After an intership last summer in the lab, Jessica is back from Mexico and ready to start her Master degree in Biochemistry! Her project will be on aging, nutrition and Alzheimer’s disease. She will be co-supervised with Pre Mélanie Plourde.
First lab experience for Diana! Animal dissection, stem cell differentiation, quantitative PCR and western blot! Today was her final exam with a poster presentation!
Some bulk news: The name of the department has changed! It is now Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics. This new denomination covers better the overall research of the different labs within the department The department has recruited a new bioinformatician: Dr Mariano Avino. Welcome …
Javier just attended the International Symposium “Biology of aging: understanding aging to better intervene”. During this symposium, many key themes related to the biology of aging (e.g. cellular senescence, systems biology, epidemiology, anti-aging treatments, …) were discussed and Javier presented his results with a poster! …
Congratulations to Javier who just received a travel scholarship from the Center of excellence in Neurocience from the University of Sherbrooke and the NeuroPôle. The scholarship will support expenses for his attendance to the Keystone symposium on “Cerebral Fluid Flow and Function: Lymphatics, Glymphatics and …
Welcome to Diana Junique! Diana is doing an internship in the lab as part of her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry.
Today was the last day of Micah in the lab. We went to the restaurant to celebrate the end of his first internship! Micah, we wish you the best of luck for the future!
First lab experience for Micah! Mouse dissection, quantitative PCR, western blot, cloning and… bench cleaning! 🙂
Jessica and Ines have finished their internship but will be back in January to start their Master! Ines went back to France on July 24. We did a “au revoir” party at the restaurant with the Roucou lab. Jessica went back to Mexico on …
As a young PI who started his lab less than a year ago, I anticipated many challenges but also had many expectations. One of them was to create the “perfect” lab (Graal of each researcher) where all your team members can make “one”. Seeing Javier, …
Today was Joannie’s birthday! We celebrated with a piña colada cake et some beers! Happy birthday Joannie!
