Friday Seminar Series

All seminars take place at 11:00 a.m. in Room 1034, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 Sir William Osler (unless otherwise noted).  Seminars are  in person and also  via Zoom (unless otherwise noted).   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

 

Sept. 20

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

poster

Dr. Karl Fernandes

Professor,  Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke 

Sept. 27  

 

Oct. 4  

 

Oct. 11  

Dr. Trine Krogh- Madsen

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University, 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

"Cytoskeletal control of T cell function"

 

Dr. Janis Burkhardt

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

Nov. 1

 

Dr. Jackson Cone

Assistant Professor, Department of Department of Psychology, University of Calgary

Nov. 8  

Dr. Morag Park

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University

Nov. 15  

Dr. Lisa Munter

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University

 

Nov. 22  

Dr. Marie-Eve Tremblay

Associate Professor, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, BC

Nov. 29  

Dr. Liisa Galea

Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Dec. 6

 

 

Dr. John Hanrahan

Department of Physiology, McGill University

 

 

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 are  in-person and also via zoom (unless otherwise noted).  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  

Dr. Sonia Del Rincon

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, McGill University,  

Lady Davis Institute-Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital

Jan. 17

 

Dr. Nathalie Labrecque

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

 T-cell immunobiology laboratory, IRCM

Jan. 24

 

Dr. Edward Ruthazer
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Jan. 31  

Dr. Arjun Krishnaswamy

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Feb. 7  

Dr. Dan Bernard

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University

Feb. 14  

Dr. Stephanie Protze

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University or Toronto

Feb. 21

 

Dr. Ravi Rungta

Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor , Université de Montréal.

Feb. 28

 

 
Mar. 7 No seminar (Spring break)

no seminar (spring break)

 

Mar. 14

 

Dr. Jeremie Lefebre

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa

Mar. 21

 

Dr. Benjamin Haley

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal

Mar. 28  

19Th Annual Undergraduate Research Day,

keynote lecturer: TBA

 

 

Apr. 4

 

Dr. Mehrdad Jazayeri

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

 

Dr. Leila Wehbe

Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department and The Neuroscience Institute,

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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

 

Dr. Tara Deemyad

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

May 2

 

Dr. Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi

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

May 9

 

 
May 16

TBA

 

30th Annual Graduate Research Day TBA

Keynote Lecturer: TBA

Previous schedules

2023-2024 Friday Seminar Schedule

2022-2023 Friday Seminar Schedule

2021-2022 Friday Seminar Schedule

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