Seminars & Events

Monday, February 24, 2025, 15:30-16:30
The OHRI Seminar Series Program presents
"Vitamin B6 Metabolism: Genetic and Mechanistic Perspectives on Disease ."
Speaker: Dr. Izabella Pena
Location: TOH General Campus, CCW5th Floor Room#5225
Hosted by Dr. Ian Lorimer 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 12:00-13:00
The Brain-Heart Interconnectome Program presents
Data Managements and Sharing: Navigating new Mandates with Archimedes
Speaker: Drs. Kelly Cobey, Jodi Edwards and Peter Liu
Location: Virtual

The webinar intends to introduce researchers to ARCHIMEDES, a new health platform developed for data management and sharing.

Register to attend: bit.ly/ARCHIMEDESwebinar

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand new mandates and best practices pertaining to data management
    and sharing
  • Describe a novel health data platform, ARCHIMEDES, to support data collection, management, sharing, and analytics
  • Describe the evolving landscape of health data and related infrastructure in Canada and how to leverage it in your research

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 13:00-14:00
The Neuroscience Program presents
Deciphering the role of D1/D2 dopamine receptors co-expressing striatal neurons using intersectional genetics
Speaker: Bruno Giros, PhD
Professor, Dept of Psychiatry
McGill University
Location: Hybrid In Person RGN Room 3248 and ZOOM
Please contact Nancy MacDonald at nmacdonald@toh.ca for the link

Hosted by Dr. Mario Tiberi

 

Learning Objectives:

 1. Pre-clinical studies in neuroscience
2. An update on the organisation of the striatal output - consequences for
neurological and psychiatric disorders
3. Intersectional genetic techniques to study cellular sub-populations

Tuesday, March 04, 2025, 15:00-16:00
The Health AI and Data Science (HAD) Program presents
Simultaneous Partial Volume Correction and Denoising of Clinical and Phantom Brain Dataset Using Deep Learning
Speaker: Sanaz Kaviani
I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Université de Montréal, where I focused on enhancing PET brain imaging using deep learning and advanced reconstruction techniques. Currently, as a postdoctoral researcher at Ottawa Hospital and Jubilant, I develop AI-based solutions for PET imaging, including AI-driven denoising and gated parametric mapping for cardiac PET scans.
Location: Virtual via MS Teams. Meeting ID: 236 690 246 000 | Passcode: rC2ui98d

Please contact Emma Brown at emmabrown1@ohri.ca if you would like the meeting link.

NOTE: If you would like to be added to the HAD - Health AI and Data Science team on MS Teams (including the HAD JC seminar mailing list), please join the team using code: owfh55e. If you are external to TOH/OHRI and would like to be added, please email Emma Brown at emmabrown1@ohri.ca.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Simultaneous Partial Volume Correction (PVC) and Denoising of Brain PET images.
  2. Novel deep learning-based PVC method, leveraging Transformer and U-net architectures to enhance PET image quality and quantitative accuracy
Thursday, March 06, 2025, 18:00-20:00
The Brain-Heart Interconnectome Program presents
Cafe Scientific: Exploring the Brain-Heart Connection
Speaker: Dr. Peter Liu and Dr. Ruth Slack
Scientific Directors of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome
Location: The Royal Oak
188 Bank Street
Ottawa

Learn about the innovative research that’s revealing how the brain and heart are connected

Open to all - Light refreshments will be served

Register to attend:

https://bit.ly/3CGZDqp

 

 

 

 

Monday, March 24, 2025, 15:30-16:30
The OHRI Seminar Series Program presents
“Regulation of cancer immunity and immunotherapy by opposing interferon-mediated cues”
Speaker: Dr. David G. Brooks
Location: TOH General Campus, CCW5th Floor Room#5225
Hosted by Dr. Michele Ardolino 
Monday, March 31, 2025, 15:30-16:30
The OHRI Seminar Series Program presents
TBD
Speaker: Dr. Xiaohui Zha
Location: TOH General Campus, CCW5th Floor Room#5225

Please note that OHRI seminars are open to all members of OHRI and partner institutions. Members of the general public are asked to contact the communications office (jganton@ohri.ca) for more information about the research presented at OHRI seminars.