Lab News
Khaoula’s departure and Simon’s birthday
We said farewell to Khaoula by returning to the Escaparium, followed by a nice restaurant dinner. A few days later, we celebrated Simon’s birthday over a delicious breakfast at Ben & Florentine.
Undergraduate Scientific Day
Marie-Lee, Khaoula and Alexia presented a poster at the FMSS Journée scientifique du 1er cycle (Undergraduate Scientific Day). Mathia stopped by to encourage them, and several of our graduate students contributed as poster judges.
September 2024: Shawn’s arrival and Isabela’s departure
Shawn is beginning an M.Sc. in Biochemistry. We took advantage of a lab outing to Pura Vida to celebrate his arrival and to say goodbye to Isabela after a successful internship!
June 2024: Arrival of Isabela and Alexia
Welcome to our new summer interns! Isabela, who is studying in biological sciences in Brazil, will spend a few months in our lab through the Mitacs Globalink research internship program. Alexia, a student at Bishop’s University, is doing an internship in Prof. Benoit Laurent’s lab and is co-supervised by Karine.
Journée Pivot 2024
Ibrahim, Louis-Philippe, Téa, Mathia and Simon presented a poster on their projects.
Congratulations to Mathia, who won the best poster award at the undergraduate level!
May 2024: Marie-Lee and Khaoula’s arrival
Welcome to our summer interns Marie-Lee and Khaoula! Marie-Lee is doing her first COOP internship, while Khaoula is completing an internship for the end of her degree in Biotechnological Engineering.
April 2024: Simon’s arrival and lab outing
Simon begins his M.Sc. in Biochemistry under the co-supervision of Prof. François Bachand. To celebrate his arrival and the end of Mathia and Téa’s internships, we went to the Escaparium and managed to escape with a few seconds to spare! We then grabbed a drink at Siboire.
January 2024: Arrival of Ibrahim, Salomé, Téa and Mathia
Ibrahim begins his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, while Salomé is starting her M.Sc. in Biochemistry under the co-supervision of Prof. Benoit Laurent. Téa and Mathia are doing their first COOP internship for their B.Sc. To celebrate their arrival, we all went to Ben & Florentine for brunch!
September 2023: Arrival of the lab’s first students
Louis-Philippe Chaumont begins his M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Charles Truax is doing a COOP internship for his B.Sc. in Mathematics. Both are co-supervised by Pr. Michelle Scott and will be working on the interplay between pre-mRNA alternative splicing and snoRNA maturation. Welcome Louis-Philippe and Charles!
August 2023: opening of the lab!
The Choquet lab opens its doors in the Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics at Université de Sherbrooke.
