The Keenan Research Seminar Series provides a forum for presentation of the latest research advances of scientists located within, and affiliated with, the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael’s Hospital. This series is comprised of the:
| Date & Time | Seminar | Location | Presenter | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, September 13, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Ana KONVALINKA Toronto General Hospital | "Understanding Kidney Allograft Injury Through Molecular and Systems Biology Approaches" |
| Friday, September 20, 2024 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Claudia DOS SANTOS | "Precision, Translation and Microfluidics- What is Nanotherapy Coming to?" |
| Friday, September 27, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Xavier LE GUEVEL University Grenoble-Alpes | "Theranostic Applications Using Near-Infrared Optical Detection and Gold Nanoclusters at Single and Assembly Levels" |
| Friday, October 4, 2024 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Katharine DUNLOP (Unity Health Toronto) | "A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Assessment of Dimensional and Categorical Approaches to Explain Individual Differences in Depression" |
| Friday, October 11 2024 | KRC | CANCELLED | ||
| Friday, October 18, 2024 & Saturday, October 19, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Organizers: Drs. Andras Kapus & Boris Hinz (Unity Health Toronto) | KRC Symposium: Keen-on Healing Fibrosis Register at: https://www.organinjuryandrepair.com/registration |
| Monday, October 28, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Organizer: Dr. Heyu Ni (Unity Health Toronto) | Roderick Ross Research Day |
| Friday, November 1, 2024 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Yuan XU (Toronto Metropolitan U) | "Image Reconstruction in Synthetic Transmit Aperture Ultrasound Imaging" |
| Friday, November 8, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Raphael SCHNEIDER (Unity Health Toronto) | "Measuring disease activity before symptom onset in people with multiple sclerosis" |
| Friday, November 15, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Organizer: Dr. Kelsie Thu (Unity Health Toronto) | Keynote Lecture of the 2nd Annual Cancer Research Symposium at Unity Health Toronto |
| Friday, November 22, 2024 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Sam COOPER (Phenomic AI, Toronto) | "scRNA analysis at scale identifies a highly conserved fibroblast dependent signaling axis in wound healing, fibrosis, and cancer defined by CTHRC1 and Activin A" |
| Friday, November 29, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Darren YUEN (Unity Health Toronto) | "Epithelial YAP and TAZ - unexpected roles in kidney injury" |
| Friday, December 6, 2024 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Spencer FREEMAN (University of Toronto) | "Under pressure: mechanotransduction from lysosomes and consequences on tissue homeostasis" |
| Friday, December 13, 2024 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Milica RADISIC (University of Toronto) | "Vascularization of engineered tissues and organs-on-a-chip" |
| Friday, December 20, 2025 | HOLIDAY BREAK | |||
| Friday, December 27, 2025 | HOLIDAY BREAK | |||
| Friday, January 3, 2025 | HOLIDAY BREAK | |||
| Friday, January 10, 2025 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Adele CHANGOOR (University of Toronto) | Cartilage Electromechanics and its Potential to Diagnose Early Osteoarthritis Joint with Musculoskeletal Program, University of Toronto |
| Friday, January 17, 2025 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Sirisha RHAMBATLA (University of Waterloo) | Title TBD |
| Friday, January 24, 2025 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Martin POST (Sick Kids Hospital) | "Alveolar macrophage therapy for lung disease" |
| Friday, January 31, 2025 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Chao WANG (Sunnybrook Hospital) | "An unexpected role of hypothalamic tanycytes in regulating stress and autoimmunity" |
| Friday, February 7, 2025 | iBEST | Auditorium | Dr. Christo EL MORR York University, Toronto | Title TBD |
| Friday, February 14, 2025 | KRC | Auditorium | Dr. Jason MAYNES (Sick Kids Hospital) | "Modeling heart disease and utilizing the pediatric heart for therapeutic discovery" |
