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MD, PhD|Oncology Research Fellow, McGill U.| Metastasis, Dormancy & Targeted Therapies|Writing|Coffee|Jazz/blues |🇪🇬➡️🇨🇦 Views are my own.

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Different residency positions are also sponsored h1b, which means hospitals/universities would have to pay 100k/sponsored resident!

20.09.2025 17:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stuck at home? Time to revisit the record collection! A record I caught this year in Chicago…

13.09.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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<em>In Vivo</em> Application of TurboID-based Proximity Labeling in <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> Proximity labeling (PL) is a powerful method for mapping protein-protein interaction networks. Advances in labeling enzymes, especially TurboID, have ...

It has been fun editing this issue focused on Cell Signaling in JoVE! Check this protocol by Vianney and Lee on proximity labelling in Drosophila melanogaster.
app.jove.com/v/68193/in-v...

28.08.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CIHR will finally allow international PhD students to apply! A big step forward!

21.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ageing, immune fitness and cancer Nature Reviews Cancer, Published online: 14 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41568-025-00858-zAgeing reshapes immune composition, function and regenerative capacity, with profound effects on tumour immunity, cancer progression and treatment outcomes. In this Review, Dolan and colleagues examine how age-resolved immunoprofiling, insights from ageing haematopoiesis and preclinical modelling are uncovering immune ageing dynamics and therapeutic challenges — revealing new opportunities to optimize cancer therapy across diverse age groups.

NEW content online!

14.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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My 100th JBC paper Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar writes about his decades-long relationship with the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Since 1984, he has published 100 papers in JBC, including this “Reflections.”

I actually have a habit of sharing this paper with new students on the appreciation of society journals:
id.elsevier.com/as/authoriza...

13.08.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I still prefer society journals here and all in for this. But the reality is that hiring committees for example might not value society journals (impact factor driven) -dipping my toes in the PI job market here.
The illusion of « elite » science has taken over.

13.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Pilot Study of the Combination of 5-Azacitidine and All-trans Retinoic Acid in Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer. Purpose: Biochemical recurrence (BCR) after definitive local therapy remains a major clinical challenge in prostate cancer (PCa), with heterogeneous disease trajectories and few established strategies...

Thrilled to share our first clinical trial paper on prostate cancer cell dormancy induction using an epigenetic and differentiation strategy. This was a strong team effort between physicians and basic scientists leading to this innovative clinical trial. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Congrats Julio and all involved. Big step

12.08.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am very grateful to CCS for not only supporting my fellowship work but also investing in my career development and being part of academic journey!

09.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

- Asking a nonexpert (outsider) feedback is always helpful. This helped me streamline 2 successful apps that I don’t think would have been viewed the same.

- knowing the audience. À cancer focused committee is different from a diverse molecular biology one for eg.

No memes this time! 😊

06.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Steve! Hope you would enjoy the read!!

28.05.2025 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A big thank you to all the co-authors and collaborators on this study for their contributions to bring this to the finish line! @standrapela.bsky.social
@gomeslab.bsky.social
@jaguirreghisolab.bsky.social
And the majority not on BlueSky!

27.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

⭐ We also provide three datasets to be mined by the BC metastasis research community: RNA-Seq, WGS, and CRISPR screens on the 4T1 and 4T07 cells.

27.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

⭐ Our data suggest that targeting PIK3C3 activity relocalize the lysosomes from the cell periphery to the perinuclear region leading to lower mTORC1 activity in BC cells.

27.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Excited to share our latest discovery just published in Cancer Research.
lnkd.in/e_vNXXJC
⭐ We revealed that dormancy-prone or dormant breast cancer (BC) cells might be eliminated by targeting PIK3C3 (the 3rd class PI3K), hence less #metastasis burden in #breastcancer.
@jf-cotelab.bsky.social

27.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Targeting the Dependence on PIK3C3-mTORC1 Signaling in Dormancy-Prone Breast Cancer Cells Blunts Metastasis Initiation Abstract. Halting breast cancer metastatic relapse following primary tumor removal remains challenging due to a lack of specific vulnerabilities to target during the clinical dormancy phase. To identi...

New vulnerability of dormant breast cancer cells dependent on a specific isoform of PI3K revealed by Islam Elkholi, JF Cote and team @ircm.bsky.social. Really happy to see this paper out and to have been of service!
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...

20.05.2025 02:09 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, Julio for all the insights, support and mentorship through this project!

20.05.2025 02:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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After 1 year of preparation! #Done

08.05.2025 03:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Eydís Evensen - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)
YouTube video by KEXP Eydís Evensen - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)

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02.04.2025 03:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Repainting the sky..

01.04.2025 23:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes!

29.03.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Glad to announce the 1st Basic & Clinical Oncology (BCO) conference on May 7 at the IRCM/Montreal as a partnership between 9 institutes/networks across Quebec! Clinical and basic cancer research abstracts are welcome (deadline April 6). More details: www.ircm.qc.ca/en/events/de...
#Montreal #Quebec

27.03.2025 23:45 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Éclipse lunaire totale de 2015 dans la région de Montréal.

Éclipse lunaire totale de 2015 dans la région de Montréal.

🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔Surveillez le ciel dans la nuit du 13 au 14 mars : une éclipse totale de Lune sera au rendez-vous! Cet événement astronomique sera visible depuis le Québec et débutera à 1 h 09 pour se terminer à 4 h 47. L’éclipse atteindra son apogée entre 2 h 59 et 3 h 31.

Voici notre photo prise en 2015.

13.03.2025 16:23 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Aging directs the differential evolution of KRAS-driven lung adenocarcinoma Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), the most common histological subtype of lung cancer( [1][1], [2][2] ), is a disease of the elderly, with an average age of diagnosis of about 70 years of age( [3][3] ). Old...

So happy to share the newest pre-print from the lab where we show that old age significantly changes the traits that evolve in established lung adenocarcinoma. This work sheds light into the importance of modeling age-related cancers in the context of old age. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

03.02.2025 19:13 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats Ana and team!

03.02.2025 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us this Thursday on Zoom. Basic and Clinical Oncology Bench ↔️ Bedside Seminar Series. #cancer #oncology

03.02.2025 22:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wanted to write briefly about a very pleasant experience we recently had coordinating and collaborating closely on competing publications with 2 other teams. 1/

24.01.2025 19:36 — 👍 114    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 5
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Kicking off with sharing our latest discussion on breast cancer dormancy & how to bridge the gap between the bench & bedside! tinyurl.com/msctvab2
P.S. I post about metastasis/signaling, Jazz/Egyptian classics & interesting reads. Looking fwd to connecting with people disseminating from Twitter 😊

18.11.2024 23:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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