Biology
Sherif Abou Elela, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Infectiology
Targets and function of H/ACA box small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) in cancer.
François Bachand, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics
Molecular mechanisms by which RNA-binding proteins promote specialized functions in healthy and diseased cells.
Brendan Bell, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Infectiology
Mechanisms of cell death induction in cancer by the transcription factor TAF6δ.
Martin Bisaillon, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics
Parameters of ligand binding to viral enzymes involved in messenger RNA synthesis and maturation in cancer.
Marie-Josée Boucher, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the proliferation, survival and transformation of pancreatic epithelial cells.
François Boudreau, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Molecular mechanisms regulating the transcription of genes involved in the maintenance of intestinal epithelium, the development of intestinal cancers and inflammatory disorders.
Benoit Chabot, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Infectiology
Fundamental molecular mechanisms governing alternative splicing, reprogramming of alternative splicing profiles, and functional genomics.
Antonio Conconi, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Infectiology
Genome damage and repair, and the importance of genome stability in preventing oncogenesis.
Jean-Bernard Denault, PhD
Department of Pharmacology-Physiology
Mechanisms guiding caspase activation and regulation during apoptosis in cancer.
Claire Dubois, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Involvement of proprotein convertases in the hypoxic response related to inflammation and the process of tumour angiogenesis.
Nancy Dumais, PhD
Department of Biology
Cell signaling and infectious and immune diseases, immunological mediators (cytokines and chemokines).
Luc R. Gaudreau, PhD
Department of Biology
Mechanisms of gene activation and chromatin remodeling.
Fernand-Pierre Gendron, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Roles of G protein-coupled P2Y receptors and the ionotropic P2X7 receptor in intestinal epithelium functions in gastrointestinal diseases and colorectal cancer.
Nicolas Gévry, PhD
Department of Biology
Molecular mechanisms governing nuclear receptor-dependent gene expression in cancer.
Véronique Giroux, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Esophageal epithelium homeostasis, gastrointestinal cancer and stem cells.Subburaj Ilangumaran, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Cytokine-mediated modulation of CD8 T cell responses in antitumour immunity, and role of SOCS1 in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Steve Jean, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Cell signalling, autophagy, molecular genetics, and cell signalling in cancer.Manuel Lafond, PhD
Department of Computer Science
Bioinformatics, algorithms, evolution (species, genes, tumours), graph theory, clustering.Daniel Lafontaine, PhD
Department of Biology
Mechanisms involved in the formation of tertiary structures adopted by macromolecules (RNA catalysis, ribozymes, RNA structure, thermodynamics).
Alexandre Maréchal, PhD
Department of Biology
Molecular mechanisms for maintaining the stability of the human genome contributing to oncogenesis and the emergence of treatment resistance (replication stress, mutation accumulation, ubiquitination machinery).Aïda Ouangraoua, PhD
Department of Computer Science
Models and algorithms for the analysis of gene-splicing structure, RNA structure and evolutionary reconstruction (bioinformatics).Benoit Paquette, PhD
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology
Breast cancer, brain tumours, carcinogenesis, cancer cell therapy, radiotherapy, digestive tract cancer, stem cells and organogenesis.Jean-Luc Parent, PhD
Department of Medicine
Cancer, immunological mediators (cytokines and chemokines), endocytosis, G protein–coupled receptors, inflammation, protein interaction, receptor, recycling, signalling, trafficking.Jean-Pierre Perreault, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics
RNA structure–function relationship, translational regulation, RNA motifs, G-quadruplexes, ribozymes and viroids, transcriptome.
Nathalie Perreault, PhD
Department of Immunology and Cellular Biology
Mechanisms involved in signalling between intestinal mesenchyme and epithelium in inflammatory bowel disease and tumorigenesis.