The monthly EPIC Trainee Seminars return for the 2023-24 year! These trainee-only seminars provide a safe and supportive environment for trainees to share their work, receive feedback from their peers and network. To sign up to present at a future seminar, please complete this form. Speakers Ryan Chieu (John Parkinson's lab): Functional analysis of Neisseria […]
After the success of last year’s symposium on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), we are thrilled to partner with diagnostics industry leader bioMérieux Canada once again this year to present the second annual AMR symposium! The theme of this year’s event is Putting evidence into practice in the fight against AMR. We are also excited to work with AMMI Canada and the […]
Join Tatsuya Nobori from the Salk Institute for a talk as part of the Cell and Systems Biology Departmental Seminar series. A live stream of the seminar is available through the CSB website. Talk abstract: In multicellular organisms, individual cells interpret a multitude of developmental and environmental signals through unique gene regulatory mechanisms, leading to […]
Join BlueDot for a ground-breaking webinar where we delve deep into the dynamic landscape of mosquito-borne diseases, exploring the latest trends and impacts on a global scale. BlueDot's expert panel will unveil the abnormal activities observed in mosquito-borne diseases, shedding light on emerging pathogens and unprecedented outbreaks of dengue, malaria, and chikungunya infiltrating urban and […]
The Swine Health Information Center and American Association of Swine Veterinarians will be hosting a webinar on Streptococcus zooepidemicus with experts from both Canada and the USA. Speakers and topics: Clinical picture and descriptions of Canadian outbreaks: Frank Marshall, Marshall Swine and Poultry, Camrose, Alberta Laboratory submissions, directions to practitioners, and background: Matheus de Oliveira […]
The Institute for Pandemics invites University of Toronto graduate students for a special soft skills workshop to further develop their written communication skills. Writing about interdisciplinary research at the graduate level can be challenging, not least because such writing requires you to converse across subject and audience silos. This workshop will introduce strategies for increasing your […]
Sabra Klein (Johns Hopkins University) will present as part of Department of Immunology's Easton Seminar Series.
EPIC member Will Navarre hosts Robert Britton (Baylor College of Medicine) as part of the Department of Molecular Genetics seminar series. Advances in synthetic biology have given rise to opportunities to use bacteria to sense and respond to human disease. In this seminar, Britton will highlight two projects in his laboratory that use different platforms […]
Imogen Coe (Toronto Metropolitan University) will be speaking as part of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology's Monday seminar series. It is well established across a range of disciplines that more diverse research teams produce more impactful and higher-quality outputs. However, how to achieve inclusive excellence in research is not always obvious or easy, […]
EPIC member Nicole Weckman will be presenting her work on developing new CRISPR-based diagnostics for identification of multidrug resistant pathogens at Public Health Ontario's Microbiology Rounds. Register through the event website to get the virtual webinar information.
