Dr. Vance Trudeau
Vance L. Trudeau was born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
Trudeau received his BSc and MSc from McGill University (Montréal) and PhD at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) under the supervision of Richard E. Peter. After post-doctoral training in Ottawa, Canada with Leo Renaud and in Bordeaux, France with Dominique Poulain and Dionysia Theodosis, he took up his first academic position at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). He later joined the Department of Biology, University of Ottawa in 1998, being appointed full professor in 2007.
Trudeau holds the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology (2011-2026) and leads a team of dynamic trainees. Worldwide collaborations are fundamental to the advancement of our research and are recognized with appreciation. His group’s research is directed towards understanding how the vertebrate brain regulates anterior pituitary hormones that control sexual development and reproduction using fish and frog models. Applications of this basic research include spawning induction methods for endangered amphibians, among others. The team also studies the effects of sex steroids and pollutants on development and reproduction in fish and frogs. This concept is called endocrine disruption. Research conducted by his group (www.teamendo.ca) has implications for environmental and human health because many neuroendocrine systems are conserved across species.
Along with friends, Robert Denver (USA) and Carlos Arámburo (Mexico), Trudeau (1st Vice-President, later President) helped to established the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (https://nasce-snaec.com/) in 2010. Trudeau is the current (2020-2024) President of the International Society for Fish Endocrinology (https://www.isfendo.com/).
Trudeau received his BSc and MSc from McGill University (Montréal) and PhD at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) under the supervision of Richard E. Peter. After post-doctoral training in Ottawa, Canada with Leo Renaud and in Bordeaux, France with Dominique Poulain and Dionysia Theodosis, he took up his first academic position at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). He later joined the Department of Biology, University of Ottawa in 1998, being appointed full professor in 2007.
Trudeau holds the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology (2011-2026) and leads a team of dynamic trainees. Worldwide collaborations are fundamental to the advancement of our research and are recognized with appreciation. His group’s research is directed towards understanding how the vertebrate brain regulates anterior pituitary hormones that control sexual development and reproduction using fish and frog models. Applications of this basic research include spawning induction methods for endangered amphibians, among others. The team also studies the effects of sex steroids and pollutants on development and reproduction in fish and frogs. This concept is called endocrine disruption. Research conducted by his group (www.teamendo.ca) has implications for environmental and human health because many neuroendocrine systems are conserved across species.
Along with friends, Robert Denver (USA) and Carlos Arámburo (Mexico), Trudeau (1st Vice-President, later President) helped to established the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (https://nasce-snaec.com/) in 2010. Trudeau is the current (2020-2024) President of the International Society for Fish Endocrinology (https://www.isfendo.com/).