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!

All of our students, except Noémie (which delivered an outstanding talk) presented their beautiful posters at the 2024 Quebec Worm Meeting at the McGill University Health Center. Keep making our lab proud, great work everyone!!

Anna Caridys Ramírez Suárez, Ph.D. student has just been granted the prestigious Vanier CGS scholarship , awarded by the CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC to top doctoral students based on their academic excellence, research potential and leadership. The lab congratulates you and we are all very proud. You deserve it! 👏👏👏

B.Sc. student Jeffrey Killeen has just been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship by the UQAM Faculty of Sciences for his summer internship in our lab and his work on mucopolysaccharidosis disease mechanisms. Good job Jeffrey!!

Today Ph.D. students Marin Pascal and Ivan Valette delivered an outstanding presentation on their work on the molecular and cellular bases behind neuronal dysfunction in Hunter's syndrome and other MPS diseases, showcasing the work they have done thanks to the 2023 Félix-Antoine Aublet Scholarship . Very well done!!

Noémie Frébault, M.Sc. student gave a talk at the Montreal C. elegans Monthly Meeting about the functional study of the alternative...

Yann Aghiles Chabi, Ph.D. student and Ivan Valette Ph.D student won the Poster Prize at CERMO-FC Research Center Meeting 2023

Ph.D student gave a talk at the CERMO-FC Research Center Meeting about the long-term maintenance of neuronal architecture.

Excellence Scholarship for graduate studies, Anna Caridys Ramírez Suárez (2023) Excellence Scholarship for graduate studies, Noémie...

Martial-Nkamani-Afrique-subsaharienne scholarship and from la Fondation de l'UQAM, Ivan Valette Masters Scholarship from RBC Royal Bank...

FRQS Doctoral Scholarship, Ivan Valette (2023-2027) FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship, Marin Pascal (2023-2027)

Ph.D. student Marin Pascal has just received a four year doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies. Great news, well done Marin!!