G protein-coupled signal transduction systems

Hébert Lab, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University


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Dominic Devost
PhD-Research Associate


I recently joined Terry’s lab as a research associate. I’m primarily involved in developing BRET-based biosensors that will serve as tools to study the complexity of GPCR signalling. I have a background in Biochemistry (B.Sc at Université de Montréal, 1989) and did my graduate studies in Biomedical Sciences (Université de Montréal) first, as an MSc student with Dr. Pangala Bhat, PhD and Dr. André Lacroix, MD, PhD (IRCM, 1992) where I studied vitamin A metabolism and then as a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Jean-Marie Boutin, MD, PhD (Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, 2000) where I spent some time studying the complex regulation of the prolactin gene and its receptor signalling pathways. Finally, after earning my doctoral degree, I joined the lab of Dr. Hans Zingg, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University, studying oxytocin receptor signalling pathways in myometrial cells.