2024-2025 Respiratory Research Seminar Series
Seminars will occur Mondays or Fridays. Please check schedule below for details.
For our past seminars, please see here.
Host: Meakins-Christie Laboratories
Mondays 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Room: RI-MUHC Training Room, Block E, Room EM1.3509, 1001 Décarie Boulevard
Host: Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit (RECRU)
Fridays 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Room: Kitchen 3B, 5252 de Maisonneuve, 3rd Floor
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE OF PRESENTATION |
|---|---|---|
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, September 23, 2024 | Yan Burelle, PhD Professor of Medicine University of Ottawa | Mitochondrial Quality Control in Muscle Stem Cells: A Determinant of Fate Decision and Tissue Repair Capacity Host: Dr. Basil Petrof |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, October 7, 2024 | Moutih Rafei, PhD Professor Université de Montréal | Exploiting the hidden side of mesenchymal stromal cells in immuno-oncology: from cells to cures Host: Dr. Sabah Hussain |
| RESP SEMINAR Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Special Seminar | James Chalmers, MD, PhD Professor University of Dundee | POSTPONED Depeptidyl peptidase-1 inhibitors: A new therapy for pulmonary inflammation Host: Dr. Simon Rousseau |
| Thursday November 7, 2024 | INTERNATIONAL STEM CELL CONFERENCE | Host: Dr. Darcy Wagner |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, December 2, 2024 | Francesca Polverino, MD, PhD Lester and Sue Smith Associate Professor of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine | COPD: From the Lab to Precision Medicine Host: Dr. James Martin |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, January 13, 2025 | Babak Javid, MD, PhD Professor University of California San Francisco | Mechanism(s) of antibody-mediated protection to tuberculosis Host: Dr. Maziar Divangahi |
| MeDiC/CRBS/RESP Seminar (Presented in the RI-MUHC Training Room EM1-3509) Thursday, January 16, 2025 4-5pm | Alba Guarné, PhD Jean-Francois Trempe, PhD McGill University | Joint MeDiC/CRBS/RESP Seminar – CRBS Info Session Topic: Reverse Bench to Bedside Hosts: Drs. Dao Nguyen, Simon Rousseau, Simon Wing (MeDiC) |
| RECRU SEMINAR Friday, January 24, 2025 | Bruce Struminger, MD Associate Professor Senior Associate Director Project Echo The University of New Mexico | POSTPONED TO MAY 9, 2025 To be announced Host: Dr. Kevin Schwartzman |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, February 3, 2025 | Alexandra Noël, PhD Associate Professor Louisiana State University | An experimental assessment of the impact of vaping on pulmonary health. Host: Dr. Carolyn Baglole |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, March 10, 2025 | Fabio Zani, PhD Assistant Professor McGill University | Metabolic stress – from obesity to sucralose (and back). Host: Dr. Irah King |
| Research Canada Innovate Event Monday, March 24, 2025 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM | SPECIAL RI-MUHC EVENT Research Canada Innovate Details to be announced by the RI | |
| RECRU SEMINAR Friday, March 28, 2025 | J. Lucian (Luke) Davis, MD Associate Professor of Epidemiology and of Medicine Yale University | Reimagining TB Contact Tracing in High-Burden Settings: An Implementation Science Approach. Host: Dr. Kevin Schwartzman |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, April 7, 2025 | Braedon McDonald, MD, PhD Assistant Professor University of Calgary | Using microbes to fight microbes – microbial immunotherapy to combat infections in the ICU. Host: Dr. Arnold Kristof |
| NEW DATE & TIME RESP SEMINAR (Presented in the RI-MUHC Training Room EM1-3509) Thursday, April 17, 2025 9:30-10:30 am | Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, PhD Professor and Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine Emory University School of Medicine | Epigenetic regulation of antiviral immunity: it starts with HSCs. Host: Dr. Maziar Divangahi |
| RESP RESEARCH DAY Friday, April 25, 2025 | Respiratory Research Day | |
| RESP SEMINAR Friday, May 2, 2025 | Eva Kaufmann, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor, Queen’s University | Immunodynamics in Allergies: From Sensitization to Chronic Inflammation Host: Basil Petrof |
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, May 5, 2025 | Naftali Kaminski, MD Professor Yale School of Medicine | The Single Cell Universe of Human Pulmonary Fibrosis. Host: Dr. Jun Ding |
| RECRU SEMINAR Friday, May 9, 2025 | Bruce Baird Struminger, MD, MA Associate Professor Senior Associate Director Project Echo The University of New Mexico | Scaling Expertise, Advancing Global TB Care: the Evolution of ECHO Tele-mentoring Programs Worldwide. Host: Dr. Kevin Schwartzman |
| RESP SEMINAR Thursday, May 15, 2025 9:30 am | Lars Larsson, MD, PhD Professor and Chief Scientific Officer Karolinska Institute Sweden | Experimental and Clinical studies on Acquired Muscle and Brain dysfunction associated with modern critical care: Mechanisms and Interventions. Host: Dr. Sabah Hussain |
| WISELBERG Friday, May 30, 2025 | Wiselberg Seminar | Topic: Interstitial Lung Diseases Host: Dr. Deborah Assayag |
| Monday, June 2, 2025 | Christopher Perry, PhD Professor York University | Preclinical development of mitochondrial enhancing therapies to treat muscle weakness during cancer. Hosts: Drs. Sabah Hussain, Basil Petrof, Simon Wing |