About Heidi

I am a graduate of McGill (B.Sc ’91, Ph.D with Gordon Shore in ’96) and completed my post-doctoral training in the lab of Marino Zerial at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany in 2000. I trained in the fields of mitochondrial protein import and the molecular mechanisms of endocytosis, Rab activation and SNARE assembly. As an independent investigator, my group has focused on understanding the fundamental behaviour of the mitochondria and how they are integrated into the cellular environment.

I started my research lab at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (2000-2011), and then moved to McGill University where I am now a Full Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, with a cross appointment in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. I am honoured to teach and train an amazing and brilliant cohort of undergraduates, grad students and post-doctoral fellows, without whom there would be nothing!

At the core we are a basic cell biology lab, but we work hard to apply and test our discoveries within multiple disease paradigms; something only made possible through active, fun and enriching collaboration. Together we are a dynamic, creative and multidisciplinary team tackling the complex problems in biology.

Here is a link to my ResearchGate site. ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-2280, ResearcherID: C-1162-2008