2025
Local and national seminars and meetings:
- Basic and Clinical Oncology Seminar Series, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, Canada, November 2024, Dr. Corinne Maurice (invited speaker).
- McGill University, Using genomics to tackle AMR in low-resource settings: One step at a time, 2024, Dr. Jesse Shapiro.
- Therapeutic approaches in the gut: from disarming pathogens to supporting the good ones. Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, McGill University, Mar. 26, 2025 (invited seminar), Dr. Bastien Castagner.
- Congres Quebecois de recherche sur les MICI, Montreal, Canada, May 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice (invited speaker).
- INRS, Institute Armand-Frappier Seminar Series, Montreal, QC, 2025, Dr. Irah King.
- McGill Institute of Parasitology Seminar Series, Montreal, QC, 2025, Dr. Irah King.
- University of Calgary, Shaffer Davison Research Day, Calgary, AB, 2025, Dr. Irah King.
- Canadian Digestive Disease Week, Quebec City, 2025, Dr. Irah King.
International meetings:
- Annual MI4 Scientific Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, December 6th, 2024, Dr. Corinne Maurice (invited speaker).
- United States for the Association for the Study of Pain Annual Meeting, Fibromyalgia, autoantibodies and the gut microbiome, Seattle, USA, April 2024, Dr. Emerson Krock (invited speaker).
- Gulf Coast Consortia #Pain Virtual Workshop. Fibromyalgia, autoantibodies and the gut microbiome, June 2024, Dr. Emerson Krock (invited speaker).
- 11th World Congress of the International Society of Microbiota, San Anton, Malta, October 14-15, 2024. Title of the talk: Male fertility and gut microbiota: Current knowledge and future directions, Dr. Cristian O’Flaherty (Invited speaker).
- Center for Advanced Pain Studies Seminar series. Autoantibodies and the gut microbiome in fibromyalgia. University of Texas at Dallas, October 2024, Dr. Emerson Krock (invited speaker).
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). HUNT Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology, Causes & consequences of pathogen evolution within patients, November 18th, 2024, Dr. Jesse Shapiro.
- University of Florida and University of Pittsburgh, Rapid evolution of pathogens within patients, 2024, Dr. Jesse Shapiro.
- Duke University - Triangle Center for Evolution Medicine, Cholera and virulent phages, from coevolution within patients to improved diagnostics, March 19, 2025, Dr. Jesse Shapiro.
- Duke University, Eco-evolutionary interactions of bacteria, phages, and antibiotics within cholera patient, March 24, 2025, Dr. Jesse Shapiro.
- Bellairs Research Institute, T cell receptor meeting, Bridgetown, Barbados, 2025, Dr. Irah King.
- Helmoltz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany, 2025, Dr. Irah King.
Outreach:
- Moteur de Recherche, Radio Canada, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/moteur-de-recherche/episodes/953001/rattrapage-du-9-mai-2025-des-oiseaux-de-lumiere-et-vie-et-mort-de-4chan, May 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice.
- Magazine Quebec Science, “Les phages contre-attaquent”, April-May 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice.
- 5 à Science, Montreal, Canada, May 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice.
- Atelier acceScience, école secondaire Monseigneur Richard, Montreal, Canada, February 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice.
- Moteur de Recherche, Radio Canada, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/moteur-de-recherche/episodes/950830/rattrapage-du-6-mars-2025-ia-voix-maladie-bacteries-bebes-parfum, March 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice.
- March, Magazine Curium, “Qu’avez-vous dans le ventre?”, March 2025, Dr. Corinne Maurice.
- Radio interview for The Drive (Calgary) Corus Radio Company, https://pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/745E89/traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU8350232090.mp3?updated=1704469473, January 2, 2024, Dr. Jennifer Ronholm.
- Live on-air interview Global National about food recalls, https://globalnews.ca/video/10921998/what-people-need-to-now-about-food-recalls, December 17, 2024, Dr. Jennifer Ronholm.
- CBC Interview on leftover safety, https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/leftovers-food-safety-faq-1.7412668, December 27, 2024, Dr. Jennifer Ronholm.
2024
Local and national seminars and meetings:
1. Co-hosted a one-day seminar with the AMR Centre on February 8th, 2024. Keynote speaker: Dr. Gautam Dantas from Washington University in St. Louis, Title: Understanding, Predicting, and Remediating Perturbations to Diverse Microbiomes.
Outreach:
2. Futurity, September 5th, 2023, Dr. Jesse Shapiro, https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurity.org%2Fcovid-infections-animals-2969542%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ccynthia.faubert%40mcgill.ca%7C38a0c2f80d9441d5b3c008dc80dfa08d%7Ccd31967152e74a68afa9fcf8f89f09ea%7C0%7C0%7C638526945152679820%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Y8QZFTaAb9cNw9FKvjgd9FjaTiGlTEl3ee78qs224Hs%3D&reserved=0
3. Podcast interview - This Week in Virology, November 1st, 2023, Dr. Corinne Maurice and Dr. Jesse Shapiro, https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1077/
4. Youtube interview, Discussing species concepts, November 30th, 2023, Dr. Jesse Shapiro, https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FMvuxTAefks&data=05%7C02%7Ccynthia.faubert%40mcgill.ca%7C38a0c2f80d9441d5b3c008dc80dfa08d%7Ccd31967152e74a68afa9fcf8f89f09ea%7C0%7C0%7C638526945152689884%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sjk04T8drbfx%2Fj20aBgb4i95p7hh7EA7gBielRVA0Uo%3D&reserved=0
5. Moteur de recherche, March 2024, Using worms to protect against intestinal diseases, Dr. Corinne Maurice, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/moteur-de-recherche/episodes/786853/rattrapage-jeudi-7-mars-2024/3
2023
Outreach:
1. McGill University Health Centre Foundation Event, Supporting microbiome research at McGill University, Dr. I. King, 2023.
2. iHeartRadio.ca, CJAD800 – Health Matters with Tara Schwartz, The gut microbiome: a new treatment for chronic pain syndrome, Dr. I. King, 2023.
2022
Local and national seminars and meetings:
1. 89eme Congres de l’Acfas, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. Bacteriophages intestinaux et sante humaine: un couteau a double tranchant. Invited speaker, Dr. C. Maurice, May 2022.
2. Summer School 2022: Phage Canada 2022 Virtual Symposia. SEA-PHAGES at McGill University, invited speaker, Dr. C. Maurice, August 2022.
International meetings:
1. Radboud University Seminar Series, Is natural IL-17 production during early life a harbinger of intestinal resilience? Invited speaker, Dr. I King, Nov 2022.
2. University of Liege Seminar Series, Is natural IL-17 production during early life a harbinger of intestinal resilience? Invited speaker, Dr. I King, Nov 2022.
3. 7th Annual International Conference on Modulating the Environment with Microbes, Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research (INSCR). Using bacteriophages to modulate the gut microbiome, invited speaker (virtual), Dr. C. Maurice, November 2022.
4. Institut Pasteur, France. Looking for Darwin's footprints in bacterial pangenomes, invited speaker, Dr. B. Jesse Shapiro, October 6, 2022.
5. ISME 18, 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Lausanne, Switzerland. From early life to adulthood, contrasting interactions of phages and bacteria in the human gut. Co-session chair of Microbial ecology of viruses and phages, invited speaker, Dr. C. Maurice, August 2022
Outreach:
1. National Public Radio and Undark by Emily Laber-Warren, Scientists explore why some people are able to live with an infection unscathed, Dr. I. King, 2022.
2. Health Matters Podcast with Tara Schwartz in cooperation with the McGill University Health Centre (March 30, 2022), Dr. Irah King interview: Gut Health and the McGill Centre for Microbiome Research.