| Jan. 23, 2025 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | AI in Drug Development & Delivery | Sriya Sanyal, BD | 36 |
| Nov. 27, 2024 | Data Management Workshop | Depositing Research Data in UofT Dataverse (Borealis) | Jasmine Lefresne, U. Toronto | 17 |
| Oct. 10, 2024 | Technoeconomic Assessment In Practice | Seminar followed by an interactive session where we apply the learnings to main bioprocesses being researched at BioZone and/or external examples. | Matyas Kosa, West Fraser | 31 |
| Sep. 19, 2024 | Science Communication Workshop | Master communication skills to learn how to engage with any audience through hands-on exercises and science communication models. Effective science communication bridges the gap between scientific research and the public and ensures that complex scientific concepts are made accessible, understandable and relevant to all communities. | Roberto Verdecchia, UTSC and Filmmaker | 37 |
| Sep. 12, 2024 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Systems Mapping: Seeing The Forest As Well As The Trees | Emily Moore (U. Toronto Troost ILead) | 30 |
| July 31 & August 7, 2024 | Data Visualization With Python Workshop | Session 1: Introduction to data visualization and Python refresher; Session 2: Practical application of Bokeh library (and bring own data) | Nikolaos Anesiadis, RBC & U. Toronto | 27 |
| Jul. 9, 2024 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Multiple Micronutrient Fortification of Foods – An Update | Marthi Venkatesh-Mannar, CGEN (U. Toronto) | 37 |
| Jul. 4, 2024 | Open Science Town Hall | Debunking common myths about open science. Q&A with a panel of experts who practice open science daily. | Aled Edwards and Rachel Harding, U. Toronto & SGC; Elizabeth Edwards and Emma Master, U. Toronto | 39 |
| Feb. 6, 2024 | System Mapping the Ontario Bioeconomy Workshop | Why do researchers have a hard time scaling up and proving out their discoveries? How do policy priorities and public perceptions interact to create market pulls for certain bioproducts? What are the major beliefs holding people back from adopting bio-products at large? And how do they influence our funding? We will explore and tackle these questions using system mapping approach. | Khadija Rana, U. Toronto | 27 |
| Dec. 5, 2023 | Troost ILead Workshop: Exploring Your Leadership Style & Working Effectively with Others | Embrace a personally and professionally meaningful leadership identity; Practice self-reflection as it relates to personal growth; Use a variety of tools and approaches to foster positive relationships; Leverage team members' strengths and differences; Apply frameworks and tools to navigate conflict skillfully | Jennifer Galley, U. Toronto | 31 |
| Nov. 15, 2023 | Open Science Workshop | Data Deposit and Sharing | Jasmine Lefresne and Dylanne Dearborn, U. Toronto | 26 |
| Nov. 1, 2023 | Open Science Workshop | Introduction to Research Data Management | Jasmine Lefresne and Dylanne Dearborn, U. Toronto | 34 |
| Oct. 17, 2023 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Connections, Intersections, Innovation | David Major, Geosyntec / Savron | 39 |
| Aug. 28-30, 2023 | Machine Learning Bootcamp | This workshop will cover machine learning basics (Day 1); application of machine learning technologies to bioscience (Day 2); and deep learning (Day 3). | Alexander Olson, U. Toronto | 37 |
| Aug. 21, 23, 25, 2023 | Processing & Analysis of Next Generation (Amplicon) Sequencing Data Workshop | Basic principles of amplicon sequencing and installation of QIIME 2 software. Running QIIME 2, a bioinformatics platform for processing amplicon sequencing data. Interpreting and visualizing QIIME 2 results, plus overviews of some useful sequence analysis tools/techniques. | Courtney Toth, U. Toronto | 16 |
| July 12 & 13, 2023 | Data Visualization Workshop: Theory, Best Practices and R | Session 1: Introduction to Data Visualization (Theory and Best Practices); Session 2: Hands-on Data Visualization with R and ggplot2 | Nikolaos Anesiadis, RBC & U. Toronto and Nadia Muhe, U. Toronto | 30 |
| May. 25, 2023 | Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop | Basic concepts of LCA for a product will be explained through the estimation of the environmental footprint from the different stages of a product’s life cycle including extraction, production, transportation, and use. Hands-on experience with the GREET life cycle analysis model used for fuels and energy systems. Participants will learn the basics of the GREET model to estimate the carbon intensity (a measure of GHG emissions per unit of fuel produced) of various fossil and biofuel pathways. The impact of changes in various production parameters on the carbon intensity of a fuel pathway will be explored. Finally, the role of carbon intensities in complying with low carbon fuel standards/regulations to mitigate climate change will be discussed. | Anjana Meel, Guidehouse | 41 |
| May. 16, 2023 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | AI and Biotechnology: Exploring Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions | Krishna Mahadevan, Thu Vuong, and Courtney Toth, U. Toronto | 58 |
| Jul. 28, 2022 | Finding the Point: Effective Oral Communication in Research | Overview of how to create high impact presentations, complete with best practices on audience analysis, persuasive techniques, and visual aids within a scientific context. | Mason Subotich, TMU & U. Toronto | 22 |
| Jun. 17, 2022 | Visual Communication Workshop | Overview of visual design concepts and techniques alongside Adobe Illustrator and Gravit Designer (open source alternative) tutorials to demonstrate their usefulness in a science communications context. | Mason Subotich, TMU & U. Toronto | 25 |
| Jun. 14, 16, 21, 23, 2022 | Bioinformatic Analysis Workshop Series | Overview of the tools and techniques used in the bioinformatic analysis of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing data. | Courtney Toth, U. Toronto, and Camilla Nesbø, U. Alberta | 30 |
| Apr. 27 & 29, 2022 | Design of Experiments Workshop | Overview of DoE that combines basic theory with hands-on sessions with JMP software using examples relevant to chemical and biological engineering research. | Jens Kastenhofer, U. Toronto, and Kevin Potcner, JMP | 45 |
| Mar. 31, 2022 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Microbes Are The Same But Different: Incorporating Microbial Ecophysiology Into Environmental Bioprocess Engineering | Ryan Ziels, UBC | 35 |
| Mar. 8, 2022 | EDI and Leadership Training Part II: Taking Action with Liberatory Design | Building upon Part I, use liberatory design to apply EDI to your context as a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, and researcher. Develop an equity-based process and leadership habits to address an equity opportunity or challenge. | Teresa Didiano and Albert Huynh, Troost ILead | 11 |
| Mar. 1, 2022 | EDI and Leadership Training Part I: Equity and Leadership | Explore your role as an engineering changemaker. Using frameworks, models, and personal reflection, examine the intersection of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and leadership. Reflect on your identify and social location, and use this knowledge to explore the concept of inclusive leadership. | Teresa Didiano and Albert Huynh, Troost Ilead | 23 |
| Feb. 24, 2022 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | From Foods to Function: Research at the Food-Nutrition Interface | Amanda Wright, U. Guelph | 41 |
| Nov. 25, 2021 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Science Communication for Fun and Profit | Tyler Irving, U. Toronto | 28 |
| Nov. 24 & 26, 2021 | Data Visualization with Python Workshop | Introduction to Python for data analysis and visualization in research. Learn about reproducibility and data integrity in data science followed by a code along to build understanding of some of the core packages for analyzing data in Python with NumPy, pandas and Biopython. Introduction to statistics for data analysis in Python including linear and non-linear regression followed by visualizing data in Python with matplotlib and seaborn followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. | Margot Lautens, U. Toronto | 35 |
| Oct. 28, 2021 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Extracellular Production of Recombinant Proteins with E. coli | Jens Kastenhofer, U. Toronto | 39 |
| Sep. 30, 2021 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Bio-plastics and Bio-textiles from Bacterial Protein Fibers | Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne, McGill U. | 59 |
| Aug. 27, 2021 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Open Plastic: Accelerating a Circular Plastics Economy Through Open Science (Keynote) | Laurence Yang, Queen’s | 47 |
| Aug. 27, 2021 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Metrics and Motivations in Open Science: How Evaluation In Science Must Change | Ian Harbell, U. Toronto | 47 |
| Aug. 27, 2021 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Open Science Agreements | Ellen An, U. Toronto | 47 |
| Aug. 27, 2021 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Industry Perceptions of Open Science in University-Industry Collaborations | Alison Yu, U. Toronto | 47 |
| Aug. 26, 2021 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | What Can Wastewater Data Tell Us About Covid-19? | Syeda Tasneem Towhid, U. Ottawa | 40 |
| Jul. 29, 2021 | BioZone BITS: Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series | Exploring Tradeoffs in the Use of Biomass for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation | Daniel Posen, U. Toronto | 50 |
| Apr. 21, 2021 | Troost ILead Workshop: Online Networking | Learn the fundamentals of networking as well as strategies for networking online. Introduction to the idea of personal value proposition in networking scenarios and how to craft one based on self-reflective practices. Through a group activity, participants will engage in a networking experience to practice relationship building and understand the role of purpose in networking. | Albert Huynh, Troost ILead | 6 |
| Apr. 15, 2021 | Troost ILead Workshop: Discovering Your Leadership Style | Learn about the strengths of leadership style and how it guides decision making, communication strategies, and conflict management. Through an interactive activity, participants will explore how their style influences their work in teams. | Albert Huynh, Troost ILead | 8 |
| Dec. 11, 2020 | Data Visualization with Tableau | Explore a data visualization workflow model to introduce participants to best practices and guidelines for designing effective visualizations and evaluating visualizations. Learn to create a variety of visualizations such as a line graph of profits over time by product category, a box plot of iris petal widths by species, and a stacked bar graph of word frequencies in Romeo and Juliet using Tableau Desktop. | Kelly Schultz, U. Toronto | 37 |
| Nov. 6, 2020 | EDI Workshop: Dripping Tap Effect | Explore the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion concept of dripping tap. | Albert Huynh and Annie Simpson, Troost ILead | 44 |
| Aug. 28, 2020 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Motivations and Metrics Behind Open Science | Kirsten Hart, U. Toronto | 32 |
| Aug. 28, 2020 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Perceptions of Open Science | Sung An, U. Toronto | 32 |
| Aug. 28, 2020 | Open Science Summer Student Presentations | Supporting the Translation of BioZone Technologies to Practice | Liwah Keller, U. Toronto | 32 |
| May. 21, 2020 | Seminar and Panel Discussion: “Tech Transfer, Starting Your Own Company and Open Science” | Explore different models for tech transfer and IP in research; history of Affinium Pharmaceuticals and other startups; funding options for new ventures; and the role and value of open science in public-private partnerships and collaborations. | Aled Edwards, U. Toronto & SGC (Keynote), and Max Morgan, SGC | 42 |
| Jan. 21, 2020 | Open Science Workshop: Open Publishing and Data Sharing | Accelerate the rate of innovation through promotion of Open Science principles. Broadening access to scientific publications and data is at the heart of open science. Connect with open science experts and leaders to learn about open publishing, FAIR principles, Creative Commons, open science policies in government and open laboratory notebooks. | Emma Master, Elizabeth Edwards, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Hannes Roest, and Mandeep Mann, U. Toronto; Masha Cemma, Office of Canada's Chief Science Advisor; Demitra Ellina, F1000; Gryph Theriault-Loubier, Creative Commons | 64 |
| Nov. 12, 2019 | Techno-Economic Analysis Primer Workshop | With a focus on biotechnology applications, the workshop covers process design fundamentals; lab data for TEA and scale-up; economic analysis tools for talking to industry; estimating product price and feedstock costs; Cap-Ex, Op-Ex and project financing; and technology commercialization. | Allison Simmonds, Savant; Sabina Di Riso and Jason D'Souza, EcoSynthetix; Matyas Kosa, FAB; Sheena Holt, IGPC; Paul Bisho, Canfor Pulp | 81 |
