~ Special Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
RGN room 1007
Kelsey E. Huus, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ley Lab,
EMBO Fellow,
Max Planck Institute for Biology,
Tübingen, Germany

Seminar Title: "From famine to fever: immunity, diet, and the microbiome"

Hosted by: Dr. Thien-Fah Mah

Friday, December 9, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Don Gammon
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
University of Texas, Dallas, Texas

Seminar Title: "FACT Activates an Ancient Antiviral Response that is Countered by Cytoplasmic Viruses"

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-Simon Diallo

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Jaideep Bains
Professor,
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,
Cumming School of Medicine,
University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta

Seminar Title: "Uncoupled internal and external representations of threat"

Hosted by: Dr. Katalin Tόth

Friday, October 28, 2022, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
RGN room 2003
Dr. Aain Nepveu
Professor,
Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute, Departments,
Institute, Departments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Medicine,
McGill University,
Montreal, QC

Seminar Title: "The Function of BCL11B in Base Excision Repair Explains its Dual Role as an Oncogene and a Haplo Insufficient Tumor Suppressor Gene"

Hosted by: Dr. Kin Chan

Friday, October 21, 2022, 10:30 to 11:30 am
RGN room 2005
Dr. Alexander Hynes
Assistant Professor,
Farncombe Family Chair in Phage Biology,
Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute,
McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON

Seminar Title: "Biasing Bacteriophage Behaviours"

Hosted by: Dr. Adam Rudner

No Seminars

Friday, June 24, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Maria Aristizabal
Assistant Professor,
Biology Department,
Queen's University

Seminar title: ''Mechanisms of transcription and epigenetic regulation and their significance to human health''

Hosted by: Dr. Michael Downey

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Roger Guindon Hall, Room 2149
~ Special CI3 Seminar Series ~
Dr. Jeremie Poschmann
Center for Research in Transplantation
and Translational Immunology,
CR2TI
Nates Université, France

Seminar title: ''Functional genomics approaches to uncover molecular mechanisms of immuno-pathologies''

Hosted by: Dr. Subash Sad

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Amanda Barqueiro

Friday, June 17, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Stephanie Grainger
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology,
Van Andel Research Institute,
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Seminar title: ''Specific Wnt/Fzdrequirements in hematopoietic stem cell development''

Hosted by: Dr. David Lohnes

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
RGN room 2149
~ BMI Special Seminar Series ~
Dr. Vahab D. Soleimani
Associate Professor,
McGill University,
Department of Human Genetics,
Montreal, QC

Seminar title: ''The role of muscle stem cell niche environment in skeletal muscle development and diseases''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Amanda Barqueiro

Thursday, June 9, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Tania Watts
Professor,
Department of Immunology,
University of Toronto

Seminar title: ''Monocyte-derived antigen presenting cells and signal 4 for T cell activation''

Hosted by: Dr. Subash Sad

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 2:00 to 3:00 pm
~ Special ''online'' Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Dr. Christopher E. Lawson
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto

Seminar title: ''Retooling Microbiome Engineering for a Sustainable Future''

Hosted by: Dr. Leyuan Li, Research Associate in Figeys’ lab
Please feel free to contact technomise if you have any questions or concerns.

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.
 

Friday, May 6, 2022, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Dr. Josef Penninger
Department of Medical Genetics,
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, B.C.

Seminar title: ''Ace2 from fly hearts to the heart of a pandemic''

Hosted by: Dr. Haley Geertsma, PhD trainee

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday, April 29, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Meena Madhur
Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics,
Vanderbilt University

Seminar title: ''Can we reprogram T cells to treat hypertension''

Hosted by: Dr. Baptiste Lacoste

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle
 

Friday, April 22, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
~ BMI Special ''online'' Cross-appointee Seminar Series ~
Dr. Nicolas Bordenave
University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Health Sciences,
Nutrition Sciences Program

Seminar title: ''Non-covalent interactions between polysaccharides and phenolic compounds: implications in human nutrition''

Hosted by: Dr. Jean-François Couture

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle
 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 9:00 to 10:00 am
~ Special ''online'' Seminar Series on Microbiomes ~
Dr. Lei Dai
Director of Center for Synthetic Microbiome,
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Seminar title: ''Quantitative ecology of host-associated microbial communities''


Hosted by: Dr. Leyuan Li, Research Associate in Figeys’ lab
Please feel free to contact technomise if you have any questions or concerns.

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.

Friday, March 11, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Alessando Prigione
Associate Professor,
Department of General Pediatrics,
Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology,
Children’s Hospital,
University Clinic Düsseldorf (UKD) Heinrich Heine University (HHU),
Düsseldorf, Germany

Seminar title: ''Drug discovery of mitochondrial diseases using patient-specific iPSCs and brain organoids''

Hosted by: Dr. Mireille Khacho

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle

Friday February 25, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Hao Wu 
Professor,
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University, Boston

Seminar title: ''Sentinels: how inflammasomes sense pathogens and other stress''

Hosted by: Haley Geertsma, PhD, student in Dr. Rousseaux Lab

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle
 

Friday February 18, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dr. Jeanette Boudreau
Assistant Professor,
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Microbiology of Immunology, and Pathology,
Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute,
Halifax, N.S.

Seminar title: ''Natural killer cells juggle functions to balance pathology and cancer control''

Hosted by: Dr. Michele Ardolino

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Blanche Dinelle
 

Friday, February 11, 2022, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Special ''online'' BMI New Adjunct Professor Seminar Series
Dr. Xiaojian Shao
Research Officer,
Digital Technologies, Research Centre,
National Research Council of Canada

Seminar title: ''Predicting CRISPR-Cas9 off-target effects using bidirectional LSTM with BERT''

Hosted by: Dr. Alexandre Blais

To register for the Zoom webinar, please contact Bo Xu.