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RESP  |  Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program

Events

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

35th Annual Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar

Topic: Interstitial Lung Diseases

The Institute’s 34th Annual Respiratory Research Day

Speaker: Bernard Thébaud, PhD, Professor at University of Ottawa

International Stem Cell Symposium

Host: Darcy Wagner, PhD

Meakins-Christie and RESP Program Seminar Series Spring 2025

Meakins-Christie and RESP Program seminars are held on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. (unless otherwise stated). Seminars will be in English.

Seminars will be held in person. For information, please contact Maria Makroyanni at maria.makroyanni@mcgill.ca.

Date
Speaker
Monday, March 10, 2025
Fabio Zani, PhD
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Topic: Metabolic stress – from obesity to sucralose (and back)
Host: Irah King, PhD
Location: EM1.3509, Glen site, 1001 Decarie Boulevard
Friday, March 28, 2025
12:00 to 1:00 pm
J. Lucien (Luke) Davis, MD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and of Medicine, Yale University
Topic: Reimagining TB Contact Tracing in High-Burden Settings: An Implementation Science Approach
Host: Kevin Schwartzman, MD, MPH
Location: Kitchen 3B, 5252 de Maisonneuve, 3rd Floor
Monday, April 7, 2025
Braedon McDonald, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
Topic: Using microbes to fight microbes - microbial immunotherapy to combat infections in the ICU
Host: Arnold Kristof, MD
Location: EM1.3509, Glen site, 1001 Decarie Boulevard
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
postponed to April 17, 9:30 am
Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Topic: Epigenetic regulation of antiviral immunity: it starts with HSCs
Host: Maziar Divangahi, PhD
Location: EM1.3509, Glen site, 1001 Decarie Boulevard
Monday, May 5, 2025
Naftali Kaminski, MD
Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Topic: The Single Cell Universe of Human Pulmonary Fibrosis
Host: Jun Ding, PhD
Location: EM1.3509, Glen site, 1001 Decarie Boulevard
Friday, May 9, 2025
12:00 to 1:00 pm
Bruce Struminger, MD
Associate Professor, Senior Associate Director Project Echo, The University of New Mexico
Topic: Scaling Expertise, Advancing Global TB Care: the Evolution of ECHO Tele-mentoring Programs Worldwide
Host: Kevin Schwartzman, MD, MPH
Location: Kitchen 3B, 5252 de Maisonneuve, 3rd Floor
Thursday, May 15, 2025
9:30 to 10:30 am
Lars Larsson, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief Scientific Officer, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Topic: To be announced
Host: Sabah Hussain, MD, PhD
Location: EM1.3509, Glen site, 1001 Decarie Boulevard
Monday, June 2, 2025
Christopher Perry, PhD
Professor, York University
Topic: To be announced
Hosts: Sabah Hussain, MD, PhD, Basil Petrof, MD, Simon Wing, MD
Location: EM1.3509, Glen site, 1001 Decarie Boulevard

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