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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March 2026
Publication of our latest research article in Fertility and Sterility: Vasilev F, Jiang Y, Rémillard‑Labrosse G, Latraverse‑Arquilla J, Chung JT, Buckett W, FitzHarris G. Spindle dynamics and chromosome segregation in human preimplantation embryos. Fertility and Sterility, published online March 11, 2026.
January 2026
Annual meeting for Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF) - Fertility 2026 (Edinburgh, Scotland): Multiple award winning oral and poster presentations, including SRF PhD First Prize and SRF Poster Prize – Highly Commended for Sydney Cohen, SRF Post Doc Highly Commended Runner Up Prize for Krutika Patil, and SRF Poster Prize – Highly Commended for Helia Motamedi.
December 2025
Research Day – Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Université de Montréal 2025 (Montreal, Canada): “When does the early embryo learn to count?”, Best Oral Presentation Award for Yanwen Jiang
October 2025
A double win for Krutika Patil, who received the Best Poster Presentation Award for her presentation, “Tracking Cells of Known Ploidy in the Mouse Embryo,” at both the 26th CHUM Student Congress and the RQR Symposium 2025.
July 2025
Meritas award /scholarship, offered by the CHUM Foundation, awarded to Helia Motamedi.
June 2025
Publication of a new paper by Filip Vasilev et al. in Development Cell. Long-lived cytokinetic bridges coordinate sister-cell elimination in mouse embryos. Dev Cell, Volume 60, Issue 11, 1521 - 1531.e5
May 2025
Best oral presentation award at the 2025 CRRD Research Day, awarded to Krutika Patil and best poster presentation award at the Research Day of the Molecular Biology Program of the Faculty of Medicine at UdeM, received by Sydney Cohen.
January 2025
Excellence scholarship received by Helia Motamedi through the ODISÉ network.
December 2024
Best oral presentation awards at the Research Day of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UdeM, received by Valeriy Kutsyna and by Sydney Cohen. Lab was also awarded best basics research paper of the year.
October 2024
Helia Motamedi got a grant after the competition organized by UdeM CRRF
May 2024
Sydney Cohen was awarded a grant from FRQS/CIHR
Avril 2024
Sydney Cohen got a prize for best poster at UdeM PBC research day
March 2024
If you are culturing oocytes or embryos, go have a look at this paper: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1337937
January 2024
Yanwen Jiang was awarded a FRQS grant for his postdoctoral fellowship
December 2023
Sydney Cohen was successful in getting a CRRD Fellowship
October 2023
Have a look at work by Aleksandar Mihajlovic published in EMBO Reports
September 2023
Krutika Patil was awarded a FRQS grant for her postdoctoral fellowship
July 2023
SSR Lalor Foundation Merit Award win for Filip Vasilev
SSR annual meeting 2nd place for Filip Vasilev's presentation in the post doctoral category
May 2023
After completing an exchange program China-Canada, Yin Lin has published a paper on kinetochores
April 2023
Éliane Boucher has win a CRRD Summer Scholarship
Aleksandar Mihajlovic had the best poster presentation at the 15th CRRD Annual Research Day
March 2022
Paper published in PNAS, featuring work by Lia Paim
Henry Brennan-Craddock won best poster award at the UdeM Ob-Gyn Day
Adélaïde Allais got an award for best international conference presentation at the 2022 UdeM Ob-Gyn Day
January 2022
Lin Yin got the 2nd place for her poster presentation at the SRF Fertility 2022 meeting
December 2021
Henry Brennan-Craddock merited a trainee fellowship granted by the CRRD at McGill University
November 2021
Karolina Kravarikova got 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
Lia Paim won best poster at 2021 SRF annual meeting
November 2020
Prize won by Aleksandar Mihajlovic for best oral presentation at the Reseau Quebecois en Reproduction annual meeting
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 others from CRCHUM lab and McGill Fertility Clinic in Fertility and Sterility
Jan 2020
Paper published by Angus Macaulay and Adélaïde Allais in FASEB
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