Learn about the latest medical breakthroughs by participating in webinars on topics surrounding disease, prevention and treatment in accordance with the latest research in health and medicine. Updates encompass a biological, psychological and sociological understanding of health.
Learning Objections: 1. To learn a new approach to understanding brain function by creating networks to perform tasks using machine learning. 2. To learn how how to probe these networks to d...
During my research career I have worked to further understanding of how intracellular organisation changes in response to the needs and environment of the living cell, focusing on the regula...
In this session, a review of the impact of COVID-19 on the Forensic Science Program at the University of Toronto will be explored. Challenges for both undergraduate and graduate education wi...
There is growing pressure to implement new generation sequencing platform in hospital emergency rooms. The utility would be obvious: identifying unknown pathogens form cerebrospinal fluid/pl...
Learning Objectives: 1. Review the basic principle of 3D microscopy. 2. Recognize the pathophysiology of Parkinson disease. 3. Demonstrate knowledge on how alpha-synuclein aggregates spread...
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the Analytical Quality by Design Principles 2. Learn about the benefits of using specialized software for rapid and robust method development....
Artificial neural networks can be useful for studying brain functions. In cognitive neuroscience, recurrent neural networks are often used to model cognitive functions. I will first offer my...
Cells in their natural environment are surrounded by a complex extracellular matrix that provides structure and functional cues to the surrounding cells. Hydrogels can be used to approximate...
Microtubules (MTs) are dynamic cytoskeleton polymers forming a polarized intracellular network that provides structural support, facilitates intracellular transport and drives chromosome seg...
Coastal Genomics and the Hamilton Company have teamed up to combine the NIMBUS 96 channel platform with Ranger Technology to automate high throughput agarose gel electrophoresis. The new NIM...
The field of gene therapy has enabled the treatment and potential cures for serious, monogenetic diseases. This form of advanced therapy relies on the delivery of the “correct” c...
Rapid, accurate, and wide-spread COVID-19 testing is essential for contact tracing, timely triaging of patients, and viral monitoring. The current gold standard for COVID-19 testing is RT-PC...
The treatment of cancer has remarkably improved because of increased knowledge of the molecular abnormalities that drive human cancer growth. This has led to the development of ever more eff...
Comprehensive genomic profiling of myeloid and, increasingly more, lymphoid malignancies is becoming an essential part of clinical diagnostics to improve diagnosis, assist therapeutic decisi...
Emerging viruses like SARS, SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, Hendra, Nipah, West Nile, sin nombre, LuJo, MERS, Powassan, dengue, chikungunya, zika, Ebola, and Marburg pose a growing threat to public he...
Primary resistance to CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CART19) occurs in 10% to 20% of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); however, the mechanisms of thi...
Experience the Revolution of DNA Polymerase Technology: Choosing the Best DNA Polymerase for Efficient PCR Workflows. PCR has revolutionized modern molecular biology, but its success would n...
Immune checkpoint blockade has revolutionized the treatment for patients with cancer. Great efforts remain to better understand resistant mechanisms to treatment as well as means to improve...
Rapid, accurate and frequent detection of the RNA of SARS-CoV-2 and of serological host antibodies to the virus would facilitate the determination of the immune status of individuals who hav...
Using high throughput next-generation sequencing to simultaneously search large number of genes for pathogenic mutations has numerous advantages. It decreases the pressure to narrow the dif...
Immunotherapy such as immune checkpoint inhibitor antibodies have revolutionized the treatments for hard-to-treat cancers, with durable responses observed in clinics. However, the overall re...
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Both diseases are characterized by abnormal aggregates in the brain, which incl...
Immune cell therapies hold tremendous potential in the treatment of cancer. Among immune cells, natural killer (NK) cells have a powerful innate ability to recognize and eliminate tumor cell...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cannabis production and consumption, ensuring the safety and quality of cannabis products is of paramount importance. Microbial contaminants pose potenti...