“My motivation is simple,” says Dr. Wenzel. “I want to make kids healthier. I want families to have more certainty and less stress.”
Dr. Wenzel's research is examining pediatric brain disease care pathways, [and is] recognized as the top project in the Biomedical category.
More: bit.ly/3LgX5nu
Advertisement from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation describing that Dr. Tyler J. Wenzel was awarded $150,000 for a research project aiming to develop a new technique to cure brain diseases with limited or no safe treatment options.
Humbled for our stem cell team at @usask.ca to be ranked as the top biomedical research program in Saskatchewan 2 years in a row.
Big thanks to our patient partners and the folks at Jim Pattison Children's Hospital. Looking forward to improving the health of youths!
@usaskcomfacdev.bsky.social
So cool to finally see this study out! Thanks for the morning coffee read.
Amped to share this masterclass of a paper spearheaded by @waisenberg.bsky.social, out today in Immunity. Will et al. provide a deeply detailed look into microglia dysfunction in Krabbe disease & show that microglia replacement therapeutically improves disease outcomes!
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Really looking forward to this today! Grateful to Erin Mulvihill and @roblab.bsky.social for the opportunity to share a little about how biological sex affects islets!
Remyelination getting way more complex- and interesting…
:) I fit the bill for an add!
Thanks for sharing the list! I have not had time to keep up with who has been joining here.
Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!
And some buddies who do amazing work at Cape Breton don't crack the list.
If American, look at where you might want to live. Cost of living in Vancouver and Toronto is nuts. Lower outside of them, and lowest in the prairies (USask and Regina!). Each province and city is a different place.
Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs:
Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.
Today is Rare Disease Day, and a great reminder of the importance of NIH and science funding in driving hope 🧬⬇️
www.rarediseaseday.org
Zimmerman’s trailblazing work in #stemcell #cardiomyocyte transplantation in Homo sapiens failing hearts and rhesus macaques 😀👏🏻
Looking forward to reading this in detail #HF #cardiac #regeneration
Thanks for taking the time to make the software public. Will certainly be using this as soon as possible!
This is so cool. Thank you for doing this! I was going to ask Shane how to get the software at some point, but now it's easily available! Bookmarked!
Provocative start to 2025.
Journal Club 💭:
1) How do we reconcile that other microglia-deficient (eg, CSFR1-/-) models draw different conclusions? Could the remaining immune cells be compensating?
2) Why do these brains have synchronous neuron firing, but brain organoids lacking microglia do not?
I’ve heard from search committees that several job offers have been left on the table.
But, that info was before it looks like UBC upped their baseline offer over the last ~2 years.
Scrolls to random page:
"While methods for the culture of CNS cells in the absence of serum have emerged, these are not always used"
Yup... this is going to be a gooooood (and honest) article!
I know its not the focus here, but I always think/talk about the wide use of serum in iPS cell protocols.
3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)
@samanthamrae.bsky.social @stemcellnetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Sky! Glad to see you arrive :)
And of course don’t forget our amazing biennial meetings… the next one? NYC August 2025, with the American Society for Neurochemistry!
See you soon! Let me know if you need any hot tips for the university, or the city in general.
If I’m not mistaken, I saw your family asking about the BC->SK move. I came from Vancouver, so I can also help with any questions you have in that regard too ☺️
As I've been seeing a lot of job postings here, I've set up a NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for a PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Could I be added to the Canadian list? ☺️ I was thinking about doing the same thing once I saw the country ones, so thanks for taking the time to put this together!
This is such great leadership. Regardless of the failures, I think this is one of those instances where its the thought that counts.
A community coming together and trying to 'pass the torch', even if it's just a small twig on fire or a sparkler.
I won't say anything in regards to content, but I will say I no regrets from continuing to watch!
Heck yeah! I’m waiting for Sunday to binge the last two episodes of Season 3.
I was a little hesitant at first with how slow it was to trickle out plot, but I have been happy still!
@blairkgage.bsky.social Welcome to the blue side Blair!
@isn-society.bsky.social 😱You have finally arrived! Welcome!
Currently have enthusiasm listed as my #2!
I told them I ranked kindness higher because, despite data and methods needing critique to ensure proper conclusions, feedback should be given in a way knowing another human is receiving it.
That’s a good one. Thanks for the reminder! Prevents a lot of repetition, while showing respect.
I’m enjoying trying to make a top 5 or 10.