@GilbertLab

Skeletal muscle regenerative medicine laboratory | @bme_uoft | @donnellycentre | https://nitter.cf/t.co/Nt25C8pmcg | Tweets are by lab members

 Toronto, Ontario CANADA
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Joined March 2012
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Thanks for this invite to share our work. So many great questions to help guide our thinking and future experiments 🙏
Myogenesis Discussion Group@MyogenesisGroup
25 May 2025
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
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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!
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Signals@Signalsblogs
2 May 2025
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! signalsblog.ca/profile-vera-…
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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!
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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. 100yearsconference.biologist…
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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 doi.org/10.1111/acel.14413

Muscle fibroblasts and stem cells stimulate motor neurons in an age and exercise‐dependent manner

Muscle biopsies were taken from males and females differing in age and exercise habits. Mononucleated cells were isolated and purified into muscle stem cells (MuSC) and muscle fibroblasts (FIB)....

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HFSP@HFSP
20 Mar 2025
🔬 #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! bit.ly/4bSSY9P
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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] openrxiv.org 1/n
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🎉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. 🧵
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📢 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
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Hey ya’ll, check out Rob and Michael Kyba’s new Perspective in Mol Biol Cell on Master Regulators: molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/…

When everything is a master regulator, nothing is | Molecular Biology of the Cell

The term “master regulator” emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and referred to autoregulatory transcription factors that sat atop a developmental lineage. Since that time, usage of the term has increased...

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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⬇️ uofteng.ca/dfx82i

Black graduate engineering students expand community with new NSBE chapter

National Society of Black Engineers Graduate Chapter at U of T to provide mentorship and supportive environment to increase Black representation in engineering

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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 👉 uoft.me/FallCIHRFunding2025
Composite of headshots of Liliana Attisano, Andrew Fraser, Peter Roy and Mikko Taipale

ALT Composite of headshots of Liliana Attisano, Andrew Fraser, Peter Roy and Mikko Taipale

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Latest paper from our lab: ActRII or BMPR ligands inhibit skeletal myoblast differentiation, and BMPs promote heterotopic ossification in skeletal muscles in mice skeletalmusclejournal.biomed…

ActRII or BMPR ligands inhibit skeletal myoblast differentiation, and BMPs promote heterotopic...

Skeletal Muscle - Prior studies suggested that canonical Activin Receptor II (ActRII) and BMP receptor (BMPR) ligands can have opposing, distinct effects on skeletal muscle depending in part on...

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Maria Brbic@mariabrbic
24 Feb 2025
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: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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.@BenhabbourS and I wrote a brief editorial in @JCRnEDITORS on the current landscape & future roadmap of women's health drug delivery research! Free-access for 50 days—read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWVo… Stay tuned for the full special issue!
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So excited to share the first paper from the lab! We identified CD34 as a marker of the heart’s SAN pacemaker cells enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures, advancing future disease modeling and biological pacemaker applications. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals CD34 as a marker of human sinoatrial node pacemaker...

Nature Communications - Lim et al. identify CD34 as a surface marker of the heart’s sinoatrial node pacemaker cells, enabling their isolation from stem cell differentiation cultures,...

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SAVE THE DATE! Fourth edition of MuSkLE Summer School We welcome Bachelor (in priority) and Master students on June 1-6, 2025. Infos and registration: muskle.univ-lyon1.fr Keynote speakers are coming soon. @UnivLyon1 @ENSdeLyon @Univ_St_Etienne
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📢 Attention researchers! Join @VHD_Consortium's new collection, 'Virtual Human Development: Merging Experiments and Theory.' Share your insights on experimental and computational models for #EarlyHumanDevelopment. Submit your manuscript here. ➡️ nature.com/collections/ibgjh…

Virtual human development: merging experiments and theory to understand human development

This Collection invites research leveraging experimental and theoretical models, and advanced research tools to study human development.

nature.com
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Professors Michael Garton, Azadeh Kushki, and Warren Chan have each received CRC funding to drive forward-thinking research in synthetic biology, personalized neurodevelopmental health, and nanotechnology: discover.bme.utoronto.ca/thr…
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