EPIC Future Leaders Prize for Dr Jonathan Burnie’s virology research

Dr Jonathan Burnie has earned the EPIC Future Leaders Prize from the Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium. Dr Burnie is a graduate from the Guzzo lab who was selected as one of four outstanding PhD graduates who defended their infectious disease-related thesis in 2023. Burnie's research…

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Congratulations to CSB’s Graduate Student Award Recipients!

Congratulations to our Graduate Students who earned recognition for their accomplishments at our Graduate Student Awards on December 19th, 2022! Valerie Anderson Graduate Fellowship Awarded for academic merit to an outstanding student in any subdiscipline of plant biology. Recipient: Saad Hussain…

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Guzzo lab assesses UV technology to inactivate HIV-1 and hCoV-229E

Prof Christina Guzzo's lab has published a study in Virology Journal looking at UV treatment to inactivate Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the seasonal human coronavirus 229E. Her students Arvin Persaud and Jonathan Burnie published their results as "A UV-LED module that is highly effective at…

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Prof Christina Guzzo guides trainees by following model traits of multiple mentors

Prof Christina Guzzo studies HIV infection in her lab at UTSC and shared with us how she mentors CSB grad students and undergraduates based on the best traits of those who trained her. Guzzo excelled at sports as a youth and was curious about the way bodies worked and how they stayed healthy, so…

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