The Williamson lab is opening at The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto in August 2026! Interested in astrocyte biology, memory, neural repair. 🇨🇦
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Michael Williamson
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Had a blast at my first CANGlia meeting! The first of many to come!
Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab at the SickKids Research Institute and University of Toronto in August!
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Recruiting at all levels. Get in touch if you’re interested in astrocyte biology of cognition and disease!
The Williamson Lab studies astrocyte biology across development, cognition, and disease.
williamsonlab.ca
Michael Williamson
Michael Williamson
Excited to share our latest in @currentbiology.bsky.social (they who publish the coolest papers!)
Memories are encoded by sparse neuronal ensembles (engrams). But most evidence comes from "simple" associative learning tasks. What about more integrative memories like spatial navigation?
Sharing the latest from the lab. Led by Yunlong Liu, this work explores how microglia and engram neurons interact during fear extinction in the hippocampus.
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We're thrilled to share this #Perspective @natneuro.nature.com
on #astrocytes as a multilayered system of #functional #units that operate across spatial scales.
👉Available for reading here:
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👉Full article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Neuroscience - Liu et al. show in mice that microglia are recruited to the soma and dendritic processes of fear engram neurons during extinction learning and that they weaken fear memories...
Astrocytes modulate complex brain functions. These ubiquitous glial cells constitute a multilayered system of functional units that operate across multiple spatial scales, thereby increasing the degre...
