Colloquium archive - Concordia University

2022-23 academic year

Stigma, the Environment, and the Experience of Aging
and Digital Care Work

Speakers	Kate de Medeiros, PhD. Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University Kim Sawchuk, PhD. Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University
Date & time	Wed. February 21, 2024 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location	Zoom

Health Behaviour Changes for Health-Related Outcomes, and
The Secret Lives of Representations

Speakers	Enrico Quilico, Ph.D., M.A., B.Ed. Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute Reza Farivar, PhD. Associate Professor, Opthalmology & Visual Sciences, McGill University; Director, MGH MRI Research Facility; Scientific Director, MUHC TBI Program
Date & time	Fri. January 26, 2024 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location	Zoom

Past, present, and future: Therapeutics for multiple sclerosis

Speaker	Peter John Darlington, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Health kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University
Date & time	Wed. November 29, 2023 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location	Zoom

2021-22 academic year

Mesoscale imaging and quantitative modeling of the subcortex over the lifespan

Speaker	Pierre-Louis Bazin, PhD Senior Researcher Integrative Model-based Cognitive Neuroscience (IMCN) laboratory Psychology department University of Amsterdam Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Date & time	Tues., Oct. 26, 2021 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Assessing sleep health is time well spent

Speaker	Jean-Philippe Chaput, PhD Associate Professor Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Senior ScientistHealthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, CHEO Research Institute
Date & time	Wed. Nov. 17, 2021 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Probabilistic Inference in Medical Imaging via Conditional GANs

Speaker	Assad Oberai, PhD Professor Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Viterbi school of engineering University of Southern California
Date & time	Wed. Feb. 2, 2022 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

2020-21 academic year

Research exploring ageing, behaviors, confinement and dating; the ABCDs surrounding COVID

Speaker

Simon Bacon, PhD
Professor, Concordia University

Stefanie Duguay, PhD
Assistant Professor, Concordia University

Jean-Philippe Gouin, PhD
Associate Professor, Concordia University

Meghan Joy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Concordia University

Date & time

Fri. Oct. 9, 2020
12 to 1:30 p.m.

Location

Zoom webinar

Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia, white matter alterations and physical exercise

Speaker	Edith Hamel, PhD Laboratory of Cerebrovascular Research, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Date & time	Wed. Oct. 21, 2020 12 to 1 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Neuroplasticity, motor learning and aerobic exercise: implications to motor rehabilitation

Speaker	Jason Neva, PhD Assistant Professor Kinesiology and Physical Activity Sciences Université de Montréal
Date & time	Tue. Nov. 3, 2020 12 to 1:30 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Healthy living in a digital age: Screens and wellbeing in childhood

Speaker	Caroline Fitzpatrick, PhD Assistant Professor Université Sainte-Anne
Date & time	Wed. Nov. 25, 2020 12 to 1:30 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Sleep and circadian factors in health and disease

Speaker	Sarah Chellappa, MD, PhD Associate Neuroscientist Harvard Medical School
Date & time	Tue. Jan. 12, 2021 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Engaging performance audiences as listeners of a restorative justice process in the context of sexual abuse

Speaker	Luis C. Sotelo Castro, LLM, MA, PhD Canada research Chair in Oral History Performance Associate Professor, Theatre Department Co-Director, Centre for Oral history and digital storytelling Director, Acts of Listening Lab Concordia University
Date & time	Wed. Feb. 24, 2021 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Wearable Sleep Technologies: Toward Pervasive Health Management

Speaker	Mohamad Forouzanfar, PhD Associate Professor École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec
Date & time	Wed. Mar. 10, 2021 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

Sport-related concussions: How studying lived experience can inform efforts to improve recovery and return to sport

Speaker	Jeff Caron, PhD Assistant Professor School of Kinesiology & Physical Activity Sciences Université de Montréal
Date & time	Wed. Apr. 14, 2021 12 to 1:30 p.m.
Location	Zoom webinar

2019-20 academic year

Neural Substrate Mediating Motor Sequence Learning and Consolidation

Speaker	Julien Doyon, Ph.D. Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Center Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Date & time	Wed. Oct. 23, 2019 4 to 5 p.m.
Location	RF 110

How Exercise Benefits to Improve Abnormal Muscle and Brain Metabolism in Diabetes

Speaker	K. Sreekumaran Nair, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Mayo Clinic
Date & time	Wed. Nov. 13, 2019 4 to 5 p.m.
Location	RF 110

Do our genes determine what we should eat?

Speaker	Ahmed El-Sohemy, PhD Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
Date & time	Wed. Jan. 22, 2020 4 to 5 p.m.
Location	RF 110

Health Consequences of Circadian and Sleep Disruption

Speaker	Kenneth P. Wright Jr., PhD Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory Department of Integrative Physiology University of Colorado Boulder
Date & time	Wed. Feb. 12, 2020 4 to 5 p.m.
Location	RF 110

Prenatal maternal stress and child development: Epigenetic and brain mechanisms from Project Ice Storm

Speaker	Suzanne King, PhD Professor Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Date & time	Wed. Mar. 11, 2020 4 to 5 p.m.
Location	RF 110

CANCELLED Functional neuroimaging at scale, a quest for big picture on brain function

Speaker	Gael Varoquaux, PhD Research Director Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) Visiting Professor, McGill University
Date & time	Wed. Mar. 25, 2020 4 to 5 p.m.
Location	MB 9CD

Strategies for eating healthy and being active at home during the COVID-19 pandemic