Heidi McBride

Heidi is a graduate of McGill (B.Sc ’91, Ph.D with Gordon Shore in ’96) and completed post-doctoral training in the lab of Marino Zerial at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany in 2000. She trained in the fields of mitochondrial protein import and the molecular mechanisms of endocytosis, Rab activation and SNARE assembly. As an independent investigator, her group has focused on understanding the fundamental behaviour of the mitochondria and how they are integrated into the cellular environment. She started her independent career at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (2000-2011), and then moved to McGill University where she is now a Full Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery within the Rare Neurological Disease Group at the Montreal Neurological Institute.