Past lab member Victoria Cerdeira is creating books that make science fun, inclusive and accessible, empowering children from all backgrounds to engage with and see themselves in science. These will eventually include comic books, activity booklets and coloring books, all in english, french and spanish! Go check out FunSci Books! https://actualites.uqam.ca/2026/rendre-la-science-amusante-et-accessible/ https://www.funscibooks.com/ Congrats to Vicky from all of us ☀️

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault has just been awarded a conference scholarship by the PROTEO network (Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Engineering, and Applications), to cover her expenses for the 2026 C. elegans Neurobiology Meeting in Bordeaux, France. Congrats Noémie and well done!

Marin Pascal, Ph.D. student gave an insightful talk at the Montreal C. elegans  Monthly Meeting about neuron-glia interactions through SAX-7/L1CAM and neuronal architecture maintenance.

For this rendition of the CERMO-FC annual symposium, we had the great pleasure of having everyone in the lab presenting fantastic posters and showcasing their hard work in the past year. Special congrats to Ph.D. students Marin Pascal and Ivan Valette for landing the Best Poster Awards ! Very nice work everyone!

Noémie Frébault, Ph.D. student gave a talk at the CERMO-FC Research Center Meeting about alternative protein ALTZYX-1 and was awarded best oral presentation . Congrats again!

M.Sc. student Jeffrey Killeen and Ph.D. student Ivan Valette have jointly been awarded the 2025 edition of the CERMO-FC Féline-Antoine Aublet Scholarship, for their ongoing work on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neuronal dysfunction in MPS diseases. Outstanding work, well done to both of you!!

Congrats to Ph.D. students Yann Aghiles Chabi and Marin Pascal for their great poster presentations at the 2025 International Worm Meeting at UC Davis, shining more light on our lab on a global scale!

Noémie Frébault, Ph.D student gave a great talk this morning at the 2025 International Worm Meeting at UC Davis on AltZyxin, an alternative protein translated from the same transcript as Zyxin, and it's regulation of muscle biology. Very well done!

Dr. Malika Nadour officially and brilliantly defended her Ph.D. thesis yesterday, marking the completion of her (second!) doctoral degree. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement, Malika! Your wisdom, generosity, and positive spirit have left a lasting impact on the lab, bringing insight and smiles to everyone around you. We are incredibly proud of you and are excited to see what comes next. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Very nice work to all of you today!

Ivan Valette, Ph.D. student gave an informative talk at the Quebec Worm Meeting at UQTR today on MIG-6/papilin as a global regulator of the extracellular matrix that affects TGF-β signaling . Well done!

Yann Aghiles Chabi, Ph.D. student gave an informative talk at the Quebec Worm Meeting at UQTR today on dietary restriction, and it's preservation of neuronal integrity during aging via PHA-4/FOXA-mediated regulation of the cell adhesion molecule SAX-7/L1 . Well done!

Dr. Raphaël Dima successfully and flawlessly defended his Ph.D. thesis yesterday, earning his well-deserved doctoral degree. Congratulations on this remarkable milestone, Raphaël! Your insight, creative thinking and warm spirit have left a lasting impact on the lab. We are very proud of you and are excited to see what comes next! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

M.Sc. student Jeffrey Killeen has just received a two year master's scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé. Great news, well done Jeffrey!!

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault has just received a four year doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé. Great news, well done Noémie!!

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault gave a very interesting talk yesterday at the 2025 UQAM Research Day about AltZyxin, an alternative muscle protein. Great work!

B.Sc. student has just been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for a second summer in a row for his work on MPS diseases, this time by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Congrats Jeffrey, well done!

Ph.D. student Ivan Valette gave a very engaging talk today at the Montreal C. elegans  Monthly Meeting about MIG-6/Papilin and it's mediation of the maintenance of neuronal architecture by remodeling the extracellular matrix and affecting the TGF-β signaling pathway.

Ivan Valette, Ph.D. student gave a talk at the CERMO-FC Research Center Meeting about MIG-6/Papilin mediated neuronal architecture maintenance and was awarded best oral presentation . No surprises here, congrats again!

For this 2024 edition of the of the CERMO-FC Research Center Provincial Conference, all of our students have presented beautiful posters, showcasing their hard work in the lab. Special congrats to B.Sc. student Jeffrey Killeen for landing the Best Poster Award! Great work everyone!

Students Noémie Frébault and Ivan Valette presented their posters at the 2024 Bio-Chemverse Annual Conference organised by the UQAM Biochemistry program, and both won the Best Poster Award . Well done to both of you!

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault has just received a double excellence scholarship for her hard work in her master's and doctoral studies by the CERMO-FC research center. Very well deserved, great work Noémie!

Yann Aghiles Chabi, Ph.D. student presented a fantastic poster at the C. elegans Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress and Small RNAs meeting (MAPSS) in Madison USA. Great work Yann!

Noémie Frébault, Ph.D. student gave a beautiful talk today at the Quebec Worm Meeting at the McGill University Health Center today on the functional study of an alternative protein encoded by the dual coding gene ZYX/zyx-1 with implications for dystrophinopathies . Well done!