3/6 Dr. Van Lu, Assistant Professor at Schulich WesternU is working to understanding the influence of gut microbiota in human health, and how the gut signals to the brain to control our eating habits.

6/6 🏆Congratulations to all our Early Career Investigator Award winners!🏆 Join Gairdner Science Week to see their presentations as part of the Laureate Lectures on Thursday, October 28. ✅Register: bit.ly/GairdnerScienc…

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Wellcome scientists at Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs present the first in-depth transcriptomic and functional characterization of human duodenal #motilin-expressing cells, using human duodenal organoids. bit.ly/3jKR3u7

Super excited to see my work on motilin-labelled organoids out in all its pre-print glory! We looked at several new mechanisms underlying stimulation of motilin release from human small intestinal cells bit.ly/3miM6ud

Congratulations to Karly Masse and all PhysPharm Research day poster presentation award winners! Excellent job 👏 #westernuPandP

Congratulations to all our graduate student award winners!! Very well done!

And congratulations to all poster award winners from today’s Research Day as well as all other presenters - these were tough choices! Great to see so many different labs presented here including new ones!!

Welcome to summer students HengLiang Wu and Paramveer Love to the Van Lu!!

Our Icecream social was a great success. Everyone enjoyed the treats & the time together, and we raised more than $370 for the London Food Bank 🥫🍎🍞🥚. Thanks Van Lu & Matthew W. Grol (he/him)🏳️‍🌈 for organizing!

Lots of buzz at the poster sessions! So great to see after 3 years!

Interested in gut-brain signalling, enteroendocrine cells & sensory cell biology? Then join our fantastic speakers @lbeutler7 , Rituja Singh Bisen , Van Lu , Constanza Alcaino (she/her) , & RewitzLab at the German Neuroscience Society - NWG symposium no. 1️⃣ tomorrow. nwg-goettingen.de/2023/upload/fi…

Good-bye dinner for all the wonderful students in the Van Lu 2022-23 school year. Thanks for all the great memories and great science Karly Masse, HengLiang Wu, Sherry Chen, Xiaohan Yan and Jackie Han!!

After hearing from patients about how the disease affected their lives, #SchulichMedDent's Cheryle Séguin, and a team of researchers investigated the symptoms associated with an understudied spine disease called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. fal.cn/3ykFV

Proud to have Karly Masse present her work at the CSPT Annual meeting

X-LABS, a #SchulichMedDent program designed to make biomedical sciences more accessible for students from diverse backgrounds has launched. Meet the trio of area high-school students experiencing first-hand what their future in science could look like. fal.cn/3A47Z

Gearing up for our 2nd Western Organoid Workshop (WOW) tomorrow. It'll be an exciting day of organoid research and posters! #UWO_WOW2023

Finally we get to celebrate the winners of our annual graduate awards as well as our poster award winners from today. Congrats all!!!

The Canadian Conference in Organoid Research (CANCOR/CCRO) is a 2-day conference that brings the top organoid researchers in Canada for cutting-edge presentations, networking, and more! 🗓️Nov 5-6, 2025 📍Lamplighter Inn, London, Ontario 🌐Website: westernorganoids.ca/cancor-ccro

Food for Thought: Insights from International and Canadian Experts on Nutrition, Policy, and Food Systems 📅 Oct 21 🕑 2-4:30PM 📍 UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal + Virtual Inspired by the award-winning research of André Briend. Register free: bit.ly/2025-Gairdner-… #GairdnerScienceWeek

Only 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts to the first Canadian Organoid Conference! 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: Oct 5th, 2025 at 5pm ET 🔗westernorganoids.ca/abstract