Leigh Anne Swayne, PhD (she/her) • Professor & Director | School of Medical Sciences | Faculty of Health @uvic
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New work from @nicoleyorkova and the group of @dr_swayne charts how H9c2 heart cells change shape, signal, & express genes during differentiation—revealing both their promise & limits as #cardiomyocyte models.
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Excited to share our revised bioRxiv preprint “Quantification of morphological, functional, and biochemical features of H9c2 rat cardiomyoblast retinoic acid differentiation” led by PhD candidate & @CIHR_IRSC Vanier Scholar @nicoleyorkova
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This paper will be helpful for researchers looking to best use H9c2 cells - an accessible cell-line model for cardiomyoblast and/or cardiomyocyte biology in developmental and disease contexts. We are already getting feedback this work is appreciated by the research community!
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30 Apr 2025
Huge congrats to @nicoleyorkova, @rahmani_manesh, @LeighWicki and all the co-authors (including key collaborator Dr. Laura Arbour), and big thanks to @CIHR_IRSC for the funding!
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Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to @uOttawaBMRI 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 @JahaniArezu! 🙏
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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-inves… @UBC
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Excited to share our lab’s most recent paper up on bioRxiv! Using the Syrian hamster model of mild to moderate #COVID19 together with a novel image analysis pipeline, we show evidence of early astrogliosis specific to female animals
10 Apr 2025
Transient, early, female-specific increase in cortical glial fibrillary acidic protein distribution in the Syrian hamster model of ... biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci
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This work was done in collaboration with Darwyn Kobasa’s (@GovCanHealth @umanitoba) & Marie-Ève Tremblay’s (@LaboTremblay @uvic) groups and was led by former #SwayneLab MSc student @rahmani_manesh (defended in Dec 2024), and current Research Associate @LeighWicki
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10 Apr 2025
Shout out to @nicoleyorkova, @RVendramelli, @haleyv, and all the co-authors for their key contributions, and big thanks for funding from @CIHR_IRSC and @uvic
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7 Apr 2025
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/10.1101/…
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Really enjoyed my visit to the @UTSC Dept of Biology today - fantastic discussions with Faculty and trainees! Thank you to Joanne Nash for the invite! #neuroscience #biology
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6 Mar 2025
Good to have you back.
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Enjoying the amazing @VicBrainInjury 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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10 Feb 2025
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 🔬
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@UVicMedSciences’s Marie-Ève Tremblay (@LaboTremblay), Leigh Anne Swayne (@dr_swayne), Jane Gair (@jgair) & Hector Caruncho (@HCaruncho) are leading & fostering diverse #MentalHealth research activities in the @uvic Mental Health Research Cluster.
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Join us in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to study synapse stability and astrocyte-synapse crosstalk! #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs #postdoc 🔬🧠🧐
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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/docs/o…
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12 Sep 2024
Check out our new review published in @JPhysiol on synaptic roles of pannexin 1! Thanks to #SwayneLab (@dr_swayne) grad students Adriana Casillas Martinez and Annika Ariano for their hard work💪
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11 Sep 2024
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/docs/o…
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4 Sep 2024
Honoured to receive the 2024 @UVicMedSciences Teaching Award in Medical Sciences. 🎉 Teaching is one of the most rewarding parts of my job!
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