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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

2026

Senior Seminar

Nicole Heimbach

Ph.D Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Baglole

TBD

Thursday December 3, 2026

Time: 4:00 pm

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345

Host: Dr. Carolyn Baglole

Seminar

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.

Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and a professor of mammalian cell biology and development at The Rockefeller University

TBD

Thursday November 19, 2026

Time: 4:00 pm

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room TBD

Host: Dr. Terry Hébert and Dr. Jason Tanny

Seminar

Deborah Kurrasch Ph.D.

Professor- Department of Medical Genetics & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Calgary

Deputy Head, Department of Medical Genetics at University of Calgary

Deputy Director, Neuroscience Program at University of Calgary

TBD

Thursday November 12, 2026

Time: 4:00 p.m.

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Science Building room TBD

Host: Dr. Dan Bernard

Seminar

Nicole J. Francis Ph.D.

Associate Professor-Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal
Adjunct Professor- DEpartment of Medicine

Division of Clinical and Translational Research-Թ

TBD

Thursday October 22, 2026

Time: 4:00 p.m.

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345

Host: Dr. Jason Tanny

Senior Seminar

Tara Shomali

Ph.D Candidate

Supervisor: Dr.Jean-François Trempe

TBD

Thursday October 8, 2026

Time: 4:00 pm

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345

Host: Dr. Jean-François Trempe

Theodore L. Sourkes Lecture

Prof. Dr. med. Michael Heneka

Director of the "Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine"
University of Luxembourg

"Innate Immunity in Alzheimer disease"

Thursday October 1st, 2026

Time: 4:00 p.m.

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheater)

Host: Dr. Claudio Cuello

Seminar

Tomas Hökfelt, Ph.D

Professor emeritus in the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet

TBD

September 21, 2026

Time 4:00

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room TBD

Host: The Pain Center and The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Senior Seminar

Hanan Mohammad

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisors: Dr. Paul Clarke and Dr. Terry Hébert

TBD

Thursday September TBD

Time: 4:00 p.m.

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345

Hosts: Dr. Paul Clarke and Dr. Terry Hébert

Senior Seminar

GarvitBhatt

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisors: Dr. Trempe, Jean-Francois and Dr. Nagar, Bhushan

"Structural and Functional Characterization of YopJ Acetyltransferases"

Thursday June 04, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

IN-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building room 1345

Host: Dr.Jean-Francois Trempe and Dr.Bhushan Nagar

Senior Seminar

Jamie Mustian

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisors: Dr. Anne McKinney

"Investigating Mechanisms of Hippocampal Circuitry Deficits in Christianson Syndrome"​

Thursday May 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in room 1345

Host: Dr. Anne McKinney

Inaugural Barbara Hales Lectureship in Toxicology

Dana Dolinoy Ph.D

NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences

University of Michigan School of Public Health

"Toxicoepigenetics and the Use of piRNA for Precision Environmental Health Research"

Monday May 4, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Meakins Amphitheater in room 521

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building

Host: Dr. Koren Mann

Mark Nickerson Memorial Lecture

Amanda Garner Ph.D
Charles Wlagree, Jr. Professor, University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy

“Enabling Technologies for Revealing Druggable Paths in RNA Biology”

Thursday April 23, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM -5:30 PM

Location: Martin Amphitheater in room 504

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building

Host: Dr. Bernard Robaire

Senior Seminar

Yangfan Jin

PhD Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Dan Bernard

"Regulation of murine follicle-stimulating hormone β subunit transcription by newly identified enhancers"

Thursday April 16, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

IN-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in room 1345

Host: Dr. Dan Bernard

Inaugural Diamond Lecture

Tracy Bale Ph.D.

The Anschutz Foundation Endowed Chair in Women's Integrated Mental and Physical Health Research at the Ludeman Center

University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

"Extracellular vesicles as stress signaling mechanisms and biomarkers in psychiatry"

Wednesday April 15, 2026

Time: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Palmer Amphitheater

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in room 522

Host: Dr. Koren Mann

Phar & Wide Seminar

Diego Loggia

Sabrina Romanelli

Vincenza Caruana

Ph.D Candidate

"Heart-in-a-dish: A personalized approcah to modelling and treating dilated cardiomyopathy"

"Tiny but Mighty: Uncovering how the small subunit TOM7 activates the Parkinson's Disease Kinase PINK1"

"Beyond the Lung: E-cigarette exposure reprograms hepatic zonation and metabolism"

Thursday April 9, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345

Rajae Talbi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Principle Investigator at University de Montréal

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Kiss and burn: Kiss1 Neurons at the Intersection of Fertility and Metabolism

Thursday April 2, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building

Host: Dr. Daniel Bernard

Kyle Greenway, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Psychiatrist, Jewish General Hospital

Assistant Professor, Թ

Characterizing Psychedelic Drug Effects: Clarifying Drug-Context Interactions

Thursday March 19, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building

Host: Dr. Paul Clarke

Senior Seminar

Olivia Kovecses

Ph.D. Candidate

Supervisor: Dr. Maureen McKeague & Dr. François Mercier

"How to Retrain Your Leukemia Cells: Molecular Reprogramming of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using RNA Therapies"

Thursday February 26, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345

Host: Dr.Maureen McKeague and Dr.François Mercier

David Chatenet, Ph.D.

Director of the Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologique Research Centre

Full Professor Pharmacochemistry, Medical chemistry, Peptide engineering, Pharmacology

Into the Urotensinverse: Navigating the Pharmacological Maze of the urotensinergic
system with Peptide-Based Tools

Thursday February 19, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In-Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345

Host: Dr. Koren Mann

Cameron McAlpine, Ph.D.

Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Medicine, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

"Brain-heart axes connect lifestyle and cardiovascular disease"

Thursday February 12, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In Person Seminar

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345

Host: Dr. Daniel Bernard

Phar & Wide Seminar

Diego Loggia

Ph.D Candidate

TBA

Thursday January 29, 2026

Time 4:00 PM

In-Person

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345

Gareth Lim, Ph.D.

Canada Research Chair in Adipocyte Development

Professeur agrégé sous octroi / Associate Professor; Université de Montréal; CRCHUM

“Is targeting 14-3-3 zeta a potential two-pronged approach to treat type 1 diabetes?”

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM

In person Seminar,

McIntyre Medical Sciences Building in Room 1345

Host: Dr. Koren Mann

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