Nadine Provençal
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BSc, Biology, 2004, Université Laval PhD, Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Epigenetics), 2013, McGill University |
| Thesis | The methylome of early adversity and aggression (2013) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Simon Fraser University |
Nadine Provençal is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University and Investigator at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. In 2020, she was recognized by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) with an appointment to CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar.
Early life and education
[edit]Provençal earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Montreal's Université Laval before enrolling at McGill University for her PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Upon receiving her PhD, Provençal completed her postdoctoral training at the Université de Montréal and accepted a research fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to complete a second postdoctoral training at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry (MPIP) in Germany.[1] While completing her second postdoctoral training, she received a $50,000 grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Research Fellowship to focus on neuronal cellular models with multiple tissues from non-human primates also exposed to glucocorticoid activation.[2]
Career
[edit]In 2018, Provençal was recruited for a joint appointment at Simon Fraser University faculty of Health Sciences and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Alongside Faranak Farzan and William Odom, she received $450,000 through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund to study exposure to early life stress.[3] Provençal later led a study titled Glucocorticoid exposure during hippocampal neurogenesis primes future stress response by inducing changes in DNA methylation which found that when fetuses are exposures to stress during pregnancy by the mother, it affects them later in life.[4][5] She also received $300,000 to open a new laboratory at SFU called Epigenomics of Developmental Trajectories, which would include sequencing platform capable of analyzing the entire genome of multiple individuals.[6]
In 2020, Provençal was recognized by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) with an appointment to CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nadine Provençal". sfu.ca. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
- ^ Schlee, Anke (October 9, 2015). "Canadian Institute for Health Research fellowship: Epigenetic effects in stress-related disorders". psych.mpg.de. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
- ^ "New eBrain Centre, 'Homeware' Lab to be created at SFU Surrey campus". sfu.ca. April 11, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- ^ Kotyk, Alyse (August 19, 2019). "Feeling stressed? It could be tied to your mom's mood during pregnancy". bc.ctvnews.ca. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
- ^ "New research findings could explain why prenatal stress exposure increases vulnerability to stress later in life". sfu.ca. August 19, 2019. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
- ^ "Nadine Provençal, au cœur du génome". thelasource.com (in French). June 12, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
- ^ "Newly named global scholar to study "how stress gets under skin" of children". sfu.ca. August 12, 2020. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Nadine Provençal publications indexed by Google Scholar
