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 |
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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, November 3, 2023, 11:00am | Dr. Yufeng Zhao, Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy | Hosted by Dr. Carolyn Cummins | Genetically encoded biosensors for visualization of cell activity | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar Series | Friday, November 10, 2023 | Dr. Gareth Lim, Canada Research Chair in Adipocyte Development, Université de Montréal | Hosted by Dr. Rob Bonin | Is 14-3-3 the right combination to unlock the potential of targeting adipocytes to treat obesity? |
PB-850 |
PhD Public Seminar Series | Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 9:00am | Nabeel Tariq, PhD Candidate | Dr. Rob Macgregor | Investigations on the Effects of Co-solvents and Hydrostatic Pressure on the Thermal Stability of Guanine-quadruplex DNA | Zoom |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, December 8, 2023 | Dr. Janet Smylie | Hosted by PSEDI and Dr. Jaris Swidrovich | more information coming soon! | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, December 15, 2023, 11:00am | Dr. Giannina Descalzi, University of Guelph | Hosted by Dr. Rob Bonin | Investigating the role of astrocyte-neuronal metabolic coupling in the development of chronic pain | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, January 12, 2024 | Dr. Albert Li | Hosted by Dr. Sandy Pang |
Human Hepatocyte Technologies for the Evaluation of Human Drug Properties: Metabolism, DDI, Drug Induced Liver Injuries, Gene Therapy |
PB-850 |
PhD Public Seminar Series | Thursday, January 18, 2024, 11:00am | Abdulmottaleb Zetrini, PhD Candidate | Dr. Shirley Wu | Tumor Microenvironment Modulating Nanoparticles To Overcome Radiation Resistance Mechanisms And Enhance The Response Of Breast And Prostate Cancers To Radiation | Zoom |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 12:30pm | Dr. Roger W. Howell | Dr. Raymond Reilly | AI Tools to Formulate Optimized Radiopharmaceutical Cocktails for Therapy | PB-255 |
PhD Public Seminar Series | Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | Valerie Facca, PhD Candidate | Dr. Raymond Reilly | EGFR and HER2-targeted radioimmunoconjugates for theranostic molecular imaging and Auger electron radioimmunotherapy of breast cancer | TBA |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, March 15, 2024 | Dr. Richard Finnell | Dr. Reina Bendayan | The Biology of Neural Tube Defects: From Prevention Efforts to Stem Cell Therapeutics | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Thursday, March 21, 2024, 3:00pm | Dr. Jason Sprowl | Dr. Micheline Piquette-Miller | Regulation of Drug Toxicity Through Manipulation of Solute Carrier Activity | PB-450 |
PhD Public Seminar Series | Friday, March 22, 2024, 11:00am | Wanying Dai, PhD Candidate | Dr. Micheline Piquette-Miller | Disease-Associated Alterations of Placental Transporters | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, April 12, 2024 | TBA | Dr. Paul Grootendorst | More information coming soon! | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, April 19. 2024 | Dr. Alejandro Sosnik | Dr. Reina Bendayan | Advanced nanomaterials for the sonodynamic therapy of solid tumors: Challenges and Opportunities | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, April 26, 2024 | Dr. Ronald Siegel |
Dr. Ping Lee & Dr. Shirley Wu |
Adventures in Solid State Stabilization and Supersaturation | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar |
TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 11:00am |
TBA | Dr. Mina Tadrous | More information coming soon! | PB-850 |
Graduate Departmental Seminar | Friday, May 31, 2024 | TBA | Dr. Tigran Chalikian | More information coming soon! |
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