Montreal Gazette - Trail-blazing collaboration wasn't born in a laboratory

"Two scientists walk into a bar ..." It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but when Moshe Szyf and Michael Meaney met in Madrid, instead of a rotten punchline, they wound up with an intense and immensely productive collaboration that is changing the way scientists think about mental illness.

Though both were employed by McGill University, Meaney and Szyf didn't really know each other before they chatted about their work over beer at a research retreat they were attending. Each had to cross the Atlantic to meet the other McGill scientist, they joke.