EPIC Trainee Seminars: Duncan Carruthers-Lay and Grant Stevens

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: Duncan Carruthers-Lay (supervised by John Parkinson and Scott Gray-Owen): Population genomics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Juliette Blais-Savoie (supervised by John Parkinson): A high-throughput screen to elucidate the function […]

EPIC Trainee Seminars: Priyal Shah and Joseph Vincent De Fazio

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: Priyal Shah (supervised by Donald Branch): Inhibition of coronavirus infection with ABO antibodies Joseph Vincent De Fazio (supervised by Mario Ostrowski): Determining if viral rebound during […]

Networking skills and exploring careers outside academia

105 St. George Street 105 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Institute for Pandemics (IfP) invites University of Toronto graduate students for a special soft skills workshop to further develop their networking skills and meet representatives from non-academic organizations to learn about and discuss career options in their sectors. About the workshop Establishing genuine connections in both your personal and professional circles is a crucial asset during […]

EPIC Trainee Seminars: Angcy Xiao and Nafisa Mahbub

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

EPIC Trainee Seminars provide a no-PI space for trainees to practice presenting and to discuss their research with other students, post-docs and RAs from similar research fields. We will be providing refreshments following each seminar. The speakers for this session are: Angcy Xiao (supervised by Aaron Reinke): Phenotypes of wild C. elegans strains against microsporidia infection Nafisa […]

EPIC Trainee Seminars: Cynthia Guo and Eric Armstrong

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

This is the last trainee seminar of the year! EPIC Trainee Seminars provide a no-PI space for trainees to practice presenting and to discuss their research with other students, post-docs and RAs from similar research fields. We will be providing refreshments following each seminar. The speakers for this session are: Cynthia Guo (supervised by Scott Gray-Owen): Host-pathogen […]

Kickstart Your Entrepreneurial Journey: Connect, Ideate and Innovate

Sandford Fleming Building, Room 3202 10 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

Get ready to kickstart your entrepreneurial journey with networking, brainstorming, and creative problem-solving! Innovation Onboard (IOB) is at UofT, and we're thrilled to invite you to our exciting event. Hear from three dynamic entrepreneurial speakers, engage in an exciting ideation session, connect and network with like-minded innovators, and enjoy complimentary food and refreshments while sparking new ideas. EPIC is proud to sponsor this […]

Breaking Barriers: Infectious disease research across boundaries in global health

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

Calling all undergrads, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with an interest in infectious disease and global health research: EPIC is excited to host UofT alum Dr. Senjuti Saha for a engaging discussion with UofT trainees!! She'll share her perspective on research and public health in low- and middle-income countries informed by her work as a […]

Clinical health data and AI for responding to pandemics and other public health emergencies

Health Sciences Building 155 College St., Toronto, on, Canada

This presentation will cover how routinely generated healthcare data can be a critical element in responding to pandemics and other public health emergencies.  Dr. Razak will discuss the state of these repositories and what is required to make them more accessible and timelier.  He will also discuss artificial intelligence applications that harness this data and […]

EPIC Trainee Pizza Talks

CCBR Red Room

This seminar series, organized by EPIC’s Trainee Advisory Committee is a no-PI space for trainees to practice presenting and an opportunity to discuss their research with other students, post-docs and RAs that are across various research fields. It is an excellent opportunity for trainees to connect and interact with other trainees! We kick off the […]

Strategies for Writing Research Articles

Health Sciences Building 155 College St., Toronto, on, Canada

About the Workshop  Developing your ability to write clear, convincing research articles is an important part of your graduate experience. Exactly how to develop this ability, however, might feel anything but obvious. This workshop is designed to demystify your writing-development process by exploring the rhetorical logic of research articles, offering solutions to common problems associated […]