A physicist's adventures in virology: Catherine Beauchemin Public Lecture

In her live Perimeter Public Lecture webcast on November 4, 2020, physicist Catherine Beauchemin used contemporary examples from COVID-19 and influenza to explain eroding public trust in health research – and why a dose of physics may be just the prescription we need. Beauchemin is a Professor of Physics at Ryerson University and a Deputy Program Director in the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program in Japan.

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Dr. Beauchemin has provided the following references from her talk for those that would like to take a deeper dive.

Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/

Key references regarding the issue of reproducibility in health research:
https://doi.org/10.1161/circresaha.11...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2013...

Beauchemin group’s papers on the effect of the H275Y and I223V mutations in the influenza A virus 2009 pandemic strain background:
https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.07244-11
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....

Beauchemin virophysics group’s COVID-19 site, updated daily: https://phymbie.physics.ryerson.ca/covid

Public Health Agency of Canada Epidemiology and Modelling reports: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-healt...

COVID-19 data sources used
Canada: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src...
World: https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data...
Deaths/Recovered in Ontario: https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/f4112...