Work-in-Progress - Meakins-Christie Laboratories

2023-2024 Schedule – Mondays 9am-10am
A weekly work-in-progress provides trainees with the opportunity to present their research results, develop communication skills, and receive feedback from colleagues. Our WIP presentation schedule is changing starting January 16^th, 2023. In order to give more students an opportunity to present during the year, there will be two presentations on each designated Monday. Each presentation will last 20 minutes maximum, followed by a 10-minute question period.

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2023	PRESENTER 1	TITLE	PRESENTER 2	TITLE
September 11		*ORIENTATION FOR NEW STAFF and STUDENTS*
September 13		*NO WIP: CIHR GRANT APPLICATIONS*
September 18	SARA TEIMOURI NEZHAD MSc Grad Student Bruce Mazer / Maziar Divangahi	*Mitigation of type 2 airway inflammation using B-cell derived extracellular vesicles*.	JORDI CHAFFER MSc Grad Student Sabah Hussain	MTHO: A novel regulator of myogenesis.
September 25	SOPHIA GOLDMAN MSc Grad Student Dao Nguyen	Pseudomonas aeruginosa evasion of neutrophil-mediated clearance in Persistent Cystic Fibrosis infections.	SAHAR MIKAEELI PhD Grad Student Simon Rousseau / Jean Bourbeau	POSTPONED to February 19, 2024
October 9		*NO WIP: THANKSGIVING*
October 16	ELSA SAKR MSc Grad Student Bruce Mazer	*Assessing antibody responses to booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines against the XBB.1.5 variant.*	EISHA AHMED PhD Grad Student Bruce Mazer	From B-cell to Breg: Intrinsic differences between B-cell subsets affect IL-10 competence.
October 23	PATRICK GREISS PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	*The effect of cannabis terpenes on the innate immune response in the lungs.*	KIM TRAN PhD Grad Student Maziar Divangahi	*The cross-protection of BCG vaccination in influenza infection: A role for T cells in trained immunity*.
October 30	LYDIA LABRIE PhD Grad Student Elizabeth Fixman / Brian Ward	*Sex and Sex Hormone-Dependent Modulation of Allergen-Induced Type 2 Immunity Following Early-Life RSV Infection.*	Open Presentation Slot
October 30 1:30-2:30pm		SPECIAL RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
November 6	WENDY ZHAO PhD Grad Student Bruce Maze	*Project Mouse Tracker: Quantifying mouse characteristics during anaphylaxis.*	Open Presentation Slot
November 13	BAVANITHA THURAIRAJAH PhD Grad Student Irah King	Understanding the role of the microbiota in regulating early-life intestinal gd17 responses.	JU JING TAN PostDoc Fellow James Martin / Ryszard Grygorczyk	*The Role of Extracellular ATP and P2X7 Receptor in the Pathogenesis of Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury.*
November 20	ESZTER FARKAS PhD Grad Student Dao Nguyen	*Production of antibiotics by Canadian High Arctic bacteria*.	DIVYA TATA MSc Grad student Larry Lands	*Development of Lipid Nanoparticles for the Delivery of ENaC Antisense Oligonucleotides for the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis.*
November 27		NO WIP: PhD Defence
December 4		RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
December 11	WIDED AKIK PhD Grad Student Larry Lands	*Synergistic Implications of IL-17A in the Modulation of Neutrophilic Airway Inflammation by Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells.*	QUAZI SUFIA ISLAM PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	*The role of HuR in IPF pathogenesis*.
		NO WIP: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
2024
January 15	SUSAN WESTFALL PostDoc Fellow Irah King	Microbiota-dependent IFNy production by CD8 T cells triggers smooth muscle to protect against intestinal infection.	NICHOLAS VONNIESSEN PhD Grad Student Bruce Mazer	*Evaluating the Regulatory Response of Mucosal and Peripheral B cells to Stimulation with Germinal Center Cytokines.*
January 22	JACKIE RICH PhD Grad Student Dao Nguyen	The role of the stringent response on the Pseudomonas aeruginosa proteome and its contribution to envelope adaptation and antibiotic tolerance.	AARON WANG MSc Grad Student Sabah Hussain	*BCAS3: a new player in the regulation of skeletal muscle autophagy and integrity.*
January 29	FATIMA HUBAISHI PhD Grad Student Elizabeth Fixman / Brian Ward	*Skin to Lung Recruitment of Memory CD4+ T Cells in a Murine Atopic March Model.*
February 5		NO WIP: RI STAT HOLIDAY
February 12	DIANA TOSCANO RIVERO PhD Grad Student Bruce Mazer	*Improving the management of peanut allergy by optimizing peanut oral immunotherapy: Understanding the serological, cellular and molecular pathways of tolerance.*	Presentation by the Immunophenotyping Platform Team	*What the Flow Core can do for you.*
February 19	VINCENZA CARUANA MSc Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	*Cloudy Consequences: How E-cigarette Use Potentiates Atherosclerosis in a Mouse Model*.	SAHAR MIKAEELI PhD Grad Student Simon Rousseau / Jean Bourbeau	*Exacerbations of COPD in CanCOLD participants and pandemic era: air pollution fluctuations and individual-level risk factors.*
February 26	NIKA GVAZAVA, MD PhD Grad Student Darcy Wagner	*Light based microscopy for intact tissues and organs using label dependent and label independent approaches.*	TBC
March 4		NO WIP: SPRING BREAK
March 11		RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
March 18	KRISTINA NIKOLAOU MSc Grad Student Maziar Divangahi	*The mystery of BCG vaccine in protection against SARS-CoV-2*.	MATTHEW MARABELLA MSc Grad Student Simon Rousseau	*The Impact of Pseudomonas Infections on Lung Epithelial Cells*.
March 25	TERESA GOMES PhD Grad Student Marta Kaminska / John Kimoff	*Relationships between Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and outcomes in Parkinson’s disease in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging*.	WILLEM RIJNBOUT ST. JAMES PhD Grad Student Carolyn Baglole / Jun Ding	*Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signaling: Implications in Pulmonary Fibrosis*.
April 1		*NO WIP: EASTER*
April 8		RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
April 15		RESP SEMINAR SPEAKER
April 22	MADDISON ARLEN MSc Grad Student Carolyn Baglole	*Clearing the air: Exploring the Pulmonary Effects and Mechanisms of Cannabis Inhalation*.	GABRIEL GOSSELIN MSc Grad Student Larry Lands	*Inhaled nanoparticle formulation of Fenretinide for Chronic Lung Diseases*.
April 29		RESPIRATORY RESEARCH DAY
May 6	RYANN LANG PhD Grad Student Basil Petrof	*Understanding the Pathogenesis of Ventilator-Induced Diaphragmatic Dysfunction (VIDD)*.	RAFAEL INTREVADO MSc Grad Student Anne-Marie Lauzon	*Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells and Smooth Muscle Contractility in Asthma.*
May 13	MIKAL EL-HAJJAR PhD Grad Student Gregory Fonseca	Elucidating the effect of ageing on macrophage function in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.	LYVIA FOURCADE PostDoc Fellow Simon Rousseau	Unsupervised clustering of SARS-CoV-2 positive hospitalized patients identifies a COVID-19 endophenotype associated with acute kidney failure and cardiovascular complication.
May 20		NO WIP: VICTORIA DAY & ATS
May 27	TOMOTAKA NISHIZAWA PostDoc Fellow James Martin	*The role of IL-33 in airway dysfunction from chlorine exposure*.	KAILU SONG PhD Grad Student Jun Ding	*DeepExonas: Advancing Cell Representation Beyond Gene-Level by Integrating Exon-Level Quantification and Junction Reads with Deep Neural Networks*.
May 31		*ANNUAL DOROTHY WISELBERG SEMINAR*
June 3	PAOLA ROJAS GUTIERREZ PostDoc Fellow Larry Lands	TBC	ORSOLYA LAPOHOS PhD Grad Student Amin Emad / Gregory Fonseca	*Focusing sequence-to-expression models with a multi-omic approach*.