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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congratulations to @szczepanska.bsky.social for successfully defending her MSc thesis today! 👏 🎉 👏 A big thank you to the examiners K. Power and C. Matar for the insightful questions and great discussion and to C. Tugault-Lafleur for chairing the defense.

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Ciarán Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · Jun 13

Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the @crchum.bsky.social in the Neuroscience Axis !

www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...

Assistant or associate professor-researcher in Neuroscience related to neurological disorders and/or neural regeneration and precision health

Description The Neuroscience Research Axis of the CRCHUM and the Department of Neuroscience of the UdeM are inviting applications for a position of assistant or associate professor-researcher in neur...

www.chumontreal.qc.ca

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Jun 10

This week is #uograd25 week at University of Ottawa. Congratulations to all 2025 graduates and a special bravo to Dr. Chinonye Udechukwu from @uottawamed.bsky.social, the first PhD student to graduate in the Audet Lab! 👏👩🏻‍🎓🎉

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Jun 2

Good job Matt and Alfie! 👏

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Synthia Guimond @synthiaguimond.bsky.social · May 21

Excited to share with you our systematic review and meta-analysis on the cholinergic system in schizophrenia, just published in Molecular Psychiatry. 🧠

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · May 15

Great representation of the lab this week at the DOHaD Canada / CNPRM Conference. Congratulations to Caroline, Victoria, Elyse, and Amy for presenting their research exploring the relationships between diet and mental health during the perinatal and neonatal periods! 🍇 🤰 🧠 🐭

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations @kconnor.bsky.social! 🎉

la-dohad.bsky.social @la-dohad.bsky.social · May 12

LA-DOHaD Regional Society congrats Dr. Kristin Connor for the Nick Hales Award, awarded by the International DOHaD Society in 2025. @dohadcanada.bsky.social

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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · Mar 11

My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇

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Daniel Figeys @dfigeys.bsky.social · May 4

🚀 Interested in the interactions of xenobiotics with the gut microbiome? Join us @quadraminstitute.bsky.social to apply precision microbiome assays to xenobiotics. Apply by 28 May 2025. 👉 quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
#microbiome #PrecisionNutrition #metaproteomics #metabolics #metagenomics

Group Leader in Functional Microbiome Research - Quadram Institute

Applications are invited for a Group Leader in Functional Microbiome Research to join the laboratory of Professor Daniel Figeys at Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), based in Norwich, UK. Background:...

quadram.ac.uk

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · Apr 23

This is devastating for women’s health research globally, given the influential work by WHI

🔪 Another attack on women

🚫 Fewer discoveries to understand female biology, health & disease

🚫 Fewer diagnostics, therapeutics, preventions

💀More disease, suffering, death

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Mar 8

On this #InternationalWomenDay where I feel it is more important than ever to advocate and fight for women, I would like to give a big shout-out to the strong and incredible women of the Audet Lab I have the chance to work with. Well done ladies! 👏🧠💪
#IWD2025

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Feb 27

Bravo à Katarzyna et toute l'équipe Ménard! 🎉 Bien hâte de lire ça! 👏

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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · Feb 22

March 7 is the date! #StandUpForScience 📣 @standupforscience.bsky.social Check out the updated website with details for your state capital. Hey CU and CO colleagues, scientists, and citizen supporters!! @cumedicalschool.bsky.social 12-4pm Denver at the capital 🩺🧬🧠 See you there!

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Feb 20

Toutes mes félicitations à Laurence (et toi aussi Caro)! 🎉 Tout un accomplissement! 🥂

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Daniel Figeys @dfigeys.bsky.social · Feb 11

Interested in exploring the functions of the microbiome? Check out PhyloFunc, a novel functional beta-diversity metric that incorporates #microbiome phylogeny to inform on #metaproteomic functional distance. @promiselab.bsky.social
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

PhyloFunc: phylogeny-informed functional distance as a new ecological metric for metaproteomic data analysis - Microbiome

Background Beta-diversity is a fundamental ecological metric for exploring dissimilarities between microbial communities. On the functional dimension, metaproteomics data can be used to quantify beta-...

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Jan 23

📣 Come work with us and join the School of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Ottawa!

We are seeking a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioactive Nutrients to Support the Gut-Heart-Brain Axis to lead groundbreaking research on nutrition and its impact on 🦠, 💙, and 🧠 health.

How to apply:

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioactive Nutrients to support the Gut-Heart-Brain Axis

Job Family: Academic Leadership and Faculty Union affiliation: APUO Faculty/Department: Faculty of Health Sciences_Full Time Professors Campus: Lees Campus Date Posted: January 21, 2025 Applications m...

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Jan 1

C’est clair, idem ici! 🎸🤘🩷

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Caroline Menard @caromenard666.bsky.social · Dec 27

Taking 5 min from my 2-week 🎅 Holidays break 🥂 to share our new review out today 🤓 the hard work of 3 super talented 🧪 PhD students *Béatrice *Laura & *Valérie covering implication of 🧠 #vascular #BBB cells in #anorexia #stress #depression #Parkinson #Alzheimer

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neurogliovascular alterations in brain pathologies across lifespan

Neurological and psychiatric illnesses present significant challenges across different stages of life. Adolescence is associated with a high incidence…

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Riadh Hammami @hammamilab.bsky.social · Dec 20

🎉 Excited to share our lab's latest research! 🚀 Extracellular vesicles from Ligilactobacillus strains inhibit Salmonella & Campylobacter, reducing growth & virulence. A new frontier in antimicrobial therapies! 🧫✨ #Postbiotics #antimicrobial #GutHealth rdcu.be/d4dSr

Ligilactobacillus-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Inhibit Growth and Virulence of Enteric Pathogens

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Riadh Hammami @hammamilab.bsky.social · Dec 20

🚨 Our lab's latest report! 🚨 Microbiota-derived extracellular vesicles (MEVs) deliver neuroactive compounds across the gut-brain axis, new insights into gut-brain communication and potential psychobiotic therapies! 🧠🦠 #GutBrainAxis #Psychobiotics doi.org/10.1128/spec...

Multi-level analysis of gut microbiome extracellular vesicles-host interaction reveals a connection to gut-brain axis signaling | Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiota-released extracellular vesicles (MEVs) have emerged as a key player in intercellular signaling. In this study, a multi-level analysis revealed presence of a diverse array of biologically ac...

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Dr Wolfgang Marx @drwolfmarx.bsky.social · Dec 16

🚨 Exciting update from the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (@isnpr.bsky.social)! We’ve published the first-ever guidelines for clinical trials in Nutritional Psychiatry. A 🧵 on what we did and what this means. 🧠🥗
🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39654150/

Methodological and reporting recommendations for clinical trials in Nutritional Psychiatry: Guidelines from the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research - PubMed

Research on nutraceutical and dietary interventions in psychiatry has grown substantially, but progress is hindered by methodological inconsistencies and limited reporting standards. To address this, ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Dec 13

Merci!

MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thank you Argel! 💜

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MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thank you Kristin! 💜

MC Audet @mcaudet.bsky.social · Dec 7

Merci Caro! 💜

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