Meakins-Christie Laboratories 50th Anniversary & Respiratory Research DayA pdf version of the agenda and abstract booklet is available on the Home Page

Welcome to Day 1 of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories 50th Anniversary & Respiratory Research Day!

Welcome Remarks by Dr. Basil Petrof and Dr. David Eidelman Historical Perspective on the Meakins-Christie Laboratories

Session Chairs: Simon Rousseau, Sushmita Pamidi 08:30 - 09:00 Peter Calverley, University of Liverpool, UK The past is a foreign country - Life lessons from the Meakins-Christie 09:00 - 09:20 Benjamin Smith, McGill University Airway imaging and the developmental origins of COPD 09:20 - 09:50 Joaquim Gea, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Hospital del Mar Metabolomic biomarkers in COPD and its phenotypes 09:50 - 10:20 Erwan Pernet, University of Quebec - Trois-Rivieres A new player in alveolar macrophages development: neutrophils

Session Chairs: Arnold Kristof, Nicole Ezer 10:50 - 11:20 Tony Eissa, University of California at Irvine, USA Lessons in mentorship and career development 11:20 - 11:40 Sabah Hussain, McGill University Discovery of new autophagy genes regulating skeletal muscle health 11:40 - 12:10 Alexandre Demoule, Sorbonne University, France Diaphragm dysfunction in the critically ill: of mice, men, beer and gym

Session Chairs: Anne-Marie Lauzon, Gregory Fonseca 13:10 - 13:40 Jason Bates, University of Vermont, USA Understanding lung disease using agent-based models 13:40 - 14:00 Jun Ding, McGill University Lung research in a computational laboratory 14:00 - 14:30 Eva Kaufmann, Queens University Trained immunity in infectious and non-infectious pulmonary diseases 14:30 - 14:50 Carolyn Baglole, McGill University Got your head in the clouds?

Session Chairs: John Kimoff, Mara Ludwig 15 minute talks by graduate students and fellows from submitted abstracts.

Poster Presentations by graduate trainees, postdoctoral fellows, and residents.

SPiRE is an organization of students and fellows at the Meakins-Christie Labs. Reservation at the Old Port's Trois-Brasseurs for 30 people. Plan to meet at the hotel's lobby at 6:30 pm (or right after the poster presentations) and walk over together as a group.