2025-2026 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, Montréal
Host: Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit (RECRU)
Fridays 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Room: Kitchen 3B, 5252 de Maisonneuve, 3rd Floor
Montréal
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE OF PRESENTATION |
|---|---|---|
| RESP SEMINAR Monday, September 29, 2025 | Haikel Dridi, PhD Assistant Professor Columbia University | Structural insights into simvastatin-induced adverse side effects on skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor type 1 Host: Sabah Hussain, MD, PhD |
| RESP SEMINAR Friday, November 14, 2025 12:00 – 1:00 pm Kitchen 3B, 5252 de Maisonneuve | Dmitry Rozenberg, MD, PhD Associate Professor University of Toronto | Inspiratory Muscle Training in Chronic Lung Disease and Prerehabilitation Settings Host: Tania Janaudis-Ferreira, PhD |
| RESP SEMINAR Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Jonathan Brassard, PhD | Engineering tissue complexity into human PSC-derived pancreatic organoids Host: Meakins-Christie Laboratories |
| RESP SEMINAR Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | Louis Prahl, PhD | Building a Branched Organ Host: Meakins-Christie Laboratories |
| RESP SEMINAR Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | Allison Greaney, PhD | Engineering complexity to identify principles of tissue homeostasis and disease Host: Meakins-Christie Laboratories |
| RESP/CHHD SEMINAR Monday, April 20, 2026 | Rajesh Kumar, MD, Ms Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | PA-1: A Precision Medicine Intervenable Pathway in Asthma Host: Bruce Mazer |