Monday, April 8 at 12:00 p.m.

Pharmacology and Therapeutics Seminar Series

More ubiquitins than meets the eye: Novel variants encoded by ubiquitin pseudogenes
Dr. Francois-Michel Boisvert
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Monday, April 8, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SCSD: World Voice Day Voice Screening

Find your voice tired after teaching, singing, coaching, talking at the front desk, a night out, or coughing? Come to get your voice condition screened. A questionnaire, perceptual voice evaluation, and computerized voice analysis will be conducted.

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April 8-30

Osler Library Exhibition

Drawing from the rich holdings of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Curiosities of Conception looks specifically at the ways that medical discourses have responded to and perpetuated the image of the monstrous maternal from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
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Tuesday, April 9, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

LDI Epidemiology Seminar

The population-level effects of British Columbia’s supervised consumption and overdose prevention sites
Dimitra Panagiotoglou, PhD
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Wednesday, April 10, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Pediatric Medical Grand Rounds

17th Annual Steinberg Child Development Lectureship
A new era in the treatment of rare disease: Perspectives from a pediatric neurologist
Dr. Maryam Oskoui
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Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

IDIGH Program Seminar Series

Alpha-Gal glycotopes as effective glycovaccines and chemotherapy biomarkers of Chagas disease
Dr. Igor Almeida
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Wednesday, April 10 at 4:00 p.m.

MRCCT/IDIGH/TB Seminar 

Alveolar macrophages in tuberculosis and HIV-1 infection
Dr. David G. Russell
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Thursday, April 11, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

LDI Distinguished Lecture Series

Genomic screens for drug resistance studies
Marc Ouellette, PhD
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Thursday, April 11, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Infection & Immunity Seminar Series

Genetics and dynamics of the latent HIV reservoir: implications for HIV cure
Dr. Zabrina Brumme
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Thursday, April 11 at 2:15 p.m.

Social Studies of Medicine Seminar

Small fixes: Humanitarian design in a broken world
Prof. Peter Redfield
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Friday, April 12, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Infectious Diseases & Immunity in Global Health (IDIGH) Research Day

Memory without experience: Heterogeneity in the “naïve” CD8+ T cell repertoire
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ross Kedl
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Friday, April 12 at 11:00 a.m.

Physiology Seminar Series

Regulation of neuronal function by translational mechanisms: From synaptic homeostasis to age-dependent neurodegeneration
Dr. Pejmun Haghighi
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Saturday, April 13, 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Continuing Nursing Education: Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Training

By the Heart & Stroke Foundation, designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings.
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Monday, April 15, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

RI-MUHC Pediatric Research Seminar

Human hematopoiesis and leukemia: Unbiased approaches reveal new insights
Dr. Connie J. Eaves
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Tuesday, April 16, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

LDI Distinguished Lecture Series

The metabolic regulation of stem cells and cancer
Sean J. Morrison, PhD
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Tuesday, April 16 at 4:00 p.m.

GCRC Frontiers in Cancer Research Lecture Series

Deconvoluting human breast cancer with de novo human models
Dr. Connie J. Eaves
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Wednesday, April 17, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Pediatric Medical Grand Rounds

How to understand and interpret reports from molecular genetics labs
Jean-Baptiste Rivière, PhD
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Wednesday, April 17, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The Neuro: Hughlings Jackson Lecture

Starting new actions and learning from it
Dr. Rui Costa
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Wednesday, April 17, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Department of Biochemistry Seminar

The mechanisms of DNA transposition: Beyond just cutting and pasting
Dr. Frederick P. Dyda
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Monday, April 8, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

JGH Medical Grand Rounds

Modern management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: JGH’s comprehensive integrated program – From bench to bedside to operating room or to cath lab 

Drs. David Langleben, Andrew Hirsch, Jean-François Morin & Ali Abualsaud
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April 8-15

Osler Library Exhibition 

Corps qui hantent d’autres corps
A project by Caroline Boileau, Michele Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, she explored different European and Asian medical texts dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries
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Tuesday, April 9, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

MUHC Medical Grand Rounds

Ethiopia project/hospital acquired infections
Dr. Makeda Semret
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Tuesday, April 9 at 4:00 p.m.

Killam Seminar Series

Challenges and opportunities in using neuroimaging to understand brain development and psychopathology
Dr. Theodore D. Satterthwaite
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Tuesday, April 9, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Council on Palliative Care Workshop

The value of the Palliative Care team
Patrick Durivage, SW & Zelda Freitas, SW
Sue Britton, RN & Joan Foster, BN
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Wednesday, April 10 at 12:00 p.m.

BRaIN Seminar Series 

Mechanisms controlling cortical GABAergic interneurons plasticity in the adult brain
Dr. Graziella di Cristo
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Wednesday, April 10 at 2:30 p.m.

Social Studies of Medicine Seminar

Chronic illness and all that comes between
Prof. Todd Meyers
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Wednesday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Goodman Cancer Research Centre Public Forum

A reason to hope: Understanding and managing cancer
As part of its mission to empower patients, caregivers and families dealing with cancer, the Goodman Cancer Research Centre organizes an annual series of four lectures at which leading experts discuss advances in cancer research.
Session 3: Symptoms and strategies of cancer cachexia
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Thursday, April 11 at 12:00 p.m.

Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Recruitment Seminar

How to talk to neurons: Engaging neural circuits, systems and rhythms using brain stimulation
Jeremie Lefebvre, PhD
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Thursday, April 11, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Institute for Health and Social Policy Book Launch

Montreal launch of the much awaited volume, High Time: The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada, edited by Daniel Weinstock and Andrew Potter.
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Friday, April 12, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. 

McGill International TB Centre/RECRU Joint Seminar Series

Chronic kidney disease, dialysis, and preventing tuberculosis
Jonathon Campbell, PhD
Estimating the accuracy of GeneXpert for diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Dr. Nandini Dendukuri
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Monday, April 15 at 12:00 p.m.

Pharmacology and Therapeutics Seminar Series

FSTL3 neutralizing antibody as a novel diabetes therapy
Dr. Alan Schneyer
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Monday, April 15, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

JGH Medical Grand Rounds

Penicillin allergy  
Dr. Jesse Schwartz
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Monday, April 15 at 2:30 p.m.

Social Studies of Medicine Seminar

From vice to addiction: Survival strategies for drug war living
Prof. Elizabeth Roberts
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Tuesday, April 16, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

MUHC Medical Grand Rounds

Is Alzheimer’s disease Type 3 Diabetes? The role of insulin in the brain
Dr. C. Ronald Kahn
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Tuesday, April 16 at 6:00 p.m.

RI-MUHC Cancer Research Program: 2019 Cancer Frontier Lecture

Ras proteins and their regulators in human disease
Frank McCormick, PhD
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Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

IDIGH WIP/Lunch & Learn Seminar

Feasibility of an innovative AideSmart! app-based multiplexed, point-of-care screening and counselling strategy for HIV-associated co-infections in key Canadian populations
Dr. Angela Karellis
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Thursday, April 18, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Cutting Edge Lecture in Science

Cardiovascular disease and dementia: Why should I care?
Dr. Edith Hamel
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