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! 😉
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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 …
Welcome Florent!
Welcome to Florent Amiot! Florent is doing a 4-month internship in the lab to potentially do a PhD in cotutelage with Dr Fabien Pifferi in France.
Curling night
Last night, we went to have some beers and fish & chips at Siboire before spending the night curling! 🙂 It was a first for Ines, Riaz and I (last year I had my cast so I couldn’t play) and our beginnings were… epic! Here …
Keystone Conference
Joannie is just back from the Keystone Conference “Cerebral Fluid Flow and Function: Lymphatics, Glymphatics and the Choroid Plexus” that took place in Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA). She presented a poster of our results on the aging of the choroid plexus. I asked her …
BioChem Club
Last night, it was the BioChem Club! This meeting gives the opportunity to several students of the Biochemistry program to vulgarize a scientific article. Jessica and Inès were among the 6 students who presented at the Club last night. Jessica presented an article on aging: …
Valentine’s day
There is no mystery for my lab that I am “anti” Valentine’s day! As a joke (and to surprised them!), I decided to show my “love” to every lab member with sweet presents: a cake and a beautiful picture!
Mont Bellevue
People often ask me why I installed my lab in Sherbrooke. Aside scientific reasons, the city and its surrounding areas (Magog and Mont Orford National Park) are beautiful. Sherbrooke itself has a small montain in the middle of the city: Mont Bellevue. You can hike, …
Our new toy
Recently, the lab did the acquisition of the new iBright for DNA and protein analysis. Today, we had our training and everybody was excited… especially when imaging gummy bears! Everybody did good (= they did not break the machine!) so we celebrated with a …
Welcome back Inès!
After an intership last summer in the lab, Inès is back from France and ready to start her Master degree in Biochemistry! Her project will be on alternative splicing and neuronal differentiation. She will be co-supervised with Pr Xavier Roucou.
Welcome Riaz!
Welcome to Muhammed Riaz Khan! Riaz did his PhD at Anhui University of Science and Technology in China. I met him 2 years ago at a conference in Guangzhou (China); he was then interested in doing a post-doc in what will be my future lab! …
