Laurence Couture

C’est avec beaucoup d’excitation qu’on annonce officiellement l’événement #BiSPMicrHub2025 qui se tiendra à l’UdS🔬🦠✨ La 7ème édition du #BiSP se tiendra conjointement avec la 3ème retraite annuelle du #MicrHub Sherbrooke. Inscription et soumission ouvertes dès maintenant!

The J2P2 group (FJP Lab+JP Côté Lab @biologieUdeS @USherbrooke) just completed its first 2-day off-campus annual Lab Retreat! Trainees from our groups spent ~1h presenting their projects and thinking about new ideas to push in the upcoming year. It was lots of fun! @jpcotelab

#MicrobiologyMonday: Antibiotic tolerance makes it hard to treat bacterial infections. But how big of a problem is tolerance? In #ClinMicroRev, scientists point to a need for standardized detection methods to fully grasp the scale of the issue. asm.social/27E

We are all living in a bubble that deprives us of experiences needed to understand the true magnitude of the threat posed by the rise of multi-drug resistant infections. It would be wise to allocate resources that match the severity of the threat. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I am looking to recruit a Ph.D. trainee that will be working on the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance/tolerance. More details below: csm-scm.org/job/universite… Please share!

@FabriceJPierre @Isabel_Laforest @CSM_SCM2024 @CSM_SCM @a2binny @thermofisher @USherbrooke @centre_seve @biologieUdeS So relevant and inspiring to hear as a trainee! Amazing talk @Isabel_Laforest 🌲🧫🦠

@Isabel_Laforest @CSM_SCM2024 @CSM_SCM @a2binny @thermofisher Now it’s Isabelle’s turn to keep us entertained with a fantastic talk! @USherbrooke @centre_seve @biologieUdeS @CSM_SCM2024

Hey @CSM_SCM2024 #CSM2024 @CSM_SCM, hope you can make it to my talk today at 17h (NCB101). "Host-microbe interactions: a journey from forest to human microbiomes through the lens of microbial ecology" Will do my best to make it as fun as @a2binny's lecture! @thermofisher Award

A special thanks to Lya Blais, very good friend and co-first author with me on this paper, to @Isabel_Laforest for her support and feedback and of course to my PI @jpcotelab for the time, trust and countless opportunities since the beginning of my research journey!

My first paper is out (!!) Very proud to share the work I’ve been up to over the past year. Read our short story on how we found that lactobacilli can induce azithromycin tolerance in Salmonella Typhimurium 🧫🔬: journals.asm.org/eprint/3IWY8A4…

Part of the @biologieUdeS @USherbrooke delegation is en route 🚙for the @CSM_SCM2024 @CSM_SCM #CSM2024 Looking forward to see our colleagues in the Forest City @WesternU With @jpcotelab @P_B_Beauregard @SarahP4464 @MargotDessarti4 @laucouture23 et Émile

@O_Goncalves___ @McGillAMRCentre Proud of you! Excellent talk 🧬💊🧫

Superb day organized by @McGillAMRCentre thanks to the organizers 🦠. Thank you for the opportunity to present my research project linking antibiotic resistance and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the context of cystic fibrosis 🫁

@Isabel_Laforest @CSM_SCM Wow, félicitations Isabelle! 🤩🧫🌳

It is a pleasure to be awarded the 2024 #ThermoFisher award from the @CSM_SCM made even +++ as I get to share the stage with Pr. Caroline Duchaine who won the Murray award. 👀 forward to see the community in London, ON in a few weeks! #microbialecology csm-scm.org/awards/current…

Étudier le rôle du transfert de matériel génétique entre 2 #bactéries qui se rencontrent dans la #RésistanceAuxAntibiotiques, c'est l'ambition de @P_B_Beauregard @USherbrooke! Avec l'appui du @FRQ_NT #communautéFRQ #BacillusSubtilis #microbiologie #ADN scientifique-en-chef.gouv.qc.ca/impact-recherc…

@FabriceJPierre Yayyyy congrats Fabrice 😁

I guess the cat is out of the bag now! Happy to have secured my first long-term grant. Now, onto the next one.

Very proud to share this work by @MargotDessarti4 of her screen for factors conferring protection against T6SS. Wonderful collaboration with the @CascalesLab! @mbiojournal @NSERC_CRSNG @FRQS1 @biologieUdeS @LISM_CNRS_AMU

New position in the Laforest lab: laforestlab.com/positions Come join us to work on the impact of plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere on plant host growth and survival in the context of mine site restauration in Canada. @USherbrooke

Happy to share this protocol that myself and my Ph.D student @SarahP4464 work on! This in vitro polymicrobial model is at the core of my postdoctoral work during my time in @GeiselBiofilm lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… See link 👇🏾 for details!

@FabriceJPierre @USherbrooke Welcome to USherbrooke 🥳 Looking forward to working with you (and JP)!!

Excited to have finally started my position as an Assistant Professor this week at @USherbrooke ! Stay tuned as I build up my lab that will focus on the molecular mechanisms driving polymicrobial-specific bacterial features with a strong emphasis on antimicrobial recalcitrance✌🏾

Petit brunch pour fêter le départ des stagiaires de l'automne 🍂 @jpcotelab 🍓🥞

@CSM2023_Halifax was amazing! Now time for much deserved drinks!