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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"

poster

Dr. Paul Masset

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University

Sept.13

"Molecular mechanisms of muscle stem cell function and dysfunction"

poster

Dr. Natasha Chang

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University

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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, McGill University

Oct. 4

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

poster

Dr. Alan Peterson

Associate Professor, Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Human Genetics and Neurology, McGill University

Oct. 11

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

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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"

poster

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, McGill University

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, McGill University

Nov. 22

"Effects of cannabis and psychedelics on microglia"

poster

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"

poster

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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CANCELLEDÌý this seminar will be rescheduled for a later time

Dr. John Hanrahan

Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University

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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, McGill University, Ìý

Lady Davis Institute-Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital

Jan. 17

"Spatiotemporal control of CD8+ T cell response by the Notch signaling pathway"ÌýÌýÌý

Dr. Nathalie Labrecque

Professor, Department of Microbiology, Infectiology and Immunology Université de Montréal,

ÌýT-cell immunobiology laboratory,ÌýInstitut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, IRCM

Jan. 24

"Participation of glia in developmental visual system circuit refinement"

Dr. Edward S. Ruthazer
James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery,
Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University
Jan. 31 Ìý

Dr. Arjun Krishnaswamy

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Feb. 7 Ìý

Dr. Dan Bernard

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University

Feb. 14 "Biological pacemakers: a cell therapy approach to cardiac pacing"

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, McGill University

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:

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Apr. 4

Multi-step strategic planning in the primate frontal cortex

Dr. Mehrdad Jazayeri

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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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

"Predictive coding of Natural Self-Motion: Implications for Perception & Action "

30th Annual Graduate Research Day

Keynote Lecturer: Dr. Kathleen Cullen

The Raj and Neera Singh Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, and Otolaryngology,

DirectorÌý of the Center for Hearing and Balance,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Previous schedules

2023-2024 Friday Seminar Schedule

2022-2023 Friday Seminar Schedule

2021-2022 Friday Seminar Schedule

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