🧵1/12 🎉 Excited to share our new paper: “Microglia promote maladaptive plasticity in autonomic circuitry after spinal cord injury in mice” now published in Science Translational Medicine! 🔬 science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… #ScienceTranslationalMedicine #spinalcordinjury #neuroscience

I'm really happy to have won an NSERC DG! Our program will address a fundamental question: how do neurons lose the ability to grow axons during development? Many thanks to the panel and the 5 external reviewers for their feedback and support.

Calling all University of British Columbia #Faculty and #Postdocs! We are holding townhalls to hear from you about #stipends. To register: tinyurl.com/UBCpostd To read the UBC Postdoc Finance Survey Report: postdocs.ubc.ca/article/postdo… UBC Graduate School UBC PostDoc Assoc

Introducing Science, Stand-Up, & Song! 😊 3 brilliant scientists Anna Blakney Annie Vogel Ciernia Nick Weilinger, 5 hilarious comedians, & yours truly to provide music along the way! More info & tickets here: bit.ly/sciencestandup #Vancouver #scicomm #Science #comedy

Spinal cord injury researchers, mark your calendars! The CNS Injury & Repair GRC is coming to Tuscany, July 6-11, 2025. Explore cutting-edge spinal cord injury research. Registration is now open for this premier scientific event. Network with field leaders! #sciGRC2025

My department is hiring a tenure-track Asst Prof! 100% hard money position, broad call, excellent department/colleagues/resources. As a new assistant prof I can’t say enough good things about University of British Columbia UBC Cellular & Physiological Sciences Please share widely and apply!!

Our new microglia morphology pipeline tool is officially published in eneuro! eneuro.org/content/11/7/E…

And now, for the aficionados, a 🧵 about the years of work and discoveries that led us here (1/17):

This one’s hitting hard. Hopefully next summer 😅

Please retweet 😊 Our lab UBC Medicine and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health is looking for MSc student to join ASAP. If you are interested, please reach out to me. Lab website: ksaresearch.med.ubc.ca

we are recruiting a faculty in the department of zoology at UBC!!! Assistant Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28131

The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health wrote a very nice profile of my lab and I for their website: centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/faculty-p… Thank you DMCBH!

Another September means another Lab Photo!

Having a great time at the Spinal Research meeting Jen Dulin The Wizard of Os

Had a fantastic time presenting my research at the Spinal Research Network Meeting 2024! 🎤🧠 Huge thanks to everyone for the insightful feedback and engaging discussions! 🙌 #SpinalCordRegeneration #Neuroscience #Research