This is a series of volcano plots (that actually look more like “whale tail” plots) made by Axel, our computer science teacher turned bioinformatics intern, for his transcriptomics project, a collaboration with Dr. Jocelyn Dupuis at the Montreal Heart Institute and the company Prometic Life Sciences. We work on pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease in a rat model and are exploring biological mechanisms and effects of novel treatments.