QLS Seminar Series Winter 2022

QLS has joined efforts with the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM), the McGill initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM) and the Ludmer Center to offer weekly interdisciplinary seminars.

Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 12-1pm EST.

For video recordings of previous seminars please visit here: QLS YouTube Page.

Winter 2022	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 11	Jun Ding (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Decoding cellular dynamics from single-cell data for more effective cell fate manipulation
Jan. 18	Pouya Bashivan (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Artificial neural networks in visual neuroscience: towards a quantitative explanation of visual object recognition in the brain
Jan. 25	Gary Bader (University of Toronto) Sponsored by CAMBAM	How is cell diversity generated during development?
Feb. 1	Becca Asquith (Imperial College London) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Immune cell dynamics and human health
Feb. 8	Caroline Colijn (Simon Fraser University) Sponsored by QLS	Genomic Epidemiology in SARS-CoV-2: new tools and challenges
Feb. 15	Laura Pollock (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Rescheduled to Mar. 29. Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity
Feb. 22	Josh McDermott (MIT) Sponsored by CAMBAM	New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning
Mar. 1	Reading Week	No Seminar
Mar. 8	Lucien Weiss (Polytechnique Montreal) Sponsored by QLS	Capturing cell-population dynamics at subcellular resolution in flow
Mar. 15	Maria Vera-Ugalde (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Imaging single mRNA molecules to investigate neuronal protein homeostasis
Mar. 22	Antoine Allard (University of Laval) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Contact Network Epidemiology: Heterogeneity and Stochasticity of Disease Spread
Mar. 29	Laura Pollock (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity
Apr. 5	Allison Shaw (University of Minnesota) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Parasites, animal migration, and how perspective shapes science
Apr.12	Sam Gershman (Harvard University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	The riddle of dopamine
Apr. 19	SueYeon Chung (Columbia University) Sponsored by QLS	Structure, Function, and Learning in Distributed Neuronal Networks
Apr. 26	Naeha Subramanian (University of Washington) Sponsored by QLS	TBD
May 3	Herve Abdi (University of Texas at Dallas) Sponsored by Ludmer	Mega-Meta with covSTATIS: or How to Perform Multivariate Factor Meta-Analysis
May 17	Lluis Quintana-Murci (Institut Pasteur) Sponsored by QLS	From Neanderthals to COVID-19: genetic and evolutionary sources of immune response variation in humans

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