Student and Employment opportunities

PhD and Master’s Students:

Currently, we are looking to hire highly motivated graduate students to join our team. If you are detail oriented, organized, and would like a challenging and rewarding experience as a graduate student, we want to hear from you. The application should include a curriculum vitae, copies of degrees and grades, contact details of two references and a short description of the applicant and his/her experience. Letters(s) of recommendation may also be included.

Volunteer Positions:

We are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would like to obtain experience in a laboratory setting. Please be in touch if you are interested in a volunteer position.

Training Environment:

The University of Sherbrooke, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, is an exceptional environment that fosters communication and collaboration amongst its members and has faculty members actively involved in research into neurodegenerative diseases, developmental neurobiology, behaviour, bioinformatics among numerous other disciplines. The trainee will have exposure to, and attend lectures presented by, the Centre de Neuroscience a Sherbrooke and the Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement (CDRV) of which Dr Graham is a member, student lectures in the Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics and clinical lectures as part of the Clinical Research Center. As the University of Sherbrooke is a highly interdisciplinary group and encourages collaboration, there will be important personnel support for the candidate both within the Graham laboratory and from other laboratories in the research wing.

In my laboratory I place a strong emphasis on the training of personnel, both technicians and trainees as these are the next generation of independent scientists. An important aspect of the training program is learning new laboratory skills, designing experiments, developing scientific methods and in knowledge translation. Their work in the laboratory will form a critical part of the student’s education and fundamentally contribute to their development as successful and independent professionals. The instruction the trainee will obtain will also include skills for organization, presentation, experimental designs, and communication in addition to the training on the bench.

The training will also consist of organizing and coordinating worldwide collaborations with academic and industrial research partners. These collaborations will provide the trainee the opportunity to meet with individuals with different ideas and expertise, and enable them to establish a network of individuals that they may interact with for present and future endeavours. Submitting abstracts and attending conferences (national and international) and workshops will also form an important part of their training experience.