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The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics hosts speakers from International institutes and local academia, in a series of weekly seminars.
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Senior Seminars:
To reserve a slot for your senior seminar, please contact the departmental seminar coordinators:
bernard.robaire [at] mcgill.ca (Bernard Robaire), paul.clarke [at] mcgill.ca (Paul Clarke), atchaya.kanagasabai [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Atchaya Kanagasabai), etienne.billard [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Etienne Billard) and copy in chairsec.pharmacology [at] mcgill.ca (Senior Administrative Coordinator)Ìę
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SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
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| 2025 | Ìę | Ìę |
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Mark Nickerson Memorial Lecture Anna Blakney, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Michael Smith Laboratories & School of Biomedical Engineering University of British Columbia |
"Next-Generation RNA Vaccines & Therapies" |
Thursday, April 24, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar Martin Amphitheater, Room 504 McIntyre Medical Building Host: Professor Bernard Robaire |
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Senior Seminar Adithi Sundarakrishnan Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Paul Clarke |
âUltrasonic vocalizations as potential indicators of positive and negative affectâ |
Thursday, April 17, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Paul Clarke |
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Sophie Petropoulos, Ph.D. Associate Professor-Researcher, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université De Montréal Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet Canada Research Chair Co-Director of The Research Center in Reproduction and Fertility Université de Montréal |
"Comprehensive understanding of mammalian embryogenesis using cutting edge methodology" |
Thursday, April 10, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Jacquetta Trasler |
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Senior Seminar Bruktawit Maru Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Maureen McKeague |
"Death by Design: RNA Strategies to Improve Targeted AML Cell Death" |
Thursday, March 20, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Maureen McKeague |
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Jodi Flaws, Dr Professor, Comparative Biosciences University Illinois |
"The effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on female reproduction" |
Thursday, March 6, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professors Bernard Robaire & Koren Mann |
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Matthew Campen Ph.D. MSPH Director, New Mexico Center for Metals in Biology and Medicine, Regents' Professor, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences, CC - Cancer Control and Pop Sci University of New Mexico |
"Neuroplastics: Out of sight, into mind" |
Thursday February 27, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Koren Mann |
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Senior Seminar Reily Pidgeon Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Bastien Castagner |
âYou are what you(r gut microbes) eat: Discovery of castalagin â a prebiotic that modulates microbiome composition and metabolic activityâ |
Thursday, February 20, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bastien Castagner |
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Carole YaukÌęDr Professor Department of Biology Ottawa University |
âGenome Under Fire: Impacts of Prolonged Mutagen Exposure Unveiled by Error-Corrected Sequencingâ |
Thursday February 6, 2025 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bernard Robaire |
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Dana SmallÌęPh.D. Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, șĂÉ«TV șĂÉ«TV |
"The Wisdom of the Body" |
Thursday, January 16, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Paul Clarke |
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Senior Seminar Emily Wilson Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Baglole |
âLooking Past the Smoke: AhR as a Key Modulator of the Pulmonary Response to Cannabisâ |
Thursday, January 9, 2025 TIME: 4:30PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Carolyn Baglole |
| 2024 | Ìę | Ìę |
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Senior Seminar Seline Vancolen Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Bernard Robaire Co-supervisor: Dr. Guillaume Sebire |
âPlacental infection: immune and nervous system effects modulated by androgensâ |
Thursday December 12, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Prof.ÌęBernard RobaireÌę |
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Senior Seminar Jasmine PhĂ©nix Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Munter Ìę |
"The role of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) in Alzheimerâs Disease" |
Thursday, December 5, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Dr. Lisa Munter |
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Senior Seminar Braeden Giles Ph.D. Candidate Prof. Koren Mann and Prof. Bernard Robaire |
"A regrettable substitution? Immunotoxic consequences of organophosphate ester mixtures on macrophages" |
Thursday, November 28, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Koren Mann and Professor Bernard Robaire |
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Senior Seminar Claire Lin Ph.D. Candidate Prof. DanÌęBernard |
"Expression and function of inhibin co-receptors: From promoter bashing to pregnancy loss" |
Thursday, November 21, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor DanÌęBernard |
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Yves de Koninck, Ph.D. FRSC Professor of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Laval University Scientific Director, Quebec Mental Health Institute Director, Neurophotonics Center Laval University |
âChloride homeostasis as a new therapeutic target: from chronic pain to neurodegenerative diseasesâ |
Thursday, November 14, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Paul Clarke |
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Senior Seminar Pei You Wu Ph.D. Candidate Prof. Anne McKinney |
"Understanding the role of synaptopodin in synaptic plasticity" |
Thursday, November 07, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Anne McKinney |
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âa 60-year odysseyâ |
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Prof. Jeffrey Mogil Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Pain (Tier I) Department of Psychology, șĂÉ«TV |
âMistakes Were Made: How to Fix Preclinical (Pain) Researchâ |
Thursday, SeptemberÌę19th, 2024 16:00PM In-person Seminar - McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345 McIntyre Medical Building Host: Professor Paul Clarke |
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Prof. Sebastien Talbot Associate Professor Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Queenâs University |
â Pain neurons control cancer immunosurveillance.â |
Thursday, July 11th, 2024 12:00PM In-person Seminar - McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345 McIntyre Medical Building Host:ÌęProfessor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar |
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Senior Seminar Rebecca Cummer Ph.D. Candidate Prof. Bastien CastagnerÌę |
"Inositol phosphate analogs as allosteric activators of Clostridioides difficile toxin B" |
Thursday, July 4, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bastien Castagner |
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Dr. MĂ©lanie Robitaille Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
âCalcium signaling as a therapeutic target in cancer and viral infectionâ |
Thursday, June 20, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Terry HĂ©bert |
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Senior Seminar Zixuan Li Ph.D. Candidate Prof. Barbara Hales |
âEffects of Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers on the Adrenal Glandâ |
Thursday, May 30, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Barbara Hales |
| Nicole Kleinstreuer Director, NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) Executive Director, Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative MethodsÌę(ICCVAM) |
âUS Updates on NAMs: the Continuum from Biomedical Research to Toxicological Application Regulatory Implementationâ |
Thursday, May 16, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Barbara Hales |
| Dr. David G Harrison 2023 Louis and Artur Lucian Award Recipient Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Director, Center for Vascular Biology Betty and Jack Bailey Chair in Cardiology Professor of Medicine Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Professor of Pharmacology |
âInflammation and Immune Activation in Hypertensionâ |
Tuesday, MayÌę14, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Terry HĂ©bert |
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Dr. Linda Birnbaum National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program |
âThe Perils of PFAS: Everything, Everywhere, All of usâ |
Tuesday, May 09, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: ProfessorÌęBernard Robaire |
| Dr. Sheena Josselyn
Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Professor, Departments of Psychology and Physiology, University of Toronto |
âEngrams and memoryâ |
Thursday, April 18, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 |
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Dr. Michael Witcher Department of Oncology șĂÉ«TV |
âTargeting DNA damage repair and epigenetic processes in melanoma and breast cancerâ |
Thursday, March 28, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Koren Mann |
| Braedon McDonald Assistant Professor, Departmentof Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary |
âImmunotherapy through microbiome modulation to treat infection in critical illnessâ |
Thursday, March 14, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bastien Castagner Professor Maureen McKeague Professor Ajitha Thanabalasuriar |
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Senior Seminar TapanÌęAgnihotri Ph.D. Candidate |
âMicroglial heme recycling and vascular remodeling improves vision in ischemic retinopathiesâ |
Thursday, February 22,2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: ProfessorÌęJean-SĂ©bastien Joyal |
| Eva Kaufmann Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Queen's University |
âInnate Immune Memory in pulmonary infections and inflammationâ |
Thursday, February 15, 2024 Ìę |
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Senior Seminar Sarah MacKinnon Ph.D. Candidate |
âThe CTD of the elongation factor Spt5 modulates distinct pathways to determine chromatin identityâ |
Thursday, February 08,2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Jason Tanny |
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Senior Seminar Rabah Dabouz Ph.D. Candidate |
âNeuroimmune interactions in age-related macular degenerationâ |
Thursday, February 01,2024 TIME: 4:00PM Hybrid Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345Ìę Host: Professor Sylvain Chemtob |
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Senior Seminar Bayne Andrew Ph.D. Candidate |
âMitochondrial protein import and the role of PINK1 in mitochondrial quality control |
Thursday, January 25, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Jean-François Trempe |
| Humphrey Yao Senior Principal Investigator Reproductive Developmental Biology Group, Reproductive & Developmental Biology Laboratory (RDBL) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
"From Glowing Penis to Oocyte-Producing Testis: the Power of Mouse Genetics for Reproductive Research" |
Thursday, January 18, 2024 TIME: 4:00PM In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345 Host: Professor Bernard Robaire |