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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷

@saravasconcelos.bsky.social

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Regen. med, blood vessels, cardiovascular disease, tissue engineering, OOAC, diabetes Senior Scientist UHN. Associate Prof UofT. John Kiston McIvor Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research. www.vasconceloslab.com

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Feb 14

This one is very personal: I talk about our revascularization therapies and share a bit on how my experience as a #cancersurvivor is influencing my lab’s research. 1/
@uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social @bbdc.bsky.social

Stem Cell Network @stemcellnetwork.ca · Feb 13

(1/4) In recognition of #HeartMonth, join SCN’s Joanna Valsamis as she chats with biomedical engineering expert Dr. Sara Vasconcelos (University Health Network, Toronto) about cutting-edge stem cell research for heart disease—a leading cause of death and disability in Canada.

Recycling Blood Vessels: A Breakthrough in Organ Regeneration

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 2d

⏰ Don't miss your chance to sign up for #EMBLCardioBiology!

Deadline is 15 Oct
➡️ https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl

Listen to the keynote speakers
✨ James F. Martin (USA) and
✨ Alessandra Moretti (Germany)

as they talk about cardiovascular disease, regeneration and translational breakthroughs.

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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 1d

#DBfeature 🐠🫀

Gpnmb promotes the recruitment of macrophages post cardiac cryoinjury in zebrafish, influencing immune and fibrotic responses during regeneration

-S Gupta, GK Bajwa, H El-Sammak, K Mattonet, S Günther, M Looso, D Stainier, R Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social

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Upper panel: Immunostaining of zebrafish ventricles at 7 dpci after cryoinjury shows fewer macrophages (mpeg1:EGFP⁺, magenta) in gpnmb⁻/⁻ ventricles compared with wild-type. DAPI staining (blue) marks nuclei (B). Quantification confirms a significant reduction in macrophage numbers within the injured border zone of gpnmb⁻/⁻ tissue (C).

Lower panel: Acid Fuchsin Orange-G (AFOG) stained sections of zebrafish cryoinjured ventricles show that gpnmb⁻/⁻ ventricles develop larger collagen-rich scars than wild-type at 30 and 90 dpci (F and G). Quantification illustrates greater proportions of large scar areas in gpnmb⁻/⁻ ventricles (H), indicating impaired scar resolution and delayed cardiac regeneration.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1d

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 7d

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.

Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

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Florian T. Merkle, PhD @florianmerkle.bsky.social · 12d

We're seeking a motivated postdoc to help us and NovoNordisk generate cutting-edge human cellular models of metabolic disease. For details & to apply (by 6th Oct), see: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... If you think someone in your network might be interested, please share. Thank you!

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · 13d

No good deed goes unpunished: when you agree to review a grant for European country and their system has you jumping through lots os hoops just to log in! UGH!

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ALT: a man sitting on a bed with his mouth open and the words i thought this was a good idea above him

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 22d

🚨 Two weeks left to apply for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme.

Apply by: 30 September 2025.

Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

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#postdoc #sciencecareers

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · 29d

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · 29d

Excited about this cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary conference I'm co-organizing at EMBL Heidelberg bringing together leaders in vascular biology, cardiac research, & bioengineering.
A stellar lineup of speakers w Keynotes:
James Martin & Alessandra Moretti
Opportunities for oral pres from abstracts

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · Sep 6

An update on exciting advances #T1D #stemcells #islets #diabetes www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person – and evade immune detection

Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today we celebrated one of my favorite annual traditions—the Institute of #Biomedical Engineering BBQ to mark the start of the academic year. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and meet with students as we look forward to the year ahead.
@uhnresearch.ca

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Super well deserved! Congrats Angela!

Research at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · Aug 25

Meet Angela Zhou, a PhD candidate in Dr. @saravasconcelos.bsky.social's lab @uhn.ca and one of the 2025 Vanier Scholars.

Read about her research in #revascularization, what excites her most about being a research trainee at UHN, and her interests. ❤️‍🩹

🔗: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/angela-...

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · Aug 11

Introducing our keynote speakers! #VascularBiology2025
Submit your science by the end of today!
Visit NAVBO website to know more
www.navbo.org/vb2025/

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · Aug 13

#VascularBiology2025
NAVBO Vascular Biology 2025!
Join us in Cape Cod, Oct 19-23, 2025.
Speaker spotlight series!!
Visit : www.navbo.org/vb2025/

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 21

We are hiring a PDF to use state-of-the-art data from single cell & spatial transcriptomics of microvessels to uncover the molecular blueprint of successful vascularization & apply findings to coach hPSC-endothelial cells to successfully vascularize grafts 👇
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Postdoctoral Researcher

Company Description: UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 Team UHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Wes...

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 21

To celebrate our undergraduate summer students, the #ProjectMaVen team got together at the pub to hear about what they’ve learnt and to enjoy ourselves. Aisha did a great job on her presentation #ProudPI

Person in front of a projector screen giving a presentation to an audience sitting around tables

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yesterday the whole lab went out for lunch to bid Sonia goodbye on her return to Paris soon. You will be missed! #VasconcelosLab @uhnresearch.ca @bbdc-uoft.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social

people sitting around a table having lunch

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sometimes the universe rewards me for going on an early morning run 😍. Isn’t she pretty???
Plus I was thankful for an excuse to catch my breath by stopping for a pic 😅

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CNN @cnn.com · Aug 5

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for ex-President Jair Bolsonaro | CNN

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wow! Congrats!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Jul 25

Extremely sad to hear this. My heart goes out to you all ♥️

Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷 @saravasconcelos.bsky.social · Jul 24

Am I the only one who gets teary-eyed reading the acknowledgment of people's thesis? 🥲

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