Van Lu retweeted
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
Van Lu retweeted
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
Van Lu retweeted
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…
Van Lu retweeted
Finally we get to celebrate the winners of our annual graduate awards as well as our poster award winners from today. Congrats all!!!
Gearing up for our 2nd Western Organoid Workshop (WOW) tomorrow. It'll be an exciting day of organoid research and posters! #UWO_WOW2023
Van Lu retweeted
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
Proud to have @karlymasse present her work at the CSPT Annual meeting
Van Lu retweeted
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
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!!
Van Lu retweeted
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…
Van Lu retweeted
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
Van Lu retweeted
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!
Welcome to summer students @HengliangW and Paramveer Love to the @VBLu_Lab!!
Van Lu retweeted
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!!
Congratulations to @karlymasse and all PhysPharm Research day poster presentation award winners! Excellent job 👏 #westernuPandP
Van Lu retweeted
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
Van Lu retweeted
👩🔬👨🔬 @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
Van Lu retweeted
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…
Van Lu retweeted
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.































