5 à 7 / Happy 2 hours

Sep 23 sept 2025 

• Hua Gu, PhD, Director of the Molecular Immunology Research Unit, IRCM, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UdeM, "Some insights into the memory B cell genesis and strategy to improve vaccination"

• Sébastien Nisole, PhD, Professor, Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Centre, INRS, "Innate immune control of flaviviruses by Interferon-Stimulated Genes"

May 20 mai 2025 

• Anastasia Nijnik, PhD, Associate Professor, McGill University, Department of Physiology and MRCCT, "Regulation of Hematopoiesis and Immunity by Histone Deubiquitinases MYSM1 and BAP1"

• Simon Thebault, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, "Linking EBV-Infected B Cells to Relapse Activity in Multiple Sclerosis"

Mar 11 mar 2025 

• Sonia Del Rincon, PhD, Associate Professor, McGill University, Department of Oncology, "Targeting the tumor microenvironment of DLBCL to improve outcomes for patients"

• Leo Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, 'Subversion of ISG15-Mediated Antiviral Immunity by a Viral Deconjugating Enzyme"

Jan 21 jan 2025 

• Jacques Thibodeau, PhD, Professor, Université de Montréal, Centre d’Innovation Biomédicale, "New players in the regulation of the MHC class I and II antigen presentation pathways"

• Erwin Schurr, PhD, Professor, McGill University, Department of Medicine, RI-MUHC, "Resistance to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in people with HIV"

Nov 26 nov 2024 

• Michel Desjardins, PhD, Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, "Autoimmune mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease"

• Samantha Gruenheid, PhD, Professor, McGill University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, "New mouse models to study the role of gut inflammation in Parkinson’s Disease"

Sep 24 sept 2024 

• Ryan Pardy, PhD, Asssistant Professor, INRS – Centre Armand Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, "Investigating mechanisms of enteric immunity using Cryptosporidium infection"

• Zakia Djaoud, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Virus-Host Interactions, CHEO Research Institute and Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, "University of Ottawa γδ T cells: innate lymphocytes with adaptive features"

May 8 mai 2024 

• Manu Rangachari, Ph.D, CR-CHU de Québec, Département de médecine moléculaire, Université Laval, "The interplay of sex hormones and sex chromosomes dictates outcomes in a Th17-driven model of progressive MS"

• Laurence Chapuy, MD, Ph.D, CR-CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center,  "Mucosal and lymphoid innate immune cells in inflammation and fibrosis in inflammatory bowel disease"

March 19 mars 2024 

• Shawn Beug, PhD, CHEO Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, "The use of SMAC mimetics for cancer immunotherapy"

• Caroline Lamarche, MD, MSc, Centre de Recherche Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal, "The role of regulatory T cells in chronic kidney disease"

November 19 novembre 2023 

• Judith Mandl, PhD,  Assistant Professor, McGill University "T cell migration through complex environments: learning from when it goes wrong"

• Maya Saleh, PhD, INRS "Unraveling myeloid cell diversity in difficult-to-treat cancers for rational therapeutic targeting"

September 19 septembre 2023 

• Victor Appay, PhD,  Research Director, CNRS UMR5164, INSERM ERL1303 ImmunoConcEpT, Université de Bordeaux (France) "Ageing of the Immune System and Vulnerability"

• Raquel Cuella Martin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine, McGill University "Leveraging precision genome editing screens to study protein function"

March 15 mars 2023 

• Danielle Karo-Atar, PhD,  Postdoctoral fellow, RI-MUHC "Tales from the crypt: on helminth regulation of the stem cell compartment"

• Albert Descoteaux, PhD, Professor, INRS "Modulation of macrophage mitochondrial biology by Leishmania"

January 18 janvier 2023 @ L'Ile Noire

• Julianna Blagih, PhD,  Professeur adjoint, Centre de recherche HMR & U de Montréal "Regulating immune responses through cellular metabolism and diet "

• John H. White, PhD, Professor and Chair, Dept of Physiology, McGill University "Vitamin D and autoimmunity" 

November 23 novembre 2022 @ L'Ile noire

• Dr Ayman Oweida. Professeur adjoint U de Sherbrooke "Tipping the balance – promoting anti-tumor immunity through radiation therapy in head and neck cancer"

• Dr Petronela Ancuta. Professeure titulaire,  U de Montréal et CR-CHUM "Identification of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor as a Barrier to HIV-1 Infection and Outgrowth in CD4+ T-Cells"

October 4 octobre 2022 @ L'Ile noire

• Dr Ajitha Thanabalasuriar. Assistant Professor, McGill University "Unravelling the immunological pathways leading to trauma induced susceptibility to lung infection"

• Dr Javier Di Noia. Chercheur, IRCM "Antibody responses by means of the germinal center"

June 14 juin 2022 @ L'Ile noire

• Dr Dominic Roy. Professeur adjoint U de Montréal et CRCHUM "Metabolic Regulation of T cells in Infection and Disease"

• Dr Etienne Caron. Professeur adjoint  U de Montréal et CRCHU Sainte-Justine "Mapping the Immunopeptidomic Landscape of Mammalian Cells: Application in Pediatric Cancer and Infectious Diseases"

January 14 janvier 2022 @ ZOOM - Special event / évenement special

• Dre Kavitha Scranton, éditrice scientifique senior à Immunity / senior editor at Immunity.

November 23 novembre 2021 @ ZOOM

• Dr Lee-Hwa Tai, Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology "Intravesical immunotherapy with oncolytic rhabdovirus to treat bladder cancer"

September 29 septembre 2021 @ ZOOM

• Dr Fabien Touzot, Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine "Redox regulation of the inflammatory response"

May 19 mai 2021 @ ZOOM

• Dr Martin Pelletier, Université de Laval, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec  "You are what you eat: how the surrounding environment can modulate neutrophils’ metabolism"

March 13 mars 2021 @ ZOOM

• Dr Andres Finzi, Université de Montréal Centre de Recherche du CHUM  "Humoral responses in SARS-CoV-2 natural infection and following vaccination"

January 13 janvier 2021 @ ZOOM

• Dr Michele Ardolino, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute  "When the killers become thieves...NK cells are suppressed By PD‐1 acquired via trogocytosis"

March 10 mars 2020 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Étienne Gagnon, University of Montreal, IRIC  "Bystander TCR signaling: scrambling to amplify"

• Dr Catherine Martel, Dep of Medicine,  University of Montreal, MHI  "From sewer to saviour: The lymphatic system in cardiovascular disease"

January 21 janvier 2020 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Naglaa Shoukry, University of Montreal, CR-CHUM  "Th17-type cytokines in liver fibrosis and liver cancer"

• Dr Jacques Thibodeau, Dep Microbiology, Infectiology and Immunolgy University of Montreal  "MARCH1 beyond MHCII ubiquitination"

December 3 décembre 2019 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr John Stagg, University of Montreal, CR-CHUM "From bench to bedside: targeting CD73-adenosine in immuno-oncology"

• Dr David Langlais, McGill University "IRF1: a major driver of [pathological] inflammation"

October 1 octobre 2019 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Morag Park, McGill University ,"Distinct Tumor Immune Microenvironments (TIME) in Triple Negative Breast Cancer – WHY?"

• Dr Marie-Renée Blanchet, Université Laval  "The impact of lung cancer on the local dendritic cell signature: A missing piece of the puzzle in tumour growth management"

May 8 mai 2019 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Jean-François Gélinas (Postdoctoral Fellow), McGill University "Reverse engineering of the cell's intrinsic immunity to viruses"

• Dr Sonia Cellot, CR-CHU Ste-Justine  "Investigating fusion oncogenes associated with high fatality pediatric leukemia using engineered human models"

March 20 mars 2019 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Woong-Kyung Suh, IRCM "Finding the Achilles heel of AITL, a germinal center-derived T cell lymphoma"

• Dr Sébastien Talbot, Université de Montréal.  "Sensory neurons control of inflammation"

January 23 janvier 2019 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Cecilia Costiniuk, McGill University "The lungs as anatomical reservoirs of HIV"

• Dr Krista Heinonen, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier "Hematopoietic stem cells in chronic infections: Friends or foes? "

December 5 decembre 2018 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Pascal Lavoie, University of British Columbia "Ontogeny of the human immune system in early life"

• Dr François Mercier, Lady Davis Institute, McGill University "Discovering new targets for immunotherapy of leukemia using in vivo CRISPR screening and scRNAseq"

October 9 octobre 2018 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Peter Darlington, Concordia University "Regulation of Adaptive Immunity by the Autonomic Nervous System"

• Dr Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault, CR-CHUM, Université de Montréal  "Oncolytic viruses for anti-cancer vaccination"

May 16 mai 2018 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Michel L Tremblay, McGill University "Mining the protein phosphatome in immunotherapy"

• Dr Bertrand Routy, CR-CHUM, Université de Montréal. "Gut microbiota: a new perspective in immuno-oncology"

March 12 mar 2018 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Catherine Larochelle, CR-CHUM, Université de Montreal "Identifying molecular mechanisms underlying immune-mediated CNS injury in MS and EAE"

• Dr Jörg Fritz, Dep. Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University. "Regulation of group 2 innate lymphoid cells"

December 5 décembre 2017 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Martin J. Richer, Department of microbiology and immunology, McGill University "Dissecting the Impact of Host-Pathogen Interactions on Zika Virus Pathogenesis"

• Dr Maziar Divangahi, RI-MUHC, McGill University. "It takes two to tango: resistance vs tolerance in Influenza virus infection"

October 18 octobre 2017 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Jean-Sébastien Delisle, Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont. "T cell biology meets clinical medicine"

• Dr Maritza Jaramillo, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier. "Regulation of macrophage anti-inflammatory responses by the translational repressors 4E-BP1 and 2"

September 20 septembre 2017 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Sylvie Lesage, Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont. "An unbiased linkage analysis reveals that the p53 pathway is coupled to NK cell maturation"

• Dr Irah King, Department of microbiology and immunology, McGill University. "Local activation of intestinal NK cells during parasitic helminth infection"

March 27 mars 2017 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Laurent Châtel-Chaix, INRS-Institut Armand Frappier. "Host organelle remodelling as a flaviviral countermeasure against innate immunity "

• Dr Nicolas Chomont, CRCHUM, Université de Montréal. "HIV reservoirs: when, where and how does HIV hide"

December 6 decembre 2016 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Moutih Rafei, Département de pharmacologie Université de Montréal. "Interleukin-21: a new class of thymopoietin"

• Dr Ian Gaël Rodrigue-Gervais, INRS-Institut Armand Frappier. "Mitochondrial crossregulation of autophagy, necrosis and inflammation"

October 4 octobre 2016 @ L'Île Noire

• Dr Diana Matheoud (Labo Michel Desjardins), Département de pathologie et biologie cellulaire, Université de Montréal. "Orchestrating the immune response by antigen presentation"

• Dr Alexandre Orthwein, Department of Oncology, McGill University / Lady Davis Institute. "DNA repair and antibody diversification: Identification of novel 53BP1 effectors"

June 21 juin 2016 @ Université de Montréal

• Dr Connie Michele KRAWCZYK, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University. "Maintaining DC quiescence: transcriptional repression of DC activation by PCGF6 and JARID1c"

• Dr Nathalie LABRECQUE, Hôpital Maisonneuve Rosemont, Université de Montréal. "Role of the orphan nuclear receptor NR4A3 in dendritic cell biology"

April 21 avril 2016 @ Institut Armand-Frappier

• Dr Pascale Duplay, Institut Armand-Frappier, INRS "Dok proteins regulate CD8 T cell responses"

• Dr Cheolho Cheong, IRCM "Yes, I DO way of pDCs to protect atherosclerosis. (Role of Aortic pDCs in Atherosclerosis)"

February 4 Fevrier 2016 @ CR-CHUM

• Dr Daniel Lamarre , U de Montreal, Département de médecine - CRCHUM "Targeted-Oriented Broad Spectrum Therapies for Infectious Diseases – A New Drug Discovery Paradigm"

• Dr Maya Saleh, McGill U, Department of medicine - McGill life sciences complex "Inflammasome regulation of life and death decisions in cancer and inflammatory diseases"

November 4 Novembre 2015 @ CR-CHUM

• Dr Petronela Ancuta , U de Montreal, Département de microbiologie,infectiologie et immunologie - CRCHUM "Long-Lived Th17 Cells and HIV Reservoir Persistence under Antiretroviral Treatment"

• Dr Nicolas Cermakian, McGill U, Douglas Institute "Circadian rhythms in the immune system of mice and night shift workers"

June 11 Juin 2015 @ McGill University

• Dr Judith N Mandl, McGill U, Dept. of Physiology "T cell interaction and migration dynamics in health and immunodeficiency"

• Dr Heather Melichar, CR-Hôpital Maissonneuve-Rosemont, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal "Dynamic T cell receptor signaling during thymic selection: cause and effect"

April 22 Avril 2015 @ Institut Armand-Frappier

• Dr Julien Van Grevenynghe (IAF-INRS) "Elite Controllers: key model to identify pathways associated with immune protection during chronic HIV-1 infection"

• Dr Martin J. Richer McGill U, Dept. Microbiology and Immunology) "Regulation of CD8 T cell function by inflammatory cues"

February 3 Février 2015 @ IRCM

• Dr Hua Gu (IRCM) "Some new insight into the germinal center reaction"

• Dr Javier M Di Noia (IRCM) "Producing, storing and regulating the function of AID in B cells"