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Seminar Series

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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), atchaya.kanagasabai [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Atchaya Kanagasabai), etienne.billard [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Etienne Billard) and copy in chairsec.pharmacology [at] mcgill.ca (Senior Administrative Coordinator)

SPEAKER

TOPIC

DATE & LOCATION

2025

Sophie Petropoulos, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor-Researcher, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universit茅 De Montr茅al

Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet

Principal Scientist, CRCHUM

Universit茅 de Montr茅al

TBA

Thursday, April 10, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Jacquetta Trasler

Jodi Flaws, Dr

Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program
Co-Director, Summer Undergraduate Research in Toxicology (SureTOX) Program

University Illinois

TBA

Thursday, March 6, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM听

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann and Professor Bernard Robaire

Matthew Campen Ph.D. MSPH

Director, New Mexico Center for Metals in Biology and Medicine, Regents' Professor, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences, CC - Cancer Control and Pop Sci

University of New Mexico

TBA

Thursday February 27, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Carole Yauk听Dr

Professor

Department of Biology

Ottawa University

TBA

Thursday February 6, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Bernard Robaire

Dana Small听Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program

Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 91社区

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TBA

Thursday, January 16, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Paul Clarke

2024

Senior Seminar

Seline Vancolen

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Bernard Robaire

Co-supervisor: Dr. Guillaume Sebire

TBA

Thursday December 12, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Bernard Robaire

Senior Seminar

Jasmine Ph茅nix

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Munter

"The role of the cholesteryl ester transfer
protein (CETP) in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease"

Thursday, December 5, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Dr. Lisa Munter

Senior Seminar

Braeden Giles

Ph.D. Candidate

Prof. Koren Mann and Prof. Bernard Robaire


"A regrettable substitution? Immunotoxic
consequences of organophosphate ester mixtures
on macrophages"

Thursday, November 28, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann and Professor Bernard Robaire

Senior Seminar

Claire Lin

Ph.D. Candidate

Prof. Dan听Bernard

"Expression and function of inhibin co-receptors: From promoter bashing to pregnancy loss"

Thursday, November 21, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Dan听Bernard

Yves de Koninck, Ph.D. FRSC

Professor of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Laval University

Scientific Director, Quebec Mental Health Institute

Director, Neurophotonics Center

Laval University

鈥淐hloride homeostasis as a new therapeutic target: from chronic pain to neurodegenerative diseases鈥

Thursday, November 14, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Paul Clarke

Senior Seminar

Pei You Wu

Ph.D. Candidate

Prof. Anne McKinney

"Understanding the role of synaptopodin in synaptic plasticity"

Thursday, November 07, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Anne McKinney

THEODORE L. SOURKES LECTURE听 - CANCELLED

Tomas H枚kfelt, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

鈥淔rom catecholamines to neuropeptides
鈥揳 60-year odyssey鈥

Thursday, October听24th, 2024

16:00PM

In-person Seminar -听Room 521(Meakins Amphitheater)

McIntyre Medical Building

Prof. Jeffrey Mogil

Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Pain (Tier I)
E. P. Taylor Chair in Pain Studies

Department of Psychology, 91社区

鈥淢istakes Were Made:
How to Fix Preclinical (Pain) Research鈥

Thursday, September听19th, 2024

16:00PM

In-person Seminar - McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

McIntyre Medical Building

Host: Professor Paul Clarke

Prof. Sebastien Talbot

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

Queen鈥檚 University

鈥 Pain neurons control cancer immunosurveillance.鈥

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

12:00PM

In-person Seminar - McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

McIntyre Medical Building

Host:听Professor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar

Senior Seminar

Rebecca Cummer

Ph.D. Candidate

Prof. Bastien Castagner听

"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. M茅lanie Robitaille

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
The University of Queensland, Australia

鈥淐alcium signaling as a therapeutic target in cancer and viral infection鈥

Thursday, June 20, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Terry H茅bert

Senior Seminar

Zixuan Li

Ph.D. Candidate

Prof. Barbara Hales

鈥淓ffects of Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers on the Adrenal Gland鈥

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听(ICCVAM)
鈥淯S Updates on NAMs: the Continuum from Biomedical Research to Toxicological Application Regulatory Implementation鈥

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
鈥淚nflammation and Immune Activation in Hypertension鈥

Tuesday, May听14, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Prof. Terry H茅bert

Dr. Linda Birnbaum
Scientist Emeritus and Former Director

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program
Scholar in Residence, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

鈥淭he Perils of PFAS: Everything, Everywhere, All of us鈥

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

鈥淓ngrams and memory鈥

Thursday, April 18, 2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345
Host: Professor Paul Clarke

Dr. Michael Witcher
Assistant Professor,

Department of Oncology

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鈥淭argeting DNA damage repair and epigenetic processes in melanoma and breast cancer鈥

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
鈥淚mmunotherapy through microbiome modulation to treat infection in critical illness鈥

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听Agnihotri

Ph.D. Candidate
Prof.听Jean-S茅bastien Joyal

鈥淢icroglial heme recycling and vascular remodeling improves vision in ischemic retinopathies鈥

Thursday, February 22,2024

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor听Jean-S茅bastien Joyal

Eva Kaufmann

Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

Queen's University
鈥淚nnate Immune Memory in pulmonary infections and inflammation鈥

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Host:

Professor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar

Senior Seminar

Sarah MacKinnon

Ph.D. Candidate
Prof. Jason Tanny

鈥淭he CTD of the elongation factor Spt5 modulates distinct pathways to determine chromatin identity鈥

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
Prof. Sylvain听Chemtob

鈥淣euroimmune interactions in age-related macular degeneration鈥

Thursday, February 01,2024

TIME: 4:00PM

Hybrid Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345听

Host: Professor Sylvain Chemtob

Senior Seminar

Bayne Andrew

Ph.D. Candidate
Prof. Jean-Fran莽ois Trempe

鈥淢itochondrial 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-Fran莽ois 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

Sonia Del Rincon

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology

Associate Member, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine,

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鈥淭ranslational research: From MNK1/2 inhibitors to Immune related adverse events.鈥

Thursday, December 14, 2023

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Jacquetta Trasler

Phillippe Lefran莽ois

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

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鈥淏asal Cell Carcinoma 鈥 A translational approach from omics to therapeutics鈥

Thursday, November 16, 2023

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Prof. Koren Mann

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

Host: Professor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar

Sourkes Talk

Raymond J. Dingledine

Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology

Emory University School of Medicine
鈥淭argeting inflammation in neurologic disease鈥

Thursday, October 19, 2023

TIME: 3:30PM - 5:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheatre)

Graciela Pi帽eyro, MD, PhD

Professeure Titulaire
D茅partement de Pharmacologie et Physiologie

Universit茅 de Montr茅al
"A pharmacodynamic perspective on street opioids" Thursday, September 28, 2023

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building听Room 1345

Host: Prof.听Terry Hebert
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