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  HENDRICKS LAB | MCGILL BIOLOGY
Welcome!

​We study the neurobiology and behaviour of a small roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans. ​Why study worms? Sometimes complex questions need to be broken down into simpler cases. Reductionism is not sufficient on its own, but it is necessary for fundamental understanding, and it works because all animals are built out of the same basic components. C. elegans develop quickly and reproduce clonally, and they are the only animal with a completely mapped nervous system. Thus, we can perform experiments using genetically and anatomically identical animals, allowing us to ask detailed questions about the genetic and environmental factors that cause changes in brain function and behaviour. Many key features of animal neurobiology were first discovered in organisms like worms, flies, slugs, and squid. ​Our understanding of human health and disease is continuously built on fundamental biological discoveries like these.


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​Department of Biology
McGill University
Stewart Biology N5/12
1205 av du Docteur-Penfield
Montreal, QC  H3A 1B1
Lab news
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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