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The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics hosts speakers from International institutes and local academia, in a series of weekly seminars.
Senior Seminars:
To reserve a slot for your senior seminar, please contact the departmental seminar coordinators:
bernard.robaire [at] mcGill.ca (Bernard Robaire), paul.clarke [at] mcgill.ca (Paul Clarke), simran.dhir [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Simran Dhir), etienne.billard [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Etienne Billard) and copy in chairsec.pharmacology [at] mcgill.ca (Senior Administrative Coordinator)
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
DATE & LOCATION |
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2024 | ||
Prof. Sebastien Talbot Associate Professor Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Queen’s University |
“ Pain neurons control cancer immunosurveillance.” |
Thursday, July 11th, 2024 12:00PM In-person Seminar - McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345 McIntyre Medical Building Host:Professor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar |
Senior Seminar Rebecca Cummer Ph.D. Candidate Prof. Bastien Castagner |
"Inositol phosphate analogs as allosteric activators of Clostridioides difficile toxin B" |
Thursday, July 4, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bastien Castagner |
Dr. Mélanie Robitaille Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
“Calcium signaling as a therapeutic target in cancer and viral infection” |
Thursday, June 20, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Terry Hébert |
Senior Seminar Zixuan Li Ph.D. Candidate Prof. Barbara Hales |
“Effects of Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers on the Adrenal Gland” |
Thursday, May 30, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Barbara Hales |
Nicole Kleinstreuer Director, NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) Executive Director, Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods(ICCVAM) |
“US Updates on NAMs: the Continuum from Biomedical Research to Toxicological Application Regulatory Implementation” |
Thursday, May 16, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Barbara Hales |
Dr. David G Harrison 2023 Louis and Artur Lucian Award Recipient Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Director, Center for Vascular Biology Betty and Jack Bailey Chair in Cardiology Professor of Medicine Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Professor of Pharmacology |
“Inflammation and Immune Activation in Hypertension” |
Tuesday, May14, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Prof. Terry Hébert |
Dr. Linda Birnbaum National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program |
“The Perils of PFAS: Everything, Everywhere, All of us” |
Tuesday, May 09, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Prof. Bernard Robaire |
Dr. Sheena Josselyn
Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Professor, Departments of Psychology and Physiology, University of Toronto |
“Engrams and memory” |
Thursday, April 18, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 |
Dr. Michael Witcher Department of Oncology ƻԺ |
“Targeting DNA damage repair and epigenetic processes in melanoma and breast cancer” |
Thursday, March 28, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Koren Mann |
Braedon McDonald Assistant Professor, Departmentof Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary |
“Immunotherapy through microbiome modulation to treat infection in critical illness” |
Thursday, March 14, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bastien Castagner Professor Maureen McKeague Professor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar |
Senior Seminar TapanAgnihotri Ph.D. Candidate |
“Microglial heme recycling and vascular remodeling improves vision in ischemic retinopathies” |
Thursday, February 22,2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: ProfessorJean-Sébastien Joyal |
Eva Kaufmann Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Queen's University |
“Innate Immune Memory in pulmonary infections and inflammation” |
Thursday, February 15, 2024 |
Senior Seminar Sarah MacKinnon Ph.D. Candidate |
“The CTD of the elongation factor Spt5 modulates distinct pathways to determine chromatin identity” |
Thursday, February 08,2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Jason Tanny |
Senior Seminar Rabah Dabouz Ph.D. Candidate |
“Neuroimmune interactions in age-related macular degeneration” |
Thursday, February 01,2024 TIME: 4:00PM Hybrid Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Sylvain Chemtob |
Senior Seminar Bayne Andrew Ph.D. Candidate |
“Mitochondrial protein import and the role of PINK1 in mitochondrial quality control |
Thursday, January 25, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Jean-François Trempe |
Humphrey Yao Senior Principal Investigator Reproductive Developmental Biology Group, Reproductive & Developmental Biology Laboratory (RDBL) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
"From Glowing Penis to Oocyte-Producing Testis: the Power of Mouse Genetics for Reproductive Research" |
Thursday, January 18, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bernard Robaire |
2023 |
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Sonia Del Rincon Associate Member, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, |
“Translational research: From MNK1/2 inhibitors to Immune related adverse events.” |
Thursday, December 14, 2023 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Jacquetta Trasler |
Phillippe Lefrançois Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine ƻԺ |
“Basal Cell Carcinoma – A translational approach from omics to therapeutics” |
Thursday, November 16, 2023 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 |
Justin Deniset Assistant Professor Department of Cardiac Sciences, Libin Institute University of Calgary |
"Pericardial Immune Mechanisms in Cardiac Repair: New Avenues for Therapeutic Targeting" |
Thursday, October 26, 2023 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 |
Sourkes Talk Raymond J. Dingledine Professor Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology Emory University School of Medicine |
“Targeting inflammation in neurologic disease” |
Thursday, October 19, 2023 TIME: 3:30PM - 5:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheatre) |
Graciela Piñeyro, MD, PhD Professeure Titulaire Département de Pharmacologie et Physiologie Université de Montréal |
"A pharmacodynamic perspective on street opioids" | Thursday, September 28, 2023 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical BuildingRoom 1345 Host: Prof.Terry Hebert |