MHRC Seminar Series | Muscle Health Research Centre (MHRC)

Click here for a complete list of all previous MHRC Invited Seminar Speakers (all events and seminars inclusive)

Click here for a list of upcoming MHRC Seminars (Fall 2021)

	Dr. Douglas Millay December 10, 2021 Multinucleation and myonuclear accretion during muscle adaptations
	Dr. Jamie Burr November 26, 2021 Citius, Altius, Fortius: Scientia. Human performance physiology
	Dr. Natasha Chang November 12, 2021 Molecular mechanisms of satellite cell function and dysfunction
	Dr. Rachel Colley October 22, 2021 Physical activity among Canadians- trends, challenges and future directions
	Dr. Joseph Gordon October 1, 2021 Molecular regulation of muscle mitophagy: A nexus of mitochondrial quality control and cell signaling modulation
	Dr. Stephen E. Alway April 9, 2021 The Role of SIRT1 in Muscle Atrophy and Repair: Miracle or Just a Mystery?
	Dr. Nicholas Greene March 19, 2021 Development of muscle atrophy: differences by sex and myopathologies
	Dr. Atsushi Asakura March 12, 2021 Muscle stem cell niche and reprogramming
	Dr. Ryan Mailloux March 5, 2021 The molecular oxygen paredox: targeting the mitochondrial glutathionylome for the treatment of metabolic disorders
	Dr. Susan Brooks February 12, 2021 The contribution of both pre- and post-synaptic changes in the initiation and progression of sarcopenia
	Dr. Vahab Soleimani January 29, 2021 Functional interaction between skeletal muscle stem cells and their niche environment in development & diseases
	Dr. Glen Tibbits December 4, 2020 Investigating inherited cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias using hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes
	Dr. Bill Sheel November 13, 2020 Competition for blood flow distribution between respiratory and locomotor muscles: implications for muscle fatigue
	Dr. John Thyfault October 30, 2020 Aerobic capacity, skeletal muscle mitochondria, and risk for disease
	Dr. Karyn Esser October 16, 2020 Muscle clocks, muscle heath and systemic health
	Dr. Katsu Funai October 9, 2020 Mitochondrial membrane lipids regulate metabolic efficiency
	Dr. Peterson Poster September 25, 2020 Evolving roles for satellite cells in skeletal muscle adaptation and aging
	Dr. Andrew Judge – February 28, 2020 Mechanisms of Muscle Wasting in Cancer Cachexia
	Dr. Eric Thorin - January 24, 2020 Brain and Aging Vessels
	Dr. K Sreekumaran Nair – October 25, 2019 Regulation of Mitochondrial biogenesis and function in skeletal muscle and brain by insulin and aerobic exercise
	Dr. Andrea Josse - September 20, 2019 Dairy for improving body composition and bone health in Obesity: is it an I.D.E.A.L. food…?
	Dr. Lawerence Kazak – April 5, 2019 Adipocyte control of energy balance
	Dr. Arthur Cheng – March 22, 2019 Implementation of intact single fibres to investigate skeletal muscle function in health and disease
	Dr. Rajan Sah – November 23, 2018 SWELL regulation of systemic metabolism
	Dr. Colin Crist – November 9, 2018 Translational Control of Gene Expression Regulates Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Quiescence and Self-Renewal
	Dr. Bret Goodpaster - March 16 2018 The role of mitochondrial energetics in obesity and aging
	Dr. Zoltan Arany- March 9 2018 Branched chain amino acids and insulin resistance in skeletal muscle
	Dr. Micah Drummond - February 9 2018 Dangers of short-term bed rest on aging muscle: Mechanisms and potential solutions
	Dr. Susan Howlett - January 12 2018 The importance of age, sex and frailty in preclinical studies of the heart
	Dr. Florian Bentzinger- November 24, 2017 Extrinsic Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Specification
	Dr. David Brown-November 10, 2017 Targeting Cellular Energetics in Disease: Contemporary Approaches to Make Mitochondria Great Again”
	Dr. Kristin Stanford - October 6, 2017 Exercise-Induced Adaptations to Brown Adipose Tissue
	Dr. David Bishop - June 6, 2017 p53 and exercise: Facts, fallacies and future directions
	Dr. Kenneth Walsh - March 17, 2017 The role of glycolytic muscle in cardiometabolic disease
	Dr. William Schrage - October 28, 2016 Control of skeletal muscle blood flow in human obesity
	Dr. Ashok Kumar - October 7, 2016 Novel signaling mechanisms in skeletal muscle growth and repair
	Dr. Martin Picard - April 15, 2016 Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria: From Networking to Kissing to Signaling
	Dr. Francisco Naya - February 23, 2016 Transcriptional and epigenetic pathways in cardiac muscle
	Dr. Keith Baar - January 22, 2016 Using tissue engineering and exercise to optimize musculoskeletal health
	Dr. Roger Fielding - October 23, 2015 Age-related changes in skeletal muscle mass and function: mechanisms, assessment, and treatment of sarcopenia
	Dr. Joseph Miano - October 2, 2016 Lnc’ing Noncoding Sequences to Vascular SMC Phenotypes
	Dr. Thomas Gustafsson - March 27, 2015 Integrative clinical physiology - skeletal muscle in health and disease
	Dr. David J. Glass - March 20, 2015 Molecular mechanisms maintaining skeletal muscle mass
	Dr. Pasan Fernando - March 6, 2015 Death of the heart: all is not as it seems
	Dr. SoJung Lee - January 30, 2015 Childhood obesity: What is the role of physical activity?
	Dr. Mary-Ellen Harper - December 5, 2014 Mitochondria: Where INefficiency is sometimes a very good thing! Implications for obesity and oxidative stress
	Dr. Raynald Bergeron - October 3, 2014 Role of maternal physical activity on offspring's metabolic health
	Dr. Dale Abel - April 15, 2014 Mitochondrial metabolism and insulin signaling in heart failure
	Dr. Michael Rudnicki - January 24, 2014 Molecular regulation of muscle stem cell function
	Dr. Gary Sweeney - December 6, 2014 Metabolic syndrome and the role of adiponectin
	Dr. Marion Pauly - November 5, 2013 Mitochondria, a sentinel in muscle remodeling: New insights on aging and Duchenne muscular dystrophy
	Dr. Daniel Kane - October 15, 2013 Revisiting the intracellular shuttle: Mitochondrial lactate oxidation in muscle
	Dr. James Carson - August 28, 2013 IL-6 regulation of protein turnover with cancer cachexia: A role for the muscle gp130 receptor
	Dr. Guillaume Grenier - April 12, 2013 Heterotropic ossification following muscle trauma: A matter of microenvironment
	Dr. Ilona Skerjanc - April 5, 2013 The regulation of Nkx2.5 during cardiomyogenesis
	Dr. Sabah Hussain - March 8, 2013 Regulation of autophagy in skeletal muscles
	Dr. Jason Fish - February 1, 2013 VEGF signaling in blood vessel development
	Dr. Patrick Seale - March 23, 2012 Transcriptional control of brown and beige cell fate
	Dr. Vickie Baracos - February 17, 2012 Cancer-associated muscle wasting: Clinical implications and underlying biology
	Dr. Bengt Saltin - June 5, 2011 Endurance exercise and fatigue: the role of muscle glycogen