CRCHUM EGGLAB
GREG FITZHARRIS OOCYTE AND EMBRYO RESEARCH LAB
Our lab is a basic science and translational research group located in the Research Centre at the University of Montreal Hospital CRCHUM. We aim to understand the cellular basis of infertility by unravelling how healthy oocytes (eggs) and embryos are made, specialising in live cellular imaging and Cell Biology approaches.
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LATEST LAB NEWS
March 2022
Paper published in PNAS, featuring excellent work by Lia Paim
Congratulations to Henry Brennan-Craddock for his best poster award at the
UdeM Ob-Gyn Day
Let's praise Adélaïde Allais for her nice work at representing the lab abroad and getting the best international conference presentation awarded at the 2022 UdeM Ob-Gyn Day
January 2022
Excellent job Lin! Lin Yin got the 2nd place for her poster presentation at the SRF Fertility 2022 meeting
December 2021
Join us to applause Henry Brennan-Craddock for his trainee fellowship granted by the CRRD at McGill University
November 2021
Bravo for Karolina Kravarikova for her 4th place for overall best presentations at the UdeM Biomolecular research Day
August 2021
Paper published in Developmental Cell, leaded by Aleksandar Mihajlovic. Broadcasted in several media: CTV news; LaPresse; UdeM nouvelles; etc.
January 2021
Congratulations Lia Paim for winning the best poster category at 2021 SRF annual meeting!
November 2020
Well deserved prize won by Aleksandar Mihajlovic for best oral presentation at the Reseau Quebecois en Reproduction
June 2020
Lia Paim publishes a hypothesis paper in Reproduction, proposing a model as to when embryo binucleation causes aneuploidy
March 2020
Paper published by Gaudeline Rémillard-Labrosse with the help of many other from CRCHUM lab and McGill CUSM Fertility Clinic in Fertility and Sterility
Jan 2020
Paper published by Angus Macaulay and Adélaïde Allais in FASEB
November 2019
Prize won by Aleks Mihajlovic for best oral presentation at the Reseau Quebecois en Reproduction
November 2019
Paper published by Lia Paim on tetraploidy in embryos leads to press coverage on Global TV, Radio Canada, and La Presse
May 2019
Prize won by Adélaïde Allais for a poster presentation at UdeM Molecular Biology Research Day
May 2019
Grant awarded to Aleksandar Mihajlović from FRQS for a postdoctoral fellowship.
February 2019
Best oral presentation for Lia Paim and Aleksandar Mihajlović at UdeM Ob-Gyn annual research day
February 2019
CRRD Trainee fellowship for PhD student awarded to Adélaïde Allais
February 2019
A paper published by Cayetana Vázquez-Diez, Lia Paim et al. in Current Biology was covered by national and international media.
CTV report
The Gazette
Global News
November 2018
Prize for Lia Paim at RQR annual symposium for her oral presentation
July 2018
Successful thesis defense by Cayetana Vázquez-Diez and nomination on Université de Montréal dean's honours list
May 2018
Grant awarded to Lia Paim from FRQS
May 2018
Lia Paim is the winner of CRRD Research Day 2018 oral presentation competition (PhD student)
February 2018
Prize for best oral presentation awarded to Mac Raagas at UdeM Ob-Gyn annual research day
January 2018
CRRD Trainee fellowship for postdoctoral fellows awarded to Aleksandar Mihajlovic
August 2017
Grant awarded to Lia Paim from FESP/Université de Montréal for student success
June 2017
The lab is awarded a CIHR grant to study mouse embryos
April 2017
Prize for Lia Paim at the Université de Montréal Ob-Gyn annual research day
April 2017
Paper by Shoma Nakagawa published in Current biology: 'Intrinsically defective microtubule dynamics contribute to age-related chromosome segregation errors in mouse oocyte meiosis-I'
See articles from Radio-Canada, La Presse (in French) and also from New Scientist, Science daily, and Eurekalert (in English).
January 2016
Greg talks on Années Lumière on Radio-Canada talking about embryo mosaicism.
January 2016
Vázquez-Diez paper featured by several newspapers, including La Presse, Le Devoir, and Metro Montreal.
See here article from Radio-Canada (in French).
See here article by Montreal Gazette (in English):
January 2016
Vázquez-Diez et al. paper discussed in La Presse.
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