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Weekly Faculty Meetings

2025-2026 Weekly Meakins and RECRU Faculty Meetings
During these weekly meetings, Meakins, RECRU, and RESP Program Faculty present their grant proposals, research progress and manuscripts.
Time:  Fridays at 12:00 PM unless otherwise advertised
Location: EM3.2225 (CTB) or 3D.01 (CORE) and Zoom

For Student Presentations, please see Meakins Student WIP (Mondays @ 9am) and RECRU Student WIP (Fridays @ 1pm)

DATEPRESENTERTITLE OF PRESENTATION
2025
August 15, 2025CIHR Presentation – OPEN
August 22, 2025Deborah AssayagCIHR Presentation
Title: The longitudinal use of oscillometry in interstitial lung diseases
August 29, 2025Dao Nguyen &
Jun Ding		CIHR Presentation
Dao Nguyen: Group discussion about fluorescence imaging system at the Meakins
Jun Ding: Harnessing Deep Generative AI to Reconstruct 3D Lung Models from Single-Cell Spatial Genomics for Disease and Therapeutic Modeling
September 5, 2025CIHR Presentation – OPEN
September 12, 2025Meakins – Darcy WagnerTitle: PROTEUS: solvent based forward and reverse optical tissue clearing to enable multimodal imaging of centimeter scale large tissue segments using light microscopy.
September 19, 2025RECRU – Jonathon CampbellBeyond “Cure” – Advancing tuberculosis research for prevention and survivor wellbeing
September 26, 2025NO MEETING – ERS
October 3, 2025OPEN SLOT
October 10, 2025Meakins – Irah KingImmune regulation of the somatotropic axis during early life
October 17, 2025RECRU – Faiz Ahmad KhanTitle: Modelling TB transmission in a high-incidence small community
Co-Presenters: Coralie Geric and Dr. Faiz Ahmad Khan
October 24, 2025Meakins – Maziar DivangahiTrained Immunity: A New Paradigm for Promoting Disease Tolerance
October 31, 2025RECRU RECRU Admin Update Meeting
November 7, 2025Meakins – Dao NguyenA two part meeting: 1) fluorescene imaging needs of the group; 2) From microbiology to diagnostic innovations; 
November 14, 2025RECRU Seminar Speaker
Dmitry Rozenberg, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Temerly Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto		Inspiratory Muscle Training in Chronic Lung Disease and Prerehabilitation Settings
Host: Dr. Tania Janaudis-Ferreira
November 21, 2025Meakins – Eva KaufmannFrom clinics to lab, from lab to clinics: Modelling cat allergy rhinitis
November 28, 2025RECRU – Kevin SchwartzmanAdherence and patient support during TB care:  Evidence syntheses and cost-effectiveness analyses
December 5, 2025Meakins –Basil PetrofAdventures in single cell RNAseq
December 12, 2025RI-MUHC-wide Research Day & Holiday Party
Registration and Abstract Submission HERE
December 19, 2025HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
2026
January 9, 2026Meakins – Simon RousseauCirculating amyloidogenesis, a mechanism linking dysregulated coagulation to long COVID symptoms?
January 16, 2026RECRU – Benjamin SmithProject Grant proposal: Establishing a clinical trial-grade pipeline for replenishing lung progenitor cells in patients with COPD.
January 23, 2026RECRU – Sushmita PamidiCIHR project grant proposal
January 30, 2026No meeting
February 6, 2026Meakins – Darcy WagnerCIHR Grant Presentation
Identification of pro-fibrotic versus pro-regenerative YAP/TAZ transcriptional complexes in lung epithelial cells
February 13, 2026RECRU – Nermin DiabFRQS Junior 1 Presentation
February 20, 2026Meakins – Sabah HussainCIHR Grant Presentation
Novel strategies to mitigate ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction
February 27, 2026CIHR Grant Presentation – OPEN
March 2-6, 2026CIHR DEADLINE & MCGILL SPRING BREAK
March 13, 2026Meakins – Jim MartinAdaptation to inhaled chlorine; macrophages to the rescue
March 20, 2026Meakins – Salman QureshiFunctional characterization of novel antifungal host resistance genes
March 27, 2026Meakins – Carolyn BagloleSerendipity: a tale of two cells
April 3, 2026EASTER – no meeting
April 10, 2026RECRU – Nicole EzerSputum eosinophilia, serum eosinophilia among participants in the BELE trial 
April 17, 2026CANADIAN RESPIRATORY CONFERENCE – no meeting
April 24, 2026RESPIRATORY RESEARCH DAY
May 1, 2026Simon Rousseau & Douglas SlobodJoint CHAL & RESP “Spark Session”
CIHR Reimagining Acute Care Catalyst Grant
Project 1 – Simon Rousseau and team: From Risk to Response: Digital Twin–Guided Precision Care in the ICU
Project 2 – Douglas Slobod and team: Right Ventricular–Protective Management in ARDS: From Acute Care to Post-ICU Cardiopulmonary Health
May 8, 2026Meakins – Arnold KrtistofFeeding Patients in the ICU: How, When, Who, and To What End
May 15, 2026ATS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – no meeting
May 22, 2026RECRU – Dennis JensenEvaluating Exertional Breathlessness using Normative Reference Equations: From Phenotyping to Prognostication
May 29, 2026Meakins –Elizabeth FixmanTitle TBC
June 5, 2026WISELBERG SEMINAR – TOPIC: USE OF AI and WEARABLES IN RESPIRATORY DISEASES
June 12, 2026RECRU – Bryan Ross Title TBC