Caroline Menard
@caromenard666.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Associate Professor 👩🔬, Research Chair on Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience, foodie, gamer & metalhead. Menard Lab is @CERVO_ULaval @universitelaval in Quebec City
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Astrocytic cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes resilience by dampening stress-induced blood–brain barrier alterations - Nature Neuroscience
The mechanisms of neurovascular adaptations underlying stress resilience remain unclear. Here the authors show that the astrocytic endocannabinoid system modulates the blood–brain barrier changes duri...
www.nature.com
So excited to share the work of the fantastic Katarzyna, 1st 🧪PhD student of my lab 🧠, out in @natureneuro.bsky.social 🥂🥳
Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @braincanada.bsky.social #CIHR @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #newPI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @braincanada.bsky.social #CIHR @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #newPI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A great consensus review on brain washing from the groups doing some of the most important work in the field summarizing areas of agreement and open questions.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance
This review by Kipnis et al. explores recent advances in brain fluid dynamics, emphasizing
CSF flow’s role in waste clearance, the glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic systems,
and neuroimmune interacti...
cell.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A great consensus review on brain washing from the groups doing some of the most important work in the field summarizing areas of agreement and open questions.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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🔬 Discover the neuronal cytoskeleton in #SuperResolution!
Join our webinar on 4 December 2026 with Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Christophe Leterrier + live Q&A - and enter for a chance to win an Abbelight Smart Buffer Kit.
Register:
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#SMLM #Neuroscience
Join our webinar on 4 December 2026 with Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Christophe Leterrier + live Q&A - and enter for a chance to win an Abbelight Smart Buffer Kit.
Register:
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#SMLM #Neuroscience
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🔬 Discover the neuronal cytoskeleton in #SuperResolution!
Join our webinar on 4 December 2026 with Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Christophe Leterrier + live Q&A - and enter for a chance to win an Abbelight Smart Buffer Kit.
Register:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#SMLM #Neuroscience
Join our webinar on 4 December 2026 with Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Christophe Leterrier + live Q&A - and enter for a chance to win an Abbelight Smart Buffer Kit.
Register:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#SMLM #Neuroscience
New one from the lab led by @luisa-binder.bsky.social* @laura-mb.bsky.social* and Flora Thomassen* in @jneurochem.bsky.social
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Across Barriers: Blood–Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders
@cervo-ulaval.bsky.social @ulaval.ca
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Across Barriers: Blood–Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders
@cervo-ulaval.bsky.social @ulaval.ca
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New one from the lab led by @luisa-binder.bsky.social* @laura-mb.bsky.social* and Flora Thomassen* in @jneurochem.bsky.social
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Across Barriers: Blood–Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders
@cervo-ulaval.bsky.social @ulaval.ca
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Across Barriers: Blood–Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders
@cervo-ulaval.bsky.social @ulaval.ca
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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👉🏼👉🏾👉🏻👉🏿👉🏽An opportunity for a PhD studentship in my lab to investigate the mechanisms that mediate the specialization astrocyte endfeet (subcellular compartments enwrapping the vasculature) in collaboration with the magnificent Lorena Arancibia.
See below:
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November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
👉🏼👉🏾👉🏻👉🏿👉🏽An opportunity for a PhD studentship in my lab to investigate the mechanisms that mediate the specialization astrocyte endfeet (subcellular compartments enwrapping the vasculature) in collaboration with the magnificent Lorena Arancibia.
See below:
See below:
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Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀
Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!
Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀
Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!
Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!
~10 years ago few months after I joined @scottrussophd.bsky.social lab I ran a 🧪 qPCR for Cldn5, a marker of 🩸 blood-brain 🧠 barrier integrity, after social stress
I never imagined it would have such an impact 1000 citations 🤯
Never looked back since then 🤓 and how is my lab 7 years old already 😱
I never imagined it would have such an impact 1000 citations 🤯
Never looked back since then 🤓 and how is my lab 7 years old already 😱
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
~10 years ago few months after I joined @scottrussophd.bsky.social lab I ran a 🧪 qPCR for Cldn5, a marker of 🩸 blood-brain 🧠 barrier integrity, after social stress
I never imagined it would have such an impact 1000 citations 🤯
Never looked back since then 🤓 and how is my lab 7 years old already 😱
I never imagined it would have such an impact 1000 citations 🤯
Never looked back since then 🤓 and how is my lab 7 years old already 😱
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Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth
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Well, the link was working when I checked, but here it is again: rdcu.be/eQnXw
Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention
Molecular Psychiatry - Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention
rdcu.be
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Well, the link was working when I checked, but here it is again: rdcu.be/eQnXw
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new work from my inspiring friend @mindfulrat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
new work from my inspiring friend @mindfulrat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Share your research at the next Canadian Neuroscience Meeting May 18-21, 2026 in Montreal!
Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities!
can-acn.org/meeting-2026/
Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities!
can-acn.org/meeting-2026/
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Share your research at the next Canadian Neuroscience Meeting May 18-21, 2026 in Montreal!
Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities!
can-acn.org/meeting-2026/
Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities!
can-acn.org/meeting-2026/
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We are grieving our friend and brilliant colleague Natalia Duque-Wilckens. A creative scientist, artist, caring mentor, and force for change. Words can’t describe the impact she had on lives at UC Davis, MSU, NC State and beyond. I feel lucky to have known her and wish her time didn’t end so soon
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We are grieving our friend and brilliant colleague Natalia Duque-Wilckens. A creative scientist, artist, caring mentor, and force for change. Words can’t describe the impact she had on lives at UC Davis, MSU, NC State and beyond. I feel lucky to have known her and wish her time didn’t end so soon
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Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social
"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"
We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"
We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social
"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"
We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"
We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
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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
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Stoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Stoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.
Came back from a fantastic 2-week family trip in London 🇬🇧 and Dublin 🇮🇪 yesterday 🤩
So many cool buildings, museums, history, but I have to admit that Stonehenge was my favorite along with the Guinness brewery 🍻 (and some baby Guinness in a rock bar to finish the trip 😉)
So many cool buildings, museums, history, but I have to admit that Stonehenge was my favorite along with the Guinness brewery 🍻 (and some baby Guinness in a rock bar to finish the trip 😉)
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Came back from a fantastic 2-week family trip in London 🇬🇧 and Dublin 🇮🇪 yesterday 🤩
So many cool buildings, museums, history, but I have to admit that Stonehenge was my favorite along with the Guinness brewery 🍻 (and some baby Guinness in a rock bar to finish the trip 😉)
So many cool buildings, museums, history, but I have to admit that Stonehenge was my favorite along with the Guinness brewery 🍻 (and some baby Guinness in a rock bar to finish the trip 😉)
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Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8
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Want to be our colleague? We have a faculty position in microbial systems biology looking for candidates. Please share. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Omics Data Analysis in the Field of Microbial Systems Biology | Ressources humaines | Université Laval
www.rh.ulaval.ca
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Want to be our colleague? We have a faculty position in microbial systems biology looking for candidates. Please share. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...
October 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
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Happy to share our new preprint on BBB mechanobiology on bioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We describe an exciting new link between tight junctions and cell-matrix adhesions during BBB maturation and in epileptic BBB dysfunction.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We describe an exciting new link between tight junctions and cell-matrix adhesions during BBB maturation and in epileptic BBB dysfunction.
Endothelial tight junctions and cell-matrix adhesions reciprocally control blood-brain barrier integrity
Brain endothelial cells (ECs) rely on mechanical cues to provide a physical barrier that protects the brain. Yet how ECs integrate forces to establish and maintain the blood-brain barrier (BBB) remain...
www.biorxiv.org
September 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Happy to share our new preprint on BBB mechanobiology on bioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We describe an exciting new link between tight junctions and cell-matrix adhesions during BBB maturation and in epileptic BBB dysfunction.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We describe an exciting new link between tight junctions and cell-matrix adhesions during BBB maturation and in epileptic BBB dysfunction.
Got the chance to chat with Michel "Away" Langevin, 🥁 drummer of the legendary metal band Voivoid 🤘 last night while waiting for our poutines! 🤩
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Got the chance to chat with Michel "Away" Langevin, 🥁 drummer of the legendary metal band Voivoid 🤘 last night while waiting for our poutines! 🤩
Hot 🌶️ peppers experiment: all from our garden, jalapenos, Hungarian wax, shishitos of various colors..
Is the color associated with heat level 🔥?
Is the color associated with heat level 🔥?
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Hot 🌶️ peppers experiment: all from our garden, jalapenos, Hungarian wax, shishitos of various colors..
Is the color associated with heat level 🔥?
Is the color associated with heat level 🔥?
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Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.
#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
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September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.
#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Mood after the CIHR grant marathon.
September 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Mood after the CIHR grant marathon.