The Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers exciting seminars featuring scientists from across Canada and around the world, with occasional seminars by our own faculty and members of other departments at U of T and surrounding hospitals/institutes. These seminars provide an opportunity for all to meet outstanding, world-renowned scientists. Seminar speakers also schedule additional time for informal discussions with faculty and students. Regular attendance at seminars is required of all graduate students.

Graduate Departmental Seminar Series Requirement

All graduate students are required to attend the departmental seminars each year:

  • Full-time students: a minimum of eight (8) departmental seminars per academic year
  • Part-time/Flex-time students: a minimum of four (4) departmental seminars per academic year.

Students may fulfill up to 50% of their annual quota at sanctioned external seminars.

2023-2024 Graduate Departmental Research Seminar Schedule

Seminar Type Date & Time Speaker Host Title LOCATION
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series Friday, September 1, 2023, 1:00pm Dr. Hans Lennernäs (Uppsala University, Sweden) Dr. Micheline Piquette-Miller Experience of translational academic cancer research from bench to patient, with focus on hepatocellular carcinoma Hybrid

PB850 & Zoom
PhD Public Seminar Series Thursday, September 7, 2023, 1:00pm
 
Elliya Park, PhD Candidate Dr. Shirley Wu Bioreactive Anti-Aβ Antibody Conjugated Manganese Dioxide-loaded Polymer-lipid Bioreactive Nanoparticles for Modifying Multiple Pathological Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease Zoom
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series Friday, September 15, 2023 Health Sciences Writing Centre: AI Text Generation & Graduate Writing Hosted by the Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences   PB-850 and via Zoom
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series MONDAY, September 18, 2023 Dr. Ayal Ben-Zvi, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hosted by Dr. Reina Bendayan New Imaging Approaches to Study Structure and Function of Atypical CNS Barriers PB-850 and via Zoom
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series Friday, September 22, 2023 Dr. Janet Smylie Hosted by PSEDI TBA PB-850 and via Zoom
PhD Public Seminar Series Friday, October 13, 2023, 10:00am Tin Yo (Charles) Yen, PhD Candidate Dr. Shirley Wu Terpolymer-Lipid Hybrid MnO2 Nanoparticles as Theragnostic Agents for Improving Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Solid Tumors and Image-Guided Radiation Therapy Against Glioblastoma Multiforme Zoom
PhD Public Seminar Series Friday, October 13, 2023, 2:00pm Milena Kosic, PhD Candidate Dr. Stephane Angers Genome-wide Identification of Genes Required for Sonic Hedgehog-dependent Ventral Forebrain Neural Progenitor Specification Hybrid

PB-255 & Zoom
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series Friday, October 20, 2023 More information coming soon! Hosted by Dr. Mina Tadrous    
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series Friday, November 10, 2023 More information coming soon! Hosted by Dr. Rob Bonin    

Seminar Coordinator

Dr. Carolyn Cummins

E-mail:carolyn.cummins@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 946-3466

Booking Information

Graduate Program Assistant

Email: phm.grad@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-8896