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MeDiC  |  Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program

Events

The MeDiC Program organizes and supports numerous speakers, seminars, and symposia throughout the year.

2024 RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day

Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, July 22, 2024, Registration Deadline: Sunday, August 11, 2024

ACT-CTU Clinical Trial Rounds

Topic: Trials of Complex Interventions: What, Why, Where, and How

MeDiC Program Seminar Series Fall 2024

MeDiC Program seminars are held on Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise stated). Seminars will be in English and held in person in room EM1.3509, Glen site.

Joint seminars with MeDiC Program and Endocrinology Rounds are held on Thursdays from 12 to 1 p.m. and with Nephrology Rounds, seminars are held on Fridays from 12 to 1 p.m.

For further information, please contact Kim Gardner at kim.gardner@affiliate.mcgill.ca.

Date
Speaker
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Lawrence Kazak, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Adipocyte Biology
Associate Professor
Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute
Department of Biochemistry
McGill University
Topic: A unified model of calorie burning by adipocytes: The activation mechanism of UCP1-independent thermogenesis
Poster
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Work in Progress
Justin Sung, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Dana Small
Topic: The impact of hunger on the brain and cognition in humans
Luting Gui, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Paul Sabatini
Topic: Role of dorsomedial hypothalamic orexin receptor 2 expressing neurons in obesity pathogenesis
Poster
Thursday, September 19, 2024
The Network for Oral and Bone Health Research (RSBO) Info Session
Réseau de recherche intersectorielle en santé buccodentaire et osseuse durable (RiSBOd)
Presented by: Dr. Christophe Bedos, Dr. Intissar Abbaoui and Florina Moldovan
Topic: Vision, Mission, and Future Perspectives
Poster
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Mike Krashes, PhD
Senior Investigator
Chief, Section of Motivational Processes Underlying Appetite
Obesity and Endocrinology
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) / National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Maryland
Topic: A Hypothalamic Circuit that Modulates Feeding and Parenting Behaviors
Poster
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Simon Bacon, PhD, FTOS, FCCS, FABMR
Professor, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology (HKAP), Concordia University
Co-Director, Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Concordia University
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Topic: Building better physical activity, diet, and other health behaviour change interventions: why some of the major trials have ‘failed’ and how we can do better
Poster
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Get to know your MeDiC PIs
Presented by: Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta
Topic: Leading epidemiologist and clinician in diabetes
Poster
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Work in Progress
Sahar Fazeli, MSc, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Romina Pace
Topic: Understanding the Indigenous Experience at the McGill University Health Centre
Nicholas Sabelli, MSc Graduate Student
Supervisor: Ahmad Haidar
Topic: Role of dorsomedial hypothalamic orexin receptor 2 expressing neurons in obesity pathogenesis
Poster
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Work in Progress
Elahe Mirzarazi Dahaghi, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Mari Kaartinen
Topic: Plasma fibronectin regulates adipocyte differentiation & lipid droplet size
Ulrich Anglas, PhD Graduate Student
Supervisor: Jeremy Van Raamsdonk
Topic: Mechanisms underlying lifespan extension in long-lived sod-2 mutants
Poster

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