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Work-in-Progress

2026-2027 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. 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.

2025PRESENTER 1TITLEPRESENTER 2TITLE
THURSDAY
September 3, 2026
RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
September 7, 2026NO WIP: LABOR DAY
September 14, 2026ORIENTATION FOR NEW STAFF and STUDENTS
September 21, 2026NO WIP: CONFERENCE ON INNATE IMMUNE MEMORY
September 28, 2026Elsa Cousineau
MSc Grad student Dr. Bruce Mazer
TBCSophia Jeroncic
MSc Grad student Dr. Irah King
TBC
October 5, 2026Matthew Tiranardi
PhD Grad student Dr. Basil Petrof
TBCMaddison Arlen
PhD Grad student Dr. Dao Nguyen
TBC
October 12, 2025NO WIP: THANKSGIVING
October 19 2026NO WIP: CHEST MEETING
October 26, 2026Leonor Simões
PhD Grad student Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBCVishvak Raghavan
PhD Grad student Drs. Jun Ding & Yue Li
TBC
WEDNESDAY
October 28, 2026
RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
November 2, 2026Diana Toscano Rivero
PhD Grad student Dr. Bruce Mazer
TBCXiuhui Yang
PhD Grad student Dr. Jun Ding
TBC
November 9, 2026RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
November 16, 2026Justine Mathé
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Dao Nguyen
TBCWillem Rijnbout St-James
PhD Grad student Drs. Carolyn Baglole & Jun Ding
TBC
November 23, 2026Clara MacMahon
PhD Grad student Dr. Irah King
TBCJoy Cai
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Eva Kaufmann
TBC
November 30, 2026Hansen Feng
MSc Grad student Dr. James Martin
TBCMina Sadeghi
PhD Grad student Dr. Maziar Divangahi
TBC
December 7, 2026RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
December 14, 2026Bowen Zhao
PhD Grad student Dr. Jun Ding
TBCKersen Nair
MSc Grad student Drs. James Martin & Inés Colmegna
TBC
December 21, 2026NO WIP: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
2027TBC
January 11, 2027Lucy Thomsen
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Carolyn Baglole
TBCNicholas Vonniessen
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBC
January 18, 2027RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
January 25, 2027Sophia Goldman
PhD Grad student Dr. Dao Nguyen
TBCBrenna Fox
MSc Grad student Drs. Dao Nguyen & Jesse Shapiro
TBC
February 1, 2027RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
February 8, 2027NO WIP: RI STAT HOLIDAY
February 15, 2027Karolína Ondrová
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Carolyn Baglole
Mapping the Human antigen R regulatory axis: from RNA binding to proteome remodeling upon cigarette smoke exposure in lung fibroblasts. / Cartographie de l’axe de régulation de l’antigène humain R: de la liaison à l’ARN au remodelage protéomiqui lors de l’exposition à la fumée de cigarette dans les fibroblastes pulmonaires.Tiago Bressanelli Maffacioli
MSc Grad student Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBC
February 22, 2027Felix Lee
Honors student Dr. Eva Kaufmann
TBCGaëtan Roudier
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBC
March 1, 2027NO WIP: SPRING BREAK & CIHR
March 8, 2027Esther Nutakor
MSc Grad student Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBCRyann Lang
PhD Grad student Dr. Basil Petrof
TBC
March 15, 2027(Reserved for Seminar Speaker)
March 22, 2027RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
March 29, 2027NO WIP: EASTER MONDAY
April 5, 2027Alfredo Moreno Olmedo
PhD Grad student Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBCSantosh Venkatesan
MSc Grad student Dr. Eva Kaufmann
TBC
April 12, 2027Anna Dolgova
MSc Grad student Dr. Eva Kaufmann
TBCSidrah Alousi-Jones
MSc Grad student Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBC
April 19, 2027Braeden Giles
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Irah King
TBCAlyson Deprez
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Basil Petrof
TBC
April 26, 2027Savannah Dunberry
MSc Grad student Dr. James Martin
TBCIran Augusto da Silva
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBC
FRIDAY
April 30, 2027
(TBC)
RESPIRATORY RESEARCH DAY
May 3, 2027Julie Lin
MSc Grad student Dr. Simon Rousseau
TBCLauren Juneau
MSc Grad student Dr. Carolyn Baglole
TBC
May 10, 2027Jiajun Lu
MSc Grad student Dr. Larry Lands
TBCStephanie Roy
MSc Grad student Dr. Simon Rousseau
TBC
May 17, 2027NO WIP: ATS
May 24, 2027NO WIP: VICTORIA DAY
FRIDAY
May 28, 2027 (TBC)
DOCTOR DOROTHY WISELBERG SEMINAR
May 31, 2027Yushan Liao
MSc Grad student Dr. Carolyn Baglole
TBCAngeline Correia
MSc Grad student Dr. James Martin
TBC
June 7, 2027Maia Afrin
MSc Grad student Dr. Maziar Divangahi
TBCMichael Jones
MSc Grad student Dr. Darcy Wagner
TBC
June 14, 2027Manal Al-Adwan
PhD Grad student Dr. Sabah Hussain
TBCMaryam Al-Khannaq
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Eva Kaufmann
TBC