Professor and Co-lead of DREAM, the #Diabetes Theme @DREAM_diabetes at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba @CHRIManitoba
Winnipeg, MB
Joined September 2013
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Investing in the next generation of Manitoba researchers! 🔬
Research Manitoba, together with its funding partners, is proud to announce $1.65 million in funding to support 70 studentships and fellowships.
Congratulations to the 2026 recipients!
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Read this. It reminds me of a short story I read in a Harlan Ellison anthology when I was 15 about a super computer that wants to feel water, but also Herbert's Dune: what senses do we lack that prevent us from seeing a world around us?
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The Fall 2026 Project Grant competition is underway.
CIHR is making targeted updates to strengthen peer review, clarify committee mandates and support a growing research community.
Broader changes will be co-developed with the community.
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ALT Project grant update
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New! Online now: Brown fat protects against hepatic oxidative stress by remodeling the circulating metabolome dlvr.it/TTbC8y
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As we've seen with the heart, kidney and osteoarthritis, some of the GLP-1 drug benefit for liver disease (MASH) is direct, independent of weight loss @Cell_Metabolism
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Menopause is more than a reproductive transition—it’s a critical cardiovascular turning point. Research shows that during the menopause transition, adverse changes in body composition, cholesterol, lipids, and vascular health accelerate, increasing women’s risk of heart disease. Midlife is a key window for prevention, monitoring, and early intervention to protect long-term heart health. #Menopause #HeartHealth #CardiovascularDisease #WomensHealth
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Statins promote muscle metabolic danger and NLRP3-mediated myopathy via lower protein-prenylation and YAP science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.
Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.
1) Delete every word doing no work
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New! Online now: The senescence-stiffening loop: Extracellular matrix remodeling, hypoperfusion, and mitochondrial dysfunction drive tissue aging dlvr.it/TT3Cg7
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Building memories is energetically expensive. New research reveals that microglia help meet this demand by orchestrating a neuroimmune metabolic circuit that boosts glucose transport to active brain regions, fueling neuronal protein synthesis required for learning.
During motor learning, microglia release CYR61, linking metabolic support to synaptic plasticity and memory formation. #Neuroscience #Microglia #BrainMetabolism
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Disease causing mutations in each of these 11 genes are implicated in at least three different chronic diseases or lifespan in humans. #Aging #Longevity #Genetics
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Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) punch above their weight. Unlike long-chain fats that take a circuitous route, MCTs head straight from gut to the liver, rapidly fueling ketone production and improving glucose control, satiety, and energy metabolism—often with just 10–20 g/day. Emerging evidence also points to benefits for heart function, with effects varying by chain length. #Metabolism #Nutrition #CardiovascularHealth
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DGAT-driven futile lipid cycling has a pronounced, yet concealed, thermogenic function dlvr.it/TSvk2z
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Home alone. Remote work can adversely influence mental health. A new study @ScienceMagazine
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A new Hormone Cell Atlas maps where hormones are made and received across 47 human tissues using 14 million single cells. The resource reveals unexpected hormone-producing cells, endocrine feedback networks, and new insights into metabolic and endocrine disease. #Endocrinology #SingleCell #PrecisionMedicine
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The ramp up of cancer immunotherapy is remarkable. Now we're seeing vaccines achieve some cures or remissions in the most refractory cancers: pancreatic, melanoma, glioblastoma, renal, triple-negative breast cancer.
✓ out the new Ground Truths (link in profile)
🤖 Made with AI
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🚨Excited to share our single-cell multi-omic atlas of #stemcell islet differentiation that predicts cell fate decisions and identifies causal regulators of lineage specification. You can start browsing the data now 👉 synbioelab.com/islettwin Preprint 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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1. Our main biomedical funding body is telling Canadian PIs its review system is collapsing. 50% increase in applications (attributed to AI but really due to PIs dealing w/ is essentially a lottery). PIs declining to review due to fatigue from turning down so much awesome science
