Assistant Professor Department of Physiology and Pharmacology University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada
Joined June 2021
Food for Thought: Insights from International and Canadian Experts on Nutrition, Policy, and Food Systems 📅 Oct 21 🕑 2-4:30PM 📍 @UQAM + Virtual Inspired by the award-winning research of André Briend. Register free: bit.ly/2025-Gairdner-Global-… #GairdnerScienceWeek
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Only 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts to the first Canadian Organoid Conference! 🗓️Deadline for abstracts: Oct 5th, 2025 at 5pm ET 🔗westernorganoids.ca/abstract
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The Canadian Conference in Organoid Research (CANCOR/CCRO) is a 2-day conference that brings the top organoid researchers in Canada for cutting-edge presentations, networking, and more! 🗓️Nov 5-6, 2025 📍Lamplighter Inn, London, Ontario 🌐Website: westernorganoids.ca/cancor-c…
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Finally we get to celebrate the winners of our annual graduate awards as well as our poster award winners from today. Congrats all!!!
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Gearing up for our 2nd Western Organoid Workshop (WOW) tomorrow. It'll be an exciting day of organoid research and posters! #UWO_WOW2023
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X-LABS, a #SchulichMedDent program designed to make biomedical sciences more accessible for students from diverse backgrounds has launched. Meet the trio of area high-school students experiencing first-hand what their future in science could look like. fal.cn/3A47Z
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Proud to have @karlymasse present her work at the CSPT Annual meeting
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After hearing from patients about how the disease affected their lives, #SchulichMedDent's Cheryle Séguin, and a team of researchers investigated the symptoms associated with an understudied spine disease called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. fal.cn/3ykFV
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Good-bye dinner for all the wonderful students in the @VBLu_Lab 2022-23 school year. Thanks for all the great memories and great science @karlymasse, @HengliangW, Sherry Chen, @xiaohan_yan3 and Jackie Han!!
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Interested in gut-brain signalling, enteroendocrine cells & sensory cell biology? Then join our fantastic speakers @lbeutler7 , @rituja14 , @VBLu_Lab , @ConiAlcaino , & @LabRewitz at the @NeuroforumNWG symposium no. 1️⃣ tomorrow. nwg-goettingen.de/2023/uploa…
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Lots of buzz at the poster sessions! So great to see after 3 years!
Today is a big day for us, our annual research day capped by the James AF Stevenson Lecture by Tak Mak on cancer therapies. Talks by our own ⁦@SergeLucaciu⁩ & ⁦@VBLu_Lab⁩ start at 2pm in McKellar Room (UCC290), followed by Dr. Mak. /1
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Our Icecream social was a great success. Everyone enjoyed the treats & the time together, and we raised more than $370 for the @LondonFoodBank1. Thanks @VBLu_Lab & @DrMatthewGrol for organizing!
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Welcome to summer students @HengliangW and Paramveer Love to the @VBLu_Lab!!
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Congratulations to all our graduate student award winners!! Very well done!
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And congratulations to all poster award winners from today’s Research Day as well as all other presenters - these were tough choices! Great to see so many different labs presented here including new ones!!
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Congratulations to @karlymasse and all PhysPharm Research day poster presentation award winners! Excellent job 👏 #westernuPandP
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Super excited to see my work on motilin-labelled organoids out in all its pre-print glory! We looked at several new mechanisms underlying stimulation of motilin release from human small intestinal cells bit.ly/3miM6ud
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @wellcometrust scientists at @IMS_MRL present the first in-depth transcriptomic and functional characterization of human duodenal #motilin-expressing cells, using human duodenal organoids. bit.ly/3jKR3u7
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👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @wellcometrust scientists at @IMS_MRL present the first in-depth transcriptomic and functional characterization of human duodenal #motilin-expressing cells, using human duodenal organoids. bit.ly/3jKR3u7
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6/6 🏆Congratulations to all our Early Career Investigator Award winners!🏆 Join Gairdner Science Week to see their presentations as part of the Laureate Lectures on Thursday, October 28. ✅Register: bit.ly/GairdnerScienceWeek20…
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3/6 Dr. Van Lu, Assistant Professor at @SchulichMedDent is working to understanding the influence of gut microbiota in human health, and how the gut signals to the brain to control our eating habits.
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