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 2 of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories 50th Anniversary & Respiratory Research Day!

Session Chair: Basil Petrof 08:00 - 08:45 Darcy Wagner, Lund UniversityBuilding a lung from scratch: a new frontier to study human disease and to generate transplantable tissue units

Session Chairs: James Martin, Deborah Assayag 08:45 - 09:15 Thomas Similowski, Inserm-Sorbonne University, FranceBreathe with your brain, think with your lungs: the Meakins-Christie as a beacon for out-of-the-box navigation 09:15 - 09:35 Maziar Divangahi, McGill University Unlocking the power of innate immunity against pulmonary infections 09:35 - 10:05 Geoffrey Maksym, Dalhousie University Respiratory mechanics - in”sights” into respiratory function

Session Chairs: Irah King, Jonathon Campbell 10:40 - 11:10 Malcolm King, University of Saskatchewan A personal journey from mucus rheology and mucociliary clearance to Indigenous respiratory health and disease 11:10 - 11:30 Dao Nguyen, McGill University Host-pathogen interactions in chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections 11:30 - 12:00 Esther Barreiro, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Spain Differential clinical phenotypes in bronchiectasis patients: evidence from cluster analysis 12:20 - 12:20 Meng-Chih Lin, Chang Gung University, Taiwan Clinical and translational respiratory research at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospitals: A Taiwanese perspective 12:20 - 12:40 Qutayba Hamid, McGill University & University of SharjahIL5 from discovery to clinical implication

Session Chairs: Elizabeth Fixman, Tania Janaudis-Ferreira 15 minute talks by graduate students and fellows from submitted abstracts.

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