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Winter 2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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Jan. 9 |
Konrad Kording |
Machine learning for causal inference |
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Jan. 16 |
Andreas Buttenschoen |
Cell Entrainment in a Mechano-Chemical Model of Collective Cell Migration |
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Jan. 23 |
Stephanie Jones |
Interpreting the Mechanisms and Meaning of听Human MEG/EEG signals听with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Neural Modeling Software |
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Jan. 30 |
QLS Research Day听 |
Multi-Cohort Statistical Approaches with Applications to Type 2 Diabetes |
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Feb. 6 |
Alex Diaz-Papkovich (Brown University) Sponsored by QLS |
Topological analysis of high-dimensional human genetic data in biobanks |
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鈥婩eb. 13 |
Christian Landry (Universit茅 Laval) Sponsored by QLS |
Navigating protein fitness landscapes in multiple dimensions |
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Feb. 20 |
Camille Maumet (INRIA) Sponsored by QLS |
Towards reproducible neuroimaging across different analysis pipelines |
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Feb. 27 |
Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing |
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Mar. 5 |
No Seminar (Reading Week) | No Seminar |
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Mar. 12 |
Alton Russell (平特五不中) Sponsored by QLS |
Informing policies to mitigate iron deficiency in blood donors through public health data science |
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Mar. 19 |
Hanspeter Herzel (Institute for Theoretical Biology) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Oscillator theory meets biological rhythms |
| Mar. 26 |
Sridevi Sarma |
Network Biomarkers for Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment: combining brain imaging data with systems modeling |
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Apr. 2 |
Erin听Dickie (CAMH) Sponsored by QLS |
Transdiagnostic neuroimaging to understand mental health across the lifespan |
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Apr.9 |
Guillaume Butler-Laporte |
Can genomics really improve management of human diseases? |
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Apr. 16 |
Julia Rohrer (University of Leipzig) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Directed Acyclic Graphs as a Tool to Reason about Causality |
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Apr. 23 |
Sirui Zhou (平特五不中) Sponsored by QLS |
"Population Omics鈥�, complex traits and drug targets |
Fall 2023
QLS would like to thank Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.
Winter 2023
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Jan. 10 |
Daniela Witten |
Single-cell RNA-sequencing data analysis without double-dipping |
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Jan. 17 |
Zeyu Bian |
Penalized doubly-robust estimation of adaptive treatment strategies |
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Jan. 24 |
Meghan Azad |
Milk, Microbes and Models: Studying Human Milk and the Infant Microbiome as a Biological System |
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Jan. 31 |
QLS Research Day |
QLS Research Day Keynote Speaker: Leon Glass (平特五不中) Tipping points, critical transitions and bifurcations in physiology: Can we predict the onset of pathological dynamics? |
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Feb. 7 |
Daniel Fortin (Laval University) Sponsored by QLS |
The use of ecological theory to predict animal distribution in changing environments |
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鈥婩eb. 14 |
Bard Ermentrout |
Follow your nose: The dynamics of olfactory-guided search |
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Feb. 21 |
David Sussillo |
Neural dynamics shape task organization in multitask networks |
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Feb. 28 |
Reading Week | No Seminar |
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Mar. 7 |
Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Brain-computer interfaces for basic science |
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Mar. 14 |
Alex Baldwin |
Models of contrast summation in human vision |
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Mar. 21 |
Sonia Kefi |
The multiplexity of ecological communities |
| Mar. 28 |
Lamin Juwara |
Mitigating the impact of data bias through synthetic data generators |
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Apr. 4 |
Fiona Brinkman |
Disrupting disease, while promoting health: Bacterial Bioinformatics Battles |
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Apr.11 |
Troy Day (Queen's University) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
The Epidemiology and Economics of Physical Distancing during Infectious Disease Outbreaks |
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Apr. 18 |
Marina Sirota |
Leveraging Molecular and Clinical Data to Better Understand Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease |
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Apr. 25 |
Natalie Reznikov (平特五不中) Sponsored by QLS |
Mapping of trabecular bone anisotropy in 3D: a tool to decipher the loading history of bones using microCT |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Sep. 13 |
Naeha Subramanian |
Innate immunity at the interface of host defense and immune disease |
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Sep. 20 |
Michael Frank |
Bigger data about smaller people: Studying language learning at scale |
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Sep. 27 |
Amy Goldberg |
Evolutionary perspectives on malaria: humans, primates, and the parasites we share |
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Oct. 4 |
Michael Baym |
What other factors select on antibiotic resistance? |
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Oct. 11 |
Reading Week |
Reading Week |
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鈥婳ct. 18 |
Satrajit Ghosh |
Unpacking the Speech Chain: A window of scientific and technological opportunities |
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Oct. 26 |
Fabian Theis |
Learning Single Cell Atlases |
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Nov. 1 |
Peter Harrison (Cambridge) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Timbre and consonance |
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Nov. 8 |
James Faeder (University of Pittsburgh) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Computational Modeling of Intracellular Dynamics |
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Nov. 15 |
Sara Zapata-Marin |
Understanding the spatio-temporal distribution of pollen in Toronto |
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Nov. 22 |
Laura Pollock (平特五不中) Sponsored by QLS |
Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity |
| Nov. 29 |
John Murray |
Learning and Generalization through Neural Representations |
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Dec. 6 |
Amber Smith |
Modeling the Dynamics of Viral-Bacterial Coinfection |
听QLS would like to thank Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.
Winter 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Jan. 11 |
Jun Ding |
Decoding cellular dynamics from single-cell data for more effective cell fate manipulation |
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Jan. 18 |
Pouya Bashivan |
Artificial neural networks in visual neuroscience: towards a quantitative explanation of visual object recognition in the brain |
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Jan. 25 |
Gary Bader |
How is cell diversity generated during development? |
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Feb. 1 |
Becca Asquith |
Immune cell dynamics and human health |
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Feb. 8 |
Caroline Colijn (Simon Fraser University) Sponsored by QLS |
Genomic Epidemiology in SARS-CoV-2: new tools and challenges |
|
鈥婩eb. 15 |
Laura Pollock |
Rescheduled to Mar. 29.听Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity |
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Feb. 22 |
Josh McDermott |
New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning |
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Mar. 1 |
Reading Week | No Seminar |
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Mar. 8 |
Lucien Weiss (Polytechnique Montreal) Sponsored by QLS |
Capturing cell-population dynamics at subcellular resolution in flow |
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Mar. 15 |
Maria Vera-Ugalde |
Imaging single mRNA molecules to investigate neuronal protein homeostasis |
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Mar. 22 |
Antoine Allard |
Contact Network Epidemiology: Heterogeneity and Stochasticity of Disease Spread |
| Mar. 29 |
Laura Pollock |
Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity |
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Apr. 5 |
Allison Shaw |
Parasites, animal migration, and how perspective shapes science |
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Apr.12 |
Sam Gershman (Harvard University) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
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Apr. 19 |
SueYeon Chung |
Structure, Function, and Learning in Distributed Neuronal Networks |
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Apr. 26 |
Naeha Subramanian (University of Washington) Sponsored by QLS |
TBD |
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May 3 |
Herve Abdi |
Mega-Meta with covSTATIS: or How to Perform Multivariate Factor Meta-Analysis |
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May 17 |
Lluis Quintana-Murci |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Sep. 7 |
Taj Azarian |
Meaningful use of pathogen genomic data: Tracking bacterial mobile elements using published sequences |
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Sep. 14 |
Marlene Cohen |
Topological insights into the neural basis of flexible behavior |
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Sep. 21 |
Dani Bassett |
The brain's structural connectome is organized to support efficient control of state transitions |
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Sep. 28 |
Matthew Stephens |
A simple new approach to variable selection in regression, with application to genetic fine-mapping |
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Oct. 5 |
Marc Timme |
Model-free inference of network structural features from observed dynamics |
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Oct. 12 |
Katia Koelle |
Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 evolution at multiple scales, with implications for viral spread |
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Oct. 19 |
Emma Teeling |
The genomic basis of bats' extended longevity and tolerant immunity: Why should society care? |
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Oct. 26 |
Lai-Sang Young |
Dynamics in a model of primate visual cortex |
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Nov. 2 |
Stacey Finley |
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Nov. 9 |
Dana Pe'er |
Causes and Consequences of Plasticity in Cancer and Development |
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Nov. 16 |
Julie Hussin |
A sex-specific evolutionary interaction between听ADCY9听and听CETP |
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Nov. 23 |
Chris Klausmeier |
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Nov. 30 |
Ben Goult |
The MeshCODE theory 鈥� does our brain store memories in a binary format? |
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Dec. 7 |
Pedro Peres-Neto |
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| Dec. 14 |
Guillaume Lajoie |
Top-down optimization recovers biological coding principles of single-neuron adaptation in RNNs |
QLS would like to thank Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.听
Winter 2021
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Jan. 12 |
Vladimir Reinharz |
Conservation of structural long-range modules in RNAs |
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Jan. 19 |
Paul Francois |
Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping |
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Jan. 26 |
Corina Tarnita |
Self-organization and robustness in biological systems |
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Feb. 2 |
Benjamin Haibe-Kains |
Platforms to improve computational reproducibility in biomedical research |
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Feb. 9 |
David Albers (University of Colorado) Sponsored by QLS |
Measuring behavior across scales |
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鈥婩eb. 16 |
Gordon Berman |
Measuring behavior across scales |
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Feb. 23 |
Sahir Bhatnagar |
Variable selection methods in high-dimensional genetic data |
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Mar. 2 |
Reading Week | No Seminar |
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Mar. 9 |
Albert Goldbeter (Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
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Mar. 16 |
Victoria Booth |
Dynamics and bifurcations of sleep-wake behavior |
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Mar. 23 |
Daniel Alexander |
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| Mar. 30 |
Cristina Savin |
Structured neural variability and its roles in neural computation |
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Apr. 6 |
Jonathan Michaels |
Combining deep learning and primate electrophysiology to understand reach and grasp control |
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Apr.13 |
Anne-Louise Leutenegger (Inserm NeuroDiderot) Sponsored by QLS |
Genomic inbreeding and its contribution to the study of human diseases |
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Apr. 20 |
Arjun Krishnaswamy |
Molecular cues for the assembly and function of retinal circuits |
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Apr. 27 |
Stephen Coombes |
Next generation neural field modelling |
| May 4 |
Lluis Quintana-Murci |
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| May 11 |
Maryam Shanechi |
Dynamical modeling, decoding, and control of multiscale brain networks: from motor to mood |
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Sep. 8 |
TBD |
TBD |
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Sep. 15 |
Arvind Kumar |
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Sep. 22 |
Thomas Bury |
Bifurcations in the era of big data: applications in cardiology and ecology |
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Sep. 29 |
Sebastien Lemieux |
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Oct. 6 |
Jesse Shapiro |
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Oct. 13 |
Tatjana Tchumatchenko |
Statistical laws of protein motion in neuronal dendritic trees |
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Oct. 20 |
Jian Tang (HEC Montreal) Sponsored by QLS |
Graph Representation Learning and Applications to Drug Discovery |
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Oct. 27 |
Candice Odgers |
The shifting science of screen time, social media use, and adolescent development |
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Nov. 3 |
Patricia Silveira |
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Nov. 10 |
Roger Peng |
Lessons in Disaster: How Can We Learn From Data Analysis Failures? |
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Nov. 17 |
Claire Brown |
Lipoma Preferred Partner (LPP) Regulates Breast Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion |
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Nov. 24 Please note: This talk will |
Martin Lindquist |
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Dec. 1 |
Adrian Serohijos |
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Dec. 8 |
Justin Marleau |
听QLS would like to thank Dr. Mathieu Blanchette, Dr. Suresh Krishna, Dr. Anmar Khadra, Dr. Celia Greenwood, Lindsay Dayton, and Joanne Clark for their help with organizing the seminars.
Winter 2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Jan. 14 |
John Marko |
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Jan. 21 |
Thomas Nichols |
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Jan. 28 |
Jesper Sjostrom |
"Unconventional NMDA Receptor Signalling in Neocortical Plasticity." |
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Feb. 4 |
Eric Pedersen |
"Quantifying rapid change in ecological communities" |
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Feb. 11 |
Mallar Chakravarty (平特五不中) Sponsored by QLS |
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鈥婩eb. 18 |
Claire Guerrier |
"Modeling axon-myelin relationships: insights on signal propagation and modulation" |
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Feb. 25 |
Timothee Poisot |
"Revisiting the link-species scaling relationship in ecological networks" |
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Mar. 3 |
Reading Week | No Seminar |
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Mar. 10 |
Michael Baym |
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Mar. 17 |
Paul Francois |
"Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping and machine learning" |
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Mar. 24 |
Claire Brown |
"Lipoma Preferred Partner (LPP) Regulates Breast Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion" |
| Mar. 31 |
Adrian Serohijos |
"Integrating protein biophysics and population dynamics to predict microbial evolution" |
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Apr. 7 |
Vladimir Reinharz |
TBD |
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Apr.14 |
Arjun Krishnaswamy |
TBD |
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Apr. 23 |
Candice Odgers |
TBD |
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Apr. 28 |
Roger Peng |
TBD |
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Sep. 10 |
Brian Leung听 |
"Predictive socio-ecological models for invasive species and sustainability" |
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Sep. 17 |
Sara Mostafavi |
"Combining genomics data to predict function of the non-coding genome" |
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Sep. 24 |
Erik Cook |
"Predicting visually-guided behavior from fluctuations and correlations in neural activity" |
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Oct. 1 |
Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal |
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Oct. 8 |
Quaid Morris |
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Oct. 15 |
Rahul Satija |
"Integrated analysis of single-cell data across technologies and modalities" |
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Oct. 22 |
Karen Kopciuk |
"Learning from data" |
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Oct. 29 |
Saurabh Sinha |
"Transcriptional mechanisms of phenotypic variation from multi-omics data" |
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Nov. 5 |
Jaya Satagopan |
"Evaluation of interactions in clinical and molecular epidemiology studies" |
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Nov. 12 |
Rumi Chunara |
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Nov. 19 |
Michael Mackey |
"Biology, Mathematics & Physics: Interactions and Interdependence" |
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Nov. 26 |
Morgan Craig |
QLS would like to thank Dr. Mathieu Blanchette, Dr. Erik Cook, Dr. Celia Greenwood, Lindsay Dayton, and Joanne Clark for their help with organizing the seminars.听
Winter 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Jan. 8 |
Ed Bullmore |
"Slow connectome dynamics during adolescence and genetic risks for schizophrenia" |
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Jan. 15 |
Sabrina Leslie |
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Jan. 22 |
Pierre-Andre Menard |
"Natural language processing in the medical field: CRIM鈥橲 projects and tools" |
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Jan. 29 |
Matt van der Meer |
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Feb. 5 |
Mathieu Lavallee |
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Feb. 12 |
Gil McVean |
"Mapping the structure of genetic risk for common disease in the UK Biobank" |
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鈥婩eb. 19 |
Nicolas Moitessier |
"Computational methods in drug discovery 鈥� can computers truly assist medicinal chemists?" |
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Feb. 26 |
Sidhartha Goyal |
"How adaptive immunity constrains the composition and fate of large bacterial populations" |
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Mar. 5 |
Anita Layton |
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Mar. 12 |
Ma'n Zawati |
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Mar. 19 |
Shawn Brown |
"CBRAIN, a platform for accomplishing science on advanced research computing" |
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Mar. 26 |
Bratislav Misic |
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| Apr. 2 |
Jean Francois Ethier |
"PARS3, an infrastructure to support data access activities in context of learning health systems" |
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Apr. 9 |
Bryan Grenfell |
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Apr.16 |
Adrianne Jenner |
"A Hybrid Mathematical Approach to Improve Chemotherapy Implant Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer" |
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Apr. 23 |
Nigam Shah |
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Apr. 30 |
Anmar Khadra |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Sep. 11 |
Hinke Osinga |
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Sep. 18 |
Frank Harrell |
"Musings on statistical models vs. machine learning in health research" |
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Sep. 25 |
Dominique Gravel |
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Oct. 2 |
Jackie Vogel |
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Oct. 9 |
Dannie Durand |
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Oct. 16 |
Eric Cytrynbaum |
"Control of growth in plant cells through kinetic and mechanical microtubule organization" |
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Oct. 23 |
Josee Dupuis |
"Ancestry attracts, but love is blind: Evaluation of structured mating"听 |
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Oct. 30 |
Alan Evans听 |
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Nov. 6 |
Leslie Loew |
"The interplay of structural and cellular biophysics controls clustering of multivalent molecules" |
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Nov. 13 |
Sylvain Baillet |
"The predictive machine: neural network architectures for brain perceptual inference" |
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Nov. 20 |
Hamed Najafabadi |
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Nov. 27 |
Conor Liston |
"Resting-state connectivity biomarkers define neurophysiological subtypes of depression" |
| Dec. 4 |
Anna Goldenberg |
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Dec. 11 |
Erica Moodie |
"SMART studies: An Evidence-Based approach to Precision Medicine" |
听QLS would like to thank Dr. Mathieu Blanchette, Dr. Erik Cook, Dr. Celia Greenwood, Lindsay Dayton, and Joanne Clark for their help with organizing the seminars.
Winter 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Fred Guichard |
Meta-ecosystem theories: species that matter for the cycling of matter |
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Simon Gravel |
Genomics like it鈥檚 1960: revisiting classical models with modern data |
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Felicia Magpantay |
Some challenges in modeling imperfect vaccines |
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Laurent Potvin-Trottier |
Engineering precise synthetic circuits and what it can teach us about biology |
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Dave Stephens |
Phylogenetic and Phylodynamic analysis of HIV infection in Montreal |
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Gregoire Altan-Bonnet |
Modeling how cytokine communications regulate the phenotypic variability听of immune cells across spatio-temporal scales |
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Douglas Richardson |
Measuring endosomal pH beyond the diffraction limit |
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Paul Wiseman |
Cellular cartography: Mapping protein transport and interactions in living cells with fluorescence imaging & fluctuation analysis |
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Anmar Khadra |
Excitability in Cerebellar Stellate Cells: From Latency to Runup |
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Jonathan Marchini |
Brain imaging genetics in the UK Biobank |
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Nicole Li-Jessen |
Agent-based models of vocal fold trauma and repair |
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Brian Ingalls |
Synthetic biology approaches to suppression of antibiotic resistance: toward model-based design |
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| Apr. 12 |
Fred Adler |
Using ecological models in biomedicine |
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Erik Cook |
What causes a neuron to spike? |
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Kevin Hall |
The calculus of calories: Mathematical modeling of human body weight dynamics |
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Peter Grutter |
Atomic Force Microscopy for the Life Sciences: Quantifying forces |
听QLS would like to thank Dr. Erik Cook听for his help with organizing the seminars.
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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07-Sep |
Dr. Celia Greenwood (平特五不中) |
Mendelian randomization in the presence of pleiotropy. |
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14-Sep |
Dr. Yoram Vodovotz (University of Pittsburgh) |
Integrating Data-Driven and Mechanistic Computational Models of Inflammation: A Roadmap for Translational Systems Biology. |
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21-Sep |
Dr. Stephanie Weber (平特五不中) |
Assembly and function of membraneless organelles. |
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Dr. David Rocke (University of California, Davis)听 |
Excess False Positives in Negative-Binomial Based Analysis of Data from RNA-Seq Experiments. |
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05-Oct |
Dr. Alex Mogilner (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University) |
Theoretical and experimental analyses of cell motility initiation and turning |
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Dr. Dirk Bucher (New Jersey Institute of Technology) |
Neuromodulation shapes motor output at all levels of neural processing |
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19-Oct |
Dr. Guillaume Bourque (平特五不中) |
Scalable methods for genomic and epigenomic data analyses |
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26-Oct |
Dr. Leon Glass (平特五不中) |
Tipping points, critical transitions, and bifurcations: Can we predict the future? |
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02-Nov |
Dr. Sivabal Sivaloganathan (University of Waterloo) |
The Mathematical & Computational Modelling of some Problems in Clinical Medicine |
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Dr. Gregor Fussmann (平特五不中) |
Adaptive and non-adaptive dynamics |
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16-Nov |
Dr. Adam Hendricks (平特五不中) |
Microtubule associated proteins and bundling direct intracellular trafficking听 |
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23-Nov |
Dr. Michael Guevara (平特五不中) |
Regularity of beating of small clusters of embryonic chick ventricular cardiomyocytes: experiment and stochastic model |
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30-Nov |
Dr. Fahima Nekka (University of Montreal) |
Mathematical Challenges in the Pharmacokinetics of Biologics: Review, Contributions and Perspectives |
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Dr. Lydia Bourouiba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
Transmission: from experiments to modeling |
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14-Dec |
Dr. Patrick Boyle (Johns Hopkins University) |
New Frontiers in Cardiac Arrhythmia Research: The Emergent Power of Computational Modelling |
听QLS would like to thank Dr. Anmar Khadra for his help with organizing the seminars.