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Seminars

We host seminar presentations where Canadian and international experts are given the opportunity to present their cutting-edge research. Requests to present a seminar should be directed to our seminar coordinators.

This Winter 2024, the seminars are held from 1:30pm - 2:30pm Friday (unless specified otherwise) in-person in Duff Amphitheatre and/or virtually via Zoom. Please click on the seminar title for more information.

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Winter 2024

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

Jan 5

Remote/Zoom

Introduction class

 

Jan 12

In person

Mohsen Akbari

Mechanical Engineering

University of Victoria

Empowering Health Equity through Biomedical Engineering: Innovations in Microfluidics and Bioprinting

Jan 19

Remote/Zoom

Udunna Anazodo

Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University

Imaging Neuroinflammation with Hybrid PET and MRI

Jan 26

In person

Elena Kuzmin

Department of Biology, Concordia University

 

Feb 2

In person

Anmar Khadra

Department of Physiology, McGill University

 

Feb 9

In person

Jacek Majewski

Department of Human Genetics, McGill University

 

Feb 16

TBC

Julia Valdemarin Burnier

Cancer Research Program – RI MUHC

 

Feb 23

In-person

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

March 1

In-person

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

March 8

Reading Week – No seminar

March 15

In-person

Jianguo (Jeff) Xia

Institute of Parasitology, and Department of Animal Science,

McGill University

 

March 22

TBD

Caroline Duchaine

Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval

 

March 29

Easter – No seminar

April 5

Remote/Zoom

Medhi Nikkhah

Bioengineering, Arizona State University

 

April 12

In-person

 

Réjean Lapointe

Cancer, Centre de recherche du CHUM

 

Fall 2023

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Seminar Title

Sept 8

Remote/Zoom

David Issadore

University of Pennsylvania

Diagnosing disease on a microchip: Finding nanoscale needles in a nanoscale haystack

Sept 15

In-person

Jeremy Cooperstock

McGill University

Engineering of Technologies to Improve the Lives of People Living with Vision Loss

Sept 22

Remote/Zoom

Jennifer Ronholm

McGill University

Inter-bacterial competition in the livestock microbiome

Sept 29

Remote/Zoom

Hadi Shafiee

Harvard Medical School

Digitizing the human embryo

Oct 6

Reading week – No seminar

Oct 13

In-person

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Oct 20

In-person

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Oct 27

Livia Garzia

McGill University

Mechanisms of pediatric brain tumors progression and opportunities for longitudinal monitoring using liquid biopsy approaches

Nov 3

Remote/Zoom

Christine Allen

University of Toronto

Reimagining Drug Delivery: The Role of AI and Automation

Nov 10

In-person

James Mehta

McGill

Innovation + Partnerships

Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at McGill

Nov 17

In-person

Emily Porter

McGill University

Microwave Medical Devices:

An Introduction to Emerging Technologies

Nov 24

In-person

Maureen McKeague

McGill University

Engineering diverse aptamers for applications in biosensing and therapeutics

Dec 1 Remote/Zoom

Ke Cheng

Columbia University

Cellular and Biomaterial Drug Delivery for Heart and Lung Repair

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