Brian macvicar
@brian_macvicar
Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at UBC. Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience. Neuron-Glia interactions
What a great paper!
Our paper is out! nature.com/articles/s4146… With genetic Ca2+ clamping and chemogenetic activation of astrocytes, we show that astrocytes enhance neurovascular coupling when neuronal activation is sustained but not when activation is brief.
Currently reading Why do neurons die from brain injury and how can we save them?;url=centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/why-do-ne…
Thank you Senator Kutcher for supporting Canadian students, scientists and for your clear statement about how they need support. Investments in Canadian science is truly supporting the economy of tomorrow!!
Frankly, it’s embarrassing. And how will we create the economy of tomorrow without substantial increases in funding the science of today. And that includes significant increases in numbers and amounts of scholarships and doubling TriCouncil funding @cafreeland @FP_Champagne
A pleasure and an honor to collaborate with Annie. The student driving this work Morgan Towriss is amazing and will be a star!
Super proud to announce the lab's first data paper: doi.org/10.3390/ijms24… In collaboration with @brian_macvicar, we developed an in vitro model of microglial priming and tolerance and showed the switch between these two states depends on how microglia engage glycolysis.
You have to find your allies as a PI to have a drink with at the end of a tough week. But at the end the best sense of community and success is with your trainees’ successes.
I love being a PI, but this job comes with a sense of loneliness I never felt as a student or postdoc. I am thankful for my support system of family, mentors, and colleagues, but no one can fully understand the daily challenges. I’m pretty sure this is normal, just unexpected.
Calgary is a great place for neuroscience. Take a look.
We are hiring a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (level of Full Professor) in the broad area of Brain Circuits. Come join @drstephieb @painandpoppies @neurophy @KurraschLab @MayoOnTheBrain @d_sargin and many more at @HotchkissBrain Details for position 👇 medicine.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/13263435-…
We are hiring a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (level of Full Professor) in the broad area of Brain Circuits. Come join @drstephieb @painandpoppies @neurophy @KurraschLab @MayoOnTheBrain @d_sargin and many more at @HotchkissBrain Details for position 👇 medicine.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/13263435-…
1/ 📢 Life Update 🌟: After an incredible 9-year journey at @uLethbridge, I'm thrilled to share that I'm embarking on a new chapter at @mcgillu/@DouglasResearch. Grateful beyond words to my exceptional lab members & Lethbridge friends - you've been my inspiration!
Congratulations! This is terrific news!
So grateful for this new funding for two exciting new microglia-microbiome projects!!! Thank you to @RCSA1 for supporting our science!!!
Congrats for this well-deserved honor!
So grateful for this new funding for two exciting new microglia-microbiome projects!!! Thank you to @RCSA1 for supporting our science!!!
Thanks for the congrats. It is a real pleasure to collaborate with Khaled,a terrific new recruit to UBC!
June was a busy month for awards! 🏆 Congratulations to Drs. Khaled Abdelrahman (@K_S_Abdelrahman) and @Brian_MacVicar on receiving a @DMCBrainHealth grant to investigate mGluR5 signaling in #AlzheimersDisease. See the full list of award recipients. 👇 bit.ly/3NGxlhq
Congratulations Silvia- Very nice to see this recognition of your research excellence!
Thank you for the Excellence award! What a nice surprise at the Oncology Research & Education day @WesternOncology @WesternU_CTCR @SchulichMedDent @westernuACB
Beautiful work! Congrats to you Clement and to Alan and the team!
Many thanks to Gabriel & Alan @fUSI_brain_imag for giving me the opportunity to run this side project, to colleagues at @__NERF @VIBLifeSciences and also to collaborators from the @FondationLeducq network for all their fruitful comments !!
Kudos to Morgan Towriss, an impressive PhD student!
This was an amazing effort by my PhD student Morgan Towriss who drove this project from conception to publication!!!
Congratulations to all the winners 15 🧠🌟!! 🤘
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) and the Canadian Institutes of Health’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA) are proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Brain Star Awards. @CIHR_IRSC @RockyMtnBrain can-acn.org/congratulation…
I will try to include a nacho angle for my upcoming grant submission.
spellcheck is correcting nAChR to nacho and the grant is probably more likely to get funded if it's about a nacho-dopamine relationship.
Congratulations to Brenda Milner, The Neuro's distinguished neuroscientist, who has been awarded the Charles L. Branch @BrainHealth Award. Each year the award is given in recognition of a lifetime of innovative brain research. centerforbrainhealth.org/science/charle… #neuroscience
You are so kind Eyo. Great to see your wonderful new discoveries and visit this terrific Glia research centre. I loved the visit! Cheers
Got to hang with one of my Glia heroes @brian_macvicar. Such good times and such a great guy. Thanks for visiting our BIG Center: @BIG_Center_UVA 🤩
2022 commentary of the year: @SfNJournals piece of Everitt et al. on the exceptional job @MarinaP63 had done as JN chief editor during the last 7 challenging years. Disclaimer: our lab views JN as a 1st-tier journal & the 1st option for many of our papers jneurosci.org/content/42/50/…
Astrocytes amplify neurovascular coupling to sustained activation of neocortex in awake mice ift.tt/sJ7fQ8D