News and events

PhD candidate Taylor Snowden-Richardson (Christie Lab) is helping The Brain Changes Initiative, a non-profit organization that has helped fund her research, with its Canada-wide event to promote the benefits of exercise on the brain.

In a new perspective article published in Nature Communications, first-author and MSc student Victor Lau (Tremblay Lab) proposes that the progression of Alzheimer’s disease must involve maladaptive, senescent cell buildup.

March 8 is International Women's Day. To celebrate, we would like to introduce you to some of the many women-identifying individuals who work with the Division of Medical Sciences.

As a new ambassador of the International Society for Neurochemistry’s Young Scientist Steering Committee, PhD candidate Fernando González Ibáñez (Tremblay Lab) will spend the next year organizing events to create a network of young scientists in the neurochemistry field.

Dr. Leigh Anne Swayne and Dr. Hector Caruncho each received $100,000 in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to continue their respective research projects.

Dr. Marie-Ève Tremblay received the Silver Medal for Excellence in Research.

Following two years of successful patient-focused research by PhD candidate Taylor Snowden-Richardson and other members of the Christie Lab, the Victoria Brain Injury Society instituted a permanent Neurotracker program for its clients. Undergraduate student Jamie Morrison will use a BranchOut Neurological Foundation grant to study the program implementation.

Dr. Marie-Ève Tremblay (Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria); former postdoctoral fellow in the Tremblay lab, Dr. Benneth Ben-Azu (Department of Pharmacology, Delta State University); and Dr. Dan Frenkel (Department of Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University) are co-investigators on a project researching the outcomes of cellular senescence on the physiological and immune functions of microglia over the course of aging, upon viral infection, and in Alzheimer’s disease.

Members of the Tremblay Lab recently published their review, titled “The Missing Piece? A Case for Microglia’s Prominent Role in the Therapeutic Action of Anesthetics, Ketamine, and Psychedelics” in a special issue of Neurochemical Research.

In her recent first-author paper published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, PhD student Katherine Picard (Tremblay Lab) shows microglia are involved in female sleep regulation, potentially through the regulation of neuronal activity.