The Many Roads to Productivity
It’s Wednesday night. I’ve brought home a stack of papers to read, data from the day’s experiments to analyze, and an unfinished award application that is due Friday. Prioritizing my...
Summer 2013 Front Cover
[caption id="attachment_689" align="aligncenter" width="600"] IMMpress Summer 2013 front cover.The increasing frequency of graduates entering non-academic and non-traditional careers emphasizes the need for adaptability and a diverse skillset in the workforce....
The Ultimate Experiment: A Young Scientist’s View on Pregnancy
After years of conducting experiments in the lab, I decided to embark on perhaps the most exciting and challenging experiment in my scientific career: pregnancy. I was always under the...
The Ride to Conquer Cancer
[caption id="attachment_676" align="alignright" width="300"] Joshua Moreau[/caption] On June 8 and 9, 2013 a few familiar faces from the Immunology department participated in the 6th Annual Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer...
Moving to Medicine
[caption id="attachment_672" align="alignright" width="300"] Blerta Green, MScDr. Alberto Martin lab, 2009-2011.[/caption] Graduate school opens doors. For me, it led to medical school. I am currently starting my third year at...
Space: An Immunological Frontier
Would you sign up for a one-way trip to colonize Mars? For infamy and certain damnation? Or perhaps you are driven by an altruistic desire to colonize the desolate Red...
Looking Back Moving Forward
[caption id="attachment_662" align="alignright" width="300"] Magar Ghazarian, Dr. Pamela Ohashi lab.Magar graduated with an HBSc in Immunology and Human Biology this year at the University of Toronto. He will continue his...
The Disappearing Specialist
[caption id="attachment_657" align="alignright" width="300"] Rui Hu, Dr. Alberto Martin lab.Photo credit: Mayra Cruz Tleugabulova.[/caption] In the tutorial two days before the introductory immunology midterm, there are just over 200 students...
Memory T cell Comic
[caption id="attachment_646" align="aligncenter" width="800"] by Oscar Aguilar[/caption]
Tracking Cells
Over the past few decades, many ways of tracking cells have emerged. From early simple experiments to the increasingly powerful and complex studies of late, this article provides a general...