Emma Allen-Vercoe: “You are not human. microbes outnumber human cells 1.3:1. But for a brief moment after a bowel movement, you are slightly more human.” @EmmaAllenVercoe Women & Their Microbes #WomenMicrobes2019 #womenshealth #probiotics

Our new paper nature is an epic tale of obesity, calories, gut microbes, and C. difficile. Trainees interested in contributing to the sequel should ping Jordan Bisanz to join his new lab Penn State News bisanzlab.github.io nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is how a vaccine works and it is genius. x.com/neverseentit/s…

In the latest issue! An atlas of protein-protein interactions across mouse tissues dlvr.it/S4S3DZ

Really excited to share our manuscript "Rare variant contribution to human disease in 281,104 UK 2 Biobank exomes" now published in nature nature.com/articles/s4158… AstraZeneca Keren Carss andrew harper RUTH MARCH Slavé Petrovski UK Biobank

Congratulations to our Alberta Diabetes members and their teams who were awarded funding for the 2021 Spring CIHR Project Grant competition! Read the full results cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52598.html

I have to admit when first learning of the Michaelis-Menten equation decades ago (in Zimbabwe), my mental image was of two white guys. Never stopped to even consider a woman biochemist from this era! Pretty sure the teacher had no idea either.

Online now! GTTs and ITTs: aim for shorter fasting times dlvr.it/S6tlK3

Just got back from #Seoul and missed this coming online, but really excited to share our lab’s latest research looking at the possible #repurposing of #diphenylbutylpiperidines for the treatment of #T2D doi.org/10.2337/db22-0… Congrats to @amurtab !!!

"We believe that finding a better target for diabetic heart disease with less potential for adverse effects would improve the quality of life of people with diabetes." - KESHAV GOPAL, Research Associate Learn More: bit.ly/3gJ9wsR #DiabetesAwarenessMonth #UAlberta

RESEARCH PROJECT: Myocardial Ketone Body Oxidation as a Therapeutic Target for Diabetic Cardiomyopathy "Therapies specifically designed to treat diabetic cardiomyopathy or diabetes-related heart failure are exceptionally limited." bit.ly/3iphvvo #DiabetesAwarenessMonth

RESEARCH PROJECT: Development of succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid CoA transferase (SCOT) inhibitors for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes AMIRHOSSEIN TABATABAEI Postdoctoral Fellow Learn more about Amirhossein's Research: bit.ly/3ONF0KS #diabetesawarenessmonth #ualberta

It’s been a while since I used Twitter for this, but our lab is looking to recruit a new #postdoc, if anyone is interested in studying either #cardiac or #skeletal_muscle #energy #metabolism in #obesity or #rare_genetic_diseases, please DM me and others please RT

Thank you CIHR-ICRH | L'ISCR des IRSC for giving me this opportunity to pursue my passion and make a difference. This would have been impossible without the support of my brilliant mentor. I am forever grateful to John R. Ussher for reshaping me into the person and researcher I am today.

I’m pleased to share our recent review published in Nature Cardiovascular Research about Ketones and the Cardiovascular System. A pleasure working on this with my friend and colleague, Gary Lopaschuk Gary Lopaschuk UAlberta Med & Dent Dyck Lab @ualberta nature.com/articles/s4416…

Now free to read ⁦Nature Reviews Cardiology⁩ #heartdisease #diabetes #T2D #obesity #heartfailure ⁦John R. Ussher⁩ nature.com/articles/s4156…

New systematic review and meta-analysis: RCT data from 16,839 placebo- and 16,550 semaglutide-treated patients and 13,330 real-world study patients show no association between semaglutide and pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer or all neoplasms👍🏻 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super excited for christina saed for landing the CIHR postdoctoral fellowship and finishing her PhD at the same time! Way to go, so proud of you!

This will likely be my last thread here as I’m moving over to Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/jusshe…), but wanted to share exciting work from former PDF Amurtab UAlberta Pharmacy ; cell.com/iscience/pdf/S…