Estrid Jakobsen – Blogue du RBIQ

Meet the mentors of QBIN’s first cégep student mentorship program!

By Estrid Jakobsen / 2022-10-21 / Initiatives, Research / Bio-Imaging, Cognitive Science, Mentorship

Last summer, QBIN launched the first trial of a new program designed to engage CEGEP students in bio-imaging research and help graduate students and postdocs gain valuable mentorship experience. Three PhD students from the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University were paired with two CEGEP students from Dawson College to complete a 10-week research internship. The pilot was a great success and we plan to expand the program to include more mentors and interns from across the province in summers to come! Read on to learn more about the program from the perspective of our first three QBIN mentors, Aurelie Bussy, Stephanie Tullo, and Isabelle Arseneau-Bruneau!

From mentee to mentor: a conversation with two QBIN awardees, Louis Collins and Hassan Rivaz

By Estrid Jakobsen / 2022-06-28 / Interview / Bio-Imaging, Scientific Day

During the 2022 QBIN Scientific Day in Sherbrooke on June 2nd, three exceptional keynote lectures were given by this year’s William Feindel lecturer, Professor Louis Collins, and the two recipients of the 2022 Rising Star in Bio-Imaging in Quebec award, Professors Sylvia Villeneuve and Hassan Rivaz. In order to learn more about their career paths, research, and interests, the QBIN blog team conducted interviews with each of the award recipients.

Open Science in a time of closed borders: How COVID-19 shows that open science is both necessary and possible

By Estrid Jakobsen / 2020-05-25 / Explainer, Opinion, Science / COVID-19, Open Science

There is a growing movement in the scientific community known as open science that aims to make scientific research fully transparent, reproducible, collaborative, and accessible to all people at all levels of society. In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of open science is clearer than ever, and its feasibility is undeniable.

What is Bio-Imaging?

By Estrid Jakobsen / 2020-01-27 / Explainer, Science / Bio-Imaging, Methods

Bio-imaging is a term used to describe any scientific technique that can be used to look at (or inside!) biological tissue and organisms. This explainer will teach you about some of the many different bio-imaging methods used by researchers across Quebec from the microscopic to the macroscopic levels.