How does the womb environment impact child development? Tracking pregnant mothers & kids to age 5, the ongoing Sinai Health-led Ontario Birth Study has already revealed an impact on children’s brain development, sleep & cognition. 🧬+🌱 Read in @IntJEpidemiol ➡️ bit.ly/4aoarHN

🎉 Congrats to Khalid, Daniel, and team on this important paper identifying new genes involved in breast cancer. Also a shout-out to our sequencing and flow cytometry teams, who contributed to this work — proud to have been part of this effort.

A stellar example of what we can accomplish when scientific cores work with talented trainees. Check out this spotlight on post-doc Ugo Dionne!

Thank you! We're excited about this recognition of our long-read capabilities through @PacBio certification. As part of our service, we offer bioinformatics analysis to help our clients get the most out of their data. Contact us for more info.

🎉We are now a @pacbio.bsky.social Certified Service Provider @sinaihealth.bsky.social for high-quality long-read sequencing! If short reads aren't enough, long reads can unlock the answers. Contact us for your projects: bit.ly/4mySM57

Find out more at our lunch and learn with Olink Proteomics: 📅 Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 – 1:00 PM 📍 LTRI/Sinai Health, 60 Murray St, Room L3-201 🍽 Lunch will be served. Register here: bit.ly/4dJmhyG

Helping scientists advance their research is the central mandate of core facilities. Thank you Julieta for sharing your experience about how the NBCC's flow cytometry facility is propelling your work forward.

Did you know automated paraffin processing can improve histology results? 🔬 The TCP Pathology Core uses the Sakura Tissue-Tek VIP 6 AI Tissue Processor for reproducible, high-throughput tissue preparation. Better processing = better data. TCP services ➡️ phenogenomics.ca

At the Lunch and Learn on April 15th - speakers from @pacbio.bsky.social , Qiagen, and @10xgenomics.bsky.social will discuss long-read screening applications and new chemistries that are lowering sequencing costs. Register at: bit.ly/41bkhrp

Helping scientists advance their research is the central mandate of core facilities. Thank you Julieta for sharing your experience about how the NBCC's flow cytometry facility is propelling your work forward.

Proximity mapping is our specialty and we help our users by providing cloning vectors, performing sample preparation and mass spec analysis, and through a customized suite of data analysis software. Reach out if you want to find out more.

📢Interested in long-read sequencing? Join the NBCC & @pacbio.bsky.social for a seminar @sinaihealth.bsky.social on new low-cost sequencing chemistry, tumour-resolved insights, and RNA applications. 📅Apr 15 | 12–1:30 PM 📍LTRI/Sinai Health, Toronto 🍽️ Lunch provided Register: bit.ly/4biAdNf

The Incucyte® LiveCell Analysis System at the NBCC lets researchers measure real-time cell dynamics inside the incubator. It captures continuous images and turns them into data on cell growth, movement, immune cell activity & more. Learn more ➡️ nbcc.lunenfeld.ca/High-Content...

The Network Biology Collaborative Centre offers access to 270K+ small-molecule compounds, including 13 bioactive libraries and 5 large diversity libraries for automated in vitro cell and organoid screens. Learn how we can support your research ➡️ nbcc.lunenfeld.ca/High-Through...

Beautiful example of the time-lapse imaging that we can do in our Advanced Imaging core!

The Croitoru Lab's new blood test for Crohn's disease was supported by Sinai Health's Biospecimen Repsoitory, an accredited biobank storing 600, 000+ samples and enabling research across the organization and beyond. ➡️ www.sinaihealth.ca/news/a-simpl... ➡️ research.lunenfeld.ca/bsr/

Check this out if you want to learn about software to analyze your tissue samples - happening next Tuesday at LTRI/Sinai Health.

📣The NBCC/Gingras lab are hiring a new programmer/data analyst to join our computational team. Lots of data, lots of exciting biology questions to answer! Come join our team!

🎞️Check out this video to see our end-to-end offerings in our proteomics facility!

Our facility manager Cassandra Wong stars in this video showcasing the extended services we provide to our users. Come check us out if you are interested in discovering more about your favourite protein(s).

Looking for expert support in experimental design and data analysis? Our team at the Network Biology Collaborative Centre is here to help! Partner with our facility experts to take your research further. nbcc.lunenfeld.ca

Looking forward to this event and showcasing the NBCC capabilities. Register today to find out how the NBCC and other cores at LTRI can help you with your research!

Job Alert 🚨 Are you an emerging leader in biomedical discovery or population health data science? We are looking for outstanding candidates to join our institute! Learn more & apply: Biomedical Discovery ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/172703 Population Health Data Science ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/172529

Dr. Drucker's team at Sinai Health is using the Cytek Aurora cell sorter to achieve unprecedented resolution in different immune cell types—advancing our understanding of how GLP-1 medicines work. Find out how Cytek Aurora can power your research! ➡️ nbcc.lunenfeld.ca/Flow_Cytometry

Looking to test multiple biological conditions in live or fixed cells or organoids? Our experts at the Network Biology Collaborative Centre can help you execute a screen with latest technology. Discover how we can support your research: nbcc.lunenfeld.ca 📸 Amin Yarmand

📆Join us June 17th for a learn and lunch @sinaihealth.bsky.social co-hosted by @pacbio.bsky.social about revealing deeper biological insight with full-length RNA sequencing. Find out how you can characterize isoforms at the single-cell and spatial levels. 👉 Register at bit.ly/43k9ixW

📆Join us June 10th for a full-day event @sinaihealth.bsky.social to learn about how protein biomarkers are shaping precision medicine and how you can advance your research with Olink! 👉 For details and to register: bit.ly/45bv0oX

📆Deadline for this program is just weeks away! If you are a 🐭researcher interested in cytokine response - don't miss this opportunity to test samples for free! Apply by May 23rd at lnkd.in/gsCkRcUj.

🔊We have partnered with Olink Proteomics to offer Toronto researchers a chance to win a free analysis of cytokines in mouse plasma or serum samples. Deadline to apply: May 23rd. For details and to apply - www.bit.ly/OlinkPilot_MtSinai_Mouse. #proteomics

Join us for lunch & learn about advances in spatial proteomics & mass spectrometry. Find out how you too can boost your research with new technologies! Agenda 👉 www.sinaihealth.ca/events/lunch... Co-hosted by Sinai Health’s Network Biology Collaborative Centre & @brukercorporation.bsky.social

🔈The NBCC is partnering with @brukercorporation.bsky.social for a lunch & learn on March 27th at 11 am. Come join us to find out more about MALDI imaging, metabolomics, & lipidomics. For details & to register - bit.ly/3Frrvjg.

📣The NBCC @sinaihealth.bsky.social is #hiring a sequencing technician to help process samples and develop new protocols. If you are interested in working with the latest instruments in an exciting and dynamic research environment, apply at apply.interfolio.com/162528. #jobsearch

👏Congrats to this team led by NBCC's Co-Director Jeff Wrana & featuring key members of NBCC's screening and sequencing facilities for this paper mapping COVID-19 variants. 👉 Check out this video describing their study - www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37S....

🔈Join our screening experts Mariam Iskilova and Amin Yarmand at an Olink Proteomics-sponsored webinar as they discuss a multiomics approach to study human cerebral organoids. 📆February 13th at 10 am. Register @ bit.ly/4ahK6JZ.

Interested in building new diagnostics and being an industrial liaison? Check out this position at LTRI!

The PRECISE pandemic preparedness project @sinaihealth.bsky.social is hiring a clinical diagnostics project manager to help build/develop assays and coordinate across multiple sites and industry partners. Apply today at apply.interfolio.com/160789. #diagnostics #hiring

Beautiful images and an awesome resource created by NBCC's co-Director Laurence Pelletier.

The NBCC and @gingraslab.bsky.social are hiring a junior programmer/data specialist to help update and advance our proteomics software. If you are motivated and ready to learn, come join our team. For more details and to apply: apply.interfolio.com/147660. #hiring #proteomics

Calling all graduate students in proteomics - present your thesis in 3 minutes for a change to win some 💰.

Join us next Tuesday as NBCC's @brendonseale.bsky.social will be presenting at CNPN's virtual meeting highlighting the value of scientific platforms and the vital role they play keeping our facilities operational and at the leading edge.

Super excited to be hosting this event next week with @gingraslab.bsky.social and Sinai Health. Expert talks from @maccoss.bsky.social & Jesper Olsen. Register at t.co/TeuB5bBYl6 and find out why our MS manager @brendonseale.bsky.social loves this instrument.

The NBCC is partnering with Nanostring and Illumina to host a lunch and learn at LTRI/SinaiHealth on January 18th on spatial profiling RNA and proteins from tissue. For more details and to register, bit.ly/3tDrzHt.