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 | ||
Nicole Kleinstreuer Director, NICEATM National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
TBD | Thursday, May 16, 2024 Host: Professor Barbara Hales |
Sheena Josselyn
Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health, SickKids Professor, Departments of Psychology and Physiology, University of Toronto |
TBD | Thursday, April 18, 2024 Host: Professor Paul Clarke |
Dr. Michael Witcher Department of Oncology McGill University |
“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 Tapan Agnihotri 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: Professor Jean-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 https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/88074510869 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 McGill University |
“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 Building Room 1345 Host: Prof. Terry Hebert |