First annual EPIC Symposium

Old Mill Toronto 21 Old Mill Road, Toronto, ON, Canada

We are excited to announce that the first annual Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium symposium will take place on October 17, 2023 at the Old Mill Toronto! Please join us for a day of research, networking and community-building. The symposium is free to attend for anyone who is affiliated with one of EPIC’s partner institutes (the Hospital for Sick Children, […]

Is it possible to ventilate and stop a future COVID-like pandemic?

155 College Street Toronto, ON M5T 3M7 155 College Street, Toronto, ON

The Institute for Pandemics is collaborating with the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering to host a lecture by Professor Yuguo Li from the University of Hong Kong for the CivMin Distinguished Lecture Series. Although airborne route for SARS-CoV-2 was recognized in early 2021, more than a year into the pandemic, we would have expected that the transmission chains […]

B cell responses to vaccination: Lessons from the pandemic

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

EPIC member Tania Watts host Ali Ellebedy (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) as part of the Department of Immunology's Charles Gould Easton Seminar Series.

HIV assembly, maturation and drug resistance

Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 254 (MC)

EPIC member Alan Cochrane hosts Eric Freed (Centre for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health) as part of the Department of Molecular Genetics Seminar Series.

Humoral signatures of protection across diverse pathogens

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

Galit Alter, vice-president of immunology research at Moderna and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will be giving a talk as part of the Department of Immunology's Easton Seminar Series.

EPIC Trainee Seminars

Room 1085, Sidney Smith Hall

The monthly EPIC Trainee Seminars return for the 2023-24 year! These trainee-only seminars provide a safe and supportive environment for trainees to share their work, receive feedback from their peers and network. To sign up to present at a future seminar, please complete this form. Speakers Ryan Chieu (John Parkinson's lab): Functional analysis of Neisseria […]

Strategies for effective written communications for different audiences

Health Science Building, Room 574 155 Co

The Institute for Pandemics invites University of Toronto graduate students for a special soft skills workshop to further develop their written communication skills. Writing about interdisciplinary research at the graduate level can be challenging, not least because such writing requires you to converse across subject and audience silos. This workshop will introduce strategies for increasing your […]