The Welch Lab

Our treadmill is in the @nytimes! @WelchLab_UTSC⁩'s work with vampire bats using a custom Sable Systems #respiratory treadmill to determine #aminoacid #metabolism got a writeup. Check it out - there's even video: ow.ly/M8Bw50U4ps3 Original article: ow.ly/hahN50U4ps2

Another great read about our recent publication. @UTSC @UtscBiology @giuliasrossi Watch Blood-Fuelled Vampire Bats Running On A Tiny Treadmill For Science iflscience.com/watch-blood-fu…

We'd also like to thank our funders for this work, including @NSERC_CRSNG #DiscoveryGrant and #DiscoveryAccelerator to @WelchLab_UTSC and @NSERC_CRSNG #PostdocFellowship and @LOrealParisCAN and @UNESCO #ForWomenInScience fellowships.

@SciAnts_Media @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO @RSocPublishing has temporarily removed the paywall so you should be able to download it now!

Our 3rd paper on song learning in Costa's Hummingbird is out in Animal Behaviour. This one had complicated methods due to animal care issues, but the TLDR is simple: Costa's Hummingbirds have 'open ended' song learning sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Most mammals rely on fats and carbohydrates to fuel exercise, but what about blood-sucking vampire bats? Scientists put them on a treadmill to find out. Learn more: newscientist.com/article/245453…

A new @UTSC study finds that vampire bats unique metabolism allows them to fuel their physical activity by only eating blood. Read more: utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/br… #BreakingResearch

@MelindaBChu1 @giuliasrossi @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO Just missed it!

@giuliasrossi @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO Congrats! 🥳 Too bad it didn’t come out on Halloween! 🦇🎃👻🧟‍♀️

New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻‍♂️ @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@BiologyCarly @giuliasrossi @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO If there was ever a day where we could all use a distracting story, this is it. 😑

@giuliasrossi @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO I opened up the NYT today and felt oh so sad...until I saw this. I made everyone in the office watch the fast one. Congrats!!

@CarloBiancardi @giuliasrossi @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO Yes, a weird gallop for sure (where the vampire's forelimbs, not the hindlimbs, are last to leave the treadmill surface to enter the aerial phase of the gait).

@giuliasrossi @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing @UtscBiology @UTSCresearch @UofT @NSERC_CRSNG @LOrealParisCAN @UNESCO Great! The “running” gait pattern seems to me like a gallop, right? There’s a small phase shift between the contra lateral strikes (sorry, I’m locomotion addicted) 😊

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great talk by the @TheTorontoZoo bat conservation team on successfully relocating maternity colonies of little brown myotis from condemned barn buildings near the zoo! hugely successful!

The fact that the NRA got community noted on how to use a gun safely, should tell you everything you need to know about the NRA.

The team deploying humidity/temperature loggers at the Thachtfield Cave to monitor environmental conditions essential for cave wildlife like bats. Please share and let me know what you think about the work we are doing. @WelchLab_UTSC #Roostersworldja #Biologist youtu.be/fwzXRopgb1w youtu.be/fwzXRopgb1w?si…

@SableSys Thank you! And indeed it did perform exactly as hoped! Excited to share our results with the world soon! #AnotherSatisfiedCustomer

Congrats, Ken & colleagues! Glad to see Sable Systems' early-release rat treadmill worked so beautifully with your vampire bats!

Manuscript accepted with minor revisions after the initial submission?!! Might be a first for the @WelchLab_UTSC! More coming soon with @giuliasrossi ! #vampirebats

Add this to your calendars!

In case you have missed it - our latest research paper showing how hypoxia and ocean acidification affect gill morphology and chemoreceptors in sticklebacks. Great work by @LiamTigert and Deep Soor @UtscBiology @BamfieldMSC link.springer.com/article/10.100…