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Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe

ResearcherBiologyMcGill University

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Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe

Researcher

Biology

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (8 NSERC, 3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2015.

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Research

Dna Replication Genome Integrity Single-Molecule Microscopy Chromosome Budding Yeast Dna Damage Response Dna Repair Dna-Protein Binding Kinetics

Latest papers

Size Matters: A Biophysical Perspective on Biomolecular Condensates in Bacteria.
Annual review of biophysics · 2026
Genome integrity relies on rapid recycling of DNA Pol III in bacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025 · senior author
The Rtf1/Prf1-dependent histone modification axis counteracts multi-drug resistance in fission yeast.
Life science alliance · 2024

All 24 publications

Latest funding

Upgrades to fluorescence microscopes for quantitative live-cell imaging
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$135,074
Elucidating the response to DNA damage at the replication fork
CIHR · 2021 · Nominated PI
$761,176
Timing the bacterial replisome in live cells
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$192,000

All 13 grants and awards

24 publications.

Size Matters: A Biophysical Perspective on Biomolecular Condensates in Bacteria.

Hodgins L, Parmar BS, Reyes-Lamothe R, Weber SC

Annual review of biophysics2026

DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-021424-010232 PMID: 41385797

Genome integrity relies on rapid recycling of DNA Pol III in bacteria.

Rascón Pérez JP, d'Acoz OD, Soubry N, Xu W, Singh Parmar B, Weber SC, Reyes-Lamothe R

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2511725122 PMID: 41264243

The Rtf1/Prf1-dependent histone modification axis counteracts multi-drug resistance in fission yeast.

Chen JJ, Moy C, Pagé V, Monnin C, El-Hajj ZW, Avizonis DZ, Reyes-Lamothe R, Tanny JC

Life science alliance2024

DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302494 PMID: 38514187

Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase type Ib to amikacin resistance.

d'Udekem d'Acoz O, Hue F, Ye T, Wang L, Leroux M, Rajngewerc L, Tran T, Phan K, Ramirez MS, Reisner W, Tolmasky ME, Reyes-Lamothe R

mSphere2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00789-23 PMID: 38353533

Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase type Ib [AAC(6')-Ib] to amikacin resistance.

d'Acoz OD, Hue F, Ye T, Wang L, Leroux M, Rajngewerc L, Tran T, Phan K, Ramirez MS, Reisner W, Tolmasky ME, Reyes-Lamothe R

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.05.556435 PMID: 38168340

RNA polymerase II dynamics and mRNA stability feedback scale mRNA amounts with cell size.

Swaffer MP, Marinov GK, Zheng H, Fuentes Valenzuela L, Tsui CY, Jones AW, Greenwood J, Kundaje A, Greenleaf WJ, Reyes-Lamothe R, Skotheim JM

Cell2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.012 PMID: 37944513

Characterizing interaction of multiple nanocavity confined plasmids in presence of large DNA model nucleoid.

Liu Z, Christensen SM, Capaldi X, Hosseini SI, Zeng L, Zhang Y, Reyes-Lamothe R, Reisner W

Soft matter2023

DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00491k PMID: 37599597

Confinement anisotropy drives polar organization of two DNA molecules interacting in a nanoscale cavity.

Liu Z, Capaldi X, Zeng L, Zhang Y, Reyes-Lamothe R, Reisner W

Nature communications2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31398-x PMID: 35902565

Dynamics of Proteins and Macromolecular Machines in Escherichia coli.

Leroux M, Soubry N, Reyes-Lamothe R

EcoSal Plus2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.esp-0011-2020 PMID: 34060908

Bound2Learn: a machine learning approach for classification of DNA-bound proteins from single-molecule tracking experiments.

Kapadia N, El-Hajj ZW, Reyes-Lamothe R

Nucleic acids research2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab186 PMID: 33744965

Upgrades to fluorescence microscopes for quantitative live-cell imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2025Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

Keywords: fluorescence microscopy; live-cell imaging; bacteria; yeast; chromosomes; single-molecule microscopy; liquid-liquid phase separation

$135,074

Elucidating the response to DNA damage at the replication fork

Nominated PICIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

Keywords: Budding Yeast; Dna Damage Response; Dna Repair; Dna Replication; Dna-Protein Binding Kinetics; Genome Integrity; Single-Molecule Microscopy

$761,176

Timing the bacterial replisome in live cells

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: ReyesLamothe, Rodrigo

$192,000

Mechanisms and implications of fast turnover in the DNA replication machinery of bacteria

Nominated PICIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

Keywords: Bacteria; Chromosome; Dna Replication; Genome Integrity; Live-Cell Fluorescence Microscopy; Single-Molecule Microscopy

$765,000

Chromosome Biology

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

$200,000

Chromosome Biology

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: ReyesLamothe, Rodrigo

$200,000

Chromosome Biology

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

$100,000

Super-resolution imaging of ORC and MCM binding dynamics in live yeast cells

SupervisorCIHR2015Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Principal investigators: Yu, Angela

Keywords: Characterization; Dna Replication; Firing; Live Cells; Origin; Replication; Spatiotemporal; Yeast

$6,000

Bioengineering Facility for Confocal Rheology

Co-investigatorNSERC2015Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Ehrlicher, Allen

$150,000

Shining light on the architecture and dynamics of the eukaryotic replisome

Nominated PICIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

Keywords: Biochemistry; Chromosome; Dna Replication; Genome Integrity; Saccharomyces Cerevisiae; Single-Molecule Microscopy

$671,219

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe

Research

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Latest funding

Size Matters: A Biophysical Perspective on Biomolecular Condensates in Bacteria.

Genome integrity relies on rapid recycling of DNA Pol III in bacteria.

The Rtf1/Prf1-dependent histone modification axis counteracts multi-drug resistance in fission yeast.

Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase type Ib to amikacin resistance.

Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase type Ib [AAC(6')-Ib] to amikacin resistance.

RNA polymerase II dynamics and mRNA stability feedback scale mRNA amounts with cell size.

Characterizing interaction of multiple nanocavity confined plasmids in presence of large DNA model nucleoid.

Confinement anisotropy drives polar organization of two DNA molecules interacting in a nanoscale cavity.

Dynamics of Proteins and Macromolecular Machines in Escherichia coli.

Bound2Learn: a machine learning approach for classification of DNA-bound proteins from single-molecule tracking experiments.

Upgrades to fluorescence microscopes for quantitative live-cell imaging

Elucidating the response to DNA damage at the replication fork

Timing the bacterial replisome in live cells

Mechanisms and implications of fast turnover in the DNA replication machinery of bacteria

Chromosome Biology

Chromosome Biology

Chromosome Biology

Super-resolution imaging of ORC and MCM binding dynamics in live yeast cells

Bioengineering Facility for Confocal Rheology

Shining light on the architecture and dynamics of the eukaryotic replisome

Frequent collaborators

Walter Reisner