Lab intern Sophia Almeida Ribeiro has just received an research initiation (STBIRC) scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec, encouraging her interest in Health sector research. What a great start to your journey, and congrats again from everyone in the lab!! 🎉🎉

The CERMO-FC's Félix-Antoine Aublet Research Scholarship aims to support research related to orphan diseases, and more specifically mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) which are a group of rare lysosomal storage disorders. For this edition, the scholarship was awarded to two students from two different labs: our own M.Sc. student Jeffrey Killeen and Ph.D. student Nathan Ghafari from Dr. Lekha Sleno's laboratory. Together, they will continue working on C. elegans models of MPS disease

Ph.D. student Marin Pascal has just been awarded a conference scholarship by the PROTEO network to cover part of his expenses for the 26th International Worm Meeting in Kobe! Congratulations Marin, and good luck in Japan!!

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault has delivered an outstanding talk about her project on mRNA decapping to start off this year's monthly virtual meetings, with beautiful slides and great answers to questions. Welcome back everyone, and very well done Noémie!!

Ph.D. student Ivan Valette has been selected to receive not one, but two prizes from the PRIE program to reward his student engagement: Personnality for 2nd & 3rd cycle students Personnality by excellence This program celebrates the remarkable commitment of the student community across various fields, ranging from academic perseverance and social innovation to culture, research, and entrepreneurship. Well done Ivan! 🥳

Ph.D. students Ivan Valette and Noémie Frébault have just learned that they have been chosen for funding by the NSERC Graduate Research Scholarship Doctoral program! Incredible news, congrats to both of these incredible students from all of the lab! 🎉🎉

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault has delivered a sharp, well-spoken presentation for her doctoral exam, marking another big step forward in her doctorate's degree. Great job Noémie!!

Ph.D. student Noémie Frébault has received a Quebec-France Sophie Germain 2026 mobility scholarship! This award is a partnership between FRQ and the Consulat Général de France à Québec, and was given to Noémie in order to support her upcoming internship with Thomas Boulin at the Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1. Fantastic Noémie, well done!

Ph.D. student Yann Aghiles Chabi gave a beautiful talk today at the UQAM Journée de la recherche en sciences, and was awarded Best Presentation of the day. Congrats Yann!

New B.Sc. intern Elisabeth Mouge has just received an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC for her internship with us this summer, giving precious help to Marin with his Ph.D. project. Congrats Elisabeth! 🎉