Dr. Swayne (@dr_swayne) 's Twitter Profile
Dr. Swayne

@dr_swayne

Leigh Anne Swayne, PhD (she/her) • Professor

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linkhttps://uvic.ca/swaynelab calendar_today22-09-2016 20:19:58

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Honoured to receive the 2024 ⁦UVic Division of Medical Sciences⁩ Teaching Award in Medical Sciences. 🎉 Teaching is one of the most rewarding parts of my job! ⁦UniversityOfVictoria⁩ #teaching #medicaleducation #biomedicalresearch uvic.ca/medsci/people/…

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We’re hiring a postdoc! The #SwayneLab (Dr. Swayne) is looking for a candidate to investigate cellular mechanisms underlying dendritic spine stability. View the full job posting here: uvic.ca/medsci/assets/… #Neurojobs

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Check out our new review published in Journal of Physiology on synaptic roles of pannexin 1! Thanks to #SwayneLab (Dr. Swayne) grad students Adriana Casillas Martinez and Annika Ariano for their hard work💪 doi.org/10.1113/JP2852… #Pannexin #Synapse

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UVic Division of Medical Sciences’s Marie-Ève Tremblay (Tremblay Lab), Leigh Anne Swayne (Dr. Swayne), Jane Gair (Jane Gair) & Hector Caruncho (Hector Caruncho) are leading & fostering diverse #MentalHealth research activities in the UniversityOfVictoria Mental Health Research Cluster. uvic.ca/news/topics/20…

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We're looking for a PhD student or postdoc to join the Swayne Lab (Dr. Swayne) team in Victoria. Focus on astrocytes and synapse stability. Details in the posting below. Please share! 🥼 #neuroscience #cellbiology #neurojobs 🔬 uvic.ca/medsci/assets/…

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Enjoying the amazing Victoria Brain Injury Society fundraising gala at @UVic tonight - especially the opportunity to pose with different pieces of sporting equipment 😂 - it’s a privilege to serve on the Board of Directors! #vbis #braininjury

Enjoying the amazing <a href="/VicBrainInjury/">Victoria Brain Injury Society</a> fundraising gala at @UVic tonight - especially the opportunity to pose with different pieces of sporting equipment 😂 - it’s a privilege to serve on the Board of Directors! #vbis #braininjury
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Really enjoyed my visit to the University of Toronto Scarborough Dept of Biology today - fantastic discussions with Faculty and trainees! Thank you to Joanne Nash for the invite! #neuroscience #biology

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I am absolutely thrilled to share my lab's most recent paper, available on bioRxiv! We combined bioprinting, human pluripotent stem cells, and developmental micropatterning approaches to create reproducible 3D neural tube tissues in high throughput. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia - Read his profile here: can-acn.org/awards/new-inv… University of British Columbia

We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia - Read his profile here: can-acn.org/awards/new-inv… <a href="/UBC/">University of British Columbia</a>
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Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to uOBMRI yesterday to give a talk in the Neuroscience Seminar Series & the many stimulating discussions with the dynamic faculty and students. Huge thank you to my fabulous host Arezu Jahani-Asl! 🙏

Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to <a href="/uOttawaBMRI/">uOBMRI</a> yesterday to give a talk in the Neuroscience Seminar Series &amp; the many stimulating discussions with the dynamic faculty and students. Huge thank you to my fabulous host <a href="/JahaniArezu/">Arezu Jahani-Asl</a>! 🙏
Heather Swadley (@heather_swadley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I freaking HATE the discourse around “useless degrees” that I’ve been seeing all day. Our society needs historians, philosophers, and English majors. Frankly, their decline is a huge reason our society lacks understanding of pol issues + the ability to scrutinize information