Toronto Wastewater Surveillance Conference - Virtual - Day 2

Toronto's Wastewater Surveillance Conference is a two-day event on February 2nd and 3rd, 2023, organized jointly by Ontario's Wastewater Surveillance Initiative and Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson).

ePosters and Recordings Available on Kubify

Participants can participate or attend one or both days of the conference, in-person or virtually . However due to capacity limits of the conference facility, priority for in-person attendance was given to conference organizers, speakers and presenters.

Attendees are invited to register for virtual tickets.

For Day-1 Virtual Tickets click here.

Day 2 Agenda – February 3, 2023

Morning Session Link: Teams Live

10-10:15 am ---------- Welcome Remarks and Land acknowledgement (Live)

10:15 – 10:45 am ----- Keynote speech (Live) Dr. Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

10:45 am- 12 pm --- Research Presentations (Live) Wastewater Surveillance, A Canadian National Perspective – Dr. Chand Mangat, Public Health Agency of Canada

• Wastewater Surveillance Strategy in United States- Dr. Amy Kirby, US CDCP
• Dutch Wastewater Surveillance Program – Dr. Willemijn Lodder, RIVM, the Netherlands
• Wastewater Surveillance of Influenza and RSV – Relationship to Clinical Metrics – Elisabeth Mercier, University of Ottawa
• Limits of Detection and Quantitation in RT-qPCR to Characterize Results and Establish Laboratory QA/QC – Dr. Stephen Brown, Queen’s University

Afternoon Session Link: Teams Live

2-2:30 pm ----------- Research Presentations (Live)

• Mutations occurring in the Taqman probe binding region of the CDC N1 assay cause the observed deviation between N1 and N2 quantifications by qPCR - Jianxian Sun, University of Toronto
• Wastewater Data-Driven Estimates of the Mutations that Define Variants of Concern – Dr. Devan Becker, Wilfrid Laurier University

2:30- 3:30 pm ------ Innovation Forum: The Future and Global Role of Wastewater Surveillance (Live)

• Dr. Douglas Manuel, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
• Dr. Lawrence Goodridge, University of Guelph
• Dr. Eric Arts, University of Western Ontario
• Facilitated by Policy Innovation Hub, Government of Ontario

3:30- 4 pm ----------- Poster Awards and Closing Remarks (Live)