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.
Game night to celebrate scholarships and grants
Weber Lab cleaned up on recent scholarship and grant competitions! Congratulations to all awardees. More details coming soon…
Brendon and Lucas present at Department Day
Congratulations to both QLS students on their exciting talks!
Peng presents at a workshop in Barbados!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Peng A on a great talk in a very unusual setting.
Thanks to Jackie for organizing, and Sean for moderating!
First Weber Lab Retreat!
Back from a fun and exciting weekend at Gault Nature Reserve, where we cooked, hiked, and discussed plans for upcoming manuscripts. Special thanks to Sara, Lucas, and Brendon for coordinating food, and to Shadi for spending her birthday with the lab.
Laeya presents a poster at the MCDB retreat
Congratulations to postdoc Laeya for sharing her work with our Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology friends!
Weber Lab celebrates Another year (with chocolate)
2022 was a year of big transitions: back to in-person conferences; over the tenure bar; new model organisms! Can’t wait to see what 2023 brings.
First Weber Lab potluck is a (delicious) success!
We each cooked something traditional from our home countries and shared a meal together. So much fun to discover new foods 😋
Weber Lab students rock their Biophysics and Works In Progress seminars!
Congratulations to PhD students Brendon McGuinness, Peng A, and Shadi Rajab on their excellent presentations! Proud PI 😁
