Dr. Swayne
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Leigh Anne Swayne, PhD (she/her) • Professor
Canada
Joined September 2016
Join us in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to study synapse stability and astrocyte-synapse crosstalk! #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs #postdoc 🔬🧠🧐.👇.
We’re hiring a postdoc!. The #SwayneLab (@dr_swayne) is looking for a candidate to investigate cellular mechanisms underlying dendritic spine stability. View the full job posting here: #Neurojobs.
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Huge congrats to @nicoleyorkova, @rahmani_manesh, @LeighWicki and all the co-authors (including key collaborator Dr. Laura Arbour), and big thanks to @CIHR_IRSC for the funding!.
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This paper will be helpful for researchers looking to best use H9c2 cells - an accessible cell-line model for cardiomyoblast and/or cardiomyocyte biology in developmental and disease contexts. We are already getting feedback this work is appreciated by the research community!.
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Excited to share our revised bioRxiv preprint “Quantification of morphological, functional, and biochemical features of H9c2 rat cardiomyoblast retinoic acid differentiation” led by PhD candidate & @CIHR_IRSC Vanier Scholar @nicoleyorkova .
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RT @heather_swadley: I freaking HATE the discourse around “useless degrees” that I’ve been seeing all day. Our society needs historians,….
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Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to @uOttawaBMRI yesterday to give a talk in the Neuroscience Seminar Series & the many stimulating discussions with the dynamic faculty and students. Huge thank you to my fabulous host @JahaniArezu! 🙏
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RT @CAN_ACN: We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at t….
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Shout out to @nicoleyorkova, @RVendramelli, @haleyv, and all the co-authors for their key contributions, and big thanks for funding from @CIHR_IRSC and @uvic.
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This work was done in collaboration with Darwyn Kobasa’s (@GovCanHealth @umanitoba) & Marie-Ève Tremblay’s (@LaboTremblay @uvic) groups and was led by former #SwayneLab MSc student @rahmani_manesh (defended in Dec 2024), and current Research Associate @LeighWicki.
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Excited to share our lab’s most recent paper up on bioRxiv! Using the Syrian hamster model of mild to moderate #COVID19 together with a novel image analysis pipeline, we show evidence of early astrogliosis specific to female animals.
Transient, early, female-specific increase in cortical glial fibrillary acidic protein distribution in the Syrian hamster model of . #biorxiv_neursci.
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RT @LisaJ456: I am absolutely thrilled to share my lab's most recent paper, available on bioRxiv! We combined bioprinting, human pluripoten….
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Really enjoyed my visit to the @UTSC Dept of Biology today - fantastic discussions with Faculty and trainees! Thank you to Joanne Nash for the invite! #neuroscience #biology.
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Enjoying the amazing @VicBrainInjury fundraising gala at @UVic tonight - especially the opportunity to pose with different pieces of sporting equipment 😂 - it’s a privilege to serve on the Board of Directors! #vbis #braininjury
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RT @LeighWicki: We're looking for a PhD student or postdoc to join the Swayne Lab (@dr_swayne) team in Victoria. Focus on astrocytes and sy….
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RT @UVicMedSciences: @UVicMedSciences’s Marie-Ève Tremblay (@LaboTremblay), Leigh Anne Swayne (@dr_swayne), Jane Gair (@jgair) & Hector Car….
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RT @LeighWicki: Check out our new review published in @JPhysiol on synaptic roles of pannexin 1! Thanks to #SwayneLab (@dr_swayne) grad stu….
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RT @LeighWicki: We’re hiring a postdoc!. The #SwayneLab (@dr_swayne) is looking for a candidate to investigate cellular mechanisms underlyi….
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Honoured to receive the 2024 @UVicMedSciences Teaching Award in Medical Sciences. 🎉 Teaching is one of the most rewarding parts of my job!.@uvic.#teaching #medicaleducation #biomedicalresearch
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