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SCM-CSM2025 Montreal Conference Schedule (Program summary)
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SCM-CSM2025 Montreal Conference Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
15:00 - 16:00
Title: TBA
Dr. Simonetta Gribaldo, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Murray Career Achievement Award Lecture
Friday, June 20, 14:30 - 15:30
Thermo Fisher Award Lecture
Thursday, June 19, 17:00 - 18:00
Armand Frappier Award Lecture
Wednesday, June 18, 16:00 - 17:00
Career Development Workshop
Tuesday, June 17, 11:30 - 13:00
Co-creation and collective knowledge in project planning
Invited Speaker: Geneviève Lajoie, INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, QC
Becoming independent, self-driven, and accountable as a scientific professional
Invited Speaker: Terrence Bell, University of Toronto - Scarborough, Toronto, ON
10th Annual Forum on Microbiology Undergraduate Education (FOME)
Tuesday, June 17, 9:00 - 11:00
Chairs:
The Age of Misinformation and Disinformation
Invited Speaker: Dr. Joe Schwarcz, McGill University, Montreal, QC
We live in an age where the latest research in science is just a few keystrokes away. Unfortunately, the same can be said for access to pseudoscience. Snake oil salesmen have a long history of plying their trade, but never before have they been as great a menace to the public as today. Having donned labcoats emblematic of science, or the tailored suits of politicians, they are harder to spot. Fostering critical thinking among the public is more crucial then ever.
FOME Keynote Facilitator
Dr. Joe Schwarcz
McGill University, Montreal, QC
Dr. Joe Schwarcz is Director of McGill University’s “Office for Science and Society” which has the mission of separating sense from nonsense. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching chemistry and for interpreting science for the public. He was the first non-American to win the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack award for popularizing chemistry. “Dr Joe” has hosted a radio show on science for forty-three years, has appeared hundreds of times on television, writes a regular newspaper column and is the author of nineteen best-sellers. He has been awarded four honorary doctorates and teaches a course on “Food and Nutrition” that with 2700 students holds the record for the largest enrolment for any university course in Canada. Professor Schwarcz is also an amateur magician, often spicing up his presentations with a little magic.
EDI Workshop
Thursday, June 19, 14:00 - 15:00
Chairs: TBA
Speaker: TBA
CIHR-III Session: Highlighting Excellence in Early Career Research
June 20, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
This session profiles the impactful research of three promising Early Career Researchers (ECRs) that have been supported through CIHR funding competitions. The session recognizes the excellence of health research being done in Canada by new investigators in the field of infection and immunity. The Speakers will highlight how their research has addressed critical gaps and provide insights on how researchers who are earlier in their careers can establish impactful research programs. Attendees will have the opportunity to actively engage the speakers in critical reflection on their work and career journeys. Dessert and beverages will be served, please indicate on the registration form if you are planning to attend the workshop.
Symposium #1: Antimicrobial Resistance and novel approaches to drug discovery
June 18, 9:00 - 10:30
Overcoming antibiotic failure: thinking beyond resistance
Invited Speaker: Dr. Dao Nguyen, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Symposium #2: Soil, Space and Aquatic Microbiology
June 18, 09:00 - 10:30
Title of talk: TBA
Invited speaker: Dr. Lyle G. Whyte, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Symposium #3: Bioinformatics, Genomics and Genome Evolution
June 18, 09:00 - 10:30
Title: TBA
Invited Speaker: Eduardo Rocha, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Symposium #4: Growth, virulence and Gene Regulation
June 18, 11:00 - 12:30
Title: TBA
Invited Speaker #1: Dr. Charles M. Dozois, Institut Armand Frappier, INRS, Montreal, QC
Symposium #5: Fungal genetics & pathogenesis
June 18, 11:00 - 12:30
Title: TBA
Invited Speaker: Sadri Znaidi, Memorial University, St. John's, NL
Symposium #6: Mechanisms of parasite pathogenesis
June 18, 11:00 - 12:30
Shifting Scales: Fitness Adaptations and Host-Parasite Dynamics in Drug-Resistant Parasites
Invited Speaker: Dr. Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Université de Montréal, St Hyacinthe, QC
Symposium #7: Microbiomes in Health and Disease
June 19, 9:00 - 10:30
Searching for ‘missing microbes’ of the human gut in the Amazon jungle
Invited Speaker: Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Symposium #8: Bacteriophage and Bacterial Defense Systems
June 19, 09:00 - 10:30
Phage-bacteria coevolution within cholera patients
Invited Speaker #1: Dr. Jesse Shapiro, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Microscopic Battle: Discovering Phages and Bacteria in Their Natural Habitat
Invited Speaker #2: Dr. Dr. Frédérique Le Roux, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Symposium #9: Industrial microbes and biotechnology
June 19, 09:00 - 10:30
The arms race between Streptococcus thermophilus and its phages
Invited Speaker: Dr. Sylvain Moineau, Université Laval, Laval, QC
Symposium #10: One Health, climate Change and emerging pathogens
June 19, 11:00 - 12:30
Title: TBA
Invited Speaker: Dr. Zhenyu Cheng, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Symposium #11: Pathogenesis and Host Response
June 19, 11:00 - 12:30
Recent insights on vaginal S. aureus and its expected impact on women’s health
Invited Speaker: Dr. Karine Dufresne, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC
Symposium #12: Intra- and Inter-kingdom microbial interactions
June 19, 11:00 - 12:30
Matrix-Modulating Molecular Mechanisms Mediate Microbial Multicellularity
Invited Speaker: Dr. Salim Islam, Institut Armand Frappier, INRS, Laval, QC