Dr. Gary Kobinger: Developing Vaccines for Pandemics – Contrasting the Ebola and COVID-19 experience | La mise au point de vaccins pour lutter contre les pandémies : comparaison de l’expérience vécue avec le virus Ebola et le coronavirus

The current efforts to develop safe and protective vaccines against COVID-19 are unprecedented both in terms of speed and amount of data collected and shared. In response to COVID-19, the world could see the first vaccine to ever be licensed in a time period that may be only one year or so from the time of detection of the target pathogen. This presentation will highlight opportunities and challenges in therapeutic and vaccine research in Canada in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Free

Dr. Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Better Anthropocene | Graines d’un anthropocène prometteur

Creating a sustainable and just future will require a major shift in how humans live in, and interact with, the Earth system. But how this shift will take place and the pathways it will follow, remain vague. In this seminar, Dr. Elena Bennett will discuss efforts to develop a suite of alternative, plausible visions of futures that are socially and ecologically desirable by identifying elements of a Good Anthropocene that already exist and will show how the science of ecosystem services can be used to assess them. Registration Now Open!

Free

Dr. Alexandre Blais: Quantum Computing | l’informatique quantique

The global race towards quantum technologies: Canada's contributions and imminent opportunities Click here to view the presentation. || Cliquez ici pour voir la présentation. Dr. Alexandre Blais, l'Université de Sherbrooke Despite its […]

Dr. Jackie Dawson – Through the Melting Ice: Ship Traffic in Canada’s Arctic | À travers la fonte des glaces: le trafic maritime dans l’Arctique canadien

Sir John A. Macdonald (SJAM) Building – Room 100 144 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Our flagship Bacon and Eggheads breakfast series returns for the 2025–2026 parliamentary season, thanks to the generous support of the Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate. We are delighted […]

$25