SRM 3335H Master’s Seminar Series and SRD 4445H Doctoral Seminar Series

For students enrolled in the Collaborative Specialization in Musculoskeletal Sciences (CSMS).

A credit/non-credit (CR/NCR) course required for students enrolled in the Collaborative Program in Musculoskeletal Sciences.

Format

  • 1 hour seminars either by faculty experts or students in the program presenting their research
  • Master's students must attend a minimum of 12 sessions, presenting at one, to complete the program.
  • PhD candidates must attend a minimum of 18 sessions, presenting at one, to complete the program.

Fall 2024 schedule

For the SRM 3335H Master’s Seminar Series and SRD 4445H Doctoral Seminar Series

Date and time Speaker and topic Format / location

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Divya Sharma, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University 

Talk Title: Machine learning approaches in MSK research: Challenges, Applications, and Future Scope

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom

 

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

8 - 9 am

Bruce N. Cronstein, MD 

Paul R. Esserman Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine

Talk Title: Purine Metabolism and Osteoarthritis

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom

CSMS in Collaboration the Schroeder Arthritis Institute Web Seminar Series

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Kosaran Gumarathas 

  • MSc candidate supervised by David Wasserstein
  • Talk title: Developing an in-vitro model for the chronic anterior cruciate ligament deficient (CAD) knee

Patricia Remalante-Rayco

  • PhD candidate supervised by Nigil Haroon 
  • Talk title: DRAK2: A Potential Biomarker of Treatment Response in Axial Spondyloarthritis

Virtual student seminar.

Location: via zoom

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Michelle Ranjbar

  • PhD candidate supervised Lena Serghides
  • Talk Title: A New Mouse Model of HIV in Pregnancy: the EcoHIV Pregnancy Model

Quinn Mulligan

  • MSc candidate supervised by Timothy Burkhart
  • Talk Title: Contributions of neuromuscular dysfunction and atrophy to fatigue-induced kinematic changes following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Virtual student seminar.

Location: via zoom

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

8 - 9 am

Huji Xu, PhD

Professor of Medicine in Tsinghua University and Second Military Medical University

Talk Title: Allogeneic CAR T cell therapy in autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom

CSMS in Collaboration the Schroeder Arthritis Institute Web Seminar Series

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Taaniya Thavaratnam 

  • MSc candidate supervised by Mohit Kapoor 

Isabel Li 

  • MSc candidate supervised by Karina Carneiro

Virtual student seminar.

Location: via zoom

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Akihiro Nakamura, MD PhD 

Assistant Professor and Clinician Scientist, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University

Talk Title: Bridging the Gaps in Spondyloarthritis Research
 

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Mahziyar Darvishi

  • PhD candidate supervised by Timothy Burkhart

Phuong Nguyen

  • PhD candidate supervised by Nigil Haroon 

Virtual student seminar.

Location: via zoom

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Gurpreet Baht, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine 

Talk Title: TBD

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

8 - 9 am

Joel Boerckel, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania 

Talk Title: Emerging therapeutic strategies in bone repair

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom

CSMS in Collaboration the Schroeder Arthritis Institute Web Seminar Series

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

4 - 5 pm

Denis Poddubnyy, MD PhD MSc (Epi)

Clinician Investigator, Division of Rheumatology, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, UHN

Talk Title: Diagnosis of spondyloarthritis: the role of imagin

Virtual faculty seminar.

Location: via zoom