McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine

The mission of our Canada Excellence Research Chair at McGill university: harness the power of genomics to support the discovery of new therapeutics.

[Satoshi Yoshiji @SatoshiYoshiji]

📣 We are hiring!
Yoshiji Lab at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) is recruiting for 2 fully funded positions: 1 PhD student & postdoc
✅️You will use human genetics, proteomics, and multi-omics for drug target discovery and precision medicine in cardiometabolic diseases (and beyond!)

✅️You will analyze biobank-scale data, including:
UK Biobank (500K individuals), NIH All of Us (440K), CLSA (26K), and McGill-based BioPortal, which we co-lead (3K with 5,400 protein measurements).
See our recent publications to learn more.

✅️You will join a growing team of great colleagues: 5 PhD students, 1 MSc student, 1 visiting professor, and 1 visiting graduate trainee.
You will also be part of active international collaborations (ongoing ones include Broad/Harvard, UCSD, Stanford, Kyoto, Uppsala, and the Type 2 Diabetes Global Genetics Consortium).

Interested? Let’s talk! Please reach out via https://t.co/jwfELENOGP

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

📢 The 1st edition of the AEG2C Symposium on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Genomics in 2022.
The Report Summary is now available at https://t.co/wCvnR9t2q2
📅 Save the date: AEG2C returns Oct 19–20, 2026. Stay tuned!
#Genomics #EDI #HealthEquity #GeneticResearch

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

🎉 Huge congratulations to Hongyu Xiao and Daniel Taliun for their new Nature Genetics publication on PheWeb2!
Their brief paper highlights major advances in exploring stratified GWAS results.
👉 https://t.co/P34EuCnPEQ
#Genetics #Genomics #GWAS #Bioinformatics #NatureGenetics

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

Fall 2026 session (September 2026)
The forms to submit your application of interest for joining the CERC team in September are out ! Claude Bhérer, Satoshi Yoshiji and Raquel Cuella Martin are currently recruiting students. https://t.co/AX45o3C97B

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

CERC team came together for a warm and engaging Greet and Meet event to mark the beginning of the 2025–2026 academic year. The afternoon was filled with food, presentations, and meaningful conversations among students, staff, and principal investigators. https://t.co/k7F7ZonF99

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

Human Genetics Research Day 2025 – A Resounding Success! — CERC members showcased their work through poster presentations, 3-minute flash talks, and 12-minute oral oral presentations.
https://t.co/z000ZN2dWt

[Raquel Cuella Martin @raquel_cuella]

CRISPR-BEasy, our web tool for designing tiling libraries for base editing screens, was published last Friday in NAR (sorry, I am late).
Goal: To make base editing screens accesible to all!
Quick thread below with key features
https://t.co/PzsNP3v6od
https://t.co/7JcsKTo2dx

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

A successful Day of Learning, Sharing, and Connection!
- CERC Scientific Retreat 2025 - Integrating EDI in Research : Principles and Practices, organized by Dr. Bhérer, and Mayumi Y along with the Retreat’s Committee members, was held on June 16th, 2025. https://t.co/ZGTE2UaDlM

[Chen-Yang Su @chenyangsu]

Deeply honored to attend a panel discussion and present at the Quebec Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Conference.

Heard amazing talks and had great discussions with Mark Daly, Judy Cho, Corinne Maurice, and Martin Pelletier.

Thanks to John Rioux for the invitation!

[McGill Research + Innovation @McGill_VPRI]

Congratulations to @mcgill human genetics Professor @SiruiZhou for winning the @BantingResearch's 2025 Discovery Award for innovative biomedical health research projects!🏅

Her research on Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome will pave the way for better care.

https://t.co/uxgUmxeE7r

[Raquel Cuella Martin @raquel_cuella]

When we started thinking of CRISPR-dependent base editing as a potential therapeutic strategy to correct a mutation causing an ultra-rare monogenic disorder we did not quite know where to start!! (1/3)

https://t.co/ePQGI6XBMa

[Satoshi Yoshiji @SatoshiYoshiji]

📣Excited to share our paper in @NatureGenet!
https://t.co/jUbE3DtK60

Do plasma proteins mediate obesity’s effect on CAD risk?
→Using two-step proteome-wide MR, domain-aware MR, epigenomics & scRNA-seq, we prioritized endotrophin as a mediator & potential therapeutic target
A 🧵

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

Congratulations to @raquel_cuella, CERC PI, who was awarded a Gairdner Early Career Investigator Award and will be presenting her work today at the Gairdner Science Week 2024 events in Toronto. https://t.co/kZQ19Ml484

[Raquel Cuella Martin @raquel_cuella]

What an honour to be part of this cohort of Gairdner ECI Awardees. Just amazing! Thanks @GairdnerAwards and @landrychristian, I hope to live up to it!

[Raquel Cuella Martin @raquel_cuella]

Recruiting for a postdoctoral position with the amazing
@MelicharLab! A super exciting and challenging project... makes me want to be a postdoc again!

https://t.co/LyhkOno7Gz

[Claude Bhérer @claudebherer]

The Pan-Canadian Genome Library Initiative is hiring a EDI advisor! Come with us at McGill! More information here: https://t.co/oy94kBX8r0

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

We’re #hiring a project administrator for a maternity/parental leave replacement: https://t.co/B9w77m9Ldq. Know anyone who might be interested? #genetics #Genomics #genome #mcgilluniversity #mcgill #university

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

Nous #recrutons un.e https://t.co/1SFcUauGJL de projet pour un remplacement de congé maternité/parental: https://t.co/MeCTwWfn1X. N'hésitez pas à partager l'offre! #génétique #génomique #mcgill #mcgilluniversity #university

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

We’re #hiring a post-doc in T cell engineering: https://t.co/Tny9zZZfCD. Know anyone who might be interested? #genetics #Genomics #genome #mcgilluniversity #mcgill #university #genomeediting #molecularbiology

[McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine @GenMedCERC]

Nous #recrutons un post-doc en ingénierie des cellules T: https://t.co/XqRz7Q1Sg1. N'hésitez pas à partager l'offre! #génétique #génomique #mcgill #mcgilluniversity #university