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Image: Jorge Luna Herrera / Worm micrograph: Ian Chin-Sang

Hi! We study the neurobiology and behaviour of a small roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans. Our lab is in the Department of Biology at McGill University in Montreal. 

Lab news

27 May 2022
Welcome to the lab PhD student Maggie Chang!

27 May 2022

Hannah passed her candidacy exam! 

28 April 2022
Sebastian passed his candidacy exam!

20 February 2022
Welcome to Arielle Freedman, visiting MSc student from the Rechavi Lab at Tel Aviv University!

1 September 2021
Welcome to Leily Kashkooli, our new lab manager!

30 April 2021
Lilly Guisnet has been awarded FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship... congrats Lilly!!!!

11 January 2021
Lilly's paper on how to grow C. elegans on modified fruit tissue is out! 
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245139

5 January 2021
A virtual welcome to new PhD student Nour Halaby! We hope Nour can join us soon! 

1 September 2020
Welcome to two new MSc students, Hannah Owens and Sebastian Wittekindt!

18 June 2020
The lab has been award an NSERC Discovery Grant and an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement. 
https://youtu.be/ewRjZoRtu0Y?t=56

1 May 2020
Sreeparna Pradhan successfully defended her PhD thesis today...congrats Sreeparna!

26 April 2020
Michael gave a talk in the pandemic-inspired Virtual Worm seminar series. Check it out below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7eAR62iFlw

9 September 2019
Sreeparna's paper is out! "Environmental Programming of Adult Foraging Behavior in C. elegans."  
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30925-X

3 September 2018
Welcome new PhD student Jorge Luna-Herrera!

6 June 2019
Congrats to Rachel, our long-term visitor from the Rechavi Lab, on her paper on small RNA inheritance and behavior.
 
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(19)30448-9.pdf

20 November 2018
Marie-Helene's paper is published in eNeuro. 
http://www.eneuro.org/content/5/6/ENEURO.0121-18.2018

31 October 2018
The lab's domination of the Biology Department annual pumpkin carving contest continues with another 1st place finish!​
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​6 September 2018
A new preprint is on bioRxiv.
Desrochers et al. "
Asymmetric adaptation reveals functional lateralization for graded versus discrete stimuli"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/06/411033

3 September 2018
Welcome new lab members!
Fouley Tirera - PhD student
Georgiana Forguson - MSc student
Lily Guisnet - MSc student


​26 August 2018
A new preprint is on bioRxiv.
Pradhan et al. "Environmental programming of adult foraging behavior in C. elegans"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/26/400754

31 March 2018
Read our preprint on bioRxiv.
Ouellette et al. "A gate-and-switch model for head orientation behaviors in C. elegans" 

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/03/28/291005

24 January 2018
The lab has been awarded a CIHR Project Grant! 
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