Collaboration and Job Hub
The Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) aims to bring the infectious disease community together and foster new interdisciplinary collaborations to drive leading-edge research.
Our Collaboration and Job Hub provides an opportunity for our community members to find and connect with potential collaborators, and to share job opportunities.
If you are looking for collaborators and would like to post your project idea here, please fill out this submission form.
If you’d like to submit a job posting, please contact us at epic@utoronto.ca.
Job Opportunities
Postdoctoral fellowship, Freeman Lan (Institute of Biomedical Engineering)
EPIC member Freeman Lan (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) is currently looking for a highly motivated and creative postdoctoral scholar to use new ultra high-throughput single-cell sequencing and functional screening technologies to explore microbial heterogeneity in gut microbiomes.
Candidates with strong microbiology, microbial genomics, bacterial genetics, microbial ecology, anaerobic culturing, sequencing, bioinformatics, or highthroughput assay experience are particularly encouraged to apply. Prior experience with droplet microfluidics is welcome but not required.
A complete project description, qualifications, and application process for this position can be reviewed in this advertisement.
Please direct applications and queries to microbialmicrofluidics@gmail.com.
Member of Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control (PIDAC-IPC)
The Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control (PIDAC-IPC) is a multidisciplinary committee of health care professionals with expertise and experience in Infection Prevention and Control. The Committee advises Public Health Ontario (PHO) on the prevention and control of health care-associated infections, considering the entire health care system, with a focus on clients, patients and residents, as well as health care providers.
PHO is currently seeking two new committee members for PIDAC-IPC:
- Infectious Diseases Physician – Academic Centre
– A health care professional currently appointed with a post-secondary institution or academic research centre in Ontario, with a minimum of five years of demonstrated experience providing expertise on infectious and communicable diseases and management of IPAC programs in an academic health sciences centre (experience in Ontario is preferred).
– Must possess a Medical Degree with specialization in infectious diseases, medical microbiology or similar. - Public Health Physician
– A health care professional currently employed in a public health organization in Ontario, with a minimum of five years of demonstrated experience providing expertise on infectious and communicable diseases, including infection prevention and control in in a public health unit (experience in Ontario is preferred).
– Must possess a Medical Degree with specialization in public health and preventative or community medicine or similar.
Candidates for both positions must have fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (or equivalent). Current certification in infection control (CIC) and membership with IPAC Canada is considered an asset.
Candidates must be able and willing to comply with PHO’s conflict of interest rules and confidentiality requirements.
PIDAC-IPC meets monthly, and membership terms are two years in length.
For full qualifications and requirements, visit our PIDAC-IPC webpage.
Qualified candidates should send their expression of interest, noting the name of the committee and role, with curriculum vitae and complete contact details to secretariat@oahpp.ca by June 17, 2026.