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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 (DiegoLoggia)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

Céline Fiset, PhD

Montréal Heart Institute

TBA

Thursday, November 20th, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host:

Jamie Engert, PhD

MUHC

TBA

Thursday, November6th, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

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, October23rd, 2025

TIME: 3:30PM

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

Phar & Wide Seminar

Evan Buddle, PhD 3 student inDaniel 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, ĢƵ

“Dissecting the Hepatic Fasting Response and how that helps to understand MASLD”

Thursday, September 18th, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host:Dr. Koren Mann

Jean-Christophe Leroux, Ph.D.

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

ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

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

Thursday, August 28th, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar,
McIntyre Medical Building, Room 1345

Host: ProfessorBastien Castagner

Vrinda Kalia, Ph.D.

**Recruitment Candidate**

Associate Research Scientist

Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University

“High-resolution mass spectrometry to understand the influences of the environment on the brain”

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

TIME: 9:00AM

VIA ZOOM:

Meeting ID: 817 6921 3412

Passcode: 954228

Host: Professor Koren Mann

Roxanne Bérubé, Ph.D.

**Recruitment Candidate**

Postdoctoral Fellow-Kassotis Lab

Department of Pharmacology/Institute

of Environmental Health Sciences

Wayne State University

“Metabolic health disruptions by environmental chemical mixtures”

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

“Preimplantation Exposures and Long-Term Health Outcomes: Insights from an In Vitro Fertilization Mouse Model”

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

“Dual Role for Kynurenine in Obesity-driven Aggressive Breast Cancers”

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

“Ultrasonic vocalizations as potential indicators of positive and negative affect”

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, Université De Montréal

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

Université de Montréal

"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

“You are what you(r gut microbes) eat: Discovery of castalagin — a prebiotic that modulates microbiome composition and metabolic activity”

Thursday, February 20, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Bastien Castagner

Carole YaukDr

Professor

Department of Biology

Ottawa University

“Genome Under Fire: Impacts of Prolonged Mutagen Exposure Unveiled by Error-Corrected Sequencing”

Thursday February 6, 2025

TIME: 4:00PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Bernard Robaire

Dana SmallPh.D.

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

Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, ĢƵ

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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

“Looking Past the Smoke: AhR as a Key Modulator of the Pulmonary Response to Cannabis”

Thursday, January 9, 2025

TIME: 4:30PM

In-person Seminar- McIntyre Medical Building Room 1345

Host: Professor Carolyn Baglole

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