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2024 Canada Gairdner Award Laureates Lecture: Pascal Mayer and Bonnie L. Bassler


Date & time
Monday, October 21, 2024
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

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Speaker(s)

Pascal Mayer, Bonnie L. Bassler

Cost

This event is free

Organization

Biology and School of Health

Where

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke W.

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Please join us for a joint lecture featuring two Canada Gairdner International Award winners: Pascal Mayer, 2024 winner of the Canada Gairdner International Award, and Bonnie L. Bassler, 2023 winner of the Canada Gairdner International Award.

Dr. Pascal Mayer’s lecture is titled: From next generation sequencing to next generation therapeutics: Simplicity as a paradigm for scientific disruption.

Dr. Bonie Bassler’s lecture is titled: Quorum Sensing Across Domains: From Viruses to Bacteria to Eukaryotes.

The lecture will include a Q&A period with the Gairdner laureates. While the lecture will be in English, questions in French are welcome.

Space is limited and seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is required.  

Attend in person or online

Registration is required for either.

In-person

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
Concordia University, Loyola campus
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
PT Building
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H4B 1R6
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Online

Zoom link will be emailed upon registration. Register here.

Accessibility

If you require disability-related accommodations, please contact executive.secretary.soh@concordia.ca by October 4, 2024 to allow time to coordinate your request. We will do our best to accommodate the request. 

Travelling to Loyola campus

There is a shuttle bus from Concordia University’s downtown campus to the Loyola campus. Faculty, staff, Concordia students and non-Concordia students are welcome to take the Concordia shuttle bus at no charge, on October 21, 2024. Please consult the shuttle bus schedule for departure times and location. Please allocate up to 45 min. for travel time. The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall is a few steps from the Loyola campus shuttle bus stop (PT Building).

If you are travelling by car or public transportation, please see this page for directions.

Speakers

Headshot of man wearing black polo Pascal Mayer | Photo: Julie C. Mayer

Pascal Mayer

2024 Winner of the Canada Gairdner International Award,CEO & co-founder, Alphanosos, Honorary Chair at the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Strasbourg (USIAS)

Read Pascal Mayer's bio.

Headshot of woman wearing light-blue tweed blazer Bonnie L. Bassler

Bonnie L. Bassler

2023 Winner of the Canada Gairdner International Award, Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Read Bonnie L. Bassler's bio.

About the Gairdner Foundation

The Gairdner Foundation, established in 1957, is dedicated to fulfilling James A. Gairdner’s vision to recognize major research contributions to the treatment of disease and alleviation of human suffering. Through annual prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards, the Gairdner Foundation celebrates the world’s most creative and accomplished researchers whose work is improving the health and well-being of people around the world.

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