Latest News
April 2024
CIS members gathered at the McTavish reservoir of McGill University to witness an uncommon total solar eclipse.
March 2024
Jasmine Phénix from Dr. Munter’s lab gave an oral presentation at the AD/PD 2024 Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases Conference on the topic of drug repurposing in preventing Alzheimer’s disease.
November 2023
Amanda Perozzo from Dr. Bowie’s lab successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on AMPA receptor regulation.
April 2023
Amanda Perozzo from Dr. Bowie’s lab published a paper in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Hedi Zhou (left) and Irem Ulku (right) from Dr. Multhaup’s lab gave oral presentations at the 17th annual Alzheimer's Disease/Parkinson's Disease (AD/PD) Conference in Sweden.
Irem Ulku received Junior Faculty Award.
Jasmine Phénix (left) and Ylauna Penalva (right) from Dr. Munter’s lab presented posters at the 17th annual Alzheimer's Disease/Parkinson's Disease (AD/PD) Conference in Sweden.
March 2023
Amanda Perozzo from Dr. Bowie’s lab successfully presented her Ph.D. Thesis Seminar.
ABIF hosted the Montreal Light Microscopy Course (MLMC) with 12 students, 5 companies and company participants featuring plant biology, cell biology and neuroscience.
February 2023
Isabel Sarty from Dr. Multhaup’s lab won a bronze medal at the U SPORTS national championships.
January 2023
Irem Ulku from Dr. Multhaup’s lab published a paper in Scientific Reports and received Junior Faculty Award from the 17th annual Alzheimer's Disease/Parkinson's Disease (AD/PD) Conference.
December 2022
Irem Ulku from Dr. Multhaup’s lab successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on Alzheimer Disease.
We celebrated the end of 2022 with a Winter Networking Event.
Thanks to Dr. Richard Robitaille for an inspiring talk on targeting glial cells at the neuromuscular junction as a potential ALS therapy.
October 2022
We were privileged to have Dr. Daniel Choquet from Bordeaux Neurocampus present as part of our seminar series. His research program focuses on the movement of neurotransmitter receptors in and out of synapses.
September 2022
CIS hosted its first ‘Careers in Science’ Seminar featuring Dr. Damien Bell from Sophion Bioscience. He was introduced by CIS trainee, Ylauna Penalva.
August 2022
The CIS trainee committee hosted our first 5 à 7 at Thomson House.
June 2022
We had our Summer BBQ with CIS trainees and profs as our first social event of the year.
May 2022
Some CIS affiliated labs attended the Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) Meeting in Toronto, Ontario where PIs and trainees presented their research.
Amanda Perozzo (PhD candidate from the Bowie lab) gave an oral presentation in a parallel symposium entitled “Alternative splicing in the health and disease of the mammalian brain”.
This is fun news from the Brown Lab/ABIF.
Check out Dr. Claire Brown’s interview on The Microscopists.
Congrats to PhD candidate, Ylauna Penalva, from the Munter lab who participated in the 3 minute thesis (3MT/MT180) McGill wide competition as a French presenter.
Ylauna won 1st prize on April 6th and went on to represent McGill at the national level at the ACFAS congress which was held on the 11th of May at ULaval. Against 18 presenters of universities across Canada, she won the 3rd prize for best presentation.
Congrats to the Orlowski lab on their recent publication in Science Advances.
We have a number of upcoming seminars this month. See the list of speakers here.
April 2022
Congrats to the Orlowski and McKinney labs on their review article in Frontiers in Physiology.
The new CIS website has officially launched!
The CIS website is under construction and will be live soon.