Poirier-Masson Christmas lunch 2021

The tradition continues ! We were lucky to have a private room this year.

Cyclo-Marche 2021

September 26th, 2021. First edition of the Quebec Cycling Walking Classic, an event to raise funds for the Cancer Research Society. Co-organized with Girish Shah and the CRS.

Julia and Laura leave the lab (Aug 2021)

Wishing you all the best and thanks for your work with us ! Also please spot who has his predoc the next day !

Laure is leaving the lab (May 2021)

Sad day - a fantastic lab citizen and scientist.

Equipe Zebra Quebec

A symbolic walk on Promenade de Champlain on 22nd August 2020 to support neuroendocrine cancer research.

Team Zebra Quebec: Keeping 2m distance :-)

Targeting the DNA Damage Response in Cancer

Dipanjan Chowdhury (Harvard) presents at the LabLinks meeting : Targeting the DNA Damage Response in Cancer (July 2020)

Oncopole- EMC2 internal meeting

Great planning with Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, Euridice Carmona, Francis Rodier, Michel Lebel and Guy Poirier (July 2020)

ENIGMA e-meeting 2020

We were supposed to be in Leiden. A great meeting after all ! (June 30-July 2nd 2020)

Yuandi's predoc - success !

Thanks to the evaluators for constructive feedback (April 2020).

The lab - version 4 !

Now in Tokyo, Boston, Ontario, Quebec ... This is the sweet and sour part of research to see nice people leave !

Christmas lunch 2019 Masson-Poirier

Really proud of 2019. Holidays coming soon !

Nucleic Acids meeting (2019)

Jym and Lata Balakrishnan organize the 4th International Conference on Molecular Biology & Nucleic Acids in Chicago (Oct 2019)

Nucleic Acids Meeting 2019

Thibaut presents his work at the 4th International Conference on Molecular Biology & Nucleic Acids in Chicago (Oct 2019)

FA meeting 2019

Laure & Gemma at the Fanconi Anemia Meeting in Chicago (Sept 2019). Cherchez l'erreur ...

FA meeting 2019

Hey, they are close to the poster boards :-)

A birthday gift for the boss

Well done to Daryl, Laura, Julia and Yuandi for their respective awards @JSE2019

Farewell to Simone and Franciele

Both Brazilian PhD students marked the lab forever. Welcome to Larissa (left)

Lab lunch 2019

A beautiful paper to celebrate !

Thibaut survived his predoc exam !

Well done !

A nice visit from Jana in early 2019

Glad to catch up. She is now working as a scientific officer at the University of Zurich in Massimo Lopes lab.

Christmas lunch (2018)

And celebration for our PAR erasers review in Nature Communications

Masson lab autumn 2018

Thibaut, Amélie, Franciele, Simone, Laura, Mandy, Jym, Laure, Marie, Nadine, Yuandi, Julia, Yan, Daryl

Halloween 2018

From top (and left to right): Simone, Julia, Laura, Daryl, Thibaut, Yuandi, Nadine, Franciele, Mandy.

Fanconi meeting in California

No, we are not in Sahara ... We are at Newport Beach California

Fanconi meeting 2018

Laure and Yuandi. It was nice travelling with them.

Laure's weakness

Phew, I almost lost my postdoc to California. But, I knew how to bring her back to Quebec :-)

two ex-students in California (2018)

Cool to see Niraj and Rémi !

Franciele Busatto

Franciele has joined the lab through an ELAP scholarship (coll. Jenifer Saffi). Great to have her with us ! The picture was taken at the 2018 International Congress of Genetics at Foz do Iguaçu.

Franciele and Simone

We will miss them in May 2019

Guy Poirier

At Toronto Pearson, having breakfast and remaking the world in good company !

Guy and I

Such a great mentor and person

Always fun to be in Jym's office

2017 Christmas Party

Laure, Marie and Niraj

Strategizing to answer the reviewer's comments (it worked)

Talking projects and more

Our long term collaborator Stephane Richard was in town with Sofiane and Zhenbao. Also on the picture, a very hungry man (Yan !).

Finishing their PhDs (and smiling)

Caitlin Fierheller visits the lab

Thanks to an Ovarian Cancer Canada Trainee Travel Award (2017) and collaboration with Patricia Tonin

Lab lunch Sept 2017

The group at Tony's Viva (2016)

Rock solid RAs !

Masson lab Tee version 1

Courtesy of Anthony Couturier. Only members of Masson lab can see the inside joke.

Two friends

Nationalities

Our lab is multicultural !

2015 Christmas lunch

We moved to a bigger lab !

2014 - finally enough benches for everybody !

Masson Lab 2015

Émilie, Joris and Marie-Michelle

Joris and Amélie

Émilie

Autumn 2013

Niraj

Yes Niraj, we need to count all these foci :-)

The conquest of proteins

By Anthony Couturier

Joris

FPLC geek

2nd CSGIT symposium

JYM organises the 2nd Canadian Symposium on Genomic Integrity and Telomeres in Quebec city in 2014

Masson Lab 2013

Cabane à sucre

The lab (and more) at Stephanie's cabane à sucre (2013).

Cabane à sucre

Emilie, Gowsica, Amélie, Jana, Stéphanie, Marie-Christine at Stephanie's cabane à sucre (2013).

Labo Masson 2011

Jym, Ranjan (étudiant au PhD), Anu (finissante MSc, en co-direction avec le Dr Patrick Laprise), Marie-Christine (assistante), Joris (étudiant au PhD), Amélie (assistante), Jana (étudiante au PhD, en co-direction avec le Dr Guy Poirier/Michèle Rouleau), Hélène (technicienne), Yan (assistant), Cyril (post-doc), Gilles (technicien), Julien (post-doc), Rémi (étudiant au doctorat), Marie-Michelle (étudiante à la maitrise). Absents sur la photo (Karine Drapeau, finissante MSc; Irfan Bukhari, finissan

Maintenance of Genome Stability meet

Antigua, Mars 2010 Even the boss needs a break :-)

Joris, Ranjan et Jana

1st Canadian Symposium on Telomeres and Genome Integrity, 2012. London, Ontario, après 1000 Km de route. Note mentale au chef: London est APRÈS Toronto :-)

Washington

Une visite à Washington (maison blanche) lors du congrès Fanconi 2009 (Octobre 2009) Karine, Yan, Julien, Rémi

Une pause bien méritée

Congrès Abcam sur la stabilité du génome (Mars 2008)

Julien Vignard

Il coûte cher en vin celui-là ;-)

Soutenance de Rémi

Octobre 2012. Parmi ses cadeaux - un "superbowl" !

Amélie au microscope

Amélie

Congrès ASM DNA repair and mutagenesis à Whistler (Juin 2009)

Rémi Buisson

PhD student - now a PI at UCI Irvine.

Yan tout un pêcheur !

Congrès Abcam sur la stabilité du génome (Mars 2008)

Yan

notre "lab manager"

Céline et Isabelle

Un samedi soir libre au congrès sur l'Anémie de Fanconi- pourquoi ne pas aller voir les Capitals de Washington ?

Ugo, Synthia et Mickael

ASM DNA repair and mutagenesis meeting 14-22 Novembre 2004 Bermudes (Il y avait de la science aussi ...)

Ugo Déry

Notre premier étudiant au doctorat (photographie, courtoisie de Katia Mercier).

Labo Masson, Soutenance d'Ugo Déry

3 Avril 2007. Un XBox360 en cadeau ... Imaginons le cadeau du prochain PhD ? (Photographie, courtoisie de Katia Mercier)

Ranjan

Ranjan, with the fish of the day ;-)

Labo Masson 2010

e gauche à droite: Jana Krietsch (PhD en co-direction avec Guy Poirier/Michèle Rouleau), Nicolas Bouchard (stagiaire d'été), Yan Coulombe (assistant de recherche), Irfan Bukhari (PhD en co-direction avec Martin Simard), Rémi Buisson (étudiant PhD), Julie Birraux (post-doc), Karine Drapeau (étudiante à la maîtrise), Gilles Hamel (assistant de recherche), Jym, Julien Vignard (post-doc), Marie-Michelle Genois (étudiante à la maîtrise), Amélie Rodrigue (étudiante au doctorat), Stéphane Lussier (stag

Niraj and Ranjan

2013 Genomic Instability and DNA Repair meeting, Banff.

Rémi

Rémi with his second fish in Québec

Amélie et Ugo

DNA Repair meeting 2006 Noordwijkerhout, Holland

Ugo Déry

VIIIth international workshop on radiation damage to DNA 2004 Banff, Alberta

Anne-Marie Dion-Côté

Master student who is now a PI at University of Moncton.

Isabelle

... notre oiseau de nuit

Karine Drapeau

Master student

Labo Masson 2009

(August 2009). Left to right; Karine Jacquet (stagiaire), Karine Drapeau (master student), Marie-Michelle Genois (master student), Hélène Launay (tech), Rémi Buisson (PhD student), Jym, Yan Coulombe (research assistant), Céline Roques (PhD student), Julien Vignard (post-doc), Amélie Rodrigue (PhD student), Julie Birraux (post-doc), Anne-Marie Dion-Côté (master student).

Labo Masson, Mai 2007

De gauche à droite (bas en haut), Amélie Rodrigue, Josiane Tremblay Rochette (étudiante d'été), Sandra Piquet, Céline Roques, Lydia Touzel-Deschesnes (étudiante d'été), Ugo Déry, Mirza Shafiulla Baig, Jym, Karine Drapeau (étudiante d'été), Mickael Ploquin, Yan Coulombe, Pierre Plante. Absente sur la photo: Isabelle Brodeur. (Photographie, courtoisie de Katia Mercier)

Céline Roques

PhD student

Terry Fox day, 2006

17 Septembre 2006. Jean-Yves (président d'honneur) et Dany Côté (organisateur)

Céline

18ème Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Symposium, North Bethesda, 19-22 Octobre 2006.

Labo Masson (Mai 2008)

De bas en haut: Sandra, Céline, Karine (étudiante d'été), Anne-Marie, Amélie, Julien, Jym, Mickael, Ali, Yan

Labo Juillet 2005

De gauche à droite (à partir du haut): Mickael, Ugo, Matthieu, Yan, Daniel, Amélie, Jym, Synthia, Pierre-Olivier

Photo du lab Juin 2006

De gauche à droite, Pierre, Dany, Mickael, Ali, Yan, Matthieu, Ugo, Jym, Céline, Isabelle et Amélie

Sandra Piquet (master student (co-direction with Martin Simard) and Guillaume Jannot (student in Martin Simard's lab).

Ugo, Synthia et Mickael

The beginning of the lab !