Congratulations to PhD student Lucas Philipp, who used Hi-C data to reconstruct 3D polymer conformations of dinoflagellate chromosomes. Check out his preprint on bioRxiv!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634729v1
Baljyot graduates, Peng defends!
Big week in the Weber lab. Congratulations to Baljyot for receiving his diploma, and Peng for defending his thesis! Thank you both for all of your hard work, and good luck on your next adventure!
Peng delivers a fantastic PhD seminar
PhD student Peng A presents his thesis work to the department!
Brendon's preprint goes live on bioRxiv!
Congratulations to PhD student Brendon McGuinness, who used numerical simulations to explore the impact of intracellular constraints on the structure of microbial communities
Laeya talks to Radio-Canada about her research
Postdoc Laeya Baldini joined Moteur de recherche to discuss her work on changes in nucleolar structure during aging in C. elegans! You can listen to her interview here.
Laeya, Steph, and Sara present at EMBL
Team Worm takes over Heidelberg with two posters and a talk
Lucas attends meeting at Cold Spring Harbor
Congratulations to PhD student Lucas Philipp for presenting a poster at the CSHL meeting on Genome Organization and Nuclear Function!
Brendon presents at Department Day
Congratulations to PhD student Brendon McGuinness for giving a talk on his project at (Biology) Department Day!
Peng and Laeya present at the MCDB retreat
Congratulations to PhD student Peng A and postdoc Laeya Baldini for presenting their work at the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology retreat!
Steph visits Zürich
Steph is spending part of her sabbatical working in Yves Barral’s lab at ETH. In addition to exploring the Swiss Alps, she’ll be studying regulation of ribosome biogenesis in budding yeast.
Congratulations to Master Rajab!
Shadi successfully completed her MSc, and we decorated cookies to celebrate. Congratulations, Shadi! Thank you for all of your hard work, and best of luck!
Lucas is going to Stanford!
Congratulations to PhD student Lucas Philipp for earning a Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement from NSERC.
This award will allow him to travel to Stanford, to work with Aaron Straight, applying state-of-the-art genomic techniques to dinoflagellates!!
Lydia earns first place in the QLS 3MT competition!
Congratulations to PhD student Lydia Hodgins for a fantastic 3-minute talk on her rotation project!
Weber Lab celebrates 2023
It’s hard to replace a tradition. With Juliette et Chocolat closed, we’ll have to keep trying different chocolate shops across the city…
Lucas rocks his CRBS talk
Congratulations to PhD student Lucas Philipp for presenting his work on chromosome organization in dinoflagellates! Are they really cholesteric liquid crystals??
Peng gives a fantastic talk at CRBS
Congratulations to PhD student Peng A for presenting his work on nucleolar structure and function during C. elegans larval development!
Sara and Laeya attend the International C. elegans Conference
Congratulations to MSc student Sara on presenting a poster at her first international meeting, and to postdoc Laeya (not pictured) for sharing her work on nucleolar morphology in aging worms!
Successful workshop on HiC data analysis
Thanks to PhD student Lucas Philipp for teaching us how to plot P(s) curves and visualize chromosome architecture. These analysis tools will be important for understanding genome organization in dinoflagellates!
Weber Lab kicks off a series of summer workshops
First step complete! Each lab member now has a Github account and some practice with version control. Great to see the lab sharing expertise and helping each other out.
Next up - making our analysis pipelines accessible and reproducible across platforms.
Weber Lab goes green!
After a thorough assessment of our equipment, practices, and products, our lab was certified Silver by the @My_Green_Lab Certification program. Big shout-out to Peng for leading the charge for sustainability!
If you’d like to join us, check out the my green lab program here or read the feature in the McGill Reporter.
