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, 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