5 à 7 / Happy 2 hours
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"