Lab news

November 2023 - Lewis, Mathias, and Ossama present their work at SfN in Washington DC

November 2023 - Ciaran visited the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa to advocate for enhanced research funding in Canada

October 2023 - Spotlight on the ongoing work in our lab in Université de Montréal news (links in English and French)

October 2023 - Perspective article “A Conceptual Framework for Astrocyte Function” published in Nature Neuroscience (see publications)

April 2023 - Juliette Vaugeois was awarded CIHR Master’s fellowship

December 2022 - The lab’s first manuscript investigating the role of astrocytes in mediating the effects of early-life stress on amygdala-dependent behaviour is now online (see publications page)

December 2022 - Lewis Depaauw-Holt was awarded a prestigious Leadership fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine, U Montréal.

November 2022 - New perspective article from Ciaran, ChiNung Shing, and Thomas Papouin, discussing how and why astrocytes influence circuits and behaviour published in ArXiv (see publications page)

November 2022 - Ossama Ghenissa joins the lab, to start working on in vivo calcium imaging of astrocytes

November 2022 - Lewis Depaauw-Holt was awarded best presentation prize at the Dept. of Neuroscience research day

October 2022 - Juliette Vaugeois received a Bourse de Recruitement from the Dept. Neuroscience

July 2022 - The lab was awarded a 5-year CIHR project grant to study the effects of early-life stress on astrocytes

June 2022 - Lewis Depaauw-Holt receives a training fellowship (Bourse de Formation) from the CRCHUM

May 2022 - Ife, Manon, Lewis, and Ben present posters at the Canadian Association of Neuroscience 2022 in Toronto

April 2022 - Benjamin Rogers was awarded CIHR Master’s fellowship

December 2022 - The lab’s first manuscript investigating the role of astrocytes in mediating the effects of early-life stress on amygdala-dependent behaviour is now online (see publications page)

December 2022 - Lewis Depaauw-Holt was awarded a prestigiousnLeadership fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine, U Montréal.

November 2022 - New perspective article from Ciaran, ChiNung Shing, and Thomas Papouin, discussing how and why astrocytes influence circuits and behaviour (see publications page)

November 2022 - Ossama Ghenissa joins the lab, to start working on in vivo calcium imaging of astrocytes

November 2022 - Lewis Depaauw-Holt was awarded best presentation prize at the Dept. of Neuroscience research day

October 2022 - Juliette Vaugeois received a Bourse de Recruitement from the Dept. Neuroscience

July 2022 - The lab was awarded a 5-year CIHR project grant to study the effects of early-life stress on astrocytes

June 2022 - Lewis Depaauw-Holt receives a training fellowship (Bourse de Formation) from the CRCHUM

May 2022 - Ife, Manon, Lewis, and Ben present posters at the Canadian Association of Neuroscience 2022 in Toronto

April 2022 - Benjamin Rogers was awarded CIHR Master’s fellowship

September 2021 - Manon Duquenne, PhD joins the lab (co-mentored with Thierry Alquier)

July 2021 - Ben Rogers joins the lab

May 2021 - Ife & Lewis win poster prizes at 22nd CRCHUM Student Research day

April 2021 - Ifeoluwa Adedipe was awarded a CIHR Master’s fellowship

January 2021 - Anthony Bosson, PhD & Lewis Depaauw-Holt join the lab

October 2021 - Ifeoluwa Adedipe & Sarah Peyrard, TSA join the lab