Flu vaccines are routinely administered to build immunity against seasonal variants. What are the effects of repeated vaccinations? To find out, join us for a seminar co-hosted by the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium and the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, where Ben Cowling will present the findings from a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial about […]
EPIC member Samira Mubareka will co-host a webinar organized by the Canadian Association for HIV Research. Attendees can expect to learn about the latest scientific findings on the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus strain currently affecting dairy cattle and its ability to adapt to mammals, and understand the risks of potential human infections and […]
The annual University of Toronto Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Days returns on May 26th and 27th, 2025. Join us for a day of trainee talks on May 26 and an invited keynote talk, spotlight talks and poster sessions on May 27. You can also view the abstract booklet here. You can now view […]
The University of Toronto One Health Team invites you for a day of talks, panel discussions and brainstorming groups to contribute to the vision for the newly formed U of T One Health Consortium! The event features invited speaker, Arinjay Banerjee, at the University of Saskatchewan. All researchers and trainees interested in One Health approaches are encouraged […]
In this in-person seminar organized by the Institute for Pandemics, Daniel Barnett, professor of environmental health and engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will present his research on how health agencies leverage social media for public health emergency risk messaging and its implications for the interface between social media and public health […]
Kevin C. Kain, Canada Research Chair, professor of medicine at U of T, director of Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health and science director at the Tropical Disease Unit, UHN- Toronto General Hospital will deliver a keynote lecture at the Global Leadership Series (GLS), hosted by the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health. His presentation […]
The Network Biology Collaborative Centre at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute/ Sinai Health and Olink Proteomics are hosting a one-day, in-person symposium featuring experts in proteomics and multiomics from academia and industry. Attendees can explore how affinity-based proteomics is driving breakthroughs in precision medicine and gain experience working with high-quality proteomics data in the afternoon workshop. […]
Hosted by the new UHN Collaborative Centre for Immunology to Immunotherapy (Ci2i), the event will bring together experts across disciplines to accelerate innovation in immunotherapy. The scope of the program includes: Cell and gene therapies Microbiome and disease Immune therapies and therapies for inflammatory diseases Immunogenomics, science and profiling Attendance is free to UHN and […]
Galit Alter will be presenting at this special seminar organized by UHN and hosted by Bradly Wouters. She will present her pioneering work on developing systems serology, a technology that has revolutionized our understanding of the immune system's response to infectious diseases. **Dr. Alter's bio** Dr. Alter is an immunologist, microbiologist, and professor of medicine […]
The Network Biology Collaborative Centre (NBCC) at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and PacBio are hosting a Learn & Lunch mini-symposium to explore how full-length RNA sequencing can improve biological understanding at both the single-cell and spatial levels. EPIC member and director of operations at NBCC, Karen Colwill, will deliver the opening remarks. Program agenda: 10:00 […]