From October 21 to 23, 2024, Vincent Mooser and Claire Le Moigne attended the 2024 CERC/C150 Symposium hosted by the University of Sherbrooke. This is the 2nd edition of a symposium which was first organized by McGill in June 2021. This event was made possible through a collaboration between the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS) and the UdeS. This conference was gathering CERC and C150 chairholders, CERC team members and employees involved in CERC/C150 application, management and reporting from many Universities in Canada.
Other colleagues from McGill committed with the CERC in Genomic Medicine were also attending the conference:
Kristina Öhrvall, Assistant Vice-President, Research Development: CERC Oversight Committee and CERC EDI-in-Action committee member
Magdalena Maslowska, Senior Advisor, Research Development (Biomedical and Health Sciences): CERC EDI-in-Action committee member.
Vincent Mooser chaired a Panel discussion on Preparing the Chairholder for the Canadian Research Environment with the following panelists:
Sara Hart, Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Developmental Science, University of Waterloo
Shinichi Nakagawa, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Open Science and Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution, University of Alberta
Sriram Subramaniam, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Precision Cancer Drug Design, University of British Columbia
Kristina Öhrvall also shared the knowledge and good practices from McGill University during the Panel discussion titled Life Post CERC-C150 - Transitioning out of a CERC or C150.