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
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!
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! https://t.co/kRNIpPhX4K
@DrAdamPSharples Thanks Adam for serving as appraisor and examiner for Katys defense! Your insights have already made her upcoming manuscript submissions stronger 💪
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!
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. https://t.co/9mcGyFzNCp
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
https://t.co/u6ppvXE6P3
🔬 #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! https://t.co/7qfSTiN9gN
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] https://t.co/4siujZbXxF 1/n
🎉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. 🧵
📢 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
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⬇️ https://t.co/cPeG4Xht7t
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 👉 https://t.co/AhP6SLXUV3
Latest paper from our lab:
ActRII or BMPR ligands inhibit skeletal myoblast differentiation, and BMPs promote heterotopic ossification in skeletal muscles in mice
https://t.co/g8njzd5C4X
Thrilled to share LUNA🌕 – our new generative AI model that reassembles tissues from dissociated cells! Think of it as AlphaFold for cells 🧬
From the MERFISH mouse brain atlas to the scRNA-seq atlas & Slide-tags datasets, LUNA is widely applicable. Bringing us closer to virtual tissue modeling 🧠
Super proud of @yistyu – what a way to start her PhD!🙌 And huge thanks also to all our collaborators @thecekbote@stephanedascoli@pafrossard Nikita Morozov Jiashuo Fan
Curious about LUNA? Check out our paper Tissue Reassembly with Generative AI: https://t.co/POM9ZGjm5Z