People

Yves Brun

Distinguished Professor

Version en françaisI have had the privilege to work with an outstanding group of people since opening... More

Sahar Alousi

Microbiology Graduate student

I am interested in the applications of CRISPRi in the field of antimicrobial discovery. I completed my master’s degree in 2019 at the Lebanese American University where I focused... More

Erick Arroyo Pérez

Postdoctoral Fellow

I think bacteria are really cool and I'm constantly amazed by how much we can learn from them. I worked with Streptomyces morphology during my Master's at UNAM in Mexico City. Afte... More

James Bagley

Research Platform Manager

I am interested in the challenges of creating large, high quality biological datasets. In the Brun lab I am working to create a platform which can evaluate internal cell state usin... More

Cécile Berne

Research Scientist

I am interested in understanding the signals dictating biofilm formation and dispersion in Caulobacter, and dissecting how holdfast works at the biophysical level. I joined the Bru... More

Sukanya Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am always curious about the clever tricks that seemingly simple unicellular organisms use to survive. During my PhD at IISER Pune, I explored how Myxococcus xanthus flip ... More

Farah Obeid Charrouf

Microbiology Graduate student

My research project seeks to understand the role of Tad pili and its dynamic activity in Caulobacter crescentus as well as how it is related to surface sensing. Outside the lab, I ... More

Marie Delaby

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in understanding how bacteria grow and proliferate, and particularly in the different modes of peptidoglycan biosynthesis that bacteria use for their elongation and... More

Alexie Gagné

Lab Manager

I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology, Immunology and Infectiology from the University of Montreal in 2022, followed by a Master in Neurosciences in 2024. My resea... More

Solenne Ithurbide

Research Scientist

I love studying unusual microbes to understand how they grow and divide and how DNA content is maintained and segregated during these processes. During my PhD at the Université Pa... More

Maxime Jacq

Research Scientist

My main research interest is on peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial morphogenesis. I am currently using stalk synthesis in the Asticcacaulis genus as a model for localized peptid... More

Zhor Khadir

Postdoctoral fellow

Before joining the Brun lab, I completed a PhD in cotutelle between Paris-Saclay University in France and Sherbrooke University in Québec, Canada. I am working at the interface be... More

David Kysela

Research Scientist

I study bacterial aging, including both how it occurs mechanistically and why it occurs evolutionarily. Along the way, I develop technology for high-throughput imaging and analysis... More

Isabelle Lacroix

Director, Operations and Strategy, Pandemic-Stop-AI Consortium

Biologist by training with a PhD in molecular and cellular biology, I have since moved to grant writing, research management and strategic planning. I have evolved in various scien... More

Emma Mulholland

Microbiology graduate student

I am interested in studying the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria with high-throughput screening techniques and microscopy. Before joining the Brun lab, I completed my under... More

Elise Napolitano

Master student

I recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Université de Montréal. As now a member of Yves Brun’s lab, my res... More

Vaidehi Patel

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in understanding regulation of peptidoglycan biosynthesis during bacterial growth and morphogenesis. I did my BS in microbiology at Gujarat University in India and ... More

Greg Whitfield

Postdoctoral Fellow

I’m interested in understanding the functional mechanisms of multi-component bacterial nanomachines, with a current focus on the Tad pilus machinery of Caulobacter crescentus. Pr... More

Sébastien Zappa

Research Scientist

After playing with enzymes from extremophilic archaea and various features of photosynthetic bacteria (photoreceptors, tetrapyrroles, iron homeostasis, encystment), I... More