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, […]

Research rounds for graduate students: Pandemic research from different disciplines

Microsoft Teams

The Institute for Pandemics (IfP) invites University of Toronto graduate students to learn about pandemic research in different disciplines at the research rounds for graduate students webinar. Two IfP members will give presentations that describe the research involved in their recently awarded IfP catalyst grants. Dionne Aleman, an associate professor in the department of mechanical […]

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.

Multipronged approaches to pandemic prevention

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

The Molecular Medicine Seminar Series at the Hospital for Sick Children will be hosting Matthew Miller, director of the M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University. He is also an associate professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences. Miller's expertise is primarily in the area of viral immunology, most notably vaccines and therapeutics […]

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.

Journey of an early career scientist

Red Seminar Room, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Dominic Amuzu will share his career journey using his experiences in human genetics and malaria as foundation. He will describe his scientific pursuits (i.e sequencing the SARS-CoV-2 , uncovering host-pathogen receptor diversity in malaria & more). In addition to his scientific passions, he will also share with us his experiences as a research mentor, his […]