In the rapidly changing landscape of science, the RQR evolves continually to remain at the forefront of the field of reproductive and developmental biology. To maintain our momentum, promote interaction and the sharing of cutting-edge science, the RQR organizes a yearly two-day Symposium on the Frontiers in Reproductive Research.

Symposium 2025

The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to the 18th RQR symposium. It will be held in Quebec city (Hilton Québec) from October 20st to 22nd, 2025.

To register and find out more about the conference program, visit: https://event.fourwaves.com/419e6757-2078-4a83-8a1f-6f3c45c621f8/pages

We look forward to seeing you there!

Symposium 2024

Many thanks to all the participants of the 18th RQR Symposium.

Congratulations to all the winners of the Awards of Excellence.

Oral presentations:

  • MSc : Chika Onochie (McGillU)
  • PhD : Aurore Lebourg (INRS), Natalia Jakuc (UdeM), Claire Lin (McGillU), Laureline Charrier (UdeM)
  • Postdocs : Ricardo Pericin Nociti (UdeM)

Poster presentations:

  • MSc : Florence Préfontaine (ULaval)
  • PhD : Hailey Schultz (McGillU)
  • Postdocs : Laurie Pinel (McGillU)

Knowledge transfer

  • William Poisson (Université Laval, candidat au PhD)
  • Aurore Lebourg (INRS, candidate au PhD)
  • Serge McGraw (UdeM, Professeur)

Many thanks to the guest speakers

  • Abdoulaye Diallo (UQAM)
  • Hayda Almeida (UQAM)
  • Vahid Naghashi (UQAM)
  • Armand Massoua (UQAM)
  • Evan Buddle (McGillU)
  • Peter Hansen (Past SSR president, University of Florida, FL, USA)
  • Anne-Simone Parent (University of Liege, Belgium)
  • Jacob Hanna (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israël)
  • Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University, NS, Canada)
  • Rita Vassena (University of Barcelona, Fecundis, Spain)

Many thanks to the trainees committee

  • Guillaume Bourdon (Université de Montréal, postdoctorant)
  • Antoine Gillet (INRS, candidate au PhD)
  • Florine Grudet (Université de Montréal, candidate au PhD)
  • Natalia Jakuc (Université de Montréal, candidate au PhD)
  • Jairo Penagos (Université de Montréal, candidat à la maîtrise)
  • William Poisson (Université Laval, candidat au PhD)
  • Shaden Salimi (McGill University, candidate à la maîtrise)

Many thanks to the judges

  • Sylvie Breton (ULaval)
  • Raj Duggavathi (McGillU)
  • Alexandre Boyer (UdeM)
  • Bernard Robaire (McGillU)
  • Robert Viger (ULaval)
  • Derek Boerboom (UdeM)
  • Clémence Belleannée
  • Christopher Price (UdeM)
  • Hugh Clarke (McGillU)
  • Karine Dufresne (UQAM)
  • Guillaume Bourdon (UdeM)
  • Julie Brind’Amour (UdeM)
  • Gustavo Zamberlam (UdeM)
  • Makoto Nagano (McGillU)
  • Daniel Dufort (McGillU)

Many thanks to the chairs

  • Marc-André Sirard (ULaval)
  • Anthony Estienne (UdeM)
  • Guillaume Bourdon (UdeM)
  • Serge McGraw (UdeM)
  • Thomas Dupas (UdeM)
  • Bernard Robaire (McGillU)
  • Clémence Belleannée (ULaval)
  • Hugh Clarke (McGillU)
  • Christopher Price (UdeM)
  • Filip Vasilev (UdeM)

Finally, our thanks go to the administration, steering and scientific committees, the organizing committee and the volunteers.

Some memories here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/89195907/admin/page-posts/published/

Symposium 2023

The 16th RQR symposium was held from October 18th to 20th, 2023 at Hôtel Le Concorde in Quebec City.

Another huge success. Thank you to all those who attended in person, and remotely.

The winners of oral presentations were:

  1. Diego Arturo Camacho Hernandez (MSc candidate, Dr. Serge McGraw’s lab, UdeM)
  2. Clémentine Marie (PhD candidate, Dr. Stéphanie Chauvin’s lab, INSERM, Université de Paris, GDR Repro)
  3. Hélène Pinatel (PhD candidate, Dr. Cathy Vaillancourt’s lab, INRS)
  4. Céline Augière (Postdoc fellow, Dr. Clémence Belleannée’s lab, ULaval)

The winners of poster presentations were:

  1. Dina Irsenco (MSc candidate, Dr. Clémence Belleannée’s lab, ULaval)
  2. Lisa-Marie Legault (PhD candidate, Dr. Serge McGraw’s lab, UdeM)
  3. Gabriel Campolina-Silva (Postdoc fellow, Dr. Clémence Belleannée’s lab, ULaval)

The winners of the KT competition were:

  1. Véronique Ouellet (ULaval)
  2. Keerthana Harwalkar (PhD candidate, Dr. Yojiro Yamanaka’s lab, McGillU)

The winner of the EDI recognition award was:

  1. Keerthana Harwalkar (Candidate au PhD, Dr. Yojiro Yamanaka’s lab, McGillU)

The winners of the EDIcebreaker draw were:

  1. Clémence Belleannée (ULaval)
  2. Natalia Jakuc (PhD candidate, Dr. Gustavo Zamberlam’s lab, UdeM)

Last but not least, a big thank you to all the volunteers and kind-hearted souls who spared no effort to make the event so beautiful and harmonious, and who will recognize themselves in the process.

Memories: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/r%C3%A9seau-qu%C3%A9becois-en-reproduction?trk=organization_guest_main-feed-card_feed-actor-image

Symposium 2022

Many thanks to the organizing committee, the guest speakers, the members and all the students for the successful symposium.

The winners of the oral presentations were:

  • Ariane Lapointe-Belleau (MSc, ULaval)
  • Karen Freire Carvalho (PhD, McGillU)
  • Camilla Hughes (Postdoc, UdeMontréal)

The winners of the poster presentations were:

  • Youngmin Song (MSc, McGillU)
  • Antoine Gillet (PhD, INRS)
  • Karine Doiron (Postdoc, UdeMontréal)

The winner of the knowledge transfer award was: Dr Serge McGraw (UdeMontréal)

Memories down below…

Past meetings: