May 5, 2025
Arash joins the lab for his summer internship.
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May 1, 2025
Carolane is back to the lab for another summer internship.
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March 6, 2025
Arpita joins the CVV lab for her Ph.D in biochemistry. Welcome Arpita!
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December 6, 2024
The team attended the ALS/MND Research Symposium in Montreal and presented posters.
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December 4, 2024
Mariam’s poster was selected as a finalist at the André Delambre Research Symposium. Congratulations!
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December 4, 2024
The team attended the the André Delambre Research Symposium in Montreal and presented posters.
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July 30, 2024
Mariam awarded the ALS Canada foundation Trainee award!
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May 27, 2024
Andréanne and Mariam were awarded the Bourse de Formation du CRCHUM… Good job!
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January 8, 2024
Andréanne is back to the lab for her MS.C in biochemistry. Welcome back!
July 2023
Alicia wins the first prize for the best poster at the Gordon Research Conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Congratulations!!!
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January 9, 2023
Mariam joins the team to start her Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Good luck!
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October 05, 2020
Hana joins the CVV crew!
Welcome to our new postdoc Hana!
February 10, 2020
Walters leaves us for Med School!
Walters has been accepted to Georgetown!!
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November 04, 2019
Asmita joins the team!
Excited to have Asmita join the team! Welcome!
July 29, 2019
Sabrina and Yousra - end of an era!
Sabrina and Yousra have both graduated and moved on to exciting new opportunities! They are dearly missed.
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April 20, 2018
Hello and goodbye to Cloe
We welcomed Cloe Fontaine-Carbonneau into the lab for a 4-month stage. She did an excellent job and we are sorry to see her go. Hope she comes back to visit us again!
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April 05, 2018
Good luck to Celine
After nearly 2 years, Celine has completed her term with us. She made excellent progress on several fronts. We wish her well in her next adventures!
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January 05, 2018
Laurie has left the building – again!
Laurie popped in for an extended visit and spent 4 lovely weeks with the team! We are sorry to see her go again but wait patiently for her next return!
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June 06, 2017
Laurie has left the building
After 8 amazing years as a research assistant extraordinaire, Laurie has left for a new adventure in Panama! She will be deeply missed. Best of luck to her!
June 01, 2017
Jade joins the team as research assistant!
Jade, who recently submitted her MSc, will continue with the lab as our new research assistant!
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June 01, 2017
Welcome Charlotte Baudouin!
New stagiaire from Belgium! Charlotte will explore TRAF6 and SOD1!
November 30, 2016
ALS Patient Information Day
CRCHUM ALS Researchers and Clinicians hosted an ALS Patient Day on September 21. Videos of the presentations can be found here, here and here.
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November 30, 2016
Review with Richard Robitaille and Danielle Arbour is now available online!
Read our latest review article online.
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June 06, 2016
Collaboration with Di Polo lab now online – and on the cover of J. Neuroscience!
Our paper is now live online:
Tau Accumulation, Altered Phosphorylation, and Missorting Promote Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma.
Chiasseu M, Cueva Vargas JL, Destroismaisons L, Vande Velde C, Leclerc N, Di Polo A.
J Neurosci. 2016 May 25;36(21):5785–98. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3986-15.2016.
PMID: 27225768
June 04, 2016
Brian Parsons remembered
Brian Parsons, an amazing individual, advocate and ALS patient, passed away today.
Our hearts go out to his family.
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May 23, 2016
Yousra awarded Rare Disease Foundation Grant
Congratulations to Yousra for receiving a Rare Disease Foundation Grant! Great job!
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May 01, 2016
Myriam Gagné and Sophie Rolland join the lab!
Welcome to Myriam and Sophie!
Congrats to Myriam for winning the U. Montreal recruitment award!
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April 27, 2016
Our new paper is now online!
Sarah, Sabrina and Laurie’s most recent paper is now online:
Congratulations, team!
​November 01, 2015
Guillaume has left the building
Guillaume has finished his lab experiments and is off to write his MSc thesis. He will be missed.
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October 07, 2015
Paper Accepted!
Our latest review on TDP-43 and FUS is now available at Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. Congrats Anais!
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September 25, 2015
André Delambre Symposium
The team attended the 11th André Delambre Symposium in Quebec City and presented posters.
Congrats to Yousra, Guillaume, Sabrina, and Jade.
September 19, 2015
Vande Velde lab does the ALS Walk!
Team members joined the ALS Society of Quebec’s annual walk at Parc Maisonneuve. 40% of the funds raised support research!
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September 11, 2015
Vande Velde Lab receives funding from ALS Canada
The lab was awarded a Bridge Grant in collaboration with Avi Chakrabartty (U. Toronto). Thanks to Ice Bucket Challenge donors!
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August 03, 2015
Hadjara joins the team!
Welcome to our new MSc Neurosciences student!
July 31, 2015
Vande Velde Lab does the Ice Bucket Challenge 2015
We joined others outside the Bell Centre to kick off the 2015 challenge.
Make your donation to www.als.ca
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July 31, 2015
Au revoir to our summer students
Emeline Hamon and Sophie Rolland have finished up their very productive summers.
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July 30, 2015
Dr. Sarah Pickles has left the building
After a fabulous career, Sarah has graduated and will begin her postdoc at the NIH. She will be missed.
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July 27, 2015
Congrats to Jade
Jade receives the Faculty of Medicine Recruitment Award. Well done!