Congrats Meltem, that was an outstanding PhD defense!
Good luck in your next career steps!
@bruceverchere.bsky.social
Scientist / diabetes researcher at BC Children's Hospital and UBC; Director, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics; Co-founder, Integrated Nanotherapeutics. Interested in islets, mentorship, wine, baseball (Mariners), golf, theatre...
Congrats Meltem, that was an outstanding PhD defense!
Good luck in your next career steps!
Congratulations and thanks to both Sarah Cs @sarahcrome.bsky.social @sarahcolpitts.bsky.social for including us as part of this lovely study, showing a role or ILC2s in islet graft survival.
26.05.2025 19:32 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0How nice! Proud to be part of that group of colleagues and child health researchers. What a lovely recognition of recipients and reminder of Dr Hammond's leadership at @bcchresearch.bsky.social.
14.05.2025 01:46 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New study on novel translation factor EIF2A led by Panzhinskiy as a collaboration between @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social lab, Jan lab & @bruceverchere.bsky.social lab UBC Life Sciences Institute. Thanks Breakthrough T1D Canada for funding this project #DiabetesResearch link.springer.com/article/10.1...
08.05.2025 18:26 β π 14 π 8 π¬ 0 π 2and can play anywhere!
20.04.2025 17:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...
31.03.2025 01:22 β π 77 π 87 π¬ 1 π 4Always enjoy this discussion of islet biology and other things like reproducibility in science with @danieljdrucker.bsky.social and fantastic @cirtn.bsky.social grad students from across Canada each year!
20.03.2025 06:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks for hosting us!
Such great diabetes and nutrition research, wonderful people, lovely location, outstanding trainee presentations, and fun social events!
We're looking for postdoctoral scholars to join our team in Vancouver π¨π¦. We work on cell-based approaches aimed at curing type 1 diabetes. Bring your own ideas for projects or work on one that's already funded! More details here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
10.03.2025 23:48 β π 15 π 19 π¬ 0 π 1Mr Milchick is reviewer 3 though.
21.02.2025 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Outside picture in the snow of ~75 attendees at the A-BC Islet Workshop in Silver Star.
Beautiful sunrise at about 7:30 AM over the Monashee(?) Mountains to the east of Silver Star.
Kicking off the ~15th annual A-BC Islet Workshop at beautiful Silver Star resort in BC. Great islet talks from trainees and keynotes @linnemannlab.bsky.social and @soleimanpourlab.bsky.social
@ubcdiabetes.bsky.social
Fantastic opportunity for fellowship in an excellent T1D research training environment working in regenerative medicine and stem cells in the Breakthrough T1D Centre of Excellence at UBC. If you missed the NOI deadline, no worries, you can still apply! Reach out if you have any questions.
10.02.2025 20:55 β π 9 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts Iβve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying βWhy are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? Thatβs wasted money !β
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
We have room and $ for postdoctoral fellows to join our team in beautiful Vancouver π¨π¦. Get in touch if interested.
22.01.2025 22:53 β π 29 π 20 π¬ 0 π 1Well done Scott and team and Pat! Looks like a very nice prep!
13.12.2024 20:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
We are looking for an imaging master to run a very cool shared microscope - Raman label-free, 2-photon, FLIM, high-res, fast capture, thick live tissue, organoids, high-content screening. We are a dynamic and supportive and fun environment.
Looking forward to the shipment, thanks for the support!
03.12.2024 00:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π Excited to announce that our Lab @UBC is recruiting!
π We're looking for passionate intern, graduate, and postdoc with strong coding/ML backgrounds to join us in advancing AI for single-cell biology & brain-computer interfaces.
ποΈ Vancouver awaits!
π tanglab.msl.ubc.ca
π§ xin.tang@msl.ubc.ca
Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: βInceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cellsβ.
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
A tremendous collaborative effort led by JohannaSiehler, Sara Bilekova and other members of the Lickert lab @heikolickert.bsky.social
Great to have this paper out in diabetesjournals.org/diabetes! Appreciate the feedback from reviewers and funding from BreakthroughT1D that made this work possible. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39561351/
20.11.2024 14:45 β π 25 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1And in an effort to build community (after I saw the Swiss starter pack! ) - here's one for scientists in Canada! Let me know who I missed.
go.bsky.app/4owyF32
@nictitate.bsky.social deservedly recognized for his outstanding mentorship at the 3rd Canadian Islet Research Training Network meeting in Halifax
19.11.2024 20:37 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0@bruinjenny1.bsky.social kicking off the 3rd annual Canadian Islet Research Training Network (CIRTN) meeting in Halifax by thanking sponsors, including our BC Diabetes Research Network and Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Labs at BC Children's Hospital! Two days of trainee led islet biology!
19.11.2024 12:54 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Who doesnβt love talking #islet biology??!!!
19.11.2024 02:57 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0wow what's that like?!
15.11.2024 18:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Keynote speaker Dr. Anna Gloyn kicking off our 11th Annual Vancouver Diabetes Research Day (VDRD) on Nov 14, World Diabetes Day, supported by the BC Diabetes Research Network
14.11.2024 17:37 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0