The Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute April #newsletter has been released! Read about our recent & upcoming events, news stories, features, awards and publications >> mailchi.mp/4e45b9a0fbbd/s…

Don’t forget to sign up for the Neural Stem Cells satellite meeting at the 2024 CAN meeting CAN ACN .. spots still available for trainees to speak. Submit your abstract and sign up for the satellite meeting!!

Sign up for the 6th Neural Stem Cell Satellite at the
CAN ACN
annual meeting on May 19th, 2024 in Vancouver. Fantastic line up of speakers and multiple short-talks for Trainees. Send in your abstract.
Dr. Anastassia Voronova
Kurrasch Lab
Robert Beattie
Soheila Karimi-Neural Regeneration & Stem Cell
Xi Huang

Proud to announce Caroline Ménard wins the 2024 CAN New Investigator Award for groundbreaking research on stress vulnerability and resilience. 🎉🎉🎉🏆
can-acn.org/awards/new-inv… @cervo_ulaval Université Laval Caroline Menard

Today is #WorldHealthDay .

We asked Courtney Irwin, PhD student in Dr. Karun Singh's (Karun K Singh) lab Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute, what she does to stay healthy and how her research contributes to the health of others.

Learn more about our research >> uhn.ca/EyeInstitute

Congratulations to #TeamUHN President & CEO
Dr. Kevin Smith who's recognized as part of
Newsweek's global ranking of the 2024 Top Hospital CEOs!

At UHN, we're proud to be:
# 1️⃣ Publicly-funded hospital in the world 🌎
# 1️⃣ Hospital in Canada🍁

More👉 newsweek.com/top-hospital-c…

Congratulations Dr. Kevin Smith ! So well deserved!

Sign up for the 6th Neural Stem Cell Satellite at the
CAN ACN
annual meeting on May 19th, 2024 in Vancouver. Fantastic line up of speakers and multiple short-talks for Trainees. Send in your abstract.
Dr. Anastassia Voronova
Kurrasch Lab
Robert Beattie
Soheila Karimi-Neural Regeneration & Stem Cell
Xi Huang

Come join us in beautiful Vancouver!!

We have a great program lined up with Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم Baljit Khakh and Alon Chen as plenary keynotes with sessions on psychedelics, glia-neuron interactions and social neuroscience as well as lots more great science.

Early bird reg ends today!!

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Meet Lacrimioara Comanita, Senior Research Technician in Dr. Valerie Wallace’s lab Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute. What she enjoys the most is exploring and finding out the facts in science, especially when results are unexpected and in contradiction to her hypothesis.

Join me in advocating for increased funding for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in Budget 2024 #SupportOurScience nwmd.io/s/twitter/ZBU7…

Thalamocortical organoids enable in vitro modeling of 22q11.2 microdeletion associated with neuropsychiatric disorders: Cell Stem Cell cell.com/cell-stem-cell…

'Research is incredible because you're able to learn something new each day, with the ultimate goal of helping affected patients.'

Meet Dr. Savannah Kilpatrick, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. Karun Singh's lab Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute.

Read in our newsletter >> bit.ly/42gvcQh

We are happy to share our submission to the 2024 pre-budget consultations:
can-acn.org/read-cans-subm…
Support for science and research needs to grow. Invest for the future of our health. Invest in Canadians. The time for action is
now.

Research is not a club, it is not for a select few, it is for everyone.

It is a fundamental building block of Canada that everyone has a stake in.

Research improves our health, environment, innovation and economy.

Time to invest in researchers, postdocs, and grad students.

Wonderful seminar and visit by ⁦Nael⁩ (with some 💪 as external PhD examiner) ⁦The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)⁩. Nael’s team’s work on modeling NDDs is exciting and inspiring. Thanks to James Ellis for organizing. And bonus time with ⁦Karun K Singh⁩

Congratulations Lingdi (Lydia) Nie on receiving the KBI Postdoctoral Researcher Award!
Lingdi is a postdoc in Karun K Singh's lab at Krembil Brain Institute. Lingdi studies neural circuit dysfunction and the underlying mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders using human 3D brain organoids.

IMF Report on the significant economic return of investment in basic research.

'We find that basic scientific research affects more sectors, in more countries and for a longer time than applied research (commercially oriented R&D by firms)'

See it here: imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Meet Laura Botler, a PhD candidate from Dr. Karun K Singh lab. Her research focuses on studying whether cell communications found in photoreceptors in the retina also happen with neurons in the brain, with the hope of understanding neurodegenerative diseases. #TraineeTuesday