Dr. Swayne

Leigh Anne Swayne, PhD (she/her) • Professor & Director | School of Medical Sciences | Faculty of Health @uvic

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

@SChenlab @CIHR_IRSC Thank you Simon!

[JMCC Plus @JMCCPlus]

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.

#CardioTwitter @JMCCardiology
@LeighWicki

https://t.co/7lknrbethj

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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!

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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
https://t.co/ca3FW9RNul

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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!

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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! 🙏

[CAN ACN @CAN_ACN]

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: https://t.co/vc4wDYV3bC @UBC

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

@NGrandvaux 😍 wow!!!

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Transient, early, female-specific increase in cortical glial fibrillary acidic protein distribution in the Syrian hamster model of ... https://t.co/uip1AQ9Rl9 #biorxiv_neursci

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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

[Dr. Lisa Julian @LisaJ456]

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. https://t.co/BJepoyr1Pt

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

@LisaJ456 Exciting! Congrats Lisa and team! 🎉🎉🎉

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

@SChenlab Looking forward to it!

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Good to have you back.

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

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

[Leigh WS @LeighWicki]

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 🔬

https://t.co/4vOGQY8Xk4

[UVic Division of Medical Sciences @UVicMedSciences]

@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.

https://t.co/8U1FKtU5ra

[Dr. Swayne @dr_swayne]

@DrJKhokhar @ccnp_ca @mueller_dj Congrats Jibran! 🎉