at the Canadian 🇨🇦 Pavilion @touchscreencog.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social @lisasaksida.bsky.social @timbussey.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social @pradobsky.bsky.social

So much talent from @westernu.ca presenting their cognition and Alzheimer's research at #AAIC25! We are very proud of all of their hard work. Read full abstracts here: touchscreencognition.org/aaic-2025/

If you are interested in learning the limitations of current models of alpha synuclein pathology and why we need new KI humanized mouse models check out Latiyah’s poster #AAIC25 Poster 200 Characterization of mouse of Synucleinopathies @tridentpct.bsky.social @touchscreencog.bsky.social

If you you interested in translational research #AAIC25 and improved rigour in cognitive testing check out the 🐁 2 🧍 approaches to test cognition in identical ways in mice and humans. @touchscreencog.bsky.social get some swag at the Canadian Pavilion.

Get some swag plus strawberry milkshake at our booths in the Canadian Pavillion @touchscreencog.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social and learn more about translational approaches to cognition, how well 🐁 can perform in touchscreen tasks #AAIC25

Hey #AAIC25 check out Arash’s presentation today at 8 AM and see some cool whole brain videos of the vasculaturs and plaques plus touchscreen testing room 106 Evaluating the Efficacy and Risks of Early Lecanemab Treatment in APOE4 Humanized Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models also poster 151

Great 1st day at #AAIC25! We're here for the rest of the week, stop by our @touchscreencog.bsky.social booth that's located in the Canadian Pavilion. 🎉 @maximoprado.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social @lisasaksida.bsky.social @timbussey.bsky.social @tcnlab.bsky.social @pradobsky.bsky.social

The MouseTRAP team @touchscreencog.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social presentations at #AAIC25 If you are interested in translating results from basic to clinical research come for a chat.

Great news just announced. @neuroak.bsky.social is leading a new funded @braincanada.bsky.social platform that promises to revolutionize the study of neurodegeneration by tackling Patho-connectomics Merging MRI and lightsheet analysis in new models of disease www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...

When microscopy meets MRI at MINDs with @neuroak.bsky.social #fluorescenceFriday

For #fluorescencefriday the Mesoscopic Integrated NeuroImaging Data (MIND) platform @westernu.bsky.social presents abeta plaques and blood vessels in the 🧠 of our ApoE4 mouse model of AD. 🧪 #clearing #lightsheet 🔬 Courtesy of Arash Salahinejad, Luke Smolders and @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social

🤔 Interested in examining brain structure and function in unparalleled resolution? 🧠 🔬 The Mesoscopic Integrated Neuroimaging Data (MIND) Platform is searching for a postdoc to assist in the initiative that combines 15.2T MRI and light sheet microscopy. 👇 See the attachment below for details.

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 🚨 KLAXON KLAXON 🚨 Impaired Cognitive Flexibility With Preserved Learning in an Amyloid Precursor Protein Knock-In Mouse Model of Amyloidopathy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#fluorescencefriday a 🧠 full of amyloid courtesy of @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social

Why are animal models useful for CNS drug discovery? zendudest.substack.com/p/why-animal...

This is finally out! Great collaboration with Andy Holmes @timbussey.bsky.social @lisasaksida.bsky.social and @touchscreencog.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social trainees www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to @westernubrainscan.bsky.social and particularly Erin/Amanda for this cool video explaining the work @mallarchak.bsky.social and I plus a number of colleagues engaged with @touchscreencog.bsky.social do. With sustainability for the next few year thanks to @tridentpct.bsky.social

@maximoprado.bsky.social and @mallarchak.bsky.social present their @westernubrainscan.bsky.social supported work on early biomarkers for development and monitoring of effective disease-modifying therapies at the #hbhlsymposium2025. @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social @westernu.bsky.social

This will be fun to do with my partner in crime @mallarchak.bsky.social in Montreal this coming Tuesday. Looking forward to discuss how combining humanizing mice with human relevant @touchscreencog.bsky.social and imaging improves drug discovery translation @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

All set up for a great day of neuroscience talk at the 2025 SONA Meeting! Our team is demonstrating some of the great ongoing work happening in our mouse-trap.org and touchscreencognition.org/m2h/ projects. @westernu.bsky.social

‼️ Exciting postdoc opportunity on Alzheimer's research involving mouse models and spatial transcriptomics! 🐁🧠🧬

A grant from the Weston Foundation will support @maximoprado.bsky.social's exciting research into the safety and effectiveness of a new Alzheimer's vaccine in mice. @westernu.bsky.social

MP Kirsty Duncan has served in Parliament since 2008, but before that she was a scientist. Ahead of International Women's Day, she shared her experience as a woman in research and the challenges of encouraging more women to choose a STEM career. #IWD @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Sex differences in animal models are continually understudies! Stephanie Tullo had a ⭐ observation on sex diffs in pathological propagation, survival, and atrophy in a model of synucleinopathy! An investigation with MRI, behaviour, and cool analytical methods www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We are looking for motivated post docs. Projects on Alzheimer’s and Synucleinopathy. New mouse models, combined lightsheet/15.2T MRI and high throughput cognitive testing using touchscreens. Perfect for a recent graduate in Neurosciences or related field. Come work with us in 🇨🇦 👊😀🧪 please share.

Friends in and around #londonontario! Come and party hard for a good cause with BAM!: Neuroscientists Adrian Owen, Sidath Rankaduwa, and Me. Pay What You Can at the door Richmond Tavern 31 January doors at 8

‼️Looking for a new postdoc opportunity for the new year?🧑‍🔬 👇Apply for this position if you value 1️⃣Advancing research on neurodegenerative diseases (synucleinopathies, PD)🧠 2️⃣Assessing potenital therapetuics💊 3️⃣Translational preclinical research 🐁🔜🧑‍🦳 4️⃣Working w/ highly collaborative & supportive teams!🫂

I work with some amazing scientists! Thank you, Kelly and Arash, for this beautiful light sheet image 🧠 #fluorescencefriday

We are starting a search for senior and mid career researchers candidates for the Canada Excellence Research Chair Program. We have amazing infrastructure for research including state of the art microscopy (STED, lightsheet etc), 🐁 behavior and MRI facilities (new 15.2T for 🐁 ) mouse-trap.org

👋🏻 Hello, blueys (not familiar w/ the bsky lingo yet!) My name is Czarina and I'm a Behavioral Neuroscientist by training. 🧠🐀 Currently am a Project Manager working with ✨incredible translational neuroscience✨ researchers at Western University. & today happens to be my 5-yr PhDversary! 🤯🎉

We are starting to combine Lightsheet microscopy with MRI. We want to study how pathology affects brain circuits and connections. This is a multidisciplinary effort with some amazing computational and imaging scientists. Here is an AD mouse model image by Kate Onuska and Kelly Summers. Stay tuned