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2022-05-04
Many congratulations to our ex-vice president of Networking Romaric Armel Mouafo Tchinda for getting a postdoctorate position at the University of Florida in Dr. Karen Garrett’s Lab (who was a guest at our What’s up Conference last year).
We wish you all the best in your future endeavors!2022-04-26
Congratulations to the Plant Biology Research Group (GRBV) on its 20th anniversary. Also, kudos to the presenters and the organizers of the GRBV annual symposium.
2022-04-12
Congratulations to our Centre SÈVE member Dr. Hugo Germain and his team members Théo Devèze, Claire Letanneur, Nikunj Sharma and Snehi Gazal for having a successful Indian expedition on the biodiversity of Cannabis in the fall 2021!
Their work has been published in NEO UQTR.
Read about their journey and scientific work carried out in India with mesmerizing images of Himalayan ranges with Cannabis.
2022-03-10
New publication by Dr. Tagnon
Missihoun his master’s student Amal
Jaballi from UQTR.
Publication: The phytohormone abscisic acid modulates protein carbonylation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Also, the PhD candidate Charles Roussin-Léveillée from Dr. Peter Moffet’s lab published his research in the Cells Host & Microbe journal. Here is their publication:
2022-02-10
New publication of our previous Vice-President of Communications, Marianne
Bessette.
Publication: Population genetic structure of the carrot weevil (Listronotus oregonensis) in North America
2022-01-03
New publication from one of the researchers from Centre Séve, Dr. Isabel
Desgagné-Penix, and her students Laurence Tousignant, Aracely
Maribel Diaz Garza, Bharat Bhusan
Majhi and Sarah-Eve
Gélinas, in collaboration with the postdoctoral fellow Aparna
Singh, from the University of New Brunswick.
Publication: Transcriptome analysis of Leucojum aestivum and identification of genes involved in norbelladine biosynthesis
2021-12-03
Our treasurer Julie Yergeau just finished her master’s titled “The identificatoin of species of Phytophthora in the cultivars of Christmas trees in Quebec and the validatoin of the pathogenicity of P. abietivora” !
In addition, she won the prize of best presentation during the Symposiums MicroBioMoléculaires of the Fall Session of 2021 from the Université de Sherbrooke.
Congratulations, Julie!
2021-11-24
Our Vice-President in Networking Romaric Armel Mouafo Tchinda finished successfully his PhD degree on Phytopathology, with the thesis “Comparative epidemiology of the two main clades of Plasmopara viticola prevalent in eastern Canada”, under the directon of Dr. Carole Beaulieu and Dr. Odile Carisse.
Many congratulations!!!
2021-09-02
New publication from one of Centre SÈVE’s researchers, Dr. Isabel
Desgagné-Penix, and her students Manoj
Koirala and Seydou Ka,
through an international collaboration with the Universita’ di Napoli Federico
II (Italy) and the Universite
Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Senegal).
Congratulations to all involved for the hard work and specially to Dr. Isabel Desgagné-Penix for collaborating with researchers worldwide!
2021-08-30
Do you want to know more about the challenges faced by postdocs, the life of a bioinformatician or the academic path of our president, Dr. Karen Cristine Goncalves?
Watch her interview by the doctorate student Nikunj Sharma, from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières!
2021-05-05
Our president, Karen Cristine Goncalves, successfully finished her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, with the thesis “Unrelated Fungal Rust Candidate Effectors Act on Overlapping Plant Functions”, under the direction of Dr. Hugo Germain and Dr. Isabel Desgagné-Penix.
She also published her work in MPDI Microorganisms: Unrelated Fungal Rust Candidate Effectors Act on Overlapping Plant Functions.
Finally, she has started her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Damase Khasa, Dr. Juan Carlos Villarreal Aguilar and Dr. Ilga Porth.
Bravo, Karen!!!
Although 2021 has only begun, researchers members of Centre SEVE have been busy. Congrats for their great job during this pandemic!
Take a look at their publications here:
Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska
Benjamin Mimee
Damase Khasa
Donald Smith
Edel Pérez-López
Francois Belzile
Gerald Chouinard
Hugo Germain
Isabel Desgagne-Penix
Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe
Jacqueline C Bede
Jaswinder Singh
Jean-Benoit Charron
Jean-Philippe Bellenger
Joann Whalen
Laurent Cappadocia
Marc Bélisle
Martina Stromvik
Martine Dorais
Philippe Seguin
Pierre Dutilleul
Richard Bélanger
Robert L Bradley
Steeve Pepin
Valerio Hoyos-Villegas
Vincent Maire
2021-01-29
Say hello to our two new members of the CSIPC: Snehi Gazal (VP Communication) and Valeria Parra (VP Networking)!
We thank Claire Letanneur, Teura Barff and Marianne Bessette for their work. They may no longer be part of the executive committee, but they will always be welcome to our meetings and events.
2021-01-27
Congratulations to Michelle Boivin (UQTR), a student at the Centre SÈVE for her intriguing project of revalorizing organic matter.
2020-11-06
Congratulations to Aracely Maribel Diaz Garza, our secretary, for her paper about the temporal Dynamics of Rhizobacteria in crops grown in a semi-arid ecosystem.
Bravo!
2020-11-10
Next Synbio Canada webinar, organized by one of our members, Fatima Awwad.
2020-11-06
Congratulations to Karen Cristine Goncalves, our secretary, for her preprint about fungal candidate effectors.
Great work!
Preprint: Differential alteration of plant functions by homologous fungal candidate effectors
2020-11-05
Congratulations to Fadoua Dhaouadi, Fatima Awwad and Andrew Diamond for the publication of a scientific review about diatoms.
We specially congratulate Fadoua Dhaouadi for her first publication!
2020-10-27
Today, Romaric Armel Mouafo Tchinda practiced his presentation for Ma thèse en 180s de l”ACFAS, where he will represent Université de Sherbrooke.
Watch the finals November 19th.
2020-10-24
Submitted by their students, the laboratories of Dr. Isabel Desgagné-Penix and Dr. Hugo Germain won the Canadian Bureau for International Education Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award.
Congratulations!2020-10-02
We are happy to announce and invite you to Centre SÈVE”s Student Poster Competition 2020. This virtual event will take place on November 25th and 26th 2020.
The registration page for participants and for submission of posters is now online. There you will find also all the information about the event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
2020-09-22
Conférence Web from Centre SÈVE today, with Charles Roussin-Léveillée from the Université de Sherbrooke. Thank you to all participants!
Source: Centre SÈVE2020-08-17
You want to know more about our guest Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, of USherbrooke for the August 25th ?
Read this article
about her work!!
2020-08-14
You want to know more about our guest Leena Tripathi for the August 25th ?
Watch this video of IITA
CGIAR about her work !!
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2020-08-10
Centre SÈVE has announced a new series of Web Conferences
that starts September 15th!
| September 15th | François Belzile | Aventures dans l’univers des SNP : un premier bilan de SoyaGen, un projet de grande envergure en génomique du soya |
| September 22nd | Charles Roussin-Léveillée | The Apoplastic Battleground in Plant-Pathogen Interactions |
| September 29th | Vicky Lévesque | L’amendement en biochar: Une approche durable pour améliorer la santé du sol et la croissance de la plante en horticulture |
| October 13th | Hamid Akbarzadeh | Sustainable Bio-inspired Metamaterials |
| October 20th | Valerio Hoyos-Villegas | The McGill Field Phenomics Platform: Increasing Resolution for Complex Trait Improvement |
| October 27th | Tagnon Missihoun |
2020-07-29
Congratulation to the Centre SEVE students that are presenting at the Worldwide Plant Biology Summit 2020. You can see their posters in our twitter (link bellow).
Karuna Kapoor ]1
Amir Bidhendi, Francisco Campos, Gaële Lajeunesse, and Julian
Henao-Martinez ]2
Adrien Fremont, Charles Roussin-Léveillée, Eszter Sas and Guilherme
Silva-Martins ]3
| IRBV | McGill University | Université de Laval | Université de Montréal | Université de Sherbrooke |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camille Auger | [Amir Bidhendi] | Francisco Campos | Eszter Sas | Charles Roussin-Léveillée |
| Adrien Fremont | Karuna Kapoor | Gaële Lajeunesse | ||
| Meha Sharma | [Guilherme Silva-Martins] | |||
| Julian Henao-Martinez | Iauhenia Isayenka |
Fatima Awwad, postdoc from UQTR, presented us today the potential of microalgae in the Centre SEVE”s web conferences. Thank you to all participants.
Source: Centre
SEVE
2020-06-16
Another captivating Centre SEVE”s web conference today with [Karen Cristine Gonçalves] from UQTR. Thank you to all participants.
Source: Centre SEVE2020-05-09
Welcome to Aracely Maribel Diaz Garza and Vincent Charron-Lamoureux in CSPIC”s administration as secretaries, replacing Alexia Bertholon, who unfortunatly had to leave the committee.
Congratulation to you two!
2020-03-02
Congratulations to Claire Letanneur, PhD student at UQTR, for the award of a grant at the first competition of the student category from the FRQNT illustration of DIALOGUE funding. Only four projects were selected for each research sector of the FRQ”s
2019-09-30
We would like to thank Rose-Marie Bell, master”s student in Plant Biology at the Université Laval, for sharing her experience at the Centre SÈVE Annual International Symposium in the student newspaper L”Agral.
2019-08-29
Some memories of the Centre SÈVE Annual International Symposium
Department of Biology - University of Sherbrooke
About sixty participants and speakers were able to share their knowledge, discuss and forge links on the theme of “Biotechnology for food security”
Objective achieved for this first symposium organized by the students of CPICS!
Thank you once again to the event sponsors:
2019-06-11
Registration for the first edition of the Centre SÈVE Annual International Symposium which will take place on August 23, is now open!
Students have the option of submitting an abstract to be selected for an oral presentation.
Here is the information to know:
The deadline for submitting an abstract is Monday July 22.
The abstract should be a maximum of 200 words.
It should be sent to the address: cpicseve@gmail.com, putting in cc. chantal.binda@usherbrooke.ca and mina.zitouni@usherbrooke.ca.
The expected duration per presentation is 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
Given the international scope of the symposium, English will be prioritized as the language of presentation and submission of abstracts. However French will also be accepted.
The decision taken by the committee will be communicated to each author no later than Monday, August 2, 2019.
To register, go to the Center SÈVE website. You will also find the schedule for the day and more, so don”t delay.
We can”t wait to see you there.
2019-03-14
We finally have the pleasure to introduce the Centre SÈVE International Partnership Committee. As you might know, we aspire to create collaboration opportunities between Centre SÈVE researchers and research laboratories in the rest of the world. We are currently working on the first Centre SÈVE Annual International Symposium, which will address “Biotechnology for Food Security” this year.
Stay tuned for more information not only on the symposium, but also on research topics addressed within Québec and outside.
In the meantime, We are leaving you with this pretty picture of this year’s committee.
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