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MESSAGE FROM OUR DEPARTMENT CHAIR
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Happy New Year! I hope your holiday break was a time of rest and well spent with family and loved ones. We are starting this year with a lot to celebrate, including several awards acknowledging the excellence of members of our students, staff, and faculty. See below for details. Wishing you all a healthy, happy, and successful 2024.
Sincerely,
Samantha Gruenheid
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We are excited to announce that the latest episode of the "This Week in Virology" podcast features our very own Drs. Corinne Maurice and Jesse Shapiro and MIMM Ph.D students Anshul Sinha and Sana Naderi discussing their careers and research. You can listen here!
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Congratulations to Dr. David Gagnon, who is the recipient of the 2023 Priyabrata Mukhopadhyay Award, which is awarded by the Faculty each year to recognize exceptional performance by a member of its technical and research support staff. David’s well-deserved accomplishment was celebrated at a reception at the Deanery on December 13th.
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Join us in congratulating Dr. Irah King and Dr. Jörg Fritz on their recent promotions to full professors. Their dedication and outstanding contributions have not gone unseen. We look forward to celebrating this milestone on January 25th. Please save the date from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM. More details to come.
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Dr. Jasmin Chahal was selected as a recipient of the Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation. Please help us congratulate her on her outstanding academic work.
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Congratulations to Michael Shamash, Ph.D. Candidate, from Dr. Corinne Maurice’s lab is the recipient of the Learner Award for Teaching Innovation from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences for his MIMM Bioinformatics Workshops.
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Congratulations to Lydia Labrie for successfully defending her PhD Oral Defence which took place on December 15, 2023.
 featured in the picture are Supervisors Dr. Elizabeth Fixman (L) Lydia Labrie (C) Dr. Brian Ward (R)
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Congratulations to Shannon Duffy for successfully defending her PhD Oral Defence which took place on December 18, 2023.
featured in the picture are Dr. Marcel Behr (L) and student Shannon Duffy (R)
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3rd Annual MIMM Scientific Art Contest
The MIMM department encourages the MIMM community to unleash their creativity!
Participate in the MIMM Art Contest by submitting captivating Journal cover art and/or visually striking scientific images derived from your research. Whether it's photographs, digital designs, or any other imaginative science or research-based concept, we invite you to showcase your artistic talents. Selected pieces will be featured in the chair's office, the administration office, and on the department website.
Submission Format: Ensure that your artwork is of high quality for potential printing and framing. Don't forget to provide the names you wish to include in the acknowledgments, as they will be added to the framed versions of the selected entries.
Who can participate: MIMM Community (Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Postdocs, Faculty and Staff members).
Prizes: There will be prizes to be won.
Deadline: January 31, 2023
Send your submissions with the subject ‘’MIMM Art Contest’’ to Elisa Torres at office.microimm@mcgill.ca
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Annual party hosted by MIGSA and the MIMM department.
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Thank you to everyone who attended the MIMM Glitter and Glam Party! We hope that you had a great time. Congratulations to Professor Jasmin Chahal for winning the prize for best dessert!
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Ventus Therapeutics is looking for a Senior Scientist Neuroimmunology.
A Post Doctoral Associate position is available in the laboratory of Dr Jean Celli in
the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Larner College of Medicine at
the, University of Vermont.
A Post Doctoral Researcher position has opened up at University Health Network.
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Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024 | 10:10 am - 10:50
Format: In-Person only Duff Medical Building Amphitheater
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Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024 | 10:50 am - 11:30
Format: In-Person only Duff Medical Building Amphitheater
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The following student will be presenting on Thursday, January 18, 2024
Ana Luiza Abdalla Dos Santos PhD Final Seminar
More details to come via email
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Co-hosted by McGill AMR Center and Department of Global & Public Health
Monday, January 15, 2024 | 11:30 am – 1 pm
Hybrid event | Registration required
Free In-Person: School of Population and Global Health
2001 McGill College Avenue, room 461 McGill Campus Map
Online: via zoom
Lunch provided for in-person participants
“Using genomics to tackle AMR in low-resource settings: One step at a time“
Dr. Senjuti Saha, PhD, Director and Senior Scientist, Child Health Research Foundation, (CHRF), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Panel discussion with Senjuti Saha, Makeda Semret, Jesse Shapiro, and Cedric Yansouni.
Register now
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AMR Seminar + Social with Dr. Gautam Dantas
Co-hosted by the McGill AMR Center and the Microbiome Centre
Friday, February 9, 2024 | 4:00-6:00 pm
Hybrid event | Registration required
Free In-person: Meakins Theater, Room 521, McGill McIntyre Building
3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler McGill Campus Map
Online: Zoom link sent to registered participants.
Wine and cheese networking reception post-seminar
"Understanding, Predicting, and Remediating Perturbations to Diverse Microbiomes"
Dr. Gautam Dantas, Ph.D., Conan Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine,
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Departments of Pathology & Immunology, Pediatrics, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Microbiology, and The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Co-Chief, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Co-Director, PhD Program in Computational & Systems Biology
Register now
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Congratulations on making the cover for the December issue.
Machine learning analysis of the T cell receptor repertoire identifies sequence features of self-reactivity - ScienceDirect
Dey R, Alshaweesh J, Singh KP, Lypaczewski P, Karmakar S, Klenow L, Paulini K, Kaviraj S, Kamhawi S, Valenzuela JG, Singh S, Hamano S, Satoskar AR, Gannavaram S, Nakhasi HL, Matlashewski G. Production of leishmanin skin test antigen from Leishmania donovani for future reintroduction in the field. Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 2;14(1):7028. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42732-2. PMID: 37919280; PMCID: PMC10622560.
El Chaar M, Khoury Y, Douglas GM, El Kazzi S, Jisr T, Soussi S, Merhi G, Moghnieh RA, Shapiro BJ. Longitudinal genomic surveillance of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli carriage in critical care patients. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Jan 3:e0312823. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03128-23. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38171007.
Fuentes Y, Olguín V, López-Ulloa B, Mendonça D, Ramos H, Abdalla AL, Guajardo-Contreras G, Niu M, Rojas-Araya B, Mouland AJ, López-Lastra M. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K promotes cap-independent translation initiation of retroviral mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Jan 2:gkad1221. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1221. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38165048.
Goguen RP, Chen MJ, Dunkley ORS, Gatignol A, Scarborough RJ. Gene therapy to cure HIV infection/La thérapie génique pour guérir l'infection par le VIH. 2023 Virologie. 27:63-84 [EN]; 27:284-306 [FR] [bilingual].
Vucetic A, Lafleur A, Côté M, Kobasa D, Chan M, Alvarez F, Piccirillo C, Dong G, Olivier M. Extracellular vesicle storm during the course of Ebola virus infection in primates. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 Nov 15;13:1275277. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1275277. PMID: 38035334; PMCID: PMC10684970.
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That’s right! The Department of Microbiology & Immunology at McGill University is on Instagram! Follow us and keep up to date with all the exciting news and events!
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