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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
Join EPIC member Samira Mubareka as she co-hosts Chris Overall from the University of British Columbia for a special seminar.
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 […]
Darrell Desveaux, Canada Research Chair in Plant-Microbe Systems Biology and Professor at the University of Toronto, will be speaking as part of the Donnelly Seminar Series. To attend virtually, please register on the event website before 5:00 pm on Wednesday, November 8.
