Speaker: Siwei Chu

Speaker: Katherine Morelli

Speaker: Tim Gemeinhardt

Speakers: Alicia Dubinski and Dr. Pierre Bensidoun

Speakers: Dr. Pinaki Swain, Prof. Selena Sagan

Watch Rick Young’s keynote talk at the Biological Assemblies: Phase transitions and more symposium with your local MAPS community! Come for the talk, stay for the coffee, donuts and conversation.

Speakers: Peng A, Baljyot Parmar

Masters students Megan Couture (Weber Lab) and Alice Lambert (Duchaine Lab) invite you to the second annual MAPS symposium. Funded by the American Society for Cell Biology, the symposium will feature talks and posters from local students and postdocs. Register at Eventbrite and submit your abstract here!

Update: The event is now sold out.

Talks and posters by local trainees

Keynote Speaker: Eric Shoubridge, McGill University

Register here!

Phase separated proteins at work in endocytosis

Louis-Philippe Bergeron-Sandoval

Michnick lab

Université de Montréal

TDP-43 mediated regulation of the Stress Granule assembly factor G3BP1

Hadjara Sidibé 

Vande Velde lab

CHUM, Université de Montréal

Stress granules counteract senescence by sequestration of PAI-1

Amr Omer

Gallouzi lab

McGill University

Staufen1 puts some order into disorder: HIV-1 NC-induced stress granule assembly and translation arrest are inhibited by the dsRNA binding protein Staufen1

Shringar Rao

Mouland lab

McGill University

The impact of airborne pollutants on phase behaviour and structure of lung surfactant membranes.

Shirin Behyan

DeWolf lab

Concordia University

Oxidized RNA localizes to cytoplasmic foci in diverse organisms

James Dhaliwal

Zerges lab

Concordia University

Spatial organization in bacterial cells

Steph Weber

Weber lab

McGill University