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IRIC celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Published on February 26, 2026
On February 21, IRIC was present at the Montreal Science Centre for Women and Girls in Science Day. This event provides an opportunity to meet passionate women working in a wide range of fields, from technology to the environment, health to aerospace.
More than a dozen students from the Institute were on hand to lead science workshops on the genetics of bitterness, DNA extraction from strawberries, and observation of a model organism: Drosophila.
Many participants visited the IRIC booth to interact with our outstanding science communicators!
Thanks to:
Agathe Descours, doctoral student, Michel Bouvier’s laboratory
Cassandra Gbaboua, doctoral student, Brian Wilhelm’s laboratory
Claire Baudouin, doctoral student, Gregory Emery’s laboratory
Eralda Kina, doctoral student, Claude Perreault’s laboratory
Fanny-Mei Cloarec-Ung, doctoral student, David Knapp’s laboratory
Gabrielle Martineau, doctoral student, Guy Sauvageau’s laboratory
Johanna Guerry, doctoral student, David Knapp’s laboratory
Léa Christophe, PhD student, Pierre Thibault’s laboratory
Lena Herbold, master’s student, Olivier Mailhot’s laboratory
Lina Elouassouli, PhD student, Gregory Emery’s laboratory
Maëlle Batardière, master’s student, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh’s laboratory
Malak Lahrichi, master’s student, Philippe Roux’s laboratory
Mélanie Lemaire, PhD student, François Major’s laboratory
