Thank you to @CIHR_IG CIHR_INMD for hosting Canadian Early Career Researchers in Halifax Wed-Fri last week all mentors who provided their perspectives wisdom. New 🇨🇦 ECRs plan to attend this!
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Special thank-you 🙏 to all the mentors for making the time effort to share their personal journeys and trials through early, mid senior PI stages. The personal aspect of mentor perspectives, conversations, and peer networking opportunity is what made this event special.
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IG hosts these meetings every year, and I-NMD every ~18 mos, so ECRs with work fitting the mandate of these institutes plan to apply. Subscribe to institute newsletters to learn more.
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Beautiful weather for Big Toronto Bike Ride Sunday to fundraise for @CycleToronto, biggest voice for #cycling advocacy education in TO.
Mayor @oliviachow joined part of the ride, said having cyclist mayor should spur doubling of efforts for stronger streets! Onward & upward!
PS: I think this article would work well as a series on Youtube, one 2-minute video per tip. Do you think there would be broad interest in this? Let me know in the comments or DMs.
Epigenetic reprogramming of a distal developmental enhancer cluster drives SOX2 overexpression in breast and lung adenocarcinoma. Now online as a Breakthrough Article at NAR!
academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
Because our genome is so much more than genes. A must-read for those eager to learn of the intricacies of non-coding sequences, in this case short tandem repeats, that define cell states: science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/…