Lab news

November 2024

• Daniel Jimenez Correa joins the lab for a 6 month internship from Colombia, funded by Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program.

November 2024

• Ciaran visited Canadian Parliament as part of CAN Hill Day in Ottawa

October 2024

• The lab received funding from the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation to further our work on astrocytes in the lateral hypothalamus

September 2024

• New preprint from our lab on a project led by Lewis on lateral hypothalamic astrocytes and their regulation of orexin neuron activity in stress - see publications

August 2024

• Ossama was awarded a ‘Bourse de Merite’ from the Faculty of Medicine, U Montréal

May 2024

• Manon was awarded a Postdoctoral fellowship from the Fondation CHUM

• Juliette, Mathias, Manon, Ossama, and Lewis present their work at CAN in Vancouver

April 2024

• Manon and Lewis win best oral and poster presentations at the 6th neuroscience dept. research day

• Lewis was awarded an FRQS PhD fellowship

November 2023

• Lewis, Mathias, and Ossama present their work at SfN in Washington DC

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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