Month: March 2020

The new normal

The new normal

It is not easy to maintain a normal scientific life while working from home – kids to take care of, lack of motivation, social isolation, etc… – but our Department organizes several weekly virtual meetings to help students, research assistants and profs to stay actively 

COVID-19

COVID-19

Since March 13th, the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) is officially closed and we were asked to stay at home until further notice. The whole country is going under lockdown to minimize the deleterious effects of the pandemic and we do not know how long this 

Happy birthday Inès!

Happy birthday Inès!

Today we celebrated Inès’s birthday with a cake and some presents! She loves banana bags! If you meet with her, ask her about the story about the containers… 😉  

Apprentice researchers

Apprentice researchers

Éléonore Liang and Naomie L’Archevêque-Carrière are two students in Natural sciences from the Séminaire de Sherbrooke who did a one-week internship in the lab. For their project, they did mouse dissection, organ powder and western blot under the supervision of Jessica and Inès. We wish 

Cheese tasting

Cheese tasting

Freshly arrived from France, Florent brought us a lot of cheeses (and pâtés) so the whole laboratory can taste the different varieties that exist. Absolutely delicious! Well… now we know that Jessica does not like goat cheese! 😉  

Acfas 2020 – Conference RNA

Acfas 2020 – Conference RNA

François Bachand and I are organizing a symposium as part of the 88th Acfas congress. This symposium entitled “RNA at the heart of cellular functions and at the basis of human diseases” addresses many questions related to RNA biology, including transcription, splicing, maturation and degradation