Wow! What a chance we had to live this amazing moment on April 8 2024: a total eclipse of the sun. For just above 3 minutes, it was complete obscurity...
A surprise for Francois’ 50th birthday
The lab, friends, and family all coordinated a surprise dinner for Francois’ 50th birthday on January 9, 2024. Let’s say that Francois was...
Bachand lab goes Curling
The department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics organized a curling activity before the holiday break. Anne-Marie (not in picture), Zabih, Nouh...
Bachand lab holiday party and ping pong tournament
Happy holidays! Lots of fun at the annual Bachand lab holiday party: great food, a nice punch, and an exciting secret Santa. Also this year, a very co...
Best Presentation Award to Zabih
During the latest RiboClub annual meeting in Orford, Zabih Mir Hassani received a prize for the best student presentation at the master (M.Sc.) level ...
Visit from Francois’ PhD advisor in Sherbrooke
On October 5th 2023, it was a pleasure to have Dr Chantal Autexier in Sherbrooke for a seminar presenting exciting new studies on the human telomerase...
New Publication from Bachand lab
Anne-Marie Landry-Voyer and Zabih Mir Hassani recently co-authored a review article in Biomolecules discussing the complex protein interaction network...
Team “Professors” win again!
Congratulations to François and his team of professors for yet another win against the team of graduate students. This year, team Professors had a ve...
Congratulations Max! Publication & M.Sc. degree!
All the lab would like to congratulate Maxime Duval for receiving his Master degree in Biochemistry and Functional Genomics. Furthermore, Maxime’...
New publication on regulation of intron retention
New work from the Bachand lab shows that the nuclear poly(A)-binding protein PABPN1 stimulates coupling between polyadenylation and terminal intron sp...