Team
Here are the current and past members of our team. If you are interested in joining, please visit the Opportunities page.
Matt Regan (he/him)
Principal investigator
Matt is an integrative biologist who investigates how animals balance their energy economies to sustain life. He spends a surprising amount of time rolling over logs in search of animals and scanning the night sky for celestial objects. As lab PI, he's got his hands in all projects in some way or other. BScH Queen's University, MSc and PhD University of British Columbia, Postdoc University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Descriptors: student, musician, father, modernist, multi-enthusiast.
B-6423 Complexe des sciences, Campus MIL
Lucine Gonnet
PhD student/researcher
Lucine is a student investigating the role of the gut microbiome in hibernation in 13-lined ground squirrels. Her research combines proteomics, metabolomics, and physiological approaches to understand how microbial interactions influence muscle maintenance, energy metabolism, and seasonal torpor-arousal cycles. Her work integrates lab and field studies, aiming to uncover mechanisms that allow hibernators to survive prolonged fasting and inactivity while maintaining tissue function, with potential implications for human health.
Descriptors: curious, crafty, engaged, empathetic.
Clara Mouliot
PhD student/researcher
Clara is working on hibernation metabolism across multiple biological levels. Her project investigates the contribution of the gut microbiome to mitochondrial function and its link to space radiation in hibernating 13-lined ground squirrels. She completed her MSc in Brittany, France, including an internship in New Zealand focused on mitochondrial function in microgravity.
Descriptors: joyous, curious, rigorous, attentive, empathic, dynamic.
Alexandre Goudreau
MSc student/researcher
Passionate about aquatic life, Alexandre is a student working to better understand the underlying processes and mechanisms of hypoxic metabolic depression. To do so, he conducts experiments on the champion of hypoxia tolerance, namely the goldfish (Carassius auratus), by using calorespirometry to measure its metabolism under anoxia. He is in his final semester of the baccalaureat degree and conducts his experiment in the context of the Honors program.
Descriptors: passionate, curious, caring, meticulous, enthusiastic, devoted.
-------------------- Regan Lab alumni --------------------
Rémi Chauvette | Project title: L'effet temporel de l'infection parasitaire sur le métabolisme et la tolérance hypoxique du crapet-soleil.
Justin Sabetti | Projects title: (1) Contributions du microbiome intestinal au métabolome musculaire pendant les différentes phases de l'hibernation; (2) Le métabolisme des microbes intestinales comme un mécanisme de la résistance à l'atrophie musculaire chez les mammifères hibernants; (3) Comment les infections parasitaires naturelles affectent- elles le métabolisme et la tolérance à l'hypoxie des poissons?
Sophie Bourgeault | Project title: Contraste entre la perte de protéines musculaires liée à la microgravité et la préservation des protéines musculaires liée à l'hibernation.
Evan Ricou | Project title: Contributions du microbiome intestinal au métabolome cæcal pendant les différentes phases de l'hibernation.
Abdul Aziz Mourad | Project title: Contributions du microbiome intestinal au métabolome hépatique pendant les différentes phases de l'hibernation.
Jade Gastine | Project title: Contributions anaérobiques au taux métabolique standard chez Carassius auratus : Approche expérimentale.
Esther Meritxell Lanaspa Pérez | Project title: Effet de l'infection des parasites trématodes sur la tolérance hypoxique des crapets soleil.
Laurie Provençal | Project title: Effet de l’infection parasitaire sur la tolérance hypoxique et le métabolisme du crapet-soleil (Lepomis gibbosus).
Amélie Papillon | Project title: Influence of the gut microbiome on hibernation's metabolic shift in an arousing hibernator.
Mathieu Lacroix | Project title: Analyse des données protéomiques des tissu musculaire de mammifère en absence de gravité.