NEWS
February 10, 2020
Walters leaves us for Med School!
Walters has been accepted to Georgetown!!
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!
April 20, 2018
Hello and good bye 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!
April 05, 2018
Good luck to Celine
After nearly 2 years, Celine has completed her term with us. She has made excellent progress for us on several fronts. We wish her well in her next adventures!
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!
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 in her new adventure!
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!
June 01, 2017
Welcome Charlotte Baudouin!
New stagiaire from Belgium! Charlotte will explore TRAF6 and SOD1!
November 30, 2016
Review with Richard Robitaille and Danielle Arbour is now available online!
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June 06, 2016
Collaboration with Di Polo lab now online! And makes the cover of J Neuroscience!
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
And is the cover!
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/21.cover-expansion
June 04, 2016
Brian Parsons remembered
Brian Parsons, an amazing individual, advocate and ALS patient, passed away today.
He made his mark on Ottawa, on ALS Canada, and the Vande Velde lab.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/brian-parsons-als-advocate-dies-1.3617182
Our hearts go out to his family.
May 23, 2016
Yousra awarded Rare Disease Foundation Grant
Congratulations to Yousra for a Rare Disease Foundation Grant! Great job!
May 01, 2016
Myriam Gagne and Sophie Rolland join the lab!
Welcome to Myriam and Sophie!
And congrats to Myriam for winning U. Montreal recruitment award!!!
April 27, 2016
Our new paper is now online!
Sarah, Sabrina and Laurie's most recent paper is now online!
http://www.actaneurocomms.org/content/4/1/43
Congratulations Team!
March 02, 2016
Congratulations to Hadjara!
Hadjara has been awarded a Universite de Montreal Recruitment Award! Nice job!
January 05, 2016
Welcome new labbies!
Two new stagiaires (interns) joined the lab today! Myriam from Quebec city and Quentin from France!
Welcome! Now let's make some data!
November 19, 2015
The lab has recently obtained two grants from the ALS Canada/Brain Canada partnership!
The Arthur J. Hudson Translational Team Grant, cofunded by ALS Canada and Brain Canada will explore the role of TDP-43 in stress granules.
The Discovery Grant will examine different forms of misfolded SOD1.
We are excited to start these projects and are grateful to the funding partners and the community!
Your ice bucket dollars at work!
http://als.ca/en/news/awareness/als-canada-research-program-announcements
November 01, 2015
Guillaume has left the building
Guillaume has finished up his lab experiments and is off to write his MSc thesis! He will be missed.
October 07, 2015
Paper Accepted!
Read our most recent review on TDP-43 and FUS. Now available online at Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. Congrats Anais!
September 25, 2015
Andre Delambre symposium!
The Team made the trip up to Quebec City to listen to some amazing talks on current ALS research at the 11th Andre Delambre Symposium. And they presented a few posters too! Congrats to Yousra, Guillaume, Sabrina and Jade.
September 19, 2015
Vande Velde lab does the ALS Walk!
Members of the team headed out to Parc Maissoneuve to support the ALS Society of Quebec annual ALS walk. 40% of the funds raise support research!
September 11, 2015
Vande Velde Lab receives funding from ALS Canada
The lab was awarded a Bridge Grant from ALS Canada as part of a joint project with Avi Chakrabartty (U. Toronto). Thanks to the Ice Bucket Challenge and all donors for supporting ALS research!
August 03, 2015
Hadjara joins the team!
New Neurosciences MSc student.
July 31, 2015
Vande Velde Lab does the Ice Bucket Challenge 2015
We gathered with many today outside the Bell Center to kickoff the 2015 Ice Bucket Challenge!
Watch it here: http://globalnews.ca/news/2142299/every-august-until-a-cure-promises-als-quebec/
#everyaugustuntilacure
Make your donation to www.als.ca to help support patient services and research!
July 31, 2015
Au revoir to our summer students
Emeline Hamon (M1 student from France) and Sophie Rolland (BSc-honors undergrad) have finished up their very productive summers.
July 30, 2015
Dr Sarah Pickles has left the building
After a fabulous career, Sarah has graduated! She will pursue her postdoc at the NIH! She will be missed....
July 27, 2015
Congrats to Jade
Jade receives the Faculty of Medicine Recruitment Award.