Manager

Khalil Bouyakdan

Khalil Bouyakdan

PhD

The core facility offers a range of services unique in Canada for the study of carbohydrate and energy metabolism in rodents such as routine tolerance tests (glucose, lipids, pyruvate, insulin) and metabolic cages.

The platform also has exceptional expertise in performing hyperglycemic clamps as well as Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps, which are more informative than tolerance test.

Our expertise covers:

  • research projects carried out at the cellular or tissue level and on animals,
  • complete metabolic phenotyping of genetically modified rodents,
  • evaluation of the effect of pharmacological or molecular interventions on carbohydrate and/or energy metabolism in healthy rodent models or in obese or diabetic models.

All surgical procedures, metabolic tests, dosing and data analyses are carried out by our staff.

Our team

Khalil Bouyakdan

Khalil Bouyakdan

PhD

Manager

Mélanie Éthier

Mélanie Éthier

AHT

Specialist

CO

Carlo Ouellet

AHT

Specialist

Thierry ALQUIER

Thierry Alquier

PhD

Scientific Advisor

In figures

  • > 15 services offered to the CHUM scientific community and beyond

    > 25 teams, of which > 10 were external, benefited from multiple projects

    > 35 scientific publications in which the core facility is involved

    2009 year of entry into service