We’re wrapping up a busy year in the Bagot lab.

We welcomed new grad student, Serena Wu, and Fulbright student, Shama Huq, and were happy to welcome a cohort of undergrads back to the lab.

We were thrilled to secure pilot grants to support our collaboration with Dr. Kieran O’Donnell developing translational mouse models for perinatal depression.

Congratulations to Liz and Gabrielle for passing their candidacy exams and to Rand for her CIHR fellowship!

We celebrated our lab’s 5 year anniversary!

Eshaan published a review with our collaborator Dr. Anna Weinberg on ambiguity and conflict, Joëlle published a review on chronic stress depression models for female rodents and Jessie and Vedrana published commentaries highlighting important new research into mechanisms of depression. We also wrapped up our first paper in an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mallar Chakravarty.

There were posters and talks in virtual spaces and we’re all looking forward to sharing our research at more in person events in the coming year!

Finally, among our proudest achievements- a new postdoctoral office with a view of downtown Montreal.

Congratulations to Chase Clark, first MSc student to graduate from the Bagot Lab, now medical student at University of Alberta!

Welcome to new graduate students, Heike Schuler and Juliet Meccia.

A lot has happened in the last 6 months…

We worked together to safely shutdown and re-open our lab.

We welcomed two new lab members, Dr. Rand Eid and Pedro Bordignon.

We had papers accepted including new collaborations with MANATEE Lab and Otto Lab. Congratulations to lead authors Eshaan, Megan & Jessie and the rest of the teams!

Jessie & Eshaan also presented our first virtual posters at virtual FENS.

Finally, Rose’s Canada Research Chair was announced.

Most of all, we’re excited to be back in the lab to continue to ramp-up our research!

Fantastic turnout & lively discussion for our ACNP Study Group ‘How can we best study disease relevant behavior in non-human animal models?’ co-organised with Matt Hill featuring panelists Becca Shansky, Jaideep Bains, Nicola Grissom, Alon Chen, Adam Kepecs & Tim Bussey talking about diverse innovations in quantifying, interpreting and modeling animal behaviour.

Rose is honoured to be counted among the newly elected ACNP Associate Members for 2020! Congratulations to all new Associate Members, Members & Fellows!

Gabrielle officially joined the lab as our newest graduate student.

Welcome to new lab undergrads Tim, Sarah & Shi Chen!

Congratulations to Chase who passed his MSc Thesis Seminar!

Eshaan gave a great talk and Jessie presented a poster at the McGill IPN Annual Retreat.

We say farewell to our talented computational research assistant, Megan Kairiss, who is leaving us to take up a position at Microsoft. Congratulations and best of luck for your future endeavours!

Jessie gave a talk ‘Sex specific neural signatures of stress-induced behavioral adaptation’ at the CCNP conference in June in Montréal.

Congratulations to Jessie and Chase who both presented posters at CAN-ACN meeting in May in Toronto!

---

Welcome to lab IPN graduate rotation student Gabrielle , SURA students Kieran and Megan, and undergraduate research students Lyla and Samantha.