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