Professional Affiliations

• Faculté de médecine, département de psychiatrie, Université Laval
• Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University
• Director, Brain Research Center (CERVO)
• Director of Research, CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale
• Director, Center for Neurophotonics (https://neurophotonics.ca/centre/)
• Member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
• Member of the Royal Society of Canada
• Canada Research Chair in Chronic Pain and Related Neurological Disorders – Tier 1

Research axes

Biophotonics

Ongoing projects

• Neurophysiological Bases of Pain Transmission
• Improved femtosecond laser approaches for cellular imaging in live tissue
• Modeling synapses and their impact on integrative properties of neurons
• Nanotools for neuropharmacology
• NeuroPhysics: setting new frontiers in neuroscience with material sciences and photonics
• Plasticity of inhibition in spinal sensory pathways
• Transforming neuropathic pain research in Canada

Research teams

Link to professional page: https://ydklab.org/