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 […]
EPIC member Alex Ensminger will host the PhD public seminar for his PhD student Jordan Lin.
EPIC member Peter Roy will host the PhD public seminar for his PhD student Jessica Knox.
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 […]
EPIC member Jen Gommerman hosts fellow EPIC member Aereas Aung as part of the Department of Immunology’s Easton Seminar Series.
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research hosts an all-Indigenous panel of medical, graduate and undergraduate students and researchers from across Ontario. Panelists will provide insights on how they navigated their academic path, their future plans, and discuss how institutions can encourage Indigenous students towards their career goals. The panelists are: Kristine Keon, M.Sc., Medical student, […]
EPIC member Jean-Philippe Julien hosts Neil King (University of Washington) for a talk as part of the SickKids Research Institute Molecular Medicine Seminar Series. Following the talk, there will be a panel discussion on “Challenges and opportunities for malaria vaccine development: from design to preclinical models to clinical evaluation to global access”. Panelists who will join Neil […]
EPIC member Samira Mubareka hosts Arinjay Banerjee (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization) as part of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Monday seminar series.
EPIC members Christina Guzzo and Michael Norris host Finlay Maguire (Dalhousie University) for a special two-part event: 9:30 - 10:30 am: Special seminar: Introduction to phylodynamics for viral zoonoses 10:30 - 11:30 am: Trainee workshop (applications of bioinformatics in infectious disease research with opportunities for networking and mentorship)
EPIC Trainee Seminars provide a safe and supportive trainee-only space for trainees to share their work and receive feedback from their peers and network. The speakers for this session are: Julien Couture-Senécal (supervised by Omar F. Khan): Design of lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery Juliette Blais-Savoie (supervised by Samira Mubareka and Nicole Mideo): Evolution of […]
