EPIC Trainee Pizza Talks

CCBR Red Room

This seminar series, organized by EPIC’s Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC), is a safe and supportive trainee-only space for trainees to present and discuss their research with other students, postdocs, and RAs from various research fields. It is also an excellent opportunity for trainees to connect and interact with other trainees! The speakers for the December talks […]

Medicine by Design’s 9th Annual Symposium

MaRS Auditorium 101 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

Medicine by Design’s 9th Annual Symposium will bring together researchers from across the University of Toronto and affiliated hospitals, along with partners from industry, government, and international collaborators. The symposium includes talks by invited speakers sharing the impacts of their research and a poster session featuring the research of select trainees working on Medicine by […]

Single-cell to Tissue-scale Memory of Infection and Inflammation

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

EPIC faculty member, Tania Watts will be hosting Jose Ordovas-Montanes at Boston Children's Hospital for this Easton seminar talk organized by the Department of Immunology. Place: MSB 2170 Date and time: December 9th, 10 - 11 AM ET Visit event page for details.        

Soft Skills Training for Graduate Students: Building Your Online Presence and Personal Brand

This webinar will cover how graduate students doing research can leverage social media platforms to build a successful online presence, engage with a broad audience, and communicate their research responsibly and effectively. Topics include practical guidelines for building a personal brand, using social media effectively, and leveraging AI tools as well as best-practice examples and […]

Byte-Sized Biology: How Artificial Intelligence Decodes Human Health Bit-by-Bit

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Auditorium 55 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

This conference will take a deep dive into the innovative research conducted by world-renowned researchers on artificial intelligence and human health. It will shed light on the most recent developments in the fields of AI, machine learning and bioinformatics and explore their untapped potential for human health. The event includes a panel discussion between attendees […]

Transforming EDI from Commitment to Operations: Strategies for Sustainable Integration

In this virtual workshop, participants will understand and reconnect with the importance of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) within institutions and be given practical tools and resources to implement EDI. The session will be facilitated by Jodie Glean-Mitchell, executive director, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the University of Toronto Date: January 14th Time: 10:00 AM […]

Role of neutrophils in leptospirosis

MSB 7231

Offered by The Department of Immunology and hosted by Dana Philpott and Stephen Girardin, this is a special seminar featuring a talk by Catherine Werts at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Location: MSB 7231 Date and time: January 17th, 10:00 - 11:00 AM Visit the event page for more details.  

Developing microbiome-targeted therapeutics through community-based metabolic modelling

"The Pod" Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building 144 College Street W, Toronto, ON, Canada

PhD defense seminar for Irina Utkina, supervised by EPIC faculty member John Parkinson. Hosted by the Department of Molecular Genetics Location: “The Pod” in the Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building Date and time: January 20th, 10:00 AM  Visit event page for more details.  

Lunch Lectures: Topics and techniques in infectious disease research

MaRS Centre, Room 1522 101 C

Hosted by EPIC Trainee Advisory Committee, the Lunch Lectures is a seminar series aimed at building skills and knowledge to help trainees in their infectious disease research work. This is an exciting opportunity to hear from senior trainees about how ideas can be applied to your research over pizza lunch. The first lecture of the […]