Work-in-Progress

2022-2023 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 16^th, 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.

DATE	PRESENTER	POSITION	SUPERVISOR	TITLE OF PRESENTATION
2022
September 12, 2022	Orientation for new staff & trainees
September 14, 2022	CIHR Grant Applications
September 19, 2022	SAHAR MIKAEELI	PhD Grad Student	Sabah Hussain	Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Mass by Long non-coding RNAs
September 26, 2022	MIKAL EL-HAJJAR	PhD Grad Student	Gregory Fonseca	Characterizing Sars-CoV-2 Heterogeneity in UAE Wastewater
October 3, 2022	GARRIE PENG	PhD Grad Student	Irah King	Exploring the role of the gut microbiota in virtual memory CD8 T cell development during intestinal helminth infection
October 10, 2022	NO WIP: Thanksgiving
October 17, 2022	JACKIE RICH	PhD Grad Student	Dao Nguyen	The role of the oxidative stress response on envelope adaptation and antibiotic tolerance in stationary phase Pseudomonas aeruginosa
October 24, 2022	RENAUD PRÉVEL	PostDoc Fellow	Maziar Divangahi	β-glucan enhances LPS-induced acute lung injury via AM reprogramming
October 31, 2022	RESP Seminar Speaker			No speaker scheduled
November 7, 2022	RYANN LANG	PhD Grad Student	Basil Petrof	Characterizing Changes in Diaphragm Cell Populations in Response to Mechanical Ventilation
November 14, 2022	DIANA TOSCANO RIVERO	MSc Grad Student	Bruce Mazer	Serological assessment of patients undergoing peanut Oral Immunotherapy
November 21, 2022	YUMIN ZHENG	PhD Grad Student	Jun Ding	Repurposing drugs for IPF with deep generative model and single nucleic RNA-seq data
November 28, 2022	RESP Seminar Speaker			No speaker scheduled
December 5, 2022	MICHAEL ZHOU	MSc Grad Student	James Martin	The Role of BTLA-HVEM Interaction in CD4+ T cell Cytokine Synthesis and ASM Cell Phenotype in Co-culture
December 12, 2022	EMILY WILSON	PhD Grad Student	Carolyn Baglole	Inhaled Cannabis Products Activate Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor to Modulate Pulmonary Inflammation
December 19, 2022 – January 9, 2023		NO WIP:	Happy Holidays!

DATE – 2023	PRESENTER 1	TITLE	PRESENTER 2	TITLE
January 16	MATHEUS SCHULTZ PhD Grad Student Anne-Marie Lauzon	Actin’ up in the laser trap house.	SOFIA PAOLI MSc Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	Pulmonary Immunotoxicity of E-Cigarette Aerosols.
January 23	CLARA MacMAHON MSc Grad Student Irah King	A role for intestinal cholesterol metabolism in the gut-brain axis?	SYDNEY JOY PhD Grad Student James Martin / Inés Colmegna	Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis-Related Lung and Skin Fibrosis.
January 30	RESP Seminar Speaker
February 6	NO WIP: RI Stat Holiday
February 13	SAMI SEDRAOUI PostDoc Fellow Sabah Hussain / Basil Petrof	Regulation and monitoring of mitophagy in skeletal muscles.	TOM PODOLSKY MSc Grad Student Basil Petrof	Investigating the effects of glucocorticoid steroid treatment on the maladaptive trained immune response in the murine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
February 20	RESP Seminar Speaker
February 27	NO WIP: Spring Break
March 6	NO WIP: CIHR Grant Applications
March 13	JINGTAO WANG PhD Grad Student Jun Ding	Enabling single-cell studies for large-scale disease cohorts with a deep generative model.	ÉMILIE CHARETTE MSc Grad Student Gregory Fonseca	Characterization of the Host Transcriptional Response to Adenovirus E1A Deletion Mutants.
March 20	ROHIN CHAKRABORTY MSc Grad Student James Martin	Role of interleukin-33 (IL-33) in Influenza A-induced airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in C57BL/6 mice.	ELIZABETH LAPSHINA MSc Grad Student Maziar Divangahi	The role of GATA6+ peritoneal macrophages in influenza infection.
March 27	RESP Seminar Speaker
April 3	RESP Seminar Speaker
April 10	No WIP: Easter
April 17	NICOLE HEIMBACH PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	Cigarette Smoke Response in Lung Macrophages: The Where and Why of AhR.
April 24	RESP Seminar Speaker
May 1	KATELYN LIU PhD Grad Student Simon Rousseau	Examining the roles and the interrelationship between SHC4, FGFR signaling, and Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in COVID-19 associated thrombosis.	SUMAIYA JUSAB MSc Grad Student Dao Nguyen	The role of the type 3 secretion system on the long-term survival of intracellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa in airway epithelial cells.
May 8	ATS Poster Practice
May 15	LEONARDO JURADO PhD Grad Student Maziar Divangahi	How to harness the power of trained immunity in bladder cancer.
May 22	NO WIP: Victoria Day & ATS
May 29	YASMIN JOLASUN MSc Grad Student Jun Ding	Leveraging multi-omics sequencing data to identify clinically relevant cell groups and risk-associated biomarkers.	ROHAM GORGANI MSc Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	The Impact of Vaporized Cannabis Distillates on Pulmonary Immune Modulation.
June 5	RUI SUN PhD Grad Student James Martin	Elk-1-myocardin cross-inhibition determines the airway smooth muscle phenotype only when serum response factor is in low abundance.	ALEXANDRE MÉLI PostDoc Fellow Irah King	Bcl6 expression by CD4+ T cells determines host resistance across distinct parasitic infections.
June 12	JANA ABI RAFEH MSc Grad Student Bruce Mazer / Salman Qureshi	Real time cytokine profiling of critically ill patients.	JÉRÔME BÉDARD-MATTEAU MSc Grad Student Simon Rousseau	The Th17 inflammation axis as a potential mediator of persistent fatigue symptom in post-COVID-19 condition.
June 19	POSTPONED TO THE FALL		POSTPONED TO THE FALL