Baptiste Lacoste
@blacoste.bsky.social
Senior Scientist, Associate Professor & Program Director @ OHRI & uOttawa 🇨🇦. Fascinated by vascular & metabolic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders, SciArt and the night sky 🔬 🎨 🔭 Follow for 🧪 news and more! Look for #cerebrovascular
There are two award values (based on achievements/seniority): $1M per year or $500,000 per year for eight years, with the possibility for a four-year extension at 50% of the initial award value per year.
For the uOttawa submission, the portal has been greatly simplified.
For the uOttawa submission, the portal has been greatly simplified.
January 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
There are two award values (based on achievements/seniority): $1M per year or $500,000 per year for eight years, with the possibility for a four-year extension at 50% of the initial award value per year.
For the uOttawa submission, the portal has been greatly simplified.
For the uOttawa submission, the portal has been greatly simplified.
We actively encouraging top-quality international candidates to apply. The Impact+ program emphasizes research excellence in areas of Canada's strategic priorities, and significant potential to move research discoveries into tangible economic and social benefits.
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
We actively encouraging top-quality international candidates to apply. The Impact+ program emphasizes research excellence in areas of Canada's strategic priorities, and significant potential to move research discoveries into tangible economic and social benefits.
The University of Ottawa is recruiting international talent through a special program named "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs". See link at the very bottom.
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The University of Ottawa is recruiting international talent through a special program named "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs". See link at the very bottom.
🚨 Recruitment alert ! If you consider having made significant research & training contributions abroad and wish to come to Canada, please submit your application by January 17th ! The University of Ottawa is recruiting international talent through a special program. See thread below.
January 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
🚨 Recruitment alert ! If you consider having made significant research & training contributions abroad and wish to come to Canada, please submit your application by January 17th ! The University of Ottawa is recruiting international talent through a special program. See thread below.
Reposted by Baptiste Lacoste
🎉 New Publication in @pnas.org
Excited to share our lab’s latest research article: PIP₂ Corrects an Endothelial Piezo1 Channelopathy
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Open Access)
Excited to share our lab’s latest research article: PIP₂ Corrects an Endothelial Piezo1 Channelopathy
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Open Access)
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🎉 New Publication in @pnas.org
Excited to share our lab’s latest research article: PIP₂ Corrects an Endothelial Piezo1 Channelopathy
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Open Access)
Excited to share our lab’s latest research article: PIP₂ Corrects an Endothelial Piezo1 Channelopathy
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Open Access)
On his way to bring « the dream of clean, near-limitless fusion power closer to reality », Nuno Loureiro was shot at his home. A brilliant mind, husband, father and mentor is gone.
Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47
Nuno Loureiro, an MIT professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics, has died at 47. A theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Cente...
news.mit.edu
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
On his way to bring « the dream of clean, near-limitless fusion power closer to reality », Nuno Loureiro was shot at his home. A brilliant mind, husband, father and mentor is gone.
New preprint from the lab! For those who love astrocytes 🤩. We welcome feedback! #preprint #openaccess #astrocytes #autism
Metabolic, epigenetic and transcriptomic alterations in postnatal 16p11.2 deficient murine astrocytes
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are associated with metabolic dysregulation. While astrocytes are integral to cerebral metabolism, their molecular and functional changes in ASD are poorly known. Using...
www.biorxiv.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New preprint from the lab! For those who love astrocytes 🤩. We welcome feedback! #preprint #openaccess #astrocytes #autism
Happy holidays and best wishes from our lab!
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Happy holidays and best wishes from our lab!
A beautiful paper from my friend @naguibmechawar.bsky.social's team ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cerebrovascular
Pervasive neurovascular dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of female depressed suicides with a history of childhood abuse - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Pervasive neurovascular dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of female depressed suicides with a history of childhood abuse
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A beautiful paper from my friend @naguibmechawar.bsky.social's team ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cerebrovascular
They were all placed to protect Trump…
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
They were all placed to protect Trump…
PDGFRα is required for postnatal cerebral perivascular fibroblast development. Congrats @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social ! #cerebrovascular #fibroblasts #development
PDGFRα is required for postnatal cerebral perivascular fibroblast development
Perivascular fibroblasts (PVFs) are a cell type associated with large diameter blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord parenchyma and leptomeninges…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
PDGFRα is required for postnatal cerebral perivascular fibroblast development. Congrats @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social ! #cerebrovascular #fibroblasts #development
Reposted by Baptiste Lacoste
Excited to share the latest from our lab (final version, open access):
Brain Capillary Ion Channels: Physiology and Channelopathies
Physiology | @apspublications.bsky.social
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social
Brain Capillary Ion Channels: Physiology and Channelopathies
Physiology | @apspublications.bsky.social
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Excited to share the latest from our lab (final version, open access):
Brain Capillary Ion Channels: Physiology and Channelopathies
Physiology | @apspublications.bsky.social
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social
Brain Capillary Ion Channels: Physiology and Channelopathies
Physiology | @apspublications.bsky.social
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social
Great shot! I need to seriously update mine as well (to the risk of scaring people away 😂)
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Great shot! I need to seriously update mine as well (to the risk of scaring people away 😂)
Or course, that’s why now he is in favour
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Or course, that’s why now he is in favour
Hypertension-induced neurovascular and cognitive dysfunction at single-cell resolution @cp-neuron.bsky.social #cerebrovascular #hypertension
Hypertension-induced neurovascular and cognitive dysfunction at single-cell resolution
Hypertension is a leading cause of cognitive impairment, attributed to cerebrovascular insufficiency, blood-brain barrier disruption, and white matter…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hypertension-induced neurovascular and cognitive dysfunction at single-cell resolution @cp-neuron.bsky.social #cerebrovascular #hypertension
Excellent new review on the blood-brain barrier, by Alon Friedman and colleague @natureportfolio.nature.com #Cerebrovascular #BloodBrainBarrier
Dynamic modulation of the blood–brain barrier in the healthy brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The blood–brain barrier was conventionally seen as a static protective structure, but a more complex, dynamic view of this barrier has now emerged. In this Review, Friedman et al. discuss the dynamic ...
www.nature.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Excellent new review on the blood-brain barrier, by Alon Friedman and colleague @natureportfolio.nature.com #Cerebrovascular #BloodBrainBarrier
The sad reality of humankind forgetting about history….
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The sad reality of humankind forgetting about history….
The brain neurovascular epigenome and its association with dementia. #cerebrovascular #epigenetics
The brain neurovascular epigenome and its association with dementia
Ziegler et al. reveal distinct genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s
disease and cerebral small vessel disease within neurovascular cells, identifying
immune-related AD risk and bro...
www.cell.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The brain neurovascular epigenome and its association with dementia. #cerebrovascular #epigenetics
Dream house! With the dome 🤩
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dream house! With the dome 🤩
So happy I have been able to witness the incredible growth and success of (now Dr.) Sozerko Yiandiev, who defended his PhD thesis with brio in Lyon this week! It was a true pleasure to co-mentor Sozerko with @jcourchet.bsky.social during the past 5 years 🍻👨🎓 #Thesis #BrainMetabolism
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So happy I have been able to witness the incredible growth and success of (now Dr.) Sozerko Yiandiev, who defended his PhD thesis with brio in Lyon this week! It was a true pleasure to co-mentor Sozerko with @jcourchet.bsky.social during the past 5 years 🍻👨🎓 #Thesis #BrainMetabolism
When the stars of glial scar borders and stroke recovery “have a baby”, it gives this 😅 #astrocytes #stroke #cerebrovascular
Regionally mapped astrocytic responses to cortical and white matter stroke show differential roles in astrocyte-induced vascular remodeling
Stroke is a major cause of disability. Astrocytes respond to stroke in a gradated manner, but details of that response and its consequences for tissue…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
When the stars of glial scar borders and stroke recovery “have a baby”, it gives this 😅 #astrocytes #stroke #cerebrovascular
