May 2023
Congrats to Yves on receiving the silver 2023 CCAE prix d’Excellence award
Congrats to Pr. Yves Brun on receiving the silver 2023 of The Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) in Category 3, for the best special event: La poésie des bactéries: immersion dans l’infiniment petit
July 2022
Congrats to Emma on her award of a Bourse de mérite from the Faculté de médecine!
June 2022
Hooray! Our proposal “Discovery of antimicrobials targeting outer membrane biogenesis and permeability by artificial intelligence-driven high throughput microscopy” was funded by FRQ!
Yves awarded Order of Merit by his alma mater, Université de Moncton
Université de Moncton: Ordre du mérite 2022 de L’alUMni
Université de Montreal: Yves Brun reçoit un prix d’excellence de l’Université de Moncton
May 2022
Lab members have been busy with lots of school outreach activities at the end of the academic year!
Cegep students touring the lab with Max. 
Building folding paper microscopes (Foldscopes) at École Villa Maria with Emma Visualizing bacteria with Farah and Marie at Les Scientifines. 
Collecting microbial water samples Vaidehi and Kelley at Jarry Park with Sinclair Elementary School 3rd and 4th graders. 
Sinclair Laird 5th and 6ths graders show off microbial mud cultures in their Winogradsky columns. Antibiotics and AMR at an AI conference: Yves presents to a new crowd.
L’IA peut-elle aider à la découverte de nouveaux antibiotiques?: Congrés mondial Intelligence Artificielle
April 2022
Ces bactéries qui émerveillent: Le Devoir a présenté le spectacle dans la SATosphere
Ces bactéries qui émerveillent: Quand on porte attention à la diversité de leurs formes, fonctions, aptitudes et bienfaits, la peur se mue vite en éblouissement.
« La poésie des bactéries : Immersion dans l’infiniment petit » Conférence a la Sociéte des arts technologiques (SAT)
Link vers plus d’info sur la SATosphère !
Watch the teaser video here
Audience awaits the show in the SATosphere. 
Yves rehearses with director Mireille Camier. 
Lab members and microbiology students share their love of bacteria at displays outside the SATosphere. Laura from Water Rangers explains the participatory science project to test and collect water samples for antibiotic resistant bacteria. Marie shows some Petri plate cultures to audience members. 
Invited audience members at the show premiere. 
Sebastien explains some microbiology to a curious audience member. Entrevue avec Yves à la Moteur de recherche, Radio-Canada
Aperçu de le conference dans Le Journal de Montreal : Belles grosses bactéries poilues
Belles grosses bactéries poilues: Un spectacle combine l’animation 3D façon jeu vidéo et la microbiologie pour projeter des bactéries géantes
March 2022
Growing young microbiologists with Winogradsky columns!
Future microbiologists at Sinclair Laird Elementary School cultured microbes from their schoolyard mud and asked lots of great research questions:
- Are microbes making more microbes?
- Do microbes eat? What do they eat?
- Do microbes fight with other microbes?
- Why is there green stuff in the dirt, but not in the water?
- Why are the microbes breathing air?
- Do microbes sleep?
- What would happen if these grew for one year? For 3 years?
February 2022
Yves is featured in the new Université de Montreal strategic research plan.
Université de Montreal’s features Yves in the strategic research plan 2022-2027
Yves featured in news article: “The war on superbacteria: The next pandemic”
“La guerre aux superbactéries: La prochain pandemie,” La Presse. (8 fevrier 2022)
November 2021
Yves featured as a member of the Royal Society of Canada (in dramatic slow-motion, also starring postdoc Kelley)!
Congrats to postdoc Marie-Laurence Lemay on her award of a L’Oréal-UNESCO 2021 Excellence in Research Fellowship!
Yves’ gives a public talk on antibiotic resistance in “Les Belles Heures”
Outreach event to build Winogradsky columns with Biology Club at École Villa Maria.
October 2021
Post-doc Nelson Chepkwony’s recent work on holdfast adhesion shared at BactoMontréal conference and featured by UdeM news.
UdeM News: “Nature’s strongest glue now works in wet AND salty environments”
UdeM Nouvelles: “La colle la plus puissante de la nature maintenant efficace en milieu humide ET salé”
Brun lab volunteers work with Les Scientifines to collect water samples
A beautiful day testing water quality and collecting samples at the Lachine Canal with Water Rangers and the young scientists of Les Scientifines, with Brun Lab members Kelley, Farah and Marie-Laurence
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September 2021
Pizza break from annual lab cleaning day!
Yves elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada!
Admission to the RSC is an honour that recognizes the excellence and contributions of >100 researchers Yves has had the privilege of welcoming to the lab over ~30 years and who share his passion for understanding the basic mechanisms of bacterial function. See more from UdeM Nouvelles.
July 2021
Félicitations à la doctorante Farah pour avoir reçu une bourse de Mérite de la Faculté de médecine!
June 2021
Congrats to Yves and Dave on a major grant from Génome Québec’s Genomics Integration Program!
Microbiologist Yves Brun has received a major grant from Génome Québec’s Genomics Integration Program to test an innovative approach that could lead to the discovery of new antibiotics.
UdeM Nouvelles : “Unir l’intelligence artificielle à la microscopie pour lutter contre l’antibiorésistance”
UdeM News : “Fighting antibiotic resistance with the power of automated microscopy and AI“
First lab get-together in 2021: potluck picnic at Parc Mt. Royal!
As Canada 150 Research Chair, Yves presents to the CERC/C150 Virtual Symposium
Link to video presentation: Dr. Yves Brun, C150 in Bacterial Cell Biology
May 2021
Congrats to Cécile, Max, Marie, Marie-Laurence, and Sébastien for organizing the very successful BiSP meeting for bacteriology in Québec!
Congratulations to Marie-Laurence and Greg for their post-doctoral fellowships from FRQNT!
The Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies awarded Bourses de recherche postdoctorale to Greg Whitfield for his project “Déchiffrer la machinerie biosynthétique du pilus tad bactérien,” and to Marie-Laurence Lemay for her project “Les phages qui infectent les bactéries avec des cycles cellulaires complexes.“
Yves presents the lab’s citizen science collaborations at the ACFAS Congress session on science engagement.
Yves describes our collaborations with SAT, Water Rangers and Les Scientifines as part of the “Engagement des Québécois et des Québécoises en sciences : pratiques multiformes” panel at the 88th Congress of ACFAS, the Association of Francophone Sciences.
April 2021
Yves participates in UQAM panel on antibiotic resistance
Débat en ligne : Yves Brun, Ève Dubé, Philippe Morency-Potvin
“Résistance aux antibiotiques : une menace bien réelle”
Congratulations to Dr. Liu Yang on her fabulous thesis defense!
