The MIND Platform @ Western
mind-western.bsky.social
The MIND Platform @ Western
@mind-western.bsky.social
🧠🔬 The Mesoscopic Integrated Neuroimaging Data (MIND) Platform revolutionizes brain research by combining Canada's most powerful MRI scanner with cutting-edge light sheet microscopy.
📍Western University, London, ON, Canada
Is it candy? Nope, it is a spooky 👻 cleared mouse 🧠 used for #fluorescencefriday movies
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Had a great time at the @mind-western.bsky.social Lightsheet Meeting Series this week, an amazing, interactive talk led by Christopher Pfeiffer-Kelly of LifeCanvas Technologies Inc. @braincanada.bsky.social @maximoprado.bsky.social🔬🖥️🤩
October 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is what we do!
#fluorescencefriday Side by side comparison of alpha synuclein S129 (magenta), a marker of #parkinson’s , in M83 hemyzigous mice injected with human pre formed fibrils @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social Vlad Novikov clearing with SHIELD @lifecanvastech.bsky.social imaged at MIND platform @westernu.ca
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The things we can do @westernu.ca thanks to platform support grant funding from @braincanada.bsky.social And #NFRF
#fluorescencefriday special. Half marmoset 🧠 cleared and stained using SHIELD and imaged by lightsheet microscopy. Courtesy of Jesleen Saini @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social and @stefan-everling.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#fluorescencefriday special. Half marmoset 🧠 cleared and stained using SHIELD and imaged by lightsheet microscopy. Courtesy of Jesleen Saini @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social and @stefan-everling.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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On #worldalzheimersday our team
is thrilled with our efforts to understand how amyloid (magenta) interacts with blood vessels (green) and how better 🐁 models and translational approaches will help the fight to #endalz

And 🙏 @alzassociation.bsky.social for the support
September 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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If you are interested in great #fluorescencefriday videos, images and anything microscopy or
MRI related follow our new account for the MIND platform @mind-western.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @touchscreencog.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Great news just announced. @neuroak.bsky.social is leading a new funded @braincanada.bsky.social platform that promises to revolutionize the study of neurodegeneration by tackling Patho-connectomics Merging MRI and lightsheet analysis in new models of disease www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...
Researchers launch brain imaging platform with $2.9M boost from Brain Canada - Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry - Western University
A new high-resolution imaging platform is revealing the brain in extraordinary detail – and sharing the data with scientists worldwide.
www.schulich.uwo.ca
June 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#fluorescencefriday blood vessels and amyloid plaques in a 🐭 model of AD. courtesy of @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social Luke Smolders and Arash Salahinejad @tridentpct.bsky.social @touchscreencog.bsky.social We will be 🔜 opening up for external services and collaborations via MIND @westernu.ca
July 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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late for #fluorescenceFriday. Here are our efforts to look at blood vessels in the 🧠 and of course Abeta plaques @touchscreencog.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Our new interest: blood vessels and amyloid plaque interactions after lecanemab treatment of an ApoE4 AD mouse line #fluorescenceFriday @arashsalah.bsky.social and @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social for credits
August 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It is #fluorescencefriday and the MIND platform @touchscreencog.bsky.social @tridentpct.bsky.social invites you to see brain blood vessels stained with CD31 and imaged by lightsheet. 🐁 🧠 cleared with SHIELD . thanks as always to @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social @arashsalah.bsky.social and company.
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM