Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series

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Launch of the 5th edition

 

In 2021, the IRCM launched its Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series, an innovative initiative that aims to celebrate rising stars within the international research community, and give them a platform to network and showcase their discoveries at a turning point of their professional journey. 

For four years now, this prestigious program has offered postdoctoral fellows and other early-career scientists from around the world the opportunity to travel to Montreal to give a seminar about their research work and meet with the multidisciplinary scientific community of the IRCM, during a two-day visit.

So far, the series has welcomed 20 exceptional speakers. The call for applications is now open for the 5th edition, which promises to be most exciting.




''Getting invited to present my work at the IRCM Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series was an exciting and truly enriching experience. To connect with researchers at IRCM, learn about their fantastic work and exchange ideas left a lasting impression on me. Sharing my own research at the IRCM reaffirmed the value of what I do as a scientist!''


Dr Johannes Schlachetzki
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California San Diego since 2024

Previous editions

2024-2025

Ashley Libby, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Francis Crick Institute 
London, United Kingdom

CRISPy Chickens - Genetically coordinated cell fate transitions in neural tube development

 

Claudia Gentile, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Boston, MA, USA

Phosphorylation-dependent targeting and activity of cBAF chromatin remodeling complexes promotes oncogenic kinase signaling in cancer

 

Juan Inclan-Rico, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Veterinary Medicine 
University of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, PA, USA

“Listen to your nerves”: Itch-inducing neurons distinctly modulate skin immunity

 

Khalid N. Al-Zahrani, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Molecular and Systems Biology
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Toronto, ON, Canada

Decoding aneuploidy in breast cancer

 

Marie-Anne Goyette, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA

Functional screening of novel HER2 heterogenous breast cancer model

 

Rony Chidiac, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC, Canada

Mechanisms of endothelial regeneration and vascular repair: Application to regenerative medicine

 

2023-2024

Benjamin Martin, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Compensation fonctionnelle dans le remodelage de la chromatine et la régulation de la transcription

 

Ana Uzquiano López, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA

Brain organoids: the quest to crack human cortical development and disease

 

Mingqi Han, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Spatial and temporal mapping of mitochondrial networks and bioenergetics in lung cancer

 

Lukas Tamayo Orrego, PhD

Research Fellow

MRC Human Genetics Unit
Institute of Genetics and Cancer
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Using Genetics to Understand the Vertebrate Replisome

 

2022-2023

Simon Chamberland, PhD

Pathway to Independence Fellow

New York University School of Medicine
NYU Neuroscience Institute
New York, NY, USA

Inhibitory mechanisms and circuits in the hippocampus

 

Jose Adrover Montemayor, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA

A vascular-restricted, tumor-induced neutrophil population drives vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis

 

Johannes Schlachetzki, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow / Assistant Project Scientist

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA

Epigenetic regulation of microglia in neurodegenerative diseases

 

Jumana AlHaj Abed, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Investigating how parental chromosomes organization shapes gene function

 

2021-2022

Dheva Setiaputra, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

53BP1 et BRCA1: mechanisms driving two antagonistic DNA repair pathways

 

Rasim Barutcu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

Systematic mapping of nuclear domain-associated transcripts

Ahilya Sawh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Biozentrum
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Conformational acrobatics of entire chromosomes during development

 

Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Infectious Disease Division
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Development of lipid-based delivery systems for mRNA vaccines and therapeutics – The future is brighter

 

Ramón A. Piñol, PhD

Staff Scientist

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Preoptic BRS3 neurons increase body temperature and heart rate via multiple pathways

 

Mehmet Neşet Özel, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Biology
New York University
New York, NY, USA

Coordinated control of neuronal differentiation and wiring specificity by a sustained code of transcription factors

 

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Contact for ECS3 events: Christine Matte
Christine.Matte@ircm.qc.ca

 

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