Office of Research Trainees
The ORT is focused on timely and rapid communications, sharing helpful content including career development workshops, research training opportunities within and outside of UHN, and trainee and alumni spotlights. The ORT shares this content with the UHN community and other research communities through weekly email updates and on social media (connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn). View past email updates below!
If you have an event or opportunity that you would like to share in our updates, please email ort.admin@uhnresearch.ca.
In February 2021, the ORT launched the final edition of the ORT Times. The ORT Times is a monthly e-newsletter focused on UHN trainees featuring news and editorials about trainee life, articles to help developing researchers get the most out of their training experience at UHN, and tips on career development. The content of The ORT Times was written primarily by the ORT coordinator and the Science Writer – who was a trainee writing part-time for the ORT, giving them valuable science writing experience. The ORT also accepted editorials, tutorials and other content written by UHN trainees.
Since our inaugural edition of the ORT Times in November 2011, the ORT Times has served as a monthly email e-newsletter for UHN trainees and the research community as a whole. View past issues of the ORT Times below.
We are grateful to all of the science writers and trainees who contributed to the ORT Times over the years!
Welcome to the November 30, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the November 23, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the November 16, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the November 9, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the November 2, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the October 26, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the October 19, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the October 13, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the October 5, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the September 28, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the September 21, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the Sept 14, 2021 ORT Updates!
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Welcome to the 2020 December Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 November Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 October Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 September Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 August Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 July Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 June Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 May Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 April Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 March Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 February Edition of the ORT Times!
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Welcome to the 2020 January Edition of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the 2019 December Edition of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the 2019 October Edition of the ORT Times!
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read moreWelcome to the 2019 June Edition of the ORT Times!
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read moreWelcome to the 2018 December Edition of the ORT Times!
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read moreWelcome to the 2018 June Edition of the ORT Times! Have a happy summer everyone. Our next edition will be launched in September 2018!
read moreWelcome to the 2018 May Edition of the ORT Times!
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read moreWelcome to the 2017 Holiday Edition of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the October 2017 Issue of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the September 2017 Issue of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the Summer Lite 2017 Issue of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the March 2017 Issue of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the February 2017 Issue of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the January 2017 Issue of the ORT Times!
read moreWelcome to the December 2016 Issue of the ORT Times!
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read moreFeature Story: Deadline approaching for the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Conference Reports: Read conference reports from Evelyne, Mayilee, Alex, Halina and Melanie!
read moreConference Reports: Read conference reports from Swati, Victor, Samah and Autumn!
read moreEditorial: Writing for the Masses: The Fine Art of Science Journalism
Short Story: Utilizing the Circadian Rhythm to Maximize Health
Latest & Greatest: After breast cancer, the arm still remembers
Editorial: Accomplishment Bliss
Latest & Greatest: Measuring the Nature of Rewards, One Neuron at a Time
Editorial: Duly Noted: The Makings of an Inspired Lab Book
Insider: Get to Know Ashwini Namasivayam, TRI PhD Candidate
Latest & Greatest: Calming the Brain to Treat OCD
Editorial: UHN Surgeon Resolute About Progress of Nanomedicines
Insider: Get to Know Samantha Fernandes, PM MSc Student
Latest & Greatest: Making Medical Testing Less Noisy
Editorial: The ‘Social’ Scientist
Latest & Greatest: Preserving Neurons After Spinal Cord Injury
Insider: Trainee of the Month – Vicki Komisar, PhD Candidate
Latest & Greatest: Peramivir, the Flu Fighter
Insider: Trainee of the Month – Lauren Agro, PhD Candidate
Latest & Greatest: Low EAT-2 causes to DCs to release a cytokine feast
Editorial: Blood Thirst Could Prove Fatal… for Mosquitoes at Least
Latest & Greatest: Bone Marrow Cells Take Their Repair Abilities to Heart
Career Advice: Using CAR Statements for Your Résumé
Money Matters: Personal Finance and Your Future
Editorial: Lost in Translation
Editorial: Good Mentor, Bad Mentee—Getting the Best Out of a Career-Defining Relationship
Latest & Greatest: Emergency granulopoiesis waits for no one… except B cells
News: Is your Research Summer Student leaving UHN at the end of August?
read moreEditorial: Improve your chances of publication success
Latest & Greatest: Second-hand smoke creates a haze around quitting
Spotlight: Modern women in science: Achieving Work/Life Balance
Editorial: Toronto collaborations: The local benefit
Lead Article: Free science at last! Releasing the iron grip on open access to academic journals
Latest & Greatest: AML stratification: a surprising role for INPP4B
Lead Article: Addressing Intellectual Property Early with UHN’s TDC Office
Latest & Greatest: Hematopoietic stem cells come out of hiding when CDK6 calls
Lead Article: The Changing Landscape of CIHR Funding
Latest & Greatest: Repairing the foundation: hydrogels for heart healing
Lead Article: To PhD or Not to PhD, That Is the Question
Latest & Greatest: Teaching tolerance: Learning to accept a heart
Lead Article: New wave of antibiotics: is it too late to turn the tide of resistance?
read moreLead Article: Career Development Tips from Past Workshops Held by ORT and TRI
Special Feature: Exciting new services at STTARR
Alumnus Career Profile: Dr. Paul Spagnuolo, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Lead Article: Matching Scientists with Clinicians – Advice for a Fruitful Union
Latest & Greatest: The Difficult Transition from Active to Osteoarthritis
Alumnus Career Profile: Dr. Evelyn Pau, Associate at Bloom Burton & Co.
Lead Article: Spotlight on UHN’s Vector Core Facility
Latest & Greatest: A comparison of neural responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli in humans and other animals
Lead Article: You are more marketable than you realize
Latest & Greatest: Acoustic Estimation of Neck Fluid Volume
Lead Article: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships: Applications at UHN
read moreLead Article: Successfully Supervising Summer Students
Latest & Greatest: Aaron Kucyi’s publication in the Journal of Neuroscience
Alumnus Career Profile: Dr. Craig Gedye’s academic position
Lead Article: Building a Healthy Relationship with your Supervisor
Tutorial: Helpful Reminders When Hiring Summer Students
Alumnus Career Profile: Dr. Michael Hawkes’ career in academia
Lead Article: Passive Diffusion of Science
Latest & Greatest: Ines Lohse’s publication in Cancers (Basel)
Alumnus Career Profile: Dr. Kidecklel’s career as the Director of Business Development at Mitacs
Lead Article: Preparing for your first international conference
Latest & Greatest: Matthew Smith’s publication in Nature Chemical Biology
Alumna Career Profile: Dr. Silver’s career with Grand Challenges Canada
Lead Article: How getting organized will make you more productive
Latest & Greatest: Self-renewal properties of cancer-initiating cells
Alumna Career Profile: Dr. Laurin’s career as a Forensic Scientist with the RCMP
Lead Article: Beakers to Briefcase
Latest &Greatest: Trigeminal Neuralgia
Alumna Career Profile: Dr. Salima Janmohamed’s Career as a Flow Cytometry Applications Specialist
All issues of the ORT Times from 2013 can be downloaded from this page
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read moreUHN trainees go on to do amazing things! Whether you are a faculty member, an industrial scientist, a clinician, a science writer, an educator, a graduate student, or something we have not even imagined, we would love to know what you are doing and how your UHN training helped shape your future. Tell us about awards, discoveries, or exciting new career options. Your story can be highlighted here and through our monthly newsletter, The ORT Times. To see our past issues, go to our Archive page.