Skeletal muscle regenerative medicine laboratory | @bme_uoft | @donnellycentre | gilbert-lab.com | Tweets are by lab members
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27 May 2025
Thanks for this invite to share our work. So many great questions to help guide our thinking and future experiments 🙏
25 May 2025
Seminar Alert ‼️ We’re thrilled to host Dr. Penny Gilbert (University of Toronto, Canada) on Monday, May 26, 2025 | 2–3 PM EST 🧠🧬She’ll be presenting: “Engineering niches to uncover satellite cell regulators” Join us virtually! #ScienceTwitter #MuscleResearch #ScienceSeminar
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7 Apr 2025
It is true what they say: it takes a village... 🏘️🌳🐄
...to complete a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering! 🎓🧫
A village full of amazing mentors (@alisonmcguigan @GilbertLab ), lab mates, friends and family—you made the hard days easier and the good days even better!
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2 May 2025
Recent PhD graduate @VeraPieters_ is our latest @MbD_UofT profile subject. She worked in the labs of @alisonmcguigan and @GilbertLab @UofT where she engineered #3D tissues to mimic human organs. Read more here and ideally offer her a job! signalsblog.ca/profile-vera-…
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Congratulations to Katy Tipper in @GilbertLab for successfully defending her PhD thesis on developing 3D human culture systems for assessing force, anabolic response and type-II diabetes! Thank you for the invite to examine the thesis! Katy did a wonderful job!
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21 Mar 2025
We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologist…
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20 Mar 2025
Out in this month's issue of Aging Cell. Motor neurons do better in the presence of primary human muscle cells from older exercisers vs non-exercisers
🙏@lundbeckfonden for the Ascending Investigator grant 4 years ago to see this work through
doi.org/10.1111/acel.14413
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🔬 #HFSP offers 2 types of Postdoctoral Fellowships:
👉Long-Term-For researchers shifting into life sciences
👉Cross-Disciplinary-For those moving from non-life science fields into biology
Want to know how to succeed? Join our webinar for expert tips! bit.ly/4bSSY9P
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11 Mar 2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's a dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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11 Mar 2025
🎉bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our community-centered mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. 🧵
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7 Mar 2025
📢 SI on Women's Health Drug Delivery Technologies @JCRnEDITORS co-edited by @BenhabbourS & I is now out - you have 50 days free access to all articles via the links in sub-tweets below.
Thx to all authors! Plz retweet to help others access the articles for free!
@CRSScience
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5 Mar 2025
Hey ya’ll, check out Rob and Michael Kyba’s new Perspective in Mol Biol Cell on Master Regulators:
molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/…
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A dedicated group of student leaders has launched #UofT’s NSBE Graduate Student Chapter—creating more opportunities for mentorship, research & representation in STEM.
From outreach to AI bias reduction, these students are making an impact. 🔗Read more⬇️ uofteng.ca/dfx82i
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28 Feb 2025
Congratulations to Donnelly Centre faculty members Liliana Attisano, Andrew Fraser, Peter Roy and Mikko Taipale for securing funding from @CIHR_IRSC! 👏
Their funded projects will advance drug discovery and technological innovation. #UofT
Learn more 👉 uoft.me/FallCIHRFunding2025
ALT Composite of headshots of Liliana Attisano, Andrew Fraser, Peter Roy and Mikko Taipale
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24 Feb 2025
Latest paper from our lab:
ActRII or BMPR ligands inhibit skeletal myoblast differentiation, and BMPs promote heterotopic ossification in skeletal muscles in mice
skeletalmusclejournal.biomed…
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25 Feb 2025
RT @mariabrbic: Thrilled to share LUNA🌕 – our new generative AI model that reassembles tissues from dissociated cells! Think of it as Alpha…
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29 Jan 2025
.@BenhabbourS and I wrote a brief editorial in @JCRnEDITORS on the current landscape & future roadmap of women's health drug delivery research!
Free-access for 50 days—read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWVo…
Stay tuned for the full special issue!
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27 Nov 2024
So excited to share the first paper from the lab!
We identified CD34 as a marker of the heart’s SAN pacemaker cells enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures, advancing future disease modeling and biological pacemaker applications.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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22 Nov 2024
SAVE THE DATE!
Fourth edition of MuSkLE Summer School
We welcome Bachelor (in priority) and Master students on June 1-6, 2025.
Infos and registration: muskle.univ-lyon1.fr
Keynote speakers are coming soon.
@UnivLyon1
@ENSdeLyon
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16 Nov 2024
📢 Attention researchers!
Join @VHD_Consortium's new collection, 'Virtual Human Development: Merging Experiments and Theory.' Share your insights on experimental and computational models for #EarlyHumanDevelopment.
Submit your manuscript here. ➡️ nature.com/collections/ibgjh…
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Professors Michael Garton, Azadeh Kushki, and Warren Chan have each received CRC funding to drive forward-thinking research in synthetic biology, personalized neurodevelopmental health, and nanotechnology: discover.bme.utoronto.ca/thr…
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