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Friday Seminar Series

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All seminars take place at 11:00 a.m. in Room 1034, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 Sir William Osler (unless otherwise noted).Ìý Seminars areÌý in person and alsoÌý via Zoom (unless otherwise noted). Ìý All are welcome! If you would like to be included in our email Listserve for seminar announcements, please contact chairasst.physiology [at] mcgill.ca

2024 Schedule

Date: Topic: Speaker:

Sept. 6

"Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain"

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Dr. Paul Masset

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, 91ÉçÇø

Sept.13

"Molecular mechanisms of muscle stem cell function and dysfunction"

poster

Dr. Natasha Chang

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, 91ÉçÇø

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Sept. 20

"Lipid disturbances in Alzheimer’s disease: cellular mechanisms and therapeutic targets"

poster

Dr. Karl Fernandes

Professor,Ìý Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de SherbrookeÌý

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Sept. 27

"Functional compensation in chromatin remodeling and transcription regulation"

poster

Dr. Benjamin Martin

Prinicpal Investigator, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research

Assistant Professor, Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, 91ÉçÇø

Oct. 4

"Notes from a long walk with axons and their myelin sheaths"

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Dr. Alan Peterson

Associate Professor, Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Human Genetics and Neurology, 91ÉçÇø

Oct. 11

"Heterogeneity and immaturity of single stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes"

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Dr. Trine Krogh- Madsen

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York

Oct. 18

"Cellular Mechanotransduction and Its Role in Aortic Valve Calcification"

Dr. Sara Baratchi

Associate Professor, Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Oct. 25

"T cell migratory versatility"

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CANCELLED: this seminar will be scheduled at a later time
Dr. Janis K. Burkhardt

Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Nov. 1

"Probing the timescales of perception with white noise optogenetic stimulation"

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Dr. Jackson J.Ìý Cone

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Member, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary,

Nov. 8

"The triple negative breast cancer microenvironment,cell plasticity and drug tolerance"

poster

Dr. Morag Park

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, 91ÉçÇø

Nov. 15

"Physiological roles of APP in the context of Alzheimer’s disease"

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Dr. Lisa Munter

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 91ÉçÇø

Nov. 22

"Effects of cannabis and psychedelics on microglia"

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Dr. Marie-Ève Tremblay

ÌýProfessor, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, BC

Nov. 29

"Why Sex and Sex Hormones Matter for the Neuroscience of Depression"

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Dr. Liisa Galea

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Dec. 6

"Acid-base physiology of the airway mucosa and its role in disease"

poster

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Dr. John Hanrahan

Professor, Department of Physiology, 91ÉçÇø

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2025 Schedule

All seminars take place at 11:00 a.m. in room 1034, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 Sir William Osler (unless otherwise noted). Seminars areÌý in-person and also via zoom (unless otherwise noted).Ìý All are welcome! If you would like to be included in our email Listserve for seminar announcements, please contact chairasst.physiology [at] mcgill.ca

Date: Topic: Speaker:
Jan. 3 no seminar

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Jan. 10 "Targeting the MNK-eIF4E axis for cancer therapy"

Dr. Sonia Del Rincon

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, 91ÉçÇø, Ìý

Lady Davis Institute-Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital

Jan. 17

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Dr. Nathalie Labrecque

Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology Université de Montréal,

ÌýT-cell immunobiology laboratory, IRCM

Jan. 24

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Dr. Edward Ruthazer
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, 91ÉçÇø
Jan. 31 Ìý

Dr. Arjun Krishnaswamy

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, 91ÉçÇø

Feb. 7 Ìý

Dr. Dan Bernard

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 91ÉçÇø

Feb. 14 Ìý

Dr. Stephanie Protze

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University or Toronto

Feb. 21

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Dr. Ravi Rungta

Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor , Université de Montréal.

Feb. 28

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Dr. Rhian Touyz,

Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, MUHC, 91ÉçÇø

Canada Research Chair in cardiovascular Medicine

Mar. 7 No seminar (Spring break)

no seminar (spring break)

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Mar. 14

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Dr. Jeremie Lefebre

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa

Mar. 21

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Dr. Benjamin Haley

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal

Mar. 28 Ìý

19Th Annual Undergraduate Research Day,

keynote lecturer: TBA

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Apr. 4

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Dr. Mehrdad Jazayeri

Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT McGovern Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Apr. 11

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Dr. Leila Wehbe

Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department and The Neuroscience Institute,

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Apr. 18 No seminar (Good Friday) Ìý
Apr. 25

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Dr. Tara Deemyad

Assistant Professor,Ìý Department of Otolaryngology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

May 2

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Dr. Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi

Professor, Medicine, Metabolism and Lipid Research,Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

May 9

"T cell migratory versatility"

Dr. Janis K. Burkhardt

Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

May 16

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30th Annual Graduate Research Day

Keynote Lecturer: TBA

Previous schedules

2023-2024 Friday Seminar Schedule

2022-2023 Friday Seminar Schedule

2021-2022 Friday Seminar Schedule

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