Infection and Immunity Seminar Series are offered as the Current Topics in Microbiology course.The Department invites guest speakers to talk about their current research. The seminars are a compulsory part of our graduate program but are open to all interested participants.
For more information about guest speaker seminar series, office.microimm [at] mcgill.ca (please contact us).
Seminar Time: Thursdays, 11:30am-12:30pm (unless otherwise indicated)
Location: Duff Amphitheater, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
Additional dates may be added throughout the academic year.
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
PICTURE |
AFFILIATION |
TITLE |
HOST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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September 21 |
Dr. Andreas Baumler |
|
Professor & Vice Chair of Research, University of California, Davis School of Medicine |
The pyromaniac inside you: Salmonella metabolism in the host gut |
Drs. Samantha Gruenheid, Hervé Le Moual |
| October 5 | Dr. Christopher Rudd |  |
Professor, Université de Montréal |
New signaling pathways in T-cell biology |
Dr. Jörg Fritz |
| October 19 | Dr. Kristi Baker |  |
Assistant Professor, Experimental Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute |
Control of anti-tumor immunity by DNA repair defects in colorectal cancer | Dr. Martin Richer |
| October 26 | Career Day |
Career Day |
Career Day |
Career Day |
Career Day |
| November 2 | Dr. Carolyn Baglole |  |
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University |
Homeostatic maintenance of respiratory health by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) |
Dr. Jörg Fritz |
|
November 16 |
Dr. Daniel Kaplan |
 |
University of Pittsburgh |
DC & Non-Hematopoietic Cells Coordinate Skin Immunity |
Dr. Irah King |
|
November 30 |
Dr. Ross Kedl |
 |
Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
T Cell vaccinology: what infections haven’t been telling us. |
Dr. Martin Richer |
| December 7 | Dr. Kristin Hogquist |  |
Professor and Associate Director, University of Minnesota, Center for Immunology |
Thymic Selection of Soldiers and Peacekeepers |
Dr. Martin Richer |
| December 21 | Dr. Laura-Isobel McCall |
|
Professor, University of Oklahoma |
Targeting Chagas disease pathogenesis |
Dr. Greg Matlashewski |
| January 11 |
Dr. Elena Verdu |
 |
Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University |
Role of intestinal microbiota in host responses to gluten. |
Drs. Samantha Gruenheid, Jörg Fritz |
|
January 25 |
Dr. Tom Hobman |  |
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta
|
RNA virus host interactions at the cellular level. |
Dr. Selena Sagan |
| February 1 | Dr. Thibault Mesplede |  |
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University | HIV drug resistance | Dr. Irah King |
|
February 8 |
Dr. Jean-Paul Latgé |
|
Professor, Head of the Unité des Aspergillus |
The cell wall exoskeleton in the pathogenic life of Aspergillus fumigatus |
Dr. Donald Sheppard |
|
February 15 |
Dr. Emanuele G. Biondi |
 |
LCB, CNRS- Aix Marseille University, CNRS Research Director |
Choreography of methylation-dependent transcriptional control by GcrA in Caulobacter crescentus |
Dr. Greg Marczynski |
| March 15 | Dr. Samantha Gruenheid |  |
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University |
CANCELLED: A new link between infection, autoimmunity and Parkinson's disease |
Dr. Irah King |
| March 22 |
Dr. Rob Scarborough |
 |
Wares Family Postdoctoral Award Seminar |
Development of RNA therapies for HIV infection |
Dr. Anne Gatignol |
|
March 22 |
Dr. Yue Li |
 |
Wares Family Postdoctoral Award Seminar |
Intestinal mononuclear phagocytes require integrin activation to maintain disease tolerance during helminth infection |
Dr. Irah King |
| March 29 |
Dr. Marit Orav |
 |
Wares Family Postdoctoral Award Seminar |
Study of the replication of the HPV genome |
Dr. Jacques Archambault |
|
March 29 |
Dr. Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei |
 |
Wares Family Postdoctoral Award Seminar |
Bacteria and bacteriophages interactions in intestinal dysbiosis |
Mariia Taguer |
| April 5 | Dr. Nicolai Van Oers |
|
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern |
3 Decades Post-MIMM: From the Thymus to the Anterior Pituitary and Back | Dr. Martin Richer |
|
April 12 |
Dr. Judith Lacoste |
|
Founding President and Scientific Director, MIA Cellavie Inc. |
Science reproducibility and its challenges in microscopy |
Dr. Irah King |
|
April 26 |
Dr. Susan Kaech |
|
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Professor and Director, Nomis Foundation laboratories for Immunology and microbial Pathogenesis |
Dissecting immune cells in tumors |
Dr. Martin Richer |
| May 10 | Dr. Eric Jan |  |
|
From insects to humans: Viral strategies to commandeer host cell functions |
Dr. Selena Sagan |
| May 17 | Dr. Jesse Shapiro |  |
Canada Research Chair in Microbial Evolutionary Genomics |
Origins of pandemic cholera from environmental gene pools, and its fate within patients. |
Dr. Corinne Maurice |
