2024-2025 Schedule – Mondays 9am-10am
A weekly work-in-progress provides trainees with the opportunity to present their research results, develop communication skills, and receive feedback from colleagues. Our WIP presentation schedule is changing starting January 16th, 2023. In order to give more students an opportunity to present during the year, there will be two presentations on each designated Monday. Each presentation will last 20 minutes maximum, followed by a 10-minute question period.
| 2024 | PRESENTER 1 | TITLE | PRESENTER 2 | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 9, 2024 | ORIENTATION FOR NEW STAFF and STUDENTS | |||
| September 16, 2024 | NO WIP: CIHR GRANT APPLICATIONS | |||
| September 23, 2024 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| September 30, 2024 | YONG JIN KWEON MSc Grad Student Jun Ding | Advancing cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics with deep neural network, transfer learning and matrix factorization. | RUI SUN PhD Grad Student James Martin | Poly I:C alleviates asthma-associated T helper 2 immunopathology via the induction of modulatory monocyte-derived macrophages. |
| October 7, 2024 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| October 14, 2024 | NO WIP: THANKSGIVING | |||
| October 21, 2024 | KIRI STERN PhD Grad Student Simon Rousseau / Amin Emad | Establishing a need for causal inference machine learning methods in scRNA-seq studies. | EMILY WILSON PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole | AhR coordinates pulmonary response to inhaled cannabis products. |
| TUESDAY October 22, 2024 | RESP SPECIAL SEMINAR – POSTPONED | |||
| October 28, 2024 | HAJAROOBA GNANAGOBAL PostDoc Fellow Dao Nguyen | Transcriptomic response of airway epithelial cells to infection with intracellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa lacking Type 3 Secretion System (T3SS) function. | LEONARDO JURADO PhD Grad Student Maziar Divangahi POSTPONED | A fungal-derived adjuvant remarkably amplifies the antitumoral potency of BCG. |
| THURSDAY November 7, 2024 | INTERNATIONAL STEM CELL SYMPOSIUM | |||
| November 11, 2024 | SUMAIYA JUSAB MSc Grad Student Dao Nguyen | The role of the Type 3 secretion system on the long-term survival and proliferation of intracellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa in airway epithelial cells. | ROJINE McVEA MSc Grad Student Elizabeth Fixman / Brian Ward | RSV to asthma: investigating the immunomodulatory role of IL-33 in inducing allergic airway disease. |
| November 18, 2024 | ANDREI BOGZA PhD Grad Student Irah King | Exploring the Impact of Intestinal Helminth Infection on Diet Induced Stunting. | KAITLIN OLSEN MSc Grad Student Irah King | Investigating Transkingdom-Immune Interactions During Intestinal Helminth Infection. |
| November 25, 2024 | MARIEME DEMBELE PhD Grad Student Bruce Mazer | Immunoregulatory properties of IVIg and Tregitopes in murine models of asthma. | JAYALAKSHMI JAYAN MSc Grad Student Larry Lands | Optimization of Liquid Handler parameters for the synthesis and characterization of mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles for the treatment of lung disease. |
| December 2, 2024 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| December 9, 2024 | JU JING TAN PostDoc Fellow James Martin / Ryszard Grygorczyk | The Role of P2X7 Receptor in the Pathogenesis of Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury. | JANA ABI RAFEH MSc Grad Student Bruce Mazer / Salman Qureshi | The impact of artificial intelligence on parent education in oral immunotherapy (OIT). |
| December 16, 2024 | GUO JIANG MSc Grad Student Jun Ding | Graph Link Prediction Based Cell Alignment. | NICOLE HEIMBACH PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole | AhR and cigarette smoke: Effects on lung macrophages. |
| December 23, 2024 | NO WIP: HAPPY HOLIDAYS! | |||
| 2025 | ||||
| January 13, 2025 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| January 20, 2025 | BOWEN ZHAO MSc Grad Student Jun Ding | scCobra: Contrastive cell embedding learning with domain-adaptation for single-cell data integration and harmonization. | AHMED SAIF MSc Grad Student Maziar Divangahi | TBC |
| FRIDAY January 24, 2025 | RECRU SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| January 27, 2025 | JÉRÔME BÉDARD-MATTEAU PhD Grad Student Simon Rousseau | The Th17 inflammation axis as a potential mediator of persistent fatigue symptom in Long-Covid. | MONICA CELLA PhD Grad Student Dao Nguyen | Metagenomic analyses to understand transmission dynamics of carbapenem resistant bacteria within hospital settings. |
| February 3, 2025 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| February 10, 2025 | NO WIP: RI STAT HOLIDAY | |||
| February 17, 2025 | CLARA MacMAHON PhD Grad Student Irah King | Exploring the relationship between hypercholesterolemia, systemic inflammation, and the gut microbiome. | PATRICK GREISS PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole | The effect of cannabis smoke exposure on the immune response to Influenza A Infection. |
| February 24, 2025 | MIROSLAV ZHAO PhD Grad Student Jun Ding | Cross-protocol data conversion using deep generative learning. | QUAZI ISLAM PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole | TBC |
| March 3, 2025 | NO WIP: SPRING BREAK | |||
| March 10, 2025 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| March 17, 2025 | KATELYN LIU PhD Grad Student Simon Rousseau | TBC | JINGTAO WANG PhD Grad Student Jun Ding | TBC |
| March 24, 2025 | MATHEUS SCHULTZ PhD Grad Student Anne-Marie Lauzon | TBC | YUMIN ZHENG PhD Grad Student Jun Ding | TBC |
| FRIDAY March 28, 2025 | RECRU SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| March 31, 2025 | EISHA AHMED PhD Grad Student Bruce Mazer | TBC | VISHVAK RAGHAVAN PhD Grad Student Jun Ding / Yue Li | TBC |
| April 7, 2025 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| April 14, 2025 | WIDED AKIK PhD Grad Student Larry Lands | TBC | SHAHIN BOLORI HANAFI PostDoc Fellow Maziar Divangahi | TBC |
| April 21, 2025 | NO WIP: EASTER MONDAY | |||
| FRIDAY April 25, 2025 | RESPIRATORY RESEARCH DAY | |||
| April 28, 2025 | SOPHIE COLLINS PostDoc Fellow Benjamin Smith | TBC | JIAHUI TAN MSc Grad Student Jun Ding / Basil Petrof | TBC |
| May 5, 2025 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| May 12, 2025 | JUSTINE MATHÉ PostDoc Fellow Dao Nguyen | TBC | FARIYA WAHAB MSc Grad Student Carolyn Baglole | TBC |
| May 19, 2025 | NO WIP: VICTORIA DAY & ATS | |||
| May 26, 2025 | FATEMEH OSTADAN PhD Grad Student Basil Petrof | TBC | AVA NAPHIN MSc Grad Student Carolyn Baglole | TBC |
| FRIDAY May 30, 2025 | ANNUAL DOCTOR DOROTHY WISELBERG SEMINAR | |||
| June 2, 2025 | RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER | |||
| June 9, 2025 | HILARY HENDIN PostDoc Fellow Gregory Fonseca | TBC | SIMRAN JAFFER MSc Grad Student Darcy Wagner | TBC |
| June 16, 2025 | SYDNEY JOY PhD Grad Student Inés Colmegna / James Martin | TBC | MATTHEW TIRANARDI PhD Grad Student Bail Petrof | TBC |