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
2023 Schedule
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Sept. 8 |
"Cell types and states of headache and pain" co-hosted by the McGill Pain Centre |
Dr. William Renthal Director of Headache Research Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School |
| *Sept.18 |
"Integrin-mediated adhesions in a crosstalk with actomyosin cytoskeleton and microtubules" |
Dr. Alexander Bershadsky Professor and Senior Principal Research Scientist, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore *Please note:This seminar will be taking place on Monday, September 18 at 11:00am in room 208/209 (2nd Floor McIntyre Bldg.) |
| Sept.22 |
"Heart regeneration with human pluripotent stem cells" |
Dr. Michael Laflamme Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto |
| Sept.29 |
"Leptin, obesity and neuroinflammation" |
Dr. Maia Kovoeva Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Oct.6 | Reading week |
Reading week -no seminar |
| Oct. 13 |
"Understanding immunological heterogeneity through computational immunology" |
Dr. Morgan Craig CHU Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre,Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Montréal |
| Oct. 20 |
"Gene editing and single-cell analysis in the understanding of oncogenesis" |
Dr. David Knapp Principle Investigator, Cellular Engineering Research Unit, IRIC, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal |
| Oct. 27 |
"The role of extracellular ATP and its derivatives in responses of bone cells to physical forces" |
Dr. Svetlana Komarova Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, McGill |
| Nov. 3 |
“Neural mechanisms of embodied decisions” |
Dr. Paul Cisek Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal |
| Nov. 10 |
"How to make oligodendrocytes from neural stem cells" co-hosted by McGill Regenerative Medicine |
Dr. Anastassia Voronova Associate Professor and CRC in Neural Stem Cell Biology at the University of Alberta |
| Nov. 17 |
"Vascular Biology in Health and Disease through the Lifespan" |
Dr. Marilyn Cipolla Departments of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont |
| Nov. 24 |
"Capillary stalling and hypoxic micropockets: two sides of the same phenomenon?" |
Dr. Frédéric Lesage Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal and Montreal Heart Institute, Research Centre |
| Dec. 1 |
"The NADPH Oxidase DUOX1 in Redox-Dependent Epithelial Homeostasis, Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, and Fibrotic lung disease" co- hosted by Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research Centre |
Dr. Albert van der Vliet Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont |
| Dec. 8 |
"Are craniofacial spliceosomopathies due to depletion of neural stem cells?" |
Dr. Loydie A. Jerome-Majewska Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University |
2024 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: |
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| Jan. 5 | no seminar |
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| Jan. 12 |
"Factors governing the establishment of the embryonic and placental epigenomes" |
Dr. William Pastor Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University |
| Jan. 19 |
"Regulating T cell responses through cellular metabolism and diet" |
Dr. Julianna Blagih Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology,Centre de Recherche Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Université de Montréal |
| Jan. 26 |
"The Neurophysiology of Disorientation in Health and Alzheimer’s Disease" |
Dr. Mark Brandon Associate Professor, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
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| Feb. 2 |
"Transcriptional control of neutrophil phenotypic and functional maturation" |
Dr. Irina Udalova Professor of Molecular Immunology at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK |
| Feb. 9 |
"TARDBP Knock-In Zebrafish Models of ALS" |
Dr. Gary A.B. Armstrong Associate Professor and Killiam Research Scholar, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
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| Feb. 16 |
"Neurobiology of Mistakes" |
Dr. Becket Ebitz Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal
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| Feb. 23 |
"Tissue engineering as a new approach method to evaluate immune cell therapy in solid tumors" |
Dr. Matt Kinsella Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University
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| Mar. 1 |
"Microscale tissue engineering: seeing developmental and disease mechanobiology from a cellular perspective" |
Dr. Christopher Moraes Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University |
| Mar. 8 | No seminar (Spring break) |
no seminar (spring break)
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| Mar. 15 |
"What Virus Goes There? Tracking emerging viruses in the lab and field" |
Dr. Jason Kindrachuk Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Manitoba Proteomics and Systems Biology Centre, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba |
| Mar. 22 |
"Neural substrates of memory and navigation in primates: Insights from multiscale studies" |
18Th Annual Undergraduate Research Day, Martin Amphitheatre, Room 504, McIntyre Medical Bldg keynote lecturer: Dr. Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario in-person only seminar @11:30 am |
| Mar. 29 | No seminar (Good Friday) |
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| Apr. 5 |
"Cytoskeletal control of T cell function" |
This seminar is cancelled and will be scheduled at another time Dr. Janis Burkhardt Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Apr. 12 |
"The pulvinar nucleus as a hub for cortical processing" |
Dr. Christian Casanova Emeritus Professor, Director of the Visual Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Université de Montréal and Vice President for Research and Partnerships, École de Technologie Supérieure |
| Apr. 19 | "Targeting cortical GABAergic circuits in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders" |
Graziella Di Cristo Professor Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal and Azrieli Research Center CHU Sainte-Justine |
| Apr. 26 |
"A Less Artificial Intelligence" |
Dr. Andreas Tolias Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University, California NOW IN ROOM 521, Meakins Amphitheatre, McIntyre Bldg |
| May 3 |
"Unveiling the roles of hormones and exercise in Alzheimer’s disease" |
Dr. Fernanda de Felice Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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| May 10 |
"Multidimentional Cross-Talk between cells and the Microenvironment" |
29th Annual Graduate Research Day, Palmer Howard Amphitheatre, Room 522, McIntyre Bldg Keynote lecturer: Professor Benny Geiger, Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in-person only seminar @3:30pm |
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Previous schedules
2022-2023 Friday Seminar Schedule
2021-2022 Friday Seminar Schedule
2020-2021_friday_seminar_schedule.pdf
2019-2020_friday_seminar_schedule.pdf
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