Lab news

June 2025

  • Our work was mentioned in TheTransmitter article on astrocytes and behaviour

  • Lewis’ paper “A divergent astrocytic response to stress alters activity patterns via distinct mechanisms in male and female mice”was accepted in Nature Communications!

  • Ciaran awarded Junior 2 salary award from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec & promoted to Associate Prof.

May 2025

  • Kathleen Ngo joins the lab for her Master’s

  • The lab goes to the Canadian Association of Neuroscience meeting in Toronto!

April 2025

  • Lewis received a travel award to attend CAN in Toronto!

  • Article published in Biological Psychiatry “Astrocytic CREB: The Hidden Driver of Stress Susceptibility” by Mathias and Ciaran. See publications page

  • Marie-Jo was accepted in to the U Montréal Neuroscience PhD program and will continue her research with us!

  • Lab visit from Jun Nagai (Riken, Japan)

March 2025

  • Camila was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award and will continue in the lab!

  • We published four chapters in the book Astrocytes: Methods in Molecular Biology see publications.

  • Congrats to Lewis who received a travel award to attend EuroGLIA in Marseille this July!

  • Congrats to Ossama and Marie-Jo who received travel awards (from IBRO and U Aix-Marseille) to attend the Canadian Association of Neuroscience annual meeting in Toronto this May!

February 2025

January 2025

  • Marie-Josette de Medeiros joins the lab for a 5 month internship from France, funded by Université d’Aix-Marseille

  • Camila Carbarcas joins for 12 week internship in the U Montréal neuroscience program.

December 2024

  • Daniel Jimenez Correa joins the lab for a 6 month internship from Colombia, funded by Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program.

November 2024

  • Ciaran visited Canadian Parliament as part of CAN Hill Day in Ottawa

October 2024

September 2024

  • New preprint from our lab on a project led by Lewis on lateral hypothalamic astrocytes and their regulation of orexin neuron activity in stress - see publications

August 2024

  • Ossama was awarded a ‘Bourse de Merite’ from the Faculty of Medicine, U Montréal

May 2024

  • Manon was awarded a Postdoctoral fellowship from the Fondation CHUM

  • Juliette, Mathias, Manon, Ossama, and Lewis present their work at CAN in Vancouver

April 2024

  • Manon and Lewis win best oral and poster presentations at the 6th neuroscience dept. research day

  • Lewis was awarded an FRQS PhD fellowship

November 2023

  • Lewis, Mathias, and Ossama present their work at SfN in Washington DC

  • Ciaran visited the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa to advocate for enhanced research funding in Canada

October 2023

  • Spotlight on the ongoing work in our lab in Université de Montréal news (links in English and French)

  • Perspective article “A Conceptual Framework for Astrocyte Function” published in Nature Neuroscience (see publications)

April 2023

  • Juliette Vaugeois was awarded CIHR Master’s fellowship

December 2022

  • The lab’s first manuscript investigating the role of astrocytes in mediating the effects of early-life stress on amygdala-dependent behaviour is now online (see publications page)

  • Lewis Depaauw-Holt was awarded a Leadership fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine, U Montréal.

November 2022

  • New perspective article from Ciaran, ChiNung Shing, and Thomas Papouin, discussing how and why astrocytes influence circuits and behaviour published in ArXiv (see publications page)

  • Ossama Ghenissa joins the lab, to start working on in vivo calcium imaging of astrocytes

  • Lewis Depaauw-Holt was awarded best presentation prize at the Dept. of Neuroscience research day

October 2022

  • Juliette Vaugeois received a Bourse de Recruitement from the Dept. Neuroscience

July 2022

  • The lab was awarded a 5-year CIHR project grant to study the effects of early-life stress on astrocytes

June 2022

  • Lewis Depaauw-Holt receives a training fellowship (Bourse de Formation) from the CRCHUM

May 2022

  • Ife, Manon, Lewis, and Ben present posters at the Canadian Association of Neuroscience 2022 in Toronto

April 2022

  • Benjamin Rogers was awarded CIHR Master’s fellowship

September 2021

  • Manon Duquenne, PhD joins the lab (co-mentored with Thierry Alquier)

July 2021

  • Ben Rogers joins the lab

May 2021

  • Ife & Lewis win poster prizes at 22nd CRCHUM Student Research day

April 2021

  • Ifeoluwa Adedipe was awarded a CIHR Master’s fellowship

January 2021

  • Anthony Bosson, PhD & Lewis Depaauw-Holt join the lab

October 2021

  • Ifeoluwa Adedipe & Sarah Peyrard, TSA join the lab