TRIDENT Preclinical Trials

Happy Bday Liisa!!!!

🎶Let’s dance…but make it light sheet. For #FluorescenceFriday, the team is looking at blood vessels in brilliant color🧠. Beautiful imaging by @mind-western.bsky.social, @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social, @nadiahaghbinphd.bsky.social, and Vladislav Novikov! When our science moves, it grooves. 🔬😎

Great to welcome MP Peter Fragiskatos to the #TRIDENT labs at @westernu.ca. 🔬Showcasing how #NFRF funded, collaborative Canadian research is accelerating new therapies for brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. 🧠🍁 @schulichmeddent.bsky.social. Learn more at tridentpreclinicaltrials.org!

This #InternationalWomensMonth, we recognize that better science starts with inclusive science. At #TRIDENT, Sex-Based Analysis Plus is embedded into how we design and evaluate research, ensuring potential therapies for brain diseases are tested with sex and biological diversity in mind. 🧠👩‍🔬 #NFRF

@picardonhealth.bsky.social, would love to connect and chat with you about our pan-Canadian research platform, aiming to de-risk treatment development for diseases like Alzheimer's! Our contact is info@tridentpreclinicaltrials.org or feel free to send us a DM!

TRIDENT: Strengthening Canada's Path to Brain Health Innovation YouTube video by TRIDENT Preclinical Trials

#TRIDENT is a $24M federal investment in research innovation. It’s about building a smarter, more efficient path from drug discovery to delivery, so Canadians benefit from safer and better treatments for brain disease, faster. 🧠 #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #NFRF Learn more here:
youtu.be/dfi8Fu29BQI?...

From discovery to impact: #TRIDENT is proud to be part of the @westernuresearch.bsky.social Commercial IQ program, strengthening our path from innovative research to real-world application. Here’s to 6 weeks of learning and collaboration! #Innovation #Commercialization🤝👏@westernu.ca

Functional imaging. Metabolic mapping. Competitive seasoning. The @cfmm.bsky.social Chili Cook Off proved our research isn’t the only thing bringing the heat this winter! 🌶️Explore Canada's national ultra-high field MRI platform via cfmm.uwo.ca/index.html. @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Whole brain drama, but make it #fluorescent 🌈. No secrets left thanks to lightsheet imaging, in the best way :)! Great job team! 😍🔬🧠💡#TRIDENT #NFRF #Alzheimers

Dr. Alessandro Zanini, TRIDENT Marmoset Core Highly Qualified Personnel Interview YouTube video by TRIDENT Preclinical Trials

Behind every breakthrough is a team. #TRIDENT is powered by over 80 incredible HQP across 6 Canadian research sites...what makes our cross-species, translational pipeline innovation possible. Hear from Dr. Alessandro Zanini of the
@westernu.ca Marmoset Core, below! 👏🤩 youtu.be/HJaaSIvSjio #NFRF

Takeaway: QC matters and #openscience for the win! Awesome job @douglasresearch.bsky.social team #NFRF 👏💻🌎 Code to reproduce all results in Experimental Quality Control Induces Changes in Allen Mouse Brain Connectomes (Nathan et al., 2025) linked here: github.com/vik16nathan/...
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More Lionel! Love it.

We wondered...and checked out and the awesome new reprint, below!! Great job, team! 👇🗞🎉🥳🐀 #NFRF

Fresh signals from #TRIDENT’s Synaptozone e-newsletter — where ideas spark, science connects, and discovery moves closer to therapies. 🗞️📣🔬💡Check out the latest edition, linked here: createsend.com/t/y-108FD60C... #NFRF #kmb #neuroscience #drugdiscovery

Home Stefan Everling

The Everling Lab, proud partner of #TRIDENT, is advancing our understanding of brain circuits and cognition using cutting-edge neurophysiology and non-human primate models—bringing us one step closer 2 treatments for brain disease. Check out the link below to learn more! 🔗🌎🔬
www.everling-lab.org

It's the time of year for strong connections 🧠💕😍...great job team!
#FluorescenceFriday #BrainLove

Great tools powering meaningful discovery 👇👏🔬...great to see such impactful collaboration between the @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social researchers and @stressmarq.bsky.social!

Code. Create. Collaborate. 🧠💡 #TRIDENT is proud to support Brainhack Western 2026, an incredible open science, community-driven neuroscience event! Registration link below🔗👇. #Brainhack #OpenScience #Neuroscience #NFRF brainhackwestern.github.io @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

SBA+ Core | TRIDENT Website

#TRIDENT advances International Day of Women and Girls in Science by enhancing our critical population of women team members and the inclusion of Sex-Based Analysis+ across all of our research. Check out our website for more www.tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/sba #WomenInScience #EveryVoiceInScience

What about diet coke

Happening TODAY at Western with @liisagalea.bsky.social, also a #TRIDENT SBA+ top researcher!!! 👇 👇 ♀️ 🧠 🗞️ 🎤 🤩

“Not a Bikini” By Rebecca Smythe & Areej Mir

Incredible interview with one seriously awesome prof! @liisagalea.bsky.social, the world is so much better for the work you do! 😍💜👏

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Recalibrating Canadian universities to meet the Mark (Carney) - University Affairs How university leadership can better support Canadian innovation and economic growth.

Great insights @richardgold.bsky.social! Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation...it grows from talent, partnerships, + the right infrastructure, exactly the ecosystem 🇨🇦 research platforms like #TRIDENT are building. Proud 2 be part of the shift toward impact! universityaffairs.ca/opinion/reca...

Microglia mapped across the whole brain from the Western Mouse team—because in neurodegeneration, every cell counts. #Fluorescencefriday 🧠😍🔬

Fresh signals from #TRIDENT’s Synaptozone e-newsletter — where ideas spark, science connects, and discovery moves closer to therapies. 🗞️📣🔬💡Check out the latest edition, linked here: createsend.com/t/y-108FD60C... #NFRF #kmb #neuroscience #drugdiscovery

👏👏👏👏 fantastic collaboration!

This year, #WesternU is celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with the theme Black Joy, Glory and Reclamation, inviting community members to embrace moments of joy, uplift Black excellence & reclaim narratives that affirm Black identity.

🔗 See details on the event lineup: blackhistory.uwo.ca

Picture of a Groundhog with the words "I'm a rodent, not a meteorologist."

#Groundhog Day reminder: rodents aren’t meteorologists.. but in translational research, they do help predict what treatments work in humans, like #TRIDENT's advanced models of brain disease. 👀🐀🔬👏 tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/mouse #NFRF @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Congrats @liisagalea.bsky.social !!!!!

When a brain brings the classic highlighter pack: amyloid 💙, microglia 💖, vessels 💛. Happy #FluorescenceFriday everyone, thanks to the Western LS team for posting! 👏🔬💡