Engineered microbes for the diagnosis and treatment of disease

Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 254 (MC)

EPIC member Will Navarre hosts Robert Britton (Baylor College of Medicine) as part of the Department of Molecular Genetics seminar series. Advances in synthetic biology have given rise to opportunities to use bacteria to sense and respond to human disease. In this seminar, Britton will highlight two projects in his laboratory that use different platforms […]

Embedding EDI principles into biomedical and health research: who, what, where, when and why

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

Imogen Coe (Toronto Metropolitan University) will be speaking as part of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology's Monday seminar series. It is well established across a range of disciplines that more diverse research teams produce more impactful and higher-quality outputs. However, how to achieve inclusive excellence in research is not always obvious or easy, […]

Careers in Industry Workshop

Medical Science Building, Room 4171 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

Are you a trainee doing infectious disease-related research who is interested in a career in industry? Do you want to learn more about different microbiology- and infectious disease-related industry roles? This workshop is for you! Come hear from and network with five industry professionals who have leveraged their graduate experience in infectious diseases into successful […]

Understanding the role of vaccine delivery on humoral response

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

EPIC member Jen Gommerman hosts fellow EPIC member Aereas Aung as part of the Department of Immunology’s Easton Seminar Series.

Computational design of antigens and self-assembling nanoparticle vaccines

Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, Event rooms 3A/3B 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

EPIC member Jean-Philippe Julien hosts Neil King (University of Washington) for a talk as part of the SickKids Research Institute Molecular Medicine Seminar Series. Following the talk, there will be a panel discussion on “Challenges and opportunities for malaria vaccine development: from design to preclinical models to clinical evaluation to global access”. Panelists who will join Neil […]

Harnessing antiviral responses to counter zoonotic viruses

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

EPIC member Samira Mubareka hosts Arinjay Banerjee (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization) as part of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Monday seminar series.

Pathogenomics workshop on infectious diseases and bioinformatics

The MaRs Centre 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

EPIC members Christina Guzzo and Michael Norris host Finlay Maguire (Dalhousie University) for a special two-part event: 9:30 - 10:30 am: Special seminar: Introduction to phylodynamics for viral zoonoses 10:30 - 11:30 am: Trainee workshop (applications of bioinformatics in infectious disease research with opportunities for networking and mentorship)

EPIC Trainee Seminars: Julien Couture-Senécal and Juliette Blais-Savoie

Medical Sciences Building, Room 3278 1 King’s College Circle, Room 3278, Toronto, ON, Canada

EPIC Trainee Seminars provide a safe and supportive trainee-only space for trainees to share their work and receive feedback from their peers and network. The speakers for this session are: Julien Couture-Senécal (supervised by Omar F. Khan): Design of lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery Juliette Blais-Savoie (supervised by Samira Mubareka and Nicole Mideo): Evolution of […]