It’s Day 3 at #IFPA2025! Join us for the IFPA Award in Placentology Lecture featuring Stephen Renaud from Canada. He’ll be sharing his fascinating insights on the Formation of the Placental Syncytium: Mechanisms and Mysteries. Don’t miss it!

Kudos to Steve Renaud westernuACB

Check out this article: cnn.com/2025/09/18/hea…

Canadian women are No. 2 in the world 🇨🇦🏉 Shining silver for Rugby Canada at #RWC2025 🥈

"There is no big bad wolf unafraid of the human 'super predator,'" says Liana Zanette, #WesternU professor and lead author of a new study that reveals wolves still fear humans — even where laws protect them from hunting. 🐺 @WesternuScience news.westernu.ca/2025/10/big-ba…

Best part about giving Biochemistry lecture is the beer with Fred Possmayer afterwards!

Exciting study from 𝔻𝕣. 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕃𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖 🍁🍁🍁’s laboratory regarding the efficacy of NAC to mitigate adverse neuropathological outcomes due to adolescent THC exposure. rdcu.be/eKZKZ

Great study by David Natale further implicating in the important role of TGF-b1 signalling on pericyte function in the placenta. rdcu.be/eMoJ9

Looking forward to this Osler Society talk by Dr. Rob Hegele Schulich WesternU

Dr. Tutis Vilis Schulich WesternU would be so proud of this Heritage site!

Today!

Tremendous Schulich WesternU Osler Society talk by Dr. Rob Hegele today on the birthplace of insulin in London!

Happy Hallowe’en from the Hardy Lab!

Excellent coverage of our recent research in Nature Molecular Psychiatry: Omega-3 diet offsets some prenatal cannabis effects in male but not female offspring via @psypost psypost.org/omega-3-diet-o…

TODAY…..

Back Schulich WesternU for HHAllen Day 20 years after finishing residency and 25 years after med school! Thank you 🙏🏽 for helping support me to build the foundation for a wonderful career.

Oxytocin isn’t just the “love hormone”: it helps wire the brain’s metabolic circuits! 🧠 In our new ⁦PLOS Biology⁩ study, we show that OT neurons guide the postnatal development of POMC and AgRP pathways that control energy balance journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Delighted to have Dr. Sandy Raha McMaster University to speak to our 4th year Schulich WesternU students on the importance of proper and clear science communication!

Looking forward to this Schulich WesternU #oncology Grand Rounds next Tuesday with my colleague Dr. Jim Petrik University of Guelph