March 2025
Congratulations to Talar, Shruti, and Luca!
We’re thrilled to announce that our graduate students Talar, Shruti, and Luca have had their first review article accepted for publication—well done!
March 2025
A special lab dinner to wish Celia well before she starts her maternity leave
February 2025
«Our First Lab Ski Trip – A Huge Success!»
We had an amazing time on our first-ever lab ski trip! This outing is officially the start of a new annual tradition!
Highlights from 2024
Congratulations to the team for the Publication in Nature Communications!!!!!!
Kudos to present and former lab members: Celia, Mario, Morgane, Javeria, Stella, James, Suleima, and Tad. Thank you to our amazing collaborators.
Congratulations to Lokha! First Ph.D. student from the lab!!!
2024
Many good things happened in 2024
Awards, recognitions, fellowships, and funding
- Luca secured funding from CIHR, Celia from McGill, Nathan from NSERC, and Maria from AD Canada and CRBS (through a collaboration with JF Trempe)
- Luca and Talar got prizes for their poster presentations
Graduations
- Talar fast-tracked to Ph.D!
- Lokha successfully defended her thesis and is out for a PDF at Yale University. Congrats Lokha!
- Stella successfully finished her Master’s. Congrats Stella!
- Evan, Nathan, Jessamine, and Javiera graduated
- Luca fast-tracked to Ph.D
December 2023
Happy Holidays~~
November 2023
Congratulations to Lokha on her amazing Senior Seminar
October 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Mario Fernandez on a FANTASTIC PhD defense!!!
August 2023

Thank Iratxe for coming to Canada from Spain & working with us this summer

June 2023
- Congratulations to Celia Alecki for winning a Poster Award & Lokha Ranjani Alagar Boopathy on her awesome seminar talk @Biennial Proteostasis Researchers in Canada, Eh (PRinCE)👑
Congratulations to Celia Alecki, Lokha Ranjani Alagar Boopathy, Stella Xu & Talar Ghadanian for presenting posters @2023 PRinCE meeting!
- Congratulations to Celia Alecki on her Poster Award @RNA & the Future of Medicine
May 2023
- Lokha Ranjani Alagar Boopathy represents the Vera Ugalde lab at the RNA Society 2023 meeting
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Congratulations to Celia Alecki for renewing her FRQS fellowship
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CRBS funded our project with the Ortega lab!
May 2023. Congratulations to Lokha and lab members for the publication in Nucleic Acids Research!🙌
February 2023. Congratulations to Maria Vera Ugalde’s Lab for receiving the CIHR grant! 🥂

Welcome Mario!
We started a new collaboration with Dr. Durham and Mario Fernandez to study the heat shock proteins’ life cycle in motor neurons!