海角社区
All seminars take place at 11:00 a.m. in Room 1034, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 Sir William Osler (unless otherwise noted).听 Seminars are听 in person and also听 via Zoom (unless otherwise noted). 听 All are welcome! If you would like to be included in our email Listserve for seminar announcements, please contact chairasst.physiology [at] mcgill.ca
2025 Schedule
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Sept. 5 |
"Why can we see it like others do?听Could brains naturally communicate with each other?" |
Dr. Bruno Debruille Associate听Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience,听听Douglas Institute Research Centre, 海角社区 |
| Sept.12 |
"Defining the pathophysiological role of the bone-specific BRIL protein"听 听 |
Dr. Pierre Moffatt Investigator,听Shriners Hospital听for Children, Associate Professor,听Department of Human Genetics, 听Tenured Associate Professor,听Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences,听海角社区 听 |
| Sept. 19 |
"Neuro-immune interactions at the border: role in neuropathic pain" |
Prof.听Thiago Mattar Cunha Center for Research in Inflammatory Diseases., Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo Brazil. Current: Visiting Professor,海角社区. |
| Sept. 26 |
"Dopamine and Movement: Defining Timescales of Modulation" |
Dr. Nicolas Tritsch Assistant Professor, Department听of Psychiatry,听Douglas听Research Center, 海角社区 |
| Oct. 3 |
"Biological pacemakers: a cell therapy approach to cardiac pacing" poster |
Dr. Stephanie Protze Scientist, McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto |
| Oct. 10 |
"Decoding Astrocyte and Interneuron Interactions in Sensory Cortical Development: Insights into Autism" poster |
Dr. Tara Deemyad Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland on line Zoom seminar only |
| Oct. 17 |
Reading week- No seminar |
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| Oct. 24 |
"Spatial mapping of protein composition and tissue architecture in health and cancer" 听 |
Dr. Andrea J.Radtke Principal Scientist, Leica Microsystems, Bethesda, Maryland Co-Hosted by The Goodman Cancer Institute |
| Oct. 31 |
"A translational approach to studying ageing and neurodegeneration" |
Dr. Mallar Chakravarty Director - Cerebral Imaging Centre and Neuroinformatics, Douglas Mental Health University Institute,听Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Research Centre, 海角社区 听 |
| Nov. 7 |
"Fetal microglia mediate sex-specific neurodevelopmental responses to maternal stress" |
Dr. Jessica Rosin Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, University of British Columbia |
| Nov. 14 |
"Breast cancer as a systemic inflammatory disease" 听 |
Dr. Hannah Garner Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Goodman Cancer Institute, 海角社区 听 |
| Nov. 21 |
"A tale of serotonin鈥檚 value: from release dynamics to behavioral regulation" |
Dr. Jean-Claude B茅茂que Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa |
| Nov. 28 |
鈥淚nfluenza, pregnancy and airway dysfunction鈥� |
Dr. James Martin Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Glen site, Professor, Department of Medicine, 海角社区 听 |
| Dec. 5 |
"Hypothalamic circuits regulating sleep and wakefulness" |
Dr. Natalie J.听 Michael Assistant Professor,Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Qu茅bec (IUCPQ), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universit茅 Laval 听 |
2026 Schedule
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| Jan. 2 | no seminar |
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| Jan. 9 |
"Regenerating the retina: insights from development" |
Dr. Michel Cayouette Director, Cellular Neurobiology Research Unit,听Vice-President, Research and Academic Affairs,听Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal听听(IRCM) |
| Jan. 16 |
"In search for the origin of intelligence:How RNA editing and alternative splicing co-evolved to sculpt brain signaling" |
Dr. Derek Bowie Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, co-Director, Cell Information Systems,听海角社区 |
| Jan. 23 |
"How Body Resolves Pain: Inflammation Influences on Acute and Chronic Pain Resolution" |
Dr. Luda Diatchenko, Professor,听Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences,听Department of Anesthesia,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences School of Dentistry |
| Jan. 30 |
"A distributed dopaminergic code for sensory and motivational information" |
Dr. Vincent Breton-Provencher Assistant Professor, Department of听Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Universit茅 Laval |
| Feb. 6 |
"Decoding oral somatosensory innervation" |
Dr. Yalda Moayedi Assistant Professor, Pain Research Centre, Department of Pathobiology, New York University, College of Dentistry co-hosted by The Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain |
| Feb. 13 |
'"Brain Hormone and Nutrient Signals: Regulators of Feeding and Glucose Homeostasis" |
Dr. Song-Yang Zhang Assistant Professor, School of Human Nutrition, 海角社区 |
| Feb. 20 |
"The actin-associated protein Synaptopodin: a key regulator of synaptic plasticity and Autism" |
Dr. Anne McKinney Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 海角社区 |
| Feb. 27 |
鈥淓ngineering of the Heart: Engineered Valves and Heart-on-a-Chip Models to Probe Cardiac Function and Disease鈥� |
Dr. Houman Savoji, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal |
| Mar. 6 | No seminar (Spring break) |
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| Mar. 13 |
"Neural coding of natural vision in mouse and octopus" |
CANCELLED Dr. Chris Niell Professor, Department听of听Biology, University of Oregon Co-Hosted by The Department of Biology This seminar will be scheduled for a later time |
| Mar. 20 |
"The microbiota and intestinal drug metabolism 鈥� what you weren鈥檛 taught in pharmacology class"听听 |
Dr. Simon Hirota Professor and Associate Dean of Research infrastructure, Dept.of Physiology and Pharmacology, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases,Cumming School of Medicine Co-Hosted by 海角社区 Regenerative Medicine (MRM) |
| Mar. 27 |
"DICER1: a miRNA biogenesis enzyme with human disease relevance" |
20Th Annual Undergraduate Research Day, Martin Amphitheatre, Room 504, McIntyre Bldg. @11:30am Keynote lecturer:听William D.听Foulkes,听MBBS, PhD, FRPC, FRSC Alva Chair and Department Head, Human Genetics,听海角社区听 in person seminar only |
| Apr. 3 |
No seminar听(Good Friday) |
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| Apr. 10 |
"Mechanisms of neuronal damage and repair in glaucoma" |
Adriana Di Polo, PhD Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Glaucoma and Age-Related Neurodegeneration,听Professor, Department of Neuroscience,听Universit茅 de Montr茅al,听CHUM Research Centre |
| Apr. 17 |
"Mechanisms of Megaenzymes that Make Medicines" |
T.听 Martin Schmeing, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, 海角社区,听Directeur, Centre de recherche en biologie structurale |
| Apr. 24 |
"Cortical mechanisms for ego-allocentric integration in the gaze system" |
Dr. Doug Crawford Distinguished Research Professor in Neuroscience, York Research Chair in Visuomotor Neuroscience, Director: York Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience |
| May 1 |
"Recruitment of primate oculomotor networks for abstract cognition" |
Dr. David J. Freedman Stahl Professor of Neurobiology in the Wallman Society of Fellows , Department of Neurobiology and the College Chair,听The University of Chicago 听 |
| May 8 |
"Transplant reimagined听Harnessing pluripotent stem cells to develop novel cellular therapies and diagnostics" |
Paraish S. Misra, MDCM, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology; Junior Scientist, Research Institute of the 海角社区 Health Centre, Metabolic Disorders and Complications program 听 |
| May 22 | "Breathing Matters"听 |
31st Annual Graduate Research Day, Martin Amphitheatre, Room 504, McIntyre Bldg.@3:00pm Keynote Lecturer: 听Jack L. Feldman, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine Chair in Neuroscience University of California, Los Angeles in person seminar only 听 听 |
Previous schedules
2024-2025 Friday Seminar Schedule
2023-2024 Friday Seminar Schedule
2022-2023 Friday Seminar Schedule
2021-2022 Friday Seminar Schedule
2020-2021_friday_seminar_schedule.pdf
2019-2020_friday_seminar_schedule.pdf
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