Congratulations to Ryo Fujita and Solene Jamet of our laboratory, who have both received training awards from the McGill Regenerative Medicine Network to attend the upcoming Till and McCulloch Meetings in Montreal.

Our new publication improving on our methods to expand muscle stem cells ex vivo is published online at Regenerative Medicine Frontiers. Ex vivo expansion of adult stem cells have implications for cell based therapies, tissue modelling, screening compounds and genome editing.

We have a post-doctoral fellow position available in our laboratory to study molecular mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions between cardiovascular lineage and head muscle lineage in the developing embryo. This is an exciting opportunity that will take advantage of state of the art technologies in proteomics, genomics, genetics and pluripotent stem cells. Interested candidates should send a CV, names and contact information for 3 references and PDF copies of your recent publications.

We are delighted to have been awarded the ‘Programme bilatéral de recherche collaborative Québec – Communauté française de Belgique‘ 3-year research grant. We will collaborate with Professor Guillaume Bourque (Genome Quebec, McGill University) and Professor Cédric Blanpain (Université Libre de Bruxelles) to better understand how multipotent progenitors choose between cardiovascular lineages (Blanpain group) and head muscle lineages (Crist group) in the developing mouse embryo and in pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells. Implications for both the natural and health sciences! Positions available, please contact me for information.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryo Fujita, PDF, who has won a Lucie B. Bessner travel award from the McGill Regenerative Medicine Network. Ryo will be attending the Frontiers in Myogenesis Meeting in Costa Rica this September! Bravo Ryo!