NEWS AND RESOURCES
May 2024 - Lama Iskandarani wins Best Poster or Oral Presentation Award in the Postdoctoral Fellow category for the third year in a row
Lama won Best Poster or Oral Presentation award (Postdoctoral Fellow category) for her poster entitled "High-Content Imaging Analyses of the Effects of Bisphenol S (BPS) and Bis(3-allyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) Sulfone (TGSA) on KGN Human Granulosa Cells" during the 28th Pharmacology Research Day on May 17, 2024. Congratulations Lama!
May 2024 - Seline Vancolen is awarded 1st Place Senior Poster Presentation Award
Seline is awarded the 1st Place Senior Poster Presentation Award at the Child Health and Human Development Research Day 2024 of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Congratulations Seline!
April 2024 - Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang - MacIntosh Prize & Nomination for the General's Gold Medal
Vicky won the department MacIntosh prize, and has been nominated for the Governor General's Gold medal. Great achievement Vicky!
April 2024 - Zixuan Li - MedStar Award
Zixuan's publication entitled “The Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers Affect H295R Adrenal Cell Phenotypes and Functions”, submitted to the McGill MedStar program, has been chosen to receive a McGill MedStar Award in recognition of the excellent research she carried out in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.
December 2023 - Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang - ICEDA PhD Award
Vicky is the winner of the Intersectoral Centre for Endocrine Disruptor Analysis (ICEDA) PhD Award 2023. Congratulations Vicky!
May 2023 - Braeden Giles wins Best 3-minute Flash Talk Award
Braeden won the Best 3-minute Flash Talk Award at the Pharmacology Research Day on May 11, 2023. His talk was entitled "Environmentally Relevant Mixtures of Organophosphate Esters Suppress THP-1 Macrophage phagocytosis". Congratulations Braeden!
May 2023 - Lama Iskandarani wins Best Poster or Oral Presentation Award in the Postdoctoral Fellow category
Lama won Best Poster or Oral Presentation award (Postdoctoral Fellow category) for her poster entitled "The effects of bisphenols A and its structural analogs on the expression of gene transcripts involved in the regulation of steroidogenesis in KGN human granulosa cells" at the Pharmacology Research Day on May 11, 2023. Kudos to Lama!
March 2023 - Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang's paper is selected as one of the top 10 best papers advancing the science of risk assessment
The Society of Toxicology Risk Assessment Specialty Section has selected her 2022 paper as one of the top 10 Best Papers Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment. Congratulations Vicky!
Wang X, Luu T, Beal MA, Barton-Maclaren TS, Robaire B, Hales BF. The Effects of Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers on Granulosa, Leydig, and Spermatogonial Cells Analyzed Using High-Content Imaging. Toxicol Sci. 2022 Mar 28;186(2):269-287. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfac012. PMID: 35135005; PMCID: PMC8963303.
December 2022 - Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang wins a Graduate Trainee Travel Award from STC for the top 10 best abstracts
Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang wins a Graduate Trainee Travel Award from the Society of Toxicology of Canada for the top 10 best abstracts at the 54th Annual Symposium in Ottawa, Ontario in December 2022. Congratulations Vicky!
May 2022 - Seline Vancolen, PhD trainee, wins a doctoral training award from FRSQ
Congratulations Seline!
Lama Iskandarani, Research Assistant, wins Best Poster in the Postdoctoral Fellow category
May 2022 - Congratulations to Lama for winning Best Poster in the Postdoctoral Fellow category during the 26th Annual Pharmacology Research Day!
"Editor's Choice" article for the March issue of Biology of Reproduction (2022)
Rajkumar A, Luu T, Beal MA, Barton-Maclaren TS, Hales BF, Robaire B. Phthalates and alternative plasticizers differentially affect phenotypic parameters in gonadal somatic and germ cell lines. Biol Reprod. 2022 Mar 19;106(3):613-627. doi: 10.1093/biolre/ioab216. PMID: 34792101.
The article will appear on the homepage of the BOR website, in the "Editor's Choice" section. It will also be free to access for the next several months.
Article figure makes cover page
Part of one of Vicky Wang’s figures from her article "The Effects of Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers on Granulosa, Leydig, and Spermatogonial Cells Analyzed Using High-Content Imaging" made the cover page of the April 2022 issue of the journal Toxicological Sciences. Congratulations Vicky!
Vicky Wang, PhD trainee, receives 1st place graduate student award from the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology
March 2021
Vicky (Xiaotong Wang) received the first place graduate student award for her poster presentation on “Benchmark Concentration (BMC) Analyses of the Effects of Organophosphate Esters (OPEs) on the Phenotype and Function of KGN Human Granulosa Cells”.
Braeden Giles, MSc trainee, is the recipient of a Trainee Fellowship
December 2020
Congratulations to Braeden Giles, MSc trainee in Drs. Bernard Robaire and Koren Mann labs, for receiving a Trainee Fellowship from the Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development (CRRD) at McGill.
Vicky Wang, PhD trainee, receives STC/Intertek Graduate Student Research Award
December 2020
Congratulations to Vicky (Xiaotong Wang), PhD trainee in Drs. Barbara Hales and Bernard Robaire labs, for receiving the STC/Intertek Graduate Student Research Award for the best PhD student poster presentation from the Society of Toxicology of Canada at the 52nd Annual Symposium.
Vicky Wang, PhD trainee, wins 1st prize in the Réseau Québécois en reproduction 13th Annual Symposium Poster Competition
November 2020
Vicky Wang, PhD trainee in Drs. Hales and Robaire labs, won first prize in the Réseau Québécois en reproduction (RQR) 13th Annual Symposium Poster Competition for her poster "Effects of organophosphate ester flame retardants on KGN cells, a human granulosa cell line" in recognition of the excellence of her work, presentation, and knowledge of the subject. Congratulations Vicky!
Bernard Robaire elected as a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS)
Source: McGill Reporter - September 18, 2020
On September 18, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) announced 77 new Fellows to its ranks, including 10 from McGill. One of the most prestigious honours in the Canadian health sciences community, election to the CAHS recognizes individuals for their leadership in and commitment to their field of expertise. Elections are based on a nominating and peer review process that seeks to recognize those who are marked by a record of substantial accomplishment.
Healthy sperm, healthy children
Pioneering McGill researcher studies the effects of environmental toxins on male sex cells
Source: CIIHR - February 11, 2020
Bernard Robaire honoured by Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
The Jansen Award recognizes an individual for their unselfish service and leadership in advancing the discipline of reproductive biology.
Dr. Robaire was recognized at SSR’s 2020 annual conference in Ottawa, Canada from July 9–12.
An interview with Dr. Bernard Robaire, recipient of the 2020 SSR Jansen Distinguished Leadership and Service Award
Craig ZR. Biol Reprod. 2021; 104(1):1-4.
