2022 Schedule
All seminars take place at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted. Online seminars are given via Zoom, and all in-person seminars take place in Room 1034, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, unless otherwise noted.
| Date: | Topic: | Speaker: |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 9 | "DOCK8 controls the immune response to food allergens" |
Dr. Stephanie Eisenbarth, The Centre of Human Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Online seminar |
| Sept.16 | "Portal systems of brain: Channeling Geoffrey Wingfield Harris" |
Dr. Rae Silver, Department of Psychology, Columbia University In-person seminar |
| Sept.23 |
"Understanding dorsal horn circuits mediating mechanical allodynia" |
Dr. Cedric Peirs, Principal Investigator, Neuro-Dol: Team Trigeminal pain and Migraine National Institute of Medical Research and Health, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France In-person seminar |
| Sept.30 | "Building micro-physiological systems for peripheral sensory organs" |
Dr. Karl Koehler, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School In-person seminar |
| Oct.7 | "Protective memory is due to cells quitting clonal expansion early" |
Dr. Rob J. de Boer, Professor, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Online seminar |
| Oct. 14 | - | - |
| Oct. 21 | "Immune determinants of injury-induced susceptibility to respiratory bacterial infection" |
Dr. Ajitha Thanabalasuriar, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Oct. 28 | "Imaging inflammation and its resolution in tissue repair" |
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher, Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin Medical School In-person seminar |
| Nov. 4 | "Local control of stem cell fates revealed through intravital imaging" |
Dr. Katie Cockburn, Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Nov. 11 | "Microglial contributions in brain physiology and pathology" |
Dr. Ukpong Eyo, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, School of Medicine In-person seminar |
| Nov. 18 | "Mapping molecular and functional diversity within the midbrain dopaminergic system" |
Dr. Jean-Francois Poulin, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Nov. 25 | "Integration and decoding of micro-environmental signals: from neural stem cells to mature neurons" |
Dr. Armen Saghatelyan, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Brain & Mind Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa In-person seminar |
| Dec. 2 | "Understanding variation in malaria infection dynamics" |
Dr. Nicole Mideo, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto In-person seminar |
| Dec. 9 | "The role of astrocytes in stress-induced behavioral dysfunction" |
Dr. Ciaran Murphy Royal, Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal In-person seminar |
2023 Schedule
All seminars take place at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted. Online seminars are given via Zoom, and all in-person seminars take place in Room 1034, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, unless otherwise noted.
| Date: | Topic: | Speaker: |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 6 | no seminar | - |
| Jan. 13 | "Sex-specific brain and gut barrier alterations underlie stress vulnerability vs resilience in mice and human depression" |
Dr. Caroline Ménard, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience,Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, CERVO Brain Research Centre In-person seminar |
| Jan. 20 | "Checkpoints and balances: Regulation of T cell development and function" |
Dr. Heather Melichar, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont In-person seminar |
| Jan. 27 | "Precision genome editing to study protein function, genetic variation and drug development" |
Dr. Raquel Cuella Martin, Functional Genomics, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Feb. 3 | "Disease-in-a-dish modelling using iPSCs" |
Dr. Terry Hébert, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Feb. 10 |
"Defective hormonal signaling and Alzheimer’s disease" THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE |
Dr. Fernanda de Felice, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Psychiatry, Queen's University
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| Feb. 17 | "APOE4-mediated microglial regulation has an opposite effect in Glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease" |
Dr. Oleg Butovsky, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital In-person seminar |
| Feb. 24 | "New roles of microglia and extracellular matrix in pain" |
Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky, Department of Anesthesia, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Mar. 3 | No seminar (March break) | - |
| Mar. 10 | "International Collaboration to Ensure Rigorous Reproducible Scientific Discovery" |
Dr. Claire Brown, Department of Physiology,Advanced BioImaging Facility, (ABIF), McGill University In-person seminar |
| Mar. 17 | "Under pressure: compression-mediated nuclear mechanotransduction" |
Dr. Allen J. Ehrlicher, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Mar. 24 | "Auditory Cortex Plasticity Following Hearing Loss" |
Dr. Stephen Lomber Department of Physiology, McGill University In-person seminar |
| Mar. 31 | "Harnessing the tumor immune microenvironment for cancer therapy" |
17th Annual Undergraduate Research Day, Martin Amphitheatre, Room 504, McIntyre Bldg Keynote lecturer: Dr. Daniela Quail Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre and the Department of Physiology In-person seminar at 11:35am. |
| Apr. 7 | No seminar (Good Friday) | - |
| Apr. 14 | "Coding principles of diverse synapses in the hippocampus" |
Dr. Katalin Tóth, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa In-person seminar |
| Apr. 21 | "How do blind mice know where they are?" |
Dr. Stuart Trenholm, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) In-person seminar |
| Apr. 28 |
"YES tyrosine kinase as an oncogenic driver of liver cancer" |
Dr. Sylvain Meloche, Principal Investigator, Institute of Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) and Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, Université de Montréal In-person seminar |
| May 5 |
"A Direction-selective Top-down Pathway Adaptively Modulates Innate Behaviors" |
Dr. Baohua Liu, Department of Biology, University of Toronto In-person seminar |
| May 12 |
"Coding of prey location by heterogenous neural populations with spatially dependent correlations" |
Myriah Haggard, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University In -person seminar |
| May 19 |
"Biological defibrillation"
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28th Annual Graduate Research Day, Palmer Howard Amphitheatre, Room 522, McIntyre Bldg Keynote lecturer: Dr. Daniël A. Pijnappels, Professor of Cellular Electrophysiology & Interdisciplinary Translational Cardiology, head of the Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology at the Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands In-person seminar at 3:30pm |
Previous schedules
2020-2021_friday_seminar_schedule.pdf
2019-2020_friday_seminar_schedule.pdf
Other Seminars
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