The PhD Timeline
I recently celebrated my sixth year with the immunology department and it was a bittersweet anniversary. I have loved the experiences that graduate school has granted me, but I feel...
Basic Science: A Call to Arms
“Ladies and gentlemen, we invest in science and technology for two reasons: to create knowledge and to exploit that knowledge for social and economic gain. Unfortunately, all too often the...
MERS Coronavirus
A troubling new coronavirus is generating concern and drawing comparisons to the SARS outbreak of 2003. The MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is the causative agent of MERS, or Middle East Respiratory...
Opening the Doors to Pandemic Flu Research
In 2011, the United States government and the National Institutes of Health were alerted to manuscripts submitted by Kawaoka et al. and Fouchier et al. in Nature and Science, describing...
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...
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...
Translational Research on the Rise
In the last decade, the phrase “from bench to bedside” has become a common theme at research conferences and appropriately reflects the growing pressure for scientists to do translational research....
Navigating the Labyrinth of Lab Rotations
Twice a year in the Department of Immunology, newly minted graduate students are tasked with finding a thesis supervisor and lab where they will complete their research. Some students choose...
Closing the Gender Gap for Women in Science
When it comes to closing the gender gap, Canadian scientists have observed somewhat reasonable progress being undone by steps taken in the opposite direction. The last decade has seen signs...
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