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Professors Michael Garton, Azadeh Kushki, and Warren Chan have each received CRC funding to drive forward-thinking research in synthetic biology, personalized neurodevelopmental health, and nanotechnology: discover.bme.utoronto.ca/three-u-of-t-b…

📢 Attention researchers! Join Virtual Human Development's new collection, 'Virtual Human Development: Merging Experiments and Theory.' Share your insights on experimental and computational models for #EarlyHumanDevelopment. Submit your manuscript here. ➡️ nature.com/collections/ib…

SAVE THE DATE! Fourth edition of MuSkLE Summer School We welcome Bachelor (in priority) and Master students on June 1-6, 2025. Infos and registration: muskle.univ-lyon1.fr Keynote speakers are coming soon. Université Lyon 1 @ENSdeLyon Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne

So excited to share the first paper from the lab! We identified CD34 as a marker of the heart’s SAN pacemaker cells enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures, advancing future disease modeling and biological pacemaker applications. nature.com/articles/s4146…

.S. Rahima Benhabbour and I wrote a brief editorial in J Controlled Release on the current landscape & future roadmap of women's health drug delivery research! Free-access for 50 days—read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWVo_3r0J7N… Stay tuned for the full special issue!

Thrilled to share LUNA🌕 – our new generative AI model that reassembles tissues from dissociated cells! Think of it as AlphaFold for cells 🧬 From the MERFISH mouse brain atlas to the scRNA-seq atlas & Slide-tags datasets, LUNA is widely applicable. Bringing us closer to virtual

Latest paper from our lab: ActRII or BMPR ligands inhibit skeletal myoblast differentiation, and BMPs promote heterotopic ossification in skeletal muscles in mice …eletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations to Donnelly Centre faculty members Liliana Attisano, Andrew Fraser, Peter Roy and Mikko Taipale for securing funding from CIHR! 👏 Their funded projects will advance drug discovery and technological innovation. #UofT Learn more 👉 uoft.me/FallCIHRFundin…

A dedicated group of student leaders has launched #UofT’s NSBE Graduate Student Chapter—creating more opportunities for mentorship, research & representation in STEM. From outreach to AI bias reduction, these students are making an impact. 🔗Read more⬇️ uofteng.ca/dfx82i

Hey ya’ll, check out Rob and Michael Kyba’s new Perspective in Mol Biol Cell on Master Regulators: molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb…

📢 SI on Women's Health Drug Delivery Technologies J Controlled Release co-edited by S. Rahima Benhabbour & I is now out - you have 50 days free access to all articles via the links in sub-tweets below. Thx to all authors! Plz retweet to help others access the articles for free! Controlled Release Society

🎉bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our community-centered mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. 🧵

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's a dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

🔬 #HFSP offers 2 types of Postdoctoral Fellowships: 👉Long-Term-For researchers shifting into life sciences 👉Cross-Disciplinary-For those moving from non-life science fields into biology Want to know how to succeed? Join our webinar for expert tips! bit.ly/4bSSY9P

Out in this month's issue of Aging Cell. Motor neurons do better in the presence of primary human muscle cells from older exercisers vs non-exercisers 🙏Lundbeckfonden for the Ascending Investigator grant 4 years ago to see this work through doi.org/10.1111/acel.1…

We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com

Congratulations to Katy Tipper in Gilbert Lab for successfully defending her PhD thesis on developing 3D human culture systems for assessing force, anabolic response and type-II diabetes! Thank you for the invite to examine the thesis! Katy did a wonderful job!

It is true what they say: it takes a village... 🏘️🌳🐄 ...to complete a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering! 🎓🧫 A village full of amazing mentors (Alison McGuigan Gilbert Lab ), lab mates, friends and family—you made the hard days easier and the good days even better!

Recent PhD graduate Vera Pieters, PhD is our latest Medicine by Design profile subject. She worked in the labs of Alison McGuigan and Gilbert Lab University of Toronto where she engineered #3D tissues to mimic human organs. Read more here and ideally offer her a job! signalsblog.ca/profile-vera-p…

Thanks for this invite to share our work. So many great questions to help guide our thinking and future experiments 🙏