The Bioscientifica Proceedings 3rd International Symposium on Embryonic Diapause was held in Ascona Switzerland in June of 2019. The proceedings, entitled: Pregnancy in Waiting: Embryonic Diapause in Mammals can now be found online at http://www.biosciproceedings.org/bp/0010/.
Semex is looking for a highly qualified candidate to join their R&D team to develop new antibodies. The candidate must have experience in antibodies research, for example:
The candidate may be a PhD student with the interest of pursuing a 2-year industrial postdoc or a young professional with research experience in the field who would like to know more about applied research with industry.
Place: Semex/Boviteq research laboratories in St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada.
Start date: Immediatly
For more information or to submit your application, please contact Dr. Patrick Blondin at pblondin@boviteq.com.
Semex, a dynamic global organization that is committed to developing and delivering innovative genetic solutions, is looking for a Data Scientist to join its genomics research and innovation team located in Guelph, ON.
This role will be responsible for collaborating with their passionate team members from their R&I and IT teams to design and maintain the data infrastructure and management platform for their semen and embryo research in Ontario and Quebec.
More details here.
Dr. Susanne Ulbrich, from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, in Zurich, Switzerland, will give a talk entitled “Embryonic Diapause in Roe Deer – Pluripotent stem cells placed on hold” on January 22th, 2020 at 2pm in room 2108 at the Faculty of veterinary medicine.
Welcome to everyone!
As part of the 11th WiP held on December 3rd, students had fun creating original Christmas cards for their director! A friendly competition ensued and the big winner was Rafael Sampaio, from the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Smith (1st image)! Congratulations for your originality and your “creation skills”!
The 11th CRRF WiP will be held on Tuesday December 3 at 1pm at the Faculty of veterinary medicine in St-Hyacinthe. While researchers attend the Members Assembly, students and lab staff will have a presentation by Dr. Maajid Hassam Bhat, a postdoctoral fellow at SEMEX in St-Hyacinthe, entitled: Cryopreservation: survival of the frozen.
Students who will then present are Nicolas Barbeau-Grégoire (Jocelyn Dubuc), Karla Elena Herrera-Hidalgo (Mouhamadou Diaw), Lia Paim (Greg FitzHarris), Esdras Corrêa dos Santos (Gustavo Zamberlam) and Loïze Maréchal (André Tremblay).
Dr. Greg FitzHarris (Director of CRRF) and his team at CRCHUM have recently published a study in Nature Communications on the mechanism likely responsible for the low pregnancy success rate in some fertility clinics.
The Université de Montréal has written an article on this fascinating study. Click here to consult it!
Dr. Jianjun Sun, from University of Connecticut, will give a talk entitled “Probing the ovulation mechanism and developing new contraceptives using Drosophila” on October 30th, 2019 at 2pm in room 2115 at the Faculty of veterinary medicine.
Welcome to everyone!
Congratulations to Nour Abou Nader, from Boyer’s lab, and to Virginie Gaudreault, from Girard’s lab, who have been awarded the 5,000 $ scholarship of the CRRF Bourses d’excellence competition.
This competition was addressed to CRRF students at any career stage. It aims to reward excellent trainees, and help them to develop their CVs for larger extra-mural fellowships and awards. Whilst all trainees are entitled to apply, preference will be given to candidates who have not yet been awarded a full salary/fellowship (eg FRQS, NSERC, CIHR), but who plan to do so in the future.
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce D. Murphy for obtaining a major CIHR grant of $ 940,950 in the Spring 2019 competition. With this grant, Dr. Murphy and his team will study the role of orphan nuclear receptors in woman infertility, including receptors known as Sf-1 and Lrh-1. The results of this study will provide the needed datas to develop precision reproductive medicine techniques and targeted therapeutic treatments.
