Dr. Wayne Sossin, Professor at The Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, has been awarded a grant through the Azrieli Science Grants Program as principal investigator for a research project titled “Determining how stalled polysomes are generated for transport in RNA granules and regulated local translation”.

My name is Ksenia Zaytseva and I am a Data Architect within the Data Team at C3G. I have a Master’s degree in Information Science. Before C3G I worked in a variety of academic research disciplines building data and metadata management systems mostly for their Open Data initiatives.

The development and implementation of the new Canadian SARS-CoV-2 Data Portal will be led by McGill University’s Dr. Guillaume Bourque, Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, and Director, Canadian Center for Computational Genomics. 

For more than a decade it has been possible to profile the transcriptome of single cells and numerous analytical methods have emerged over these years [1]. C3G is currently undertaking one such single cell transcriptomic project.

Meet Hector in this short video interview as he shares with us his passion as a bioinformatician and the exciting challenges he faces at C3G in the era of Covid19.

Junk DNA: vestigial remains or the genome’s dark matter? For a long time, genetic repeats and transposable elements were characterized as such – useless, nuisances and unknowable.

The decision announced by the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, on November 4th to destroy all minks in the northern country is projected to result in the destruction of more than 15 million minks.

With economies locked down this past summer and companies reluctant to hire, for many students, internship opportunities looked rather grim.

Every research project is composed of three key elements: a question to answer, the analyzes to perform and the data to use.