Friday Seminar Series

 

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

 

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"

 

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

 

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