Département de microbiologie et d'infectiologie
Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé
Université de Sherbrooke

Dr. Chabot obtained his PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1986 under the supervision of Joan A. Steitz. He subsequently trained with Alan Bernstein at the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute in Toronto as a K.M. Hunter Research Fellow (NCIC). In 1988, he joined the Département de microbiologie in the Faculté de médecine of the Université de Sherbrooke where he was appointed Head of Department from 1999 to 2008. His research has been supported by Medical Research Council of Canada, now the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the National Cancer Institute of Canada, among others.

Dr. Chabot's research focuses on the mechanisms of alternative RNA splicing and its relevance to a variety of biological processes including apoptosis, cancer and evolution. From 2000 to 2005, Dr Chabot has also been involved as co-founder and president in a small biotechnology company working on telomere function. Over the years, his research was used to mentor more than 40 young investigators whose scientific discoveries have been published in journals that include Genes & Development, Nature Genetics, EMBO Journal and PLoS Biology. Dr Chabot is on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Biology and has served on national and international scientific granting panels. In 2001, Dr. Chabot received the Canada Research Chair in Functional Genomics and, in 2007, he has been elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy for Health Sciences.