Staying Connected: GPD Networking Event 2016
On Thursday, April 7th, the Department of Immunology’s Graduate Professional Development course hosted its annual Networking Event. University of Toronto alumni from all over North America came to Toronto to...
Canadian Society for Immunology 2016
This past April, immunologists from across Canada gathered with fervour at the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) in Ottawa to discuss frontiers in the field....
The Secret Lives of Immunologists
[caption id="attachment_2312" align="aligncenter" width="1275"] Artwork from graduate students in the Department of Immunology.[/caption]
Sciencefreude: New German Words for the Academic Condition
The German language has the uncanny ability to form elaborate new words by simply compounding several words into one. Often the new word personifies a formerly inexpressible feeling or event....
PowerPoint in Education
One thing I hear frequently in graduate school is that science is a form of art; it requires creativity. If this is true, are students being actively encouraged to develop...
The 12 Years of Grad School
[caption id="attachment_1997" align="aligncenter" width="1275"] Written by Kieran Manion & Catherine Schrankel. Designed by Kieran Manion. [/caption]
Research Highlights: A Selection from the Scientific Fiction Literature
Science Editorials on Televised Immunology is pleased to present this special edition of Research Highlights in conjunction with the Science and Nature Television Association. In this issue, we address evolutionary...
“Ay-pop-toh-sis”
When I was still an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia, I attended a Department of Microbiology & Immunology seminar on the mechanisms of cell death. The speaker insisted that...
