Students

Prof. Sirui Zhou receives 2025 Banting Discovery Award for groundbreaking EDS research

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:02:25 +0000

Congratulations to Prof. Sirui Zhou, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, who has been awarded the 2025 Banting Discovery Foundation’s prestigious Discovery Award. Prof. Zhou is the inaugural recipient of the $30,000 Banting-Canerector Foundation Discovery Award, which was created to support pioneering research into Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD)—conditions that affect the body's connective tissues.

Congratulations to Danielle Simons-PhD2 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from CRBS

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:22:01 +0000

Danielle Simons (PhD2) has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS). This fellowship was established in 2021 in remembrance of former CRBS student Max Eivaskhani and is awarded to the top ranked application among the submissions for the CRBS Scholarship competition.

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli/PhD3 and Tara Shomali/PhD4 in Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe's lab, who have been awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:23:03 +0000

Sabrina Romanelli (PhD3) and Tara Shomali (PhD 4) were awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship ("Bourses de doctorat en recherche - volet régulier”). Both are supplemented by a contribution from Parkinson Quebec in partnership with the FRQ.

Congratulations to Simran Dhir-PhD2 and Thomas Deluc - PostDoc in the lab of Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro Da Silva

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:05:52 +0000

Congratulations to Simran Dhir/PhD2, who received The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation’s Edwards PhD. Studentships in Pain Research 2025. This Studentship carries with it a stipend of $25,000 per annum for three years.

Congratulations to Thomas Deluc/PostDoc, who received the Ronald Melzack Fellowship in Pain Research ($70,000 per year for three years).

Both these awards supports full-time research in chronic pain that will be conducted at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain.

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli, who received a prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (2025-2027 cycle)

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:58:26 +0000

Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli, who received a prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (205-2027 cycle). This competitive 2-yr $40,000 award was given to 11 exceptional doctoral trainees across Canada working on Parkinson’s disease. Sabrina’s project aims to elucidate the mechanism of PINK1 activation on damaged mitochondria via interactions with the translocation machinery. Her work will help us understand how Parkinson-associated genetic variants impair PINK1’s function.

New publication from the Bui Lab in Current Biology on cilia tip structure

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:16:09 +0000

Motile cilia are specialized organelles essential for cell movement and fluid flow, driven by the beating of their internal cytoskeleton called the axoneme. At the core of the axoneme lies the central pair (CP) of microtubules, which features a distinct distal tip structure critical for motility. However, the proteins stabilizing this region have remained largely unknown.

New publication in Science from the Bernard lab with former and current Cell Biology graduate students Emilie Brûlé and Hailey Schultz

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:56:32 +0000

Myostatin is a paracrine myokine that regulates muscle mass in a variety of species, including humans. In this work, they report a functional role for myostatin as an endocrine hormone that directly promotes pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) synthesis and thereby ovarian function in mice. Previously, this FSH-stimulating role was attributed to other members of the transforming growth factor-β family, the activins. Their results both challenge activin's eponymous role in FSH synthesis and establish an unexpected endocrine axis between skeletal muscle and the pituitary gland.

Cancer Translational Research Horizons 2025

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:00:30 +0000

The CTR Horizons highlights the forefront of health technology and the latest healthcare innovations.

CTR Horizons will be a great opportunity to:

Claire Brown and Team- Recipients of 2024-2025 Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation

admin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:19:47 +0000

click to open link here https://healthenews.mcgill.ca/seven-projects-receive-2024-2025-faculty-awards-for-teaching-innovation/

GCI Partner Expo

amanda.perozzo@mcgill.ca — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:51:34 +0000

15th Annual Hands-On Workshop in 3D Printing & Microfluidics for Bioengineering

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:11:23 +0000

Registration required (Deadline: May 22)

https://juncker.lab.mcgill.ca/workshop

Emerging Topics in Health (EToH) Seminar Series "Probing the design and control principles of vascular growth and scaling"

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:04:05 +0000

Yogesh Goyal, PhD (Assistant Professor, Northwestern University / Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub)

9th Annual PHIL GOLD DISTINGUISHED LECTURE (hosted by the GCI and the EToH Seminar Series)

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:54:27 +0000

Title of his talk: “γδ T cell biology: extending immunotherapy to more cancers and to more patients”

Emerging Topics in Health (EToH) Seminar Series “Interactions Between Developing Microbiomes and Immune Responses”

jinglan.zhang@mcgill.ca — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:34:08 +0000

Speaker: Tim Hand, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Immunology and Microbiology; University of Pittsburgh

Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025, @ 15:30

The Future of Medicine: Beyond mRNA vaccines

jaylen.gordon@mcgill.ca — Wed, 17 May 2023 21:14:35 +0000

COVID-19 vaccines introduced RNA treatments to the world, showing they were safe and effective. But vaccines are only the start.