Michel Cayouette
@michelcayouette.bsky.social
Neurobiologist studying retinal development and regeneration. @IRCM @UdeMontreal @McGill U. Proud dad of an amazing transgender boy. LGBTQ+ ally.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4655-9048
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4655-9048
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Retinal glia regulate development of the circadian photoentrainment circuit
Circadian photoentrainment depends on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which convey environmental light information to th…
www.sciencedirect.com
Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Michel Cayouette
Dear #Neuroscience researchers, I am Guest Editing an issue in @devdynamics.bsky.social on NEURAL MIGRATION.
Due date: March 31, 2026.
Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio
Please reskeet 🙏
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
Due date: March 31, 2026.
Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio
Please reskeet 🙏
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
Developmental Dynamics
<em>Developmental Dynamics</em> is a developmental biology journal publishing novel discoveries that advance our understanding in development, morphology, evolution, and disease.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dear #Neuroscience researchers, I am Guest Editing an issue in @devdynamics.bsky.social on NEURAL MIGRATION.
Due date: March 31, 2026.
Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio
Please reskeet 🙏
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
Due date: March 31, 2026.
Great opportunity to showcase your findings on neural migration. #DevBio
Please reskeet 🙏
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...
Reposted by Michel Cayouette
We are so happy to have had our book launch at the vision sciences research day in Montreal! 👀 🧠 😄 📚
Photo 📸 by Katapub
Thank you! ✨ @reseauvision.bsky.social @michelcayouette.bsky.social
Photo 📸 by Katapub
Thank you! ✨ @reseauvision.bsky.social @michelcayouette.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We are so happy to have had our book launch at the vision sciences research day in Montreal! 👀 🧠 😄 📚
Photo 📸 by Katapub
Thank you! ✨ @reseauvision.bsky.social @michelcayouette.bsky.social
Photo 📸 by Katapub
Thank you! ✨ @reseauvision.bsky.social @michelcayouette.bsky.social
Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Retinal glia regulate development of the circadian photoentrainment circuit
Circadian photoentrainment depends on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which convey environmental light information to th…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...
Call for applications: A fifth edition for the Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series
www.ircm.qc.ca
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...
I’m sure this guy is great, not the point, but to think the solution to Canadian scoence is to attract a few dozen scientists from abroad is complete nonsense. There are just as good scientists here. The problem is chronic underfunding. But this does not make headlines www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Canada’s brain gain: A scientific migration amid U.S turmoil
More than 600 scientists – about half from the U.S. – ‘raise their hands’ as they compete for positions at a Canadian Hospital.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’m sure this guy is great, not the point, but to think the solution to Canadian scoence is to attract a few dozen scientists from abroad is complete nonsense. There are just as good scientists here. The problem is chronic underfunding. But this does not make headlines www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
It was a wonderful visit, so much strong vision science going on at Wash U ophthalmology! Thanks again for hosting me!! ophthalmology.wustl.edu/notable-beeb...
Cayouette delivers 2025 Beebe Lecture on retinal development and regeneration | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Michel Cayouette, PhD, presents “Retinal Development and Regeneration” for the 2025 Beebe Lectureship at WashU’s Vision Science Seminar.
ophthalmology.wustl.edu
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It was a wonderful visit, so much strong vision science going on at Wash U ophthalmology! Thanks again for hosting me!! ophthalmology.wustl.edu/notable-beeb...
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It was a pleasure to have you at the research day! Congratulations again on a fantastic project!
We attended the 28th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Research Network 👀 📘 and we launched our new book!
A special thank you to @michelcayouette.bsky.social for supporting the creation of this book!! ✨ 🚀
www.thebraincolouringbook.com
A special thank you to @michelcayouette.bsky.social for supporting the creation of this book!! ✨ 🚀
www.thebraincolouringbook.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It was a pleasure to have you at the research day! Congratulations again on a fantastic project!
Check this out! So nice!
Happy World Vision Day!
Our book "How We See" is now available! 🧠 👀 ✨ 🚀
thebraincolouringbook.com/order
@reseauvision.bsky.social @michelcayouette.bsky.social
Our book "How We See" is now available! 🧠 👀 ✨ 🚀
thebraincolouringbook.com/order
@reseauvision.bsky.social @michelcayouette.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Check this out! So nice!
Reposted by Michel Cayouette
Collaboration with @ircm.bsky.social colleagues: Cayouette lab (Awais Javed and @michelcayouette.bsky.social), Malleshaiah lab (Loïck Joumier and Mohan Malleshaiah), Yacine Kherdjimil, leader of the "Disease modelling and Gene Editing" platform, and Konstantin Ketchoumian. @umontreal-en.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Collaboration with @ircm.bsky.social colleagues: Cayouette lab (Awais Javed and @michelcayouette.bsky.social), Malleshaiah lab (Loïck Joumier and Mohan Malleshaiah), Yacine Kherdjimil, leader of the "Disease modelling and Gene Editing" platform, and Konstantin Ketchoumian. @umontreal-en.bsky.social
Congratulations!!
Proud to share our new collaborative work in @dev-journal.bsky.social led by talented Ph.D. student Sarah Nahlé!
We reveal that vertebrate myogenesis involves two transcriptionally distinct myocyte states:
Mc1 (Mymk+Mymx+)
Mc2 (Mymk+)
journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
#myogenesis
We reveal that vertebrate myogenesis involves two transcriptionally distinct myocyte states:
Mc1 (Mymk+Mymx+)
Mc2 (Mymk+)
journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...
#myogenesis
Differentially expressed fusogens specify myocyte states to drive myogenesis
Summary: Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals two fusion-competent muscle cell states that differentially express the fusogens myomaker and myomixer, offering new insight into how muscle cells coordinat...
journals.biologists.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Congratulations!!
On my way to Wash U to give the David Beebe lecture in ophthalmology. Particularly honored as I remember Dr. Beebe giving me words of encouragement after the very first talk I gave in an international conference as a student. I remember his kindness very well!
October 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
On my way to Wash U to give the David Beebe lecture in ophthalmology. Particularly honored as I remember Dr. Beebe giving me words of encouragement after the very first talk I gave in an international conference as a student. I remember his kindness very well!
Oh look at this!! Beautiful, and it will be out just in time for your Xmas shopping. Great gift idea for kids, a coloring book about vision!!! 🤩
We are currently working on the last edits of our third volume - all about the visual system!
English and French editions coming soon! 👀🧠☀️
English and French editions coming soon! 👀🧠☀️
September 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Oh look at this!! Beautiful, and it will be out just in time for your Xmas shopping. Great gift idea for kids, a coloring book about vision!!! 🤩
Reposted by Michel Cayouette
Fantastic workshop !!!! Thank you again Seth and Michel !!!
September 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Fantastic workshop !!!! Thank you again Seth and Michel !!!
Reposted by Michel Cayouette
Such a fantastic workshop indeed! Great group of people, fantastic science all around, deep discussions lab meeting style and a lot of fun in a beautiful environment! Thanks Michel and Seth for pulling this off!!!
September 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Such a fantastic workshop indeed! Great group of people, fantastic science all around, deep discussions lab meeting style and a lot of fun in a beautiful environment! Thanks Michel and Seth for pulling this off!!!
It’s the end of a wonderful workshop on Vision Restoration : Insights from Development at Fondation des Treilles, France. Stay tuned for a perspective paper on what was discussed and presented during this amazing week of science!
September 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It’s the end of a wonderful workshop on Vision Restoration : Insights from Development at Fondation des Treilles, France. Stay tuned for a perspective paper on what was discussed and presented during this amazing week of science!
Accepted 🎉🥳
Paper resubmitted, feels so good just before a much needed vacation! One last thing tomorrow, review a paper. Then I’m off!
August 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Accepted 🎉🥳
Show me something cool and unusual today…here you go!
August 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Show me something cool and unusual today…here you go!
Reposted by Michel Cayouette
Summer studentship at the Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute is like... 💭
Watch to learn more about our summer student research projects and experiences! 💫
#UHN #SummerStudentResearchDay2025
Watch to learn more about our summer student research projects and experiences! 💫
#UHN #SummerStudentResearchDay2025
August 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Summer studentship at the Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute is like... 💭
Watch to learn more about our summer student research projects and experiences! 💫
#UHN #SummerStudentResearchDay2025
Watch to learn more about our summer student research projects and experiences! 💫
#UHN #SummerStudentResearchDay2025
See y’all! Paper reviewed, inbox empty, I’m outta here! Hope you can all enjoy some time off too!.
Paper resubmitted, feels so good just before a much needed vacation! One last thing tomorrow, review a paper. Then I’m off!
August 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
See y’all! Paper reviewed, inbox empty, I’m outta here! Hope you can all enjoy some time off too!.
Paper resubmitted, feels so good just before a much needed vacation! One last thing tomorrow, review a paper. Then I’m off!
August 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Paper resubmitted, feels so good just before a much needed vacation! One last thing tomorrow, review a paper. Then I’m off!
Hi all, we got a grant for a cool project that will follow up of our paper published a few months ago (see below). We will explore how light acts as a morphogen to instruct PCP. If you are looking for a postdoc position and interested in this topic, please reach out!
ICYMI our latest paper is now out officially in print (is there still such thing?). And since Dev Cell @cellpress.bsky.social did not select our submission for cover, I post it here. A really cool illustration from my son Zack. www.cell.com/developmenta...
July 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hi all, we got a grant for a cool project that will follow up of our paper published a few months ago (see below). We will explore how light acts as a morphogen to instruct PCP. If you are looking for a postdoc position and interested in this topic, please reach out!
I always liked PBS, now even more.
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We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
July 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I always liked PBS, now even more.
Grateful to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for funding our project "Light as a Morphogen: Unraveling a Novel Planar Cell Polarity Pathway in Retinal Function
and Disease". M Housset in my lab will be driving this project with help from @macdonaldlab.bsky.social and others not on Bsky!
and Disease". M Housset in my lab will be driving this project with help from @macdonaldlab.bsky.social and others not on Bsky!
Grant application successful! More details to come, but I am very excited about this project!
July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Grateful to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for funding our project "Light as a Morphogen: Unraveling a Novel Planar Cell Polarity Pathway in Retinal Function
and Disease". M Housset in my lab will be driving this project with help from @macdonaldlab.bsky.social and others not on Bsky!
and Disease". M Housset in my lab will be driving this project with help from @macdonaldlab.bsky.social and others not on Bsky!
Milton is our cat who pretends to chase birds…
July 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Milton is our cat who pretends to chase birds…