The Dr. Isabelle Plante’s laboratory (INRS-Centre Armand Frappier Santé technologie) is looking for a MSc or PhD student in environmental carcinogenesis.
The title of the project is: “Exposure to brominated flame retardants during sensitive periods of development: an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers?”
Start date: January 2020
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r. Julie Brind’Amour from the University of British Colombia will give a seminar entitled « Interplay between transcription, histone modifications and DNA methylation during oogenesis and development » on July, Monday 8th, 12 PM, room 0448 – Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire in St-Hyacinthe.
Her seminar will be broadcast via the GoToWebinar system.
To view the conference please register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information to audit the seminar.
To print the poster, click HERE
Lactanet Canada is a producer-led organization, providing innovative dairy herd management and genetic services to more than 10,000 dairy farm customers and professional advisors throughout the country. Lactanet is looking for a National Genetics Research Leader. If you are interested, please send your cover letter and resumé by email with the subject line ‘’National Genetics Research Leader – ON” to careers@lactanet.ca
More details, HERE
To consult the May RQR newsletter, go on the Bulletins page on the RQR website or click here.
On April 11th, the CRRF held its 9th Work in Progress at the Ste-Justine Universitary Hospital Center in Montreal. Dr. Sylvie Girard and Dr. Christopher Price presented their work in progress with their students. Thus, Virginie Gaudreault and Cyntia Duval, students of Dr. Girard presented respectively:
• High Mobility Group Box 1 (HMGB1) has an endogenous mediator of inflammation in preovulatory follicles and at the maternal-fetal interface
• Altered transcriptome profiles in placentas from complicated pregnancies and the impact on the maternal immune cells
Then, Lauriane Relav from Dr. Christopher Price’s lab spoke about:
• Dual specificity phosphatases (DUSPs) in the ovary: role and regulation by growth factors / Dual specificity phosphatases (DUSPs) in the ovary: role and regulation by growth factors
Thank you all for your participation !
As part of the 24 hours of science event, Science pour tous is offering several competitions, including a science journalism competition – Plume de science, open in 3 categories: 11-13 years old, 14-17 years old and adults. Everyone is invited to participate. Write a short article on a scientific subject accompanied by an image. Indicate your last name, first name, date of birth and category. Mail it all to : 24heures@sciencepourtous.qc.ca
Deadline to apply: May 19
Details and rules, HERE
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal offers three courses in Veterinary Public Health in the summer semester 2019. These courses are aimed at professionals wishing to perfect their knowledge in a specific field as well as professionals and students wishing practice veterinary public health.
Details and registration, HERE
The 8th CRRF “Work in Progress” took place on December 12 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at St-Hyacinthe. The presentation of Dr. Boeroboon’s laboratory began in the afternoon. Guillaume St-Jean gave a presentation on:Deletion of lats1/2 commits mullerian mesenchymal cells to the myofibroblast cell fate followed by that of Philippe Godin entitled: Roles of signaling pathways developing Hippo and Slit-Robo in the ovarian physiology of mice. The meeting ended with the presentation of Dr. McGraw’s laboratory with the successive presentations of three students. Karine Doiron: Impact of pathogenic DNMT3A mutations on the specification and programming of the cell line in Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome. Lisa-Marie Legault: Disruption of DNA Methylation after Preimplantation Alcohol Exposure and Consequences on Cognitive Function and Elizabeth Elder: Recovery of Epigenetic Deregulation of Printed Genes in Embryonic Cells by CRISPR Epigenome Editing. Thank you for your participation!.
Thank you for your participation!
Dr Simon Turcotte’s lab is looking for a master’s student who is interested in cancer immunology. The main goal of his team is to determinate how immunotherapy, which involves manipulating the immune system to eliminate cancer, could be effective in treating patients with melanoma or metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) refractory to standard treatments. More information (in french), HERE
Start date : january 2019
