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Seminar Series

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The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics hosts speakers from International institutes and local academia, in a series of weekly seminars.

Senior Seminars:

To reserve a slot for your senior seminar, please contact the departmental seminar coordinators:

koren.mann [at] mcgill.ca (Koren Mann), diego.loggia [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Diego听Loggia)听and copy in chairsec.pharmacology [at] mcgill.ca (Senior Administrative Coordinator)

SPEAKER

TOPIC

DATE & LOCATION

2025
Phar & Wide Seminar TBA

Thursday, December 4th, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

C茅line Fiset, PhD

Montr茅al Heart Institute

TBA

Thursday, November 20th, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host:

Jamie Engert, PhD

MUHC

TBA

Thursday, November听6th, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host:

Phar & Wide Seminar

Dania Shaban (MRM)

TBA

Thursday, October 30th, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,

McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

D. James Surmeier, PhD


Nathan Smith Davis Professor and Chair
Department of Neuroscience
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL, USA

"Selective neuronal vulnerability, Parkinson's disease and the pursuit of a disease-modifying therapeutic"

Thursday, October听23rd, 2025

TIME: 3:30PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheater)

Phar & Wide Seminar

Evan Buddle, PhD 3 student in听Daniel Bernard's Lab (GAPTS)

Matthias Thijs, Nathan Luedke lab (CRBS)

Romina Filippelli (MRM)

TBA

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Jennifer Estall, PhD

Research Professor

Molecular Mechanisms of Diabetes Research Unit, IRCM

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal

Affiliated with Experimental Medicine and Anatomy & Cell Biology, 91社区

鈥淒issecting the Hepatic Fasting Response and how that helps to understand MASLD鈥

Thursday, September 18th, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host:听Dr. Koren Mann

Jean-Christophe Leroux, Ph.D.

Professor, Institute of
Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Department of Chemistry and
Applied Biosciences

ETH Z眉rich
Z眉rich, Switzerland

"3D printing of drug eluting devices: from
tracheal stents to colonic capsules"

Thursday, August 28th, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,听
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host: Professor听Bastien Castagner

Vrinda Kalia, Ph.D.

**Recruitment Candidate**

Associate Research Scientist

Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University

鈥淗igh-resolution mass spectrometry to understand the influences of the environment on the brain鈥

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

TIME: 9:00AM

VIA ZOOM:听

Meeting ID: 817 6921 3412

Passcode: 954228

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Roxanne B茅rub茅, Ph.D.

**Recruitment Candidate**

Postdoctoral Fellow-Kassotis Lab

Department of Pharmacology/Institute

of Environmental Health Sciences

Wayne State University

鈥淢etabolic health disruptions by environmental chemical mixtures鈥

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025

TIME: 2:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Eric Rhon Calderon, Ph.D.

**Recruitment Candidate**

Research Associate-Bartolomei Lab

Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

鈥淧reimplantation Exposures and Long-Term Health Outcomes: Insights from an In Vitro Fertilization Mouse Model鈥

Monday, June 9th, 2025

TIME: 9:00AM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Jamie Bernard, Ph.D.

**Recruitment Candidate**

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University

鈥淒ual Role for Kynurenine in Obesity-driven Aggressive Breast Cancers鈥

Friday, June 6th, 2025

TIME: 9:00AM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Mark Nickerson Memorial Lecture

Anna Blakney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Michael Smith Laboratories & School of Biomedical Engineering

University of British Columbia

"Next-Generation RNA Vaccines & Therapies"

Thursday, April 24, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar

Martin Amphitheater, Room 504

McIntyre Medical Building

Host: Professor Bernard Robaire

Senior Seminar

Adithi Sundarakrishnan

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Paul Clarke

鈥淯ltrasonic vocalizations as potential indicators of positive and negative affect鈥

Thursday, April 17, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Paul Clarke

Sophie Petropoulos, Ph.D.

Associate Professor-Researcher, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universit茅 De Montr茅al

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet

Canada Research Chair

Co-Director of The Research Center in Reproduction and Fertility

Universit茅 de Montr茅al

"Comprehensive understanding of mammalian embryogenesis using cutting edge methodology"

Thursday, April 10, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Jacquetta Trasler

Senior Seminar

Bruktawit Maru

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Maureen McKeague

"Death by Design: RNA Strategies to Improve Targeted AML Cell Death"

Thursday, March 20, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Maureen McKeague

Jodi Flaws, Dr

Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program
Co-Director, Summer Undergraduate Research in Toxicology (SureTOX) Program

University Illinois

"The effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on female reproduction"

Thursday, March 6, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professors Bernard Robaire & Koren Mann

Matthew Campen Ph.D. MSPH

Director, New Mexico Center for Metals in Biology and Medicine, Regents' Professor, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

COP - Pharmaceutical Sciences, CC - Cancer Control and Pop Sci

University of New Mexico

"Neuroplastics: Out of sight, into mind"

Thursday February 27, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Senior Seminar

Reily Pidgeon

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Bastien Castagner

鈥淵ou are what you(r gut microbes) eat: Discovery of castalagin 鈥 a prebiotic that modulates microbiome composition and metabolic activity鈥

Thursday, February 20, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Bastien Castagner

Carole Yauk听Dr

Professor

Department of Biology

Ottawa University

鈥淕enome Under Fire: Impacts of Prolonged Mutagen Exposure Unveiled by Error-Corrected Sequencing鈥

Thursday February 6, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Bernard Robaire

Dana Small听Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program

Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 91社区

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"The Wisdom of the Body"

Thursday, January 16, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Paul Clarke

Senior Seminar

Emily Wilson

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Baglole

鈥淟ooking Past the Smoke: AhR as a Key Modulator of the Pulmonary Response to Cannabis鈥

Thursday, January 9, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Carolyn Baglole

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