Affiliations

• Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal
• Center for Expertise and Clinical Research in Animal Health and Welfare (CERCL)

Research expertise

• Neuronal differentiation
• Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
• In vitro models of neurological diseases
• Veterinary electroencephalography
• Veterinary neurology

Main research projects

• Stem cell modeling of canine inherited neurological diseases
• Blood and electroencephalographic biomarkers of drug-resistant epilepsy
• Regulation of neural development by brain activity

Approaches used

• Induced pluripotent stem cells and brain organoids
• Live calcium imaging
• Electrophysiology
• RNA-sequencing
• Electroencephalography

Keywords

Cerebral organoids, Activity-dependent neurogenesis, Canine epilepsy, microRNA