Team
Here are the current and past members of our team. If you are interested in joining, please visit the Opportunities page.
Matt Regan (he/him)
Principal investigator
Matt is an integrative biologist who investigates how animals balance their energy economies to sustain life. He spends a surprising amount of time rolling over logs in search of animals and scanning the night sky for celestial objects. As lab PI, he's got his hands in all projects in some way or other. BScH Queen's University, MSc and PhD University of British Columbia, Postdoc University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Descriptors: student, musician, father, modernist, multi-enthusiast.
B-6423 Complexe des sciences, Campus MIL
Rémi Chauvette
MSc student/researcher
Rémi is a student working on the impact of experimental parasite infection on an endemic Quebec species, the sunfish pumpkinseed. His research is focused on the impact of the infection on metabolism and hypoxia tolerance over the course of two months. Rémi's experiments were done at the biology station of the Laurentides during summer 2022. He is now in the second year of his master's degree, busy working for students as the president of the student union and at the same time working on his data and memoire.
Descriptors: energetic, joyous, empathic, involved, dedicated
Alexandre Goudreau
PhD student/researcher
Passionate about aquatic life, Alexandre is a student working to better understand the underlying processes and mechanisms of hypoxic metabolic depression. To do so, he conducts experiments on the champion of hypoxia tolerance, namely the goldfish (Carassius auratus), by using calorespirometry to measure its metabolism under anoxia. He is in his final semester of the baccalaureat degree and conducts his experiment in the context of the Honors program.
Descriptors: passionate, curious, caring, meticulous, enthusiastic, devoted
Esther Meritxell Lanaspa Pérez
Stagiaire
Esther worked closely with Rémi Chauvette to investigate how parasite infection of fishes impacts their ability to tolerate hypoxic conditions. This is important stuff to know because, as the earth's climates warms, both rates of parasite infection and prevalence of hypoxia are likely to increase.
Justin Sabetti
MSc student - Biologie quantitative et computationelle
Justin is a student working on following marked nitrogen through the gut microbiota in hibernating 13-lined ground squirrels. His internship project focuses on the analysis of 15-N marked tissue samples subsequent to the urea nitrogen salvage process. Using mass spectrometry, the proteomic analysis aims to uncover which proteins are synthesized in these tissues. The data analysis seeks to further our understanding of which proteins are involved in these processes in hopes of minimizing the challenges of spaceflight. Justin is in his final semester of his master's degree focused on statistics and data analysis.
Descriptors: perseverant, team player, calm, logical, outdoorsy
-------------------- Regan Lab alumni --------------------
Laurie Provençal | Project title: Effet de l’infection parasitaire sur la tolérance hypoxique et le métabolisme du crapet-soleil (Lepomis gibbosus).
Amélie Papillon | Project title: Influence of the gut microbiome on hibernation's metabolic shift in an arousing hibernator.
Mathieu Lacroix | Project title: Analyse des données protéomiques des tissu musculaire de mammifère en absence de gravité.