So excited to meet the 33 BrightFocus Foundation Travel Fellows at CAN ACN 2024 meeting in Vancouver this week. Here is link to the ‘roster’ for the BFF team: can-acn.org/meeting-2024/t…. Please come for your certificates & a group photo with me @ 3:45 pm Monday after my talk! (Go Canuks!)

Excited to launch the CAN 2024 public lecture at science world in Vancouver! Host Mark Cembrowski presents our speakers who will talk about addiction, cannabis and psychedelics

Dr. Catharine Winstanley presents The puzzle of problem gambling: addiction without the drugs? Investigating the molecular basis of addictive behaviour

While at the CAN meeting in Vancouver, pass by IBRO’s booth #14 from 20-22 May and have a chat with members of the US/Canada Regional Committee! 👉 ow.ly/KJ7V50RJvke Jason Shepherd Dr. Swayne Julie Lefebvre

Awesome to be at #CAN2024 🙌🧠 See you tomorrow at booth #14 — be sure to stop by to say hello & learn about the IBRO - International Brain Research Organization programs! #neuroscience CAN ACN

Happy to welcome the IBRO travel award winners at the #CANMeeting! Thankful for IBRO - International Brain Research Organization 's continuing support for trainee attendees!

Congratulations to Caroline Ménard - winner of the CAN 2024 New Investigator Award for groundbreaking research on stress vulnerability and resilience. can-acn.org/awards/new-inv…

Congratulations to all recipients of the IBRO Travel Awards for the CAN Meeting! 👏 🤩 If you are attending the meeting, pass by IBRO's booth #14 to learn more about our #funding and #training opportunities 👉 ibro.org/meet-ibro-can-… Dr. Swayne Jason Shepherd CAN ACN

Our new preprint "Piezo ion channels are capable of conformational signaling" is now live! Conformational changes in Piezo1 ion channels are sensed by other proteins, independently of ion permeation. #Piezos #IonChannels #Biophysics #Neuroscience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New ad: Christie lab: Graduate Student Positions in Brain Injury Research in Victoria, BC can-acn.org/christie-lab-g… #neurojobs ChristieNeuroLab

Cloud study in blue I | acrylic on canvas |

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! #NIHM2024 Today we recognize and celebrate the outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Discover research projects that are led by Indigenous researchers 👉 bit.ly/4c5cYFj

National Indigenous Peoples Day is held on the summer solstice. It is a celebration of the culture, heritage, and experiences of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. ow.ly/1iBj50Si55c #NIPD2024

So much fun competing in the Twin Rivers Strengthfest in Kamloops last weekend! Looking forward to the next meet 💪 #ScientistWhoLift

Georgian Bay cloud study I | acrylic on canvas |

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/…

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

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

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…