• One Health approach to preventing bat viral spillover in Africa

    Medical Sciences Building, Room 2170 1 King’s College Circle, Room 2170, Toronto, ON, Canada

    The LMP Seminar Series will be hosting Dr. Wanda Markotter, who will be presenting a talk titled "One Health approach to preventing bat viral spillover in Africa".  Dr. Markotter is a professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, as well as interim director of Future Africa and director of the Centre for Viral Zoonoses. EPIC steering […]

  • Rational Immunogen Design for a Pan-Betacoronavirus Vaccine

    Medical Sciences Building, Room 2278 1 King's College Circle

    This special seminar from the Department of Immunology will feature a talk from Dr. Mihai Azoitei who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University, Durham, NC. Title: Rational Immunogen Design for a Pan-Betacoronavirus Vaccine When: October 10th, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Where: MSB […]

  • Special Seminar – Bali Pulendran

    Princess Margaret Cancer Centre 610 University Ave., 6th floor, Bob Bell Auditorium, Toronto, ON, Canada

    We are pleased to invite you to a special seminar featuring Bali Pulendran, PhD, Professor of Pathology and of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University. Pulendran is a global leader in systems immunology and vaccinology. Pulendran is the Director of Stanford Medicine’s Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection. His current work integrates multi-omics, computational modelling, and […]

  • Antibody approaches to overcome viral diversity for global health

    MaRS Auditorium 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

    As a part of the 2025 Gairdner Science Week Symposium's session on "Current frontiers of precision therapeutics", Senior Scientist in the Program in Molecular Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children and EPIC member, Dr. Jean-Philippe Julien will be presenting. Talk title: "Antibody approaches to overcome viral diversity for global health" When: October 22nd, 9am […]

  • Using Human Challenge Studies for Translational Research

    Medical Sciences Building, Room 2172 1 King’s College Circle, Room 2172, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Join EPIC and the Division of Infectious Diseases (Temerty Faculty of Medicine) for a special seminar with James McCarthy on "Using Human Challenge Studies for Translational Research" James McCarthy is Director of the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at the Doherty Institute. His research has focused on the […]

  • Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

    Metro Toront Convention Centre 255 Front Street W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting is the premier international forum for the exchange of scientific and clinical advances in tropical medicine, hygiene and global health. World-class research findings, clinical updates and topical discussions about the hot-button global issues from the world’s brightest scientific experts and thought leaders are presented over […]

  • 2025 Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium

    The Quay, Toronto 100 Queens Quay E, Toronto, ON, Canada

    To mark the World AMR Awareness week, EPIC is delighted to be the lead partner with bioMérieux and to bring to you the 2025 AMR Symposium on November 18–19, 2025, at The Quay, Toronto and online. This year's symposium is presented under the theme: Preserve Antimicrobial Effectiveness: Acting Today for Future Generations and brings together researchers […]

  • Emerging infections and how to fight them

    This seminar is presented by Senior College at the University of Toronto as a part of their "Wednesday Talk" series. Presenter: Isaac Bogoch Isaac Bogoch is an Infectious Diseases specialist at the Toronto General Hospital, and a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University Health Network. Dr. Bogoch works at the intersection of […]

  • Finding “missing” human gut microbes in the Amazon

    PGCRL, Event Room 3 (3rd floor)

    Please join the SickKids Research Institute for their Molecular Medicine Seminar Series. This month's seminar will feature the following talk, hosted by John Parkinson: Title: Finding "missing" human gut microbes in the Amazon Speaker: Emma Allen-Vercoe (Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph) Date: 26 January 2026 Time: 1:00 - […]

  • Health systems policy in action: Development of a Pan-Canadian sepsis action plan

    Toronto General Hospital 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Join us for a session with Kali Barrett and Fatima Sheikh on the development of a Pan-Canadian Sepsis Action Plan. Sepsis is a global public health threat with significant morbidity, mortality, and health system resource utilization, yet no Canadian strategy currently exists. In 2017, the World Health Assembly passed Resolution 70.7, formally recognizing sepsis as a […]