Van Lu

Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Western Ontario

[Gairdner Foundation @GairdnerAwards]

Food for Thought: Insights from International and Canadian Experts on Nutrition, Policy, and Food Systems

📅 Oct 21
🕑 2-4:30PM
📍 @UQAM + Virtual

Inspired by the award-winning research of André Briend.

Register free: https://t.co/CRkOVCYrcq

#GairdnerScienceWeek

[CANCOR @CANCOR_CCRO]

Only 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts to the first Canadian Organoid Conference!

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: Oct 5th, 2025 at 5pm ET
🔗https://t.co/BFISqGdw2w

[CANCOR @CANCOR_CCRO]

The Canadian Conference in Organoid Research (CANCOR/CCRO) is a 2-day conference that brings the top organoid researchers in Canada for cutting-edge presentations, networking, and more!

🗓️Nov 5-6, 2025
📍Lamplighter Inn, London, Ontario
🌐Website: https://t.co/mfU8B1An5f

[Phys Pharm @westernuPandP]

Finally we get to celebrate the winners of our annual graduate awards as well as our poster award winners from today. Congrats all!!!

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

Gearing up for our 2nd Western Organoid Workshop (WOW) tomorrow. It'll be an exciting day of organoid research and posters! #UWO_WOW2023

[Schulich WesternU @SchulichMedDent]

X-LABS, a #SchulichMedDent program designed to make biomedical sciences more accessible for students from diverse backgrounds has launched.

Meet the trio of area high-school students experiencing first-hand what their future in science could look like.

https://t.co/X9zMAtrgPu

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

Proud to have @karlymasse present her work at the CSPT Annual meeting

[Schulich WesternU @SchulichMedDent]

After hearing from patients about how the disease affected their lives, #SchulichMedDent's Cheryle Séguin, and a team of researchers investigated the symptoms associated with an understudied spine disease called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.

https://t.co/bJEw4tzOf8

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

Good-bye dinner for all the wonderful students in the @VBLu_Lab 2022-23 school year. Thanks for all the great memories and great science @karlymasse, @HengliangW, Sherry Chen, @xiaohan_yan3 and Jackie Han!!

[Cordelia Imig @cordeliaimig]

Interested in gut-brain signalling, enteroendocrine cells & sensory cell biology? Then join our fantastic speakers @lbeutler7 , @rituja14 , @VBLu_Lab , @ConiAlcaino , & @LabRewitz at the @NeuroforumNWG symposium no. 1️⃣ tomorrow.

https://t.co/Prs1uSQk7h

[Phys Pharm @westernuPandP]

Lots of buzz at the poster sessions! So great to see after 3 years!

[Phys Pharm @westernuPandP]

Our Icecream social was a great success. Everyone enjoyed the treats & the time together, and we raised more than $370 for the @LondonFoodBank1. Thanks @VBLu_Lab & @DrMatthewGrol for organizing!

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

@westernuPandP @LondonFoodBank1 @DrMatthewGrol Thank you everyone who came out to support @LondonFoodBank1 and to @coppadigelato for supplying frozen treats!🍨

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

Welcome to summer students @HengliangW and Paramveer Love to the @VBLu_Lab!!

[Phys Pharm @westernuPandP]

Congratulations to all our graduate student award winners!! Very well done!

[Phys Pharm @westernuPandP]

And congratulations to all poster award winners from today’s Research Day as well as all other presenters - these were tough choices! Great to see so many different labs presented here including new ones!!

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

Congratulations to @karlymasse and all PhysPharm Research day poster presentation award winners! Excellent job 👏 #westernuPandP

[Emily Miedzybrodzka @emilymiedz]

Super excited to see my work on motilin-labelled organoids out in all its pre-print glory! We looked at several new mechanisms underlying stimulation of motilin release from human small intestinal cells
https://t.co/CHQ8qMYaoC

[Organoid News @organoidscience]

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @wellcometrust scientists at @IMS_MRL present the first in-depth transcriptomic and functional characterization of human duodenal #motilin-expressing cells, using human duodenal organoids.
https://t.co/drGaifN5FB

[Van Lu @VBLu_Lab]

@GairdnerAwards @SchulichMedDent Thank you for the selection. An honor to present at #GairderAwards with Gairdner Laureates @DanielJDrucker, Dr. Habener and Dr. Holst.