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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 |
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2025 | ||
Sophie Petropoulos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor-Researcher, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université De Montréal Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet Principal Scientist, CRCHUM Université de Montréal |
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 University Illinois |
TBA |
Thursday, March 6, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM 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 |
Senior Seminar Reily Pidgeon Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Bastien Castagner |
TBA |
Thursday, February 13, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bastien Castagner |
Carole YaukDr Professor Department of Biology Ottawa University |
“Genome Under Fire: Impacts of Prolonged Mutagen Exposure Unveiled by Error-Corrected Sequencing” |
Thursday February 6, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bernard Robaire |
Dana SmallPh.D. Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SM SM |
"The Wisdom of the Body" |
Thursday, January 16, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Paul Clarke |
Senior Seminar Emily Wilson Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Baglole |
“Looking Past the Smoke: AhR as a Key Modulator of the Pulmonary Response to Cannabis” |
Thursday, January 9, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Carolyn Baglole |
2024 | ||
Senior Seminar Seline Vancolen Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Bernard Robaire Co-supervisor: Dr. Guillaume Sebire |
“Placental infection: immune and nervous system effects modulated by androgens” |
Thursday December 12, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Prof.Bernard Robaire |
Senior Seminar Jasmine Phénix Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Munter |
"The role of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) in Alzheimer’s 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. DanBernard |
"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 DanBernard |
Yves de Koninck, Ph.D. FRSC Professor of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Laval University Scientific Director, Quebec Mental Health Institute Director, Neurophotonics Center Laval University |
“Chloride homeostasis as a new therapeutic target: from chronic pain to neurodegenerative diseases” |
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 |
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–a 60-year odyssey” |
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Prof. Jeffrey Mogil Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Pain (Tier I) Department of Psychology, SM |
“Mistakes Were Made: How to Fix Preclinical (Pain) Research” |
Thursday, September19th, 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’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 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: ProfessorBernard 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 SM |
“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 SM |
“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 |