The Berman lab focuses on using the zebrafish as a model organism to study hematopoiesis and oncogenesis to search for novel cancer treatments.

Ottawa, Ontario
Based in Canada
We are so very grateful for the continued support from @Phoeberoserocks - today @CHEO received a very generous donation to help support @TerryFoxPROFYLE research! We are very thankful to be involved with this ground-breaking research program! 🧪🧬🐠
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We are very proud of our Honours student Catherine who presented her work looking at the role of the NND1 fusion in pediatric AML at the @uOttawaTMM poster day today! Great job Catherine and all students who presented! 🐠🔬🧬
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Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay ! Together we work to raise awareness about the need for cancer research. We are very proud to contribute to the research to improve quality of life and reduce the number of individuals with cancer #Zebrafish #CancerResearch
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Congratulations to our summer student, Lissandra Tuzi, for winning the first place Prize at the Serge Taillon Summer Studentship Research Day! Lissandra won this award for her presentation on LFS and for displaying excellence in research. Keep up the great work! 🐟🔬 #CHEORI
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We were able to sneak away from lab for the day to hit the slopes! Had an awesome time skiing at @CampFortune! 🐠⛷🏂
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Today is #RareDiseaseDay! We are raising awareness for the millions of individuals affected worldwide and we are very proud to contribute to research being conducted on several of these diseases using #zebrafish
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Berman lab acknowledging #NationalTruthandReconciliationDay with orange shirts and donuts
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Happy holidays to everyone from the Berman lab!! Also, big congrats to Sergey who was awarded the @CHEO Research Institute "Research Mentor of the Year" at the annual award party last week, well deserved!!
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Amazing overview of the @TerryFoxPROFYLE project this morning at @cheo grand rounds by the Ottawa PROFYLE team followed by a very generous donation by @Phoeberoserocks to support this project. We are so very grateful for their continued support!
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Making full use of our new “Ferrari” Mastercycler #genotyping 🐠🐠🐠
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Big things happening in Ottawa for the Berman lab - sign is officially up! 🐠 🔬 🧬
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Happy birthday KiKi!!! Another trip around the sun ☀️🥳🎂🎂
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AMAZING talk by our PhD candidate Jaime, talking about using the zebrafish to model recovery of cisplatin induced toxicities 🐟💊🔬
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Graduate student Keon talking about infant leukaemia at yesterday’s poster session!!! #CreLox #allthefish #ZDM12 #Boston #Zebrafish 🐟🧠 @Phoeberoserocks
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Anna presenting at the trainee pre-meeting yesterday morning! #ZDM12 #Boston 🐟🐟🐟
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Excellent talk by Olivia at ZDM conference today, talking about low energy radiation and nanoparticles 👀🐟😍
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The spinal cord and brain of adult zebrafish dissected by our favourite micro-dissector, Lucia!!🧠🐟🔬
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Berman lab takes the wall!!! 🧗🏽‍♀️🧗🏽‍♂️
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Lab kicking #hfxburgerweek off at the Goat!!!! 🐐🍔
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Happy birthday @jaimewestman we love you!!!! #poundcakeallaround ❤️❤️
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Feelin the love in the BermanLab today 🍬💗💓💜❣️🎀🍭🍬 #vday #DateSquares #cakecakecake
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So happy to have Berman lab part of the @Phoeberoserocks event this weekend! Thanks to our amazing graduate student Keon Collett for presenting and being part of this organization 🐟🐟
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September is off to a great start in the Berman lab! All the treats to keep the research flowing 🍪🍩🍫
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Lab meeting cake tutorials with Stew!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
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Friday’s are for World Cup!!!! ⚽️🏆
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WEDNESDAYS ARE FOR LAB ICE CREAM!!! 🍦#dairybarhfx
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Bringing the Lab fashion to the next level #fallcollection
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Everyday is injection day at the Berman Lab- zebrafish larvae injected with fluorescent red labelled pancreatic cancer cells 💉🐟
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Congratulations to Melissa Richardson for completing her MsC!! We’re all very proud of you 🙌🏼 bon voyage!!🇫🇷
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Twinning days are the best days #BermSquad
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Ready. Aim. Fire!!! Not ready for Nick to leave us next week😫👨🏽‍🔬🔫 #stayoutofmyhood
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