Mathia and Nina at work

Mathia and Nina at work

Mathia and Nina are doing their internship at the same time and I could not imagine a better duo to team up on their experiments! 🙂  

Congratulations Jeru!

Congratulations Jeru!

Congratulations to Jeru Manoj Manuel! He was just awarded a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship from the RNA Innovation program. He will be joining the lab very shortly to start an exciting project on RNA alternative splicing!  

Welcome back Nina!

Welcome back Nina!

Welcome back to Nina Di Grande! Nina is doing another internship in the lab on a different project to learn new techniques – and also because she loves us! 🙂  

Congratulations Riaz!

Congratulations Riaz!

Today, Riaz’s review got accepted for publication in Trends in Genetics! A few weeks before you can read his review “Exploring the alternative splicing of long noncoding RNAs”. On our side, we did not wait to celebrate! Congratulations Riaz!    Update: The review is now 

Welcome Mathia!

Welcome Mathia!

Welcome to Mathia Canepa! Mathia is doing an internship in the lab as part of his degree of “Laboratory techniques: biotechnologies” at the Sherbrooke Cégep.   

Congratulations Darren!

Congratulations Darren!

Congratulations to Darren Carpentier-Lalancette! He was just awarded a travel fellowship from the Neurodis Foundation to continue his MD-MSc research with our collaborators in France at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN).

Congratulations Viktoriia!

Congratulations Viktoriia!

Congratulations to Viktoriia Bavykina! She was just awarded a fellowship from the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program to come to our lab starting May 1st!

Happy Birthday Inès!

Happy Birthday Inès!

Yesterday was Inès’s birthday! We celebrated it with cakes and some presents! Her birthday is also the one year mark of the first COVID-19 lockdown… NB: Inès “lost” her phone the other day while hiking. Few days after, she realized that the phone was still 

Happy Birthday Olivier!

Happy Birthday Olivier!

Today we celebrated Olivier’s birthday! As Olivier is new in the lab, I just realized that his birthday was last week! One good reason to have another cake this week! 🙂  

Welcome Olivier!

Welcome Olivier!

Welcome to Olivier Dionne! Olivier is currently a Ph.D student in Dr Francois Corbin’s lab where he did his M.Sc. degree. Starting today, I am officially his co-director and will guide him for his project related to the X fragile syndrome.  

Congratulations Amir!

Congratulations Amir!

Today, Amir’s review got accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neuroscience! A few weeks before you can read his review “APOE and Alzheimer’s disease: from lipid transport to physiopathology and therapeutics”. On our side, we did not wait to celebrate! Congratulations Amir!   

Proof by the image

Proof by the image

Jessica decided to participate in the “Proof by the image” contest (La preuve par l’image in french) of the 88th Acfas Congress. I share with you her photo and text. Good luck Jessica!   The butterfly effect “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in