Whelan Lab

Welcome to our new Masters student, Aiman, and new undergraduate thesis student, Laken, who started earlier this month!

Excited to announce our new paper, Restoration of locomotor function following stimulation of the A13 region in Parkinson’s mouse models, in @eLife is out now! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Congratulations Linda (@linda_h_kim), Adam, Zelma, Patrick (@whelanlab) & the team! #parkinson

Ryan did a great job presenting his summer research at SURE Research Day and the @HotchkissBrain Summer Student Symposium! Wishing him all the best in all his future endeavours! Funding by @NSERC_CRSNG

📢 A bit late to post, but excited to share that our paper is now published! Congrats to Jonathan, @NeuroSharps, @whelanlab, and the team for this amazing work! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We’re thrilled to have Catalina (Masters student) and Ryan (summer student) joining the lab. Here's to exciting discoveries ahead!

Join us in congratulating HBI researchers on their CIHR Grants! We are incredibly proud of our researchers for securing CIHR funding to advance brain and mental health research. Learn more: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54191.html

Congratulations to Cole on a successful MSc defence! Wishing him all the best for his next adventures!

Congratulations to Whelan lab alumni, Dr. Mary Jansen Dunbar, on being named Top 40 Under 40 2024! avenuecalgary.com/top-40-under-4…

It’s Day 0 for our new Masters student, Manjusha!

We welcome our new Doctoral student, Todd, who officially starts today!

Congratulations to our new doctoral student, Todd, who in addition to winning the Harley N. Hotchkiss Graduate Scholarship in Neuroscience, has been awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Distinguished Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship! 🎉 @HotchkissBrain

Patrick (@whelanlab) and Alex are featured today in UCalgary news, highlighting our latest paper in Nature Comms

Congratulations to @StephDivito for successfully defending her MSc thesis! Wishing her all the best in her future endeavors!

Are you passionate about exploring the neural circuits that enable locomotion with cutting-edge tools like optogenetics, photometry and electrophysiology? Join our lab as a trainee and be part of this exciting research! vet.ucalgary.ca/labs/whelan/jo…

Congratulations to Michelle (@Meechie_tran) on receiving a Long Service Award (5 years)!

@NeuroSharps @NatureComms @Sandyneuro @whelanlab Thanks Simon! Congrats to you on your new position!

@WhelanLabYYC @NatureComms @Sandyneuro @whelanlab So nice to see this great work that has been a long time in the making finally come out! Congrats to @Sandyneuro @whelanlab and @WhelanLabYYC team on this paper!

We're thrilled to share our new paper in @NatureComms which reveals how a specific brain circuit controls movement in mice. Great job by Sandeep (@Sandyneuro), Patrick (@whelanlab) and the team on this great achievement! #BrainResearch #MovementControl nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thanks to our alumni, Simon (@NeuroSharps), for capturing a selfie with our Research Associate, Sandeep, who presented his work at the 67th Benzon Symposium “Bringing Circuit for Movement Together” in Copenhagen!

Congratulations to Cole, our graduate student, who has been awarded an Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES)! 🎉

There's no better way to end your summer research experience than getting first place in the best poster presentation at the UCVM SURE Research Day! Congratulations Abel! It was great having you in the lab. Thank you for all your work and we wish you the best! @ucalgaryvetmed