Engineered microbes for the diagnosis and treatment of disease

Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 254 (MC)

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 […]

Embedding EDI principles into biomedical and health research: who, what, where, when and why

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

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, […]

CRISPR diagnostics for tackling antimicrobial resistance

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.

Unlocking the potential of wastewater data in infectious disease surveillance

In the wake of a staggering winter where nearly 40%1 of U.S. households were confronted with either COVID-19, influenza, or RSV, the importance of early detection and robust monitoring systems cannot be overstated. Join BlueDot for an illuminating exploration into the potential of wastewater data in infectious disease surveillance. Discover how wastewater, when integrated with other […]

Careers in Industry Workshop

Medical Science Building, Room 4171 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

Are you a trainee doing infectious disease-related research who is interested in a career in industry? Do you want to learn more about different microbiology- and infectious disease-related industry roles? This workshop is for you! Come hear from and network with five industry professionals who have leveraged their graduate experience in infectious diseases into successful […]

Emerging lessons from health systems policies and reforms during COVID-19

Join the Institute for Pandemics, the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and Health Reform Observer for a webinar to launch the “Special Issue: COVID-19 Pandemic Policies and Systems Reforms.” As health systems and societies worldwide continue to deal with COVID-19 while also planning for recovery and rebuilding, there is much to be learned from the rapid […]

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI): A scientific update on a clear and present danger

Continental and intercontinental waves of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) in wild birds and domestic poultry have been punctuated by viral reassortment and spillover into mammalians. This global change in HPAI epidemiology has been associated with a hemagglutinin (HA) sub-clade, 2.3.4.4b. Recent evidence of increasing mammalian infections, and evidence of transmission among mammals (Agüero […]