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Winter 2018

QLS has joined efforts with the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) to offer weekly interdisciplinary seminars. Seminars featured by QLS are indicated in bold.

All seminars are held in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, room 908, from 12:05 to 1:00.

Winter 2018 Speaker Topic

Jan. 11

Fred Guichard
(Biology, McGill)

Meta-ecosystem theories: species that matter for the cycling of matter

Jan. 18

Simon Gravel
(Human Genetics, McGill)

Genomics like it’s 1960: revisiting classical models with modern data

Jan. 25

Felicia Magpantay
(Math & Stats, Queen’s University)

Some challenges in modeling imperfect vaccines

Feb. 1

Laurent Potvin-Trottier
(Biology and Physics, Concordia University)

Engineering precise synthetic circuits and what it can teach us about biology

Feb. 8

Dave Stephens
(Math & Stats, McGill)

Phylogenetic and Phylodynamic analysis of HIV infection in Montreal

Feb. 15

Gregoire Altan-Bonnet
(National Cancer Institute, NIH)

Modeling how cytokine communications regulate the phenotypic variability of immune cells across spatio-temporal scales

Feb. 22

Douglas Richardson
(Center for Biological Imaging, Harvard)

Measuring endosomal pH beyond the diffraction limit

Mar. 1

Paul Wiseman
(Chemistry & Physics, McGill)

Cellular cartography: Mapping protein transport and interactions in living cells with fluorescence imaging & fluctuation analysis

Mar. 15

Anmar Khadra
(Physiology, McGill)

Excitability in Cerebellar Stellate Cells: From Latency to Runup

Mar. 22

Jonathan Marchini
(Statistics, University of Oxford)

Brain imaging genetics in the UK Biobank

Mar. 29

Nicole Li-Jessen
(Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill)

Agent-based models of vocal fold trauma and repair

Apr. 5

Brian Ingalls
(Applied Math, University of Waterloo)

Synthetic biology approaches to suppression of antibiotic resistance: toward model-based design

Apr. 12

Fred Adler
(Math, University of Utah)

Using ecological models in biomedicine

Apr. 19

Erik Cook
(Physiology, McGill)

What causes a neuron to spike?

Apr. 26

Kevin Hall
(Nat. Inst. of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH)

The calculus of calories: Mathematical modeling of human body weight dynamics

May 3

Peter Grutter
(Physics, McGill)

Atomic Force Microscopy for the Life Sciences: Quantifying forces

QLS would like to thank Dr. Erik Cook for his help with organizing the seminars.

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