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Research
Latest papers
Splice choices at the threshold of activation: Alternative splicing fine-tunes Notch signaling in muscle stem cells.
Stem cell reports · 2026 · senior author
Navigating translational control of gene expression in satellite cells.
Current topics in developmental biology · 2024 · senior author
Transcriptional reprogramming of skeletal muscle stem cells by the niche environment.
Nature communications · 2023
Latest funding
- $967,725
A CTCF-dependent 3D genome code for cell fate specification within the somitic mesoderm
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $105,000
Interactions between GPR116 and the MuSC niche regulate MuSC quiescence and self-renewal through nuclear B-arrestin1
CIHR · 2022 · Supervisor
- $688,500
A GPR116-(beta)-arrestin1 Signaling Cascade Maintains the Muscle Stem Cell Pool Required for Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
CIHR · 2022 · Nominated PI
15 publications.
Splice choices at the threshold of activation: Alternative splicing fine-tunes Notch signaling in muscle stem cells.
Jiogo H, Crist C
Navigating translational control of gene expression in satellite cells.
Jiogo H, Crist C
Transcriptional reprogramming of skeletal muscle stem cells by the niche environment.
Lazure F, Farouni R, Sahinyan K, Blackburn DM, Hernández-Corchado A, Perron G, Lu T, Osakwe A, Ragoussis J, Crist C, Perkins TJ, Jahani-Asl A, Najafabadi HS, Soleimani VD
The adhesion G-protein-coupled receptor Gpr116 is essential to maintain the skeletal muscle stem cell pool.
Sénéchal C, Fujita R, Jamet S, Maiga A, Dort J, Orfi Z, Dumont NA, Bouvier M, Crist C
The mitochondrial protein OPA1 regulates the quiescent state of adult muscle stem cells.
Baker N, Wade S, Triolo M, Girgis J, Chwastek D, Larrigan S, Feige P, Fujita R, Crist C, Rudnicki MA, Burelle Y, Khacho M
ERK3-MK5 signaling regulates myogenic differentiation and muscle regeneration by promoting FoxO3 degradation.
Soulez M, Tanguay PL, Dô F, Dort J, Crist C, Kotlyarov A, Gaestel M, Ferron M, Dumont NA, Meloche S
Muscle stem cell adaptations to cellular and environmental stress.
Gugliuzza MV, Crist C
Satellite cell expansion is mediated by P-eIF2α-dependent Tacc3 translation.
Fujita R, Jamet S, Lean G, Cheng HCM, Hébert S, Kleinman CL, Crist C
Lineage Tracing Reveals a Subset of Reserve Muscle Stem Cells Capable of Clonal Expansion under Stress.
Scaramozza A, Park D, Kollu S, Beerman I, Sun X, Rossi DJ, Lin CP, Scadden DT, Crist C, Brack AS
Slow Your Roll: Inhibiting SETD7 Activity Permits Ex Vivo Expansion of Muscle Stem Cells.
Fujita R, Crist C
A CTCF-dependent 3D genome code for cell fate specification within the somitic mesoderm
Principal investigators: Crist, Colin
Keywords: Ccctc Binding Factor (Ctcf); Cell Fate Specification; Development; Epigenetics; Gene Expression; Genetics; Myogenesis; Somitic Mesoderm
Interactions between GPR116 and the MuSC niche regulate MuSC quiescence and self-renewal through nuclear B-arrestin1
Principal investigators: Senechal, Charlotte B
Keywords: Adhesion Gpcr; Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; G-Protein Coupled Receptors; Muscle Stem Cell; Musculoskeletal Regeneration; Stachel Peptides
A GPR116-(beta)-arrestin1 Signaling Cascade Maintains the Muscle Stem Cell Pool Required for Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
Principal investigators: Crist, Colin
Keywords: Adhesion Gpcr; B-Arrestin1; Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; G-Protein Coupled Receptor (Gpcr); Genetics; Muscle Regeneration; Muscle Stem Cell; Satellite Cell
Selective Translation of mRNA Regulates Muscle Stem Cell Activity
Principal investigators: Crist, Colin
Keywords: Muscle Disease; Muscle Stem Cells; Regeneration; Skeletal Muscle Regeneration; Stem Cells; Translational Control Of Gene Expression
Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Activity by microRNA and Cytoplasmic mRNP Granules
Principal investigators: Crist, Colin
Keywords: Genetics; Microrna; Muscular Dystrophy; Regeneration; Satellite Cell; Skeletal Muscle; Stem Cell
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Mireille Khacho and Yan Burelle: 5 shared papers
- Colin Crist and Mathieu Ferron: 1 shared paper
- Colin Crist and Sylvain Meloche: 1 shared paper
- Colin Crist and Mireille Khacho: 1 shared paper
- Colin Crist and Yan Burelle: 1 shared paper
- Colin Crist and Arezu Jahani-Asl: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Ferron and Sylvain Meloche: 1 shared paper
- Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
- Institut de recherche en immunologie et cancer
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Mathieu Ferron
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Sylvain Meloche
Institut de recherche en immunologie et cancer
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Mireille Khacho
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Yan Burelle
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Arezu Jahani-Asl
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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