Ben Cardoen

Learn from Vision Cluster's Dr. Printha Wijesinghe about biomarkers and dementia on January 17. Register for this virtual seminar below! @DMCBrainHealth #Biomarkers #Dementia #Alzheimers #WomenInSTEM

Painful but true @CAPSACPP

📢Don't forget to submit your abstract for #elmi2024. Join an impressive line-up of speakers at this great event for the #LightMicroscopy community! Find out more: elmi2024.org/meeting/abstra…

@deniswirtz @Cornell @Penn @Stanford @Harvard @UCLA @UCSanDiego @UofIllinois @UMich @UF @JohnsHopkins The url gives a 404, could you check? @deniswirtz (and thank you for sharing this)

Updated and augmented database of PhD fellowships. For each of the 190 fellowships, we provide description, link to funder, deadline, $ amount, subfield of research, and eligibility criteria. Download this database for free here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

On our January cover: #mitochondria–ER contacts (white) in a COS-7 cell are speckled across the mitochondrial surface (purple) & are easily visualized in the absence of the ER (green). By @BenCardoen et al. hubs.ly/Q02dFDN50 JCB’s January issue ➡️ hubs.ly/Q02dFs_Q0

All these graduate students & postdoctoral scholars want for Christmas is their first raise from the government in 20 years! @justintrudeau @cafreeland, @FP_Champagne & @markhollandlib, please help them & Canada have a Merry Christmas & brighter future in #Budget2024

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars contribute enormously to a body of knowledge the drives innovation, development and economic growth #SupportOurScience #ReturnOnInvestment 11/X

The research performed by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars is driving Canada’s innovation and economic growth. Imagine how much more they could do if the government gave them their first substantial increase in 20 years #SupportOurScience #ReturnOnInvestment 10/X

Most university research contributing to patents is carried out by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers—they are essential to driving Canada's economic growth #SupportOurScience #ReturnOnInvestment 9/X

Les investissements dans la recherche en santé réalisés par des étudiants des cycles supérieurs et des chercheurs postdoctoraux incitent l'industrie à dépenser plus de 8 fois le montant de l'investissement initial #SoutenezNotreScience #RetourSurInvestissement 7/X

Investments in health research performed by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars stimulate industry to spend >8x the amount of the initial investment. The more we put into the system, the more we get back #SupportOurScience #ReturnOnInvestment 7/X

This change is overdue

Excited to share our work with @mlphillips17 about 9-color calcium imaging under a GRIN miniscope! Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wow! for reference: 🇺🇲 Current Postdoc fellowship in US $56 USD = 76.8k CAD Recommended US $70k USD = 95.2k CAD Meanwhile in Canada... 🇨🇦 Current fellowships are $45k CAD. @SupportOurSci recommends increasing to $61k The minimum for UofT $36k, at associated hospitals $50k

We now produce serial killers of serial killers! We developed self-propelled CAR T cells engineered to express "velocity receptors" to infiltrate solid tumors readily. Successfully tested in mice bearing lung, pancreatic and ovarian tumors. Read here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

coming soon™: #GeminiPro in a chat nearby you on CoCalc. Here, I get some insight how to make prime numbers in R and I'm running it right there from the chat ☺️

Investing in the training of graduate students pays huge dividends for Canada’s economy. Imagine how much more economic growth we could achieve if we increased investments to higher education #SupportOurScience #ReturnOnInvestment 5/X

Join us on Jan 11 at 2:30pm PST for a talk from Dr. Randy McIntosh (@ar0mcintosh) titled "Following the evolution of @thevirtualbrain's multiscale modelling approach" For more info, visit: buff.ly/3RFoNdD

The new Standing Committee on Science and Research’s report on Canadian scholarships and fellowships includes ALL #SupportOurScience recommendations! Change is urgently needed - let's implement solutions in 2024! Read our full response here: shorturl.at/ezAPV

Canada’s MSc, PhD and postdoctoral researchers are the country's largest research & innovation work force. There are 3.8x more grad & postdoc researchers than federal scientists and professors combined. They are critical to 🇨🇦's success #SupportOurScience #ReturnOnInvestment 4/X