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:
koren.mann [at] mcgill.ca (Koren Mann), diego.loggia [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Diego Loggia) and copy in chairsec.pharmacology [at] mcgill.ca (Senior Administrative Coordinator)
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SPEAKER |
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Senior Seminar Nicole Heimbach Ph.D Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Baglole |
TBD |
Thursday December 3, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345 Host: Dr. Carolyn Baglole |
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Seminar Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and a professor of mammalian cell biology and development at The Rockefeller University |
TBD |
Thursday November 19, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room TBD Host: Dr. Terry Hébert and Dr. Jason Tanny |
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Seminar Deborah Kurrasch Ph.D. Professor- Department of Medical Genetics & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Calgary Deputy Head, Department of Medical Genetics at University of Calgary Deputy Director, Neuroscience Program at University of Calgary |
TBD |
Thursday November 12, 2026 Time: 4:00 p.m. In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Science Building room TBD Host: Dr. Dan Bernard |
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Seminar Nicole J. Francis Ph.D. Associate Professor-Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal Division of Clinical and Translational Research-McGill University
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TBD |
Thursday October 22, 2026 Time: 4:00 p.m. In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345 Host: Dr. Jason Tanny |
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Senior Seminar Tara Shomali Ph.D Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Jean-François Trempe
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TBD |
Thursday October 8, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345 Host: Dr. Jean-François Trempe |
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Theodore L. Sourkes Lecture Prof. Dr. med. Michael Heneka Director of the "Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine" |
"Innate Immunity in Alzheimer disease" |
Thursday October 1st, 2026 Time: 4:00 p.m. In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheater) Host: Dr. Claudio Cuello |
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Seminar Tomas Hökfelt , Ph.D Professor emeritus in the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet |
TBD |
September 21, 2026 Time 4:00 In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room TBD Host: The Pain Center and The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
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Senior Seminar Hanan Mohammad Ph.D. Candidate Supervisors: Dr. Paul Clarke and Dr. Terry Hébert |
TBD |
Thursday September TBD Time: 4:00 p.m. In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345 Hosts: Dr. Paul Clarke and Dr. Terry Hébert |
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Senior Seminar Garvit Bhatt Ph.D. Candidate Supervisors: Dr. Trempe, Jean-Francois and Dr. Nagar, Bhushan |
"Structural and Functional Characterization of YopJ Acetyltransferases" |
Thursday June 04, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM IN-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345 Host: Dr. Jean-Francois Trempe and Dr. Bhushan Nagar |
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Senior Seminar Jamie Mustian Ph.D. Candidate Supervisors: Dr. Anne McKinney |
"Investigating Mechanisms of Hippocampal Circuitry Deficits in Christianson Syndrome" |
Thursday May 28, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in room 1345 Host: Dr. Anne McKinney |
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Inaugural Barbara Hales Lectureship in Toxicology Dana Dolinoy Ph.D NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences University of Michigan School of Public Health |
"Toxicoepigenetics and the Use of piRNA for Precision Environmental Health Research" |
Monday May 4, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM Meakins Amphitheater in room 521 McIntyre Medical Sciences Building Host: Dr. Koren Mann |
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Mark Nickerson Memorial Lecture Amanda Garner Ph.D |
“Enabling Technologies for Revealing Druggable Paths in RNA Biology” |
Thursday April 23, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM -5:30 PM Location: Martin Amphitheater in room 504 McIntyre Medical Sciences Building Host: Dr. Bernard Robaire |
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Senior Seminar Yangfan Jin PhD Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Dan Bernard |
"Regulation of murine follicle-stimulating hormone β subunit transcription by newly identified enhancers" |
Thursday April 16, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM IN-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in room 1345 Host: Dr. Dan Bernard |
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Inaugural Diamond Lecture Tracy Bale Ph.D. The Anschutz Foundation Endowed Chair in Women's Integrated Mental and Physical Health Research at the Ludeman Center University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus |
"Extracellular vesicles as stress signaling mechanisms and biomarkers in psychiatry" |
Wednesday April 15, 2026 Time: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Palmer Amphitheater McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in room 522 Host: Dr. Koren Mann |
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Phar & Wide Seminar Diego Loggia Sabrina Romanelli Vincenza Caruana Ph.D Candidate
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"Heart-in-a-dish: A personalized approcah to modelling and treating dilated cardiomyopathy" "Tiny but Mighty: Uncovering how the small subunit TOM7 activates the Parkinson's Disease Kinase PINK1" "Beyond the Lung: E-cigarette exposure reprograms hepatic zonation and metabolism"
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Thursday April 9, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345
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Rajae Talbi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Principle Investigator at University de Montréal Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
Kiss and burn: Kiss1 Neurons at the Intersection of Fertility and Metabolism |
Thursday April 2, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building Host: Dr. Daniel Bernard |
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Kyle Greenway, MD, MSc, FRCPC Psychiatrist, Jewish General Hospital Assistant Professor, McGill University
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Characterizing Psychedelic Drug Effects: Clarifying Drug-Context Interactions |
Thursday March 19, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building Host: Dr. Paul Clarke |
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Senior Seminar Olivia Kovecses Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Maureen McKeague & Dr. François Mercier |
"How to Retrain Your Leukemia Cells: Molecular Reprogramming of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using RNA Therapies" |
Thursday February 26, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345 Host: Dr. Maureen McKeague and Dr. François Mercier |
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David Chatenet, Ph.D. Director of the Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologique Research Centre Full Professor Pharmacochemistry, Medical chemistry, Peptide engineering, Pharmacology
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Into the Urotensinverse: Navigating the Pharmacological Maze of the urotensinergic system with Peptide-Based Tools |
Thursday February 19, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In-Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345 Host: Dr. Koren Mann |
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Cameron McAlpine, Ph.D. Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Medicine, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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"Brain-heart axes connect lifestyle and cardiovascular disease" |
Thursday February 12, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In Person Seminar McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345 Host: Dr. Daniel Bernard |
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Phar & Wide Seminar Diego Loggia Ph.D Candidate
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TBA |
Thursday January 29, 2026 Time 4:00 PM In-Person McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345
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Gareth Lim, Ph.D. Canada Research Chair in Adipocyte Development Professeur agrégé sous octroi / Associate Professor; Université de Montréal; CRCHUM |
“Is targeting 14-3-3 zeta a potential two-pronged approach to treat type 1 diabetes?” |
Thursday, January 15, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM In person Seminar, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345 Host: Dr. Koren Mann |