Happy holidays! Lots of fun at the annual Bachand lab holiday party: great food, a nice punch, and an exciting secret Santa. Also this year, a very competitive ping pong tournament in the Bachand garage. Guess who won the tournament….
New work from postdoctoral fellows Nouhou Haidara (left) and Carlo Yague-Sanz (not on picture) as well as graduate student Cédric Boulanger (right on picture) now report that the primary role of phosphorylation of serine 2 on the Carboxy-Terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II is to repress cryptic antisense transcription, and not to promote mRNA […]
On Friday, April 26, the annual friendly game between students and professors of the faculty of medicine of the University of Sherbrooke took place. The professor’s team had won the last four games, showing that experience can defeat youth. However, age has its limits… After trailing by two goals, the student team was able to […]