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Fall 2019

QLS is joining 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. 

All seminars are held in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, room 1034, from 12:00 to 1:00.

Fall 2019 Speaker Topic

Sep. 10

Brian Leung 
(McGill University)
Sponsored by QLS

"Predictive socio-ecological models for invasive species and sustainability"

Sep. 17

Sara Mostafavi
(University of British Columbia)
Sponsored by the Ludmer Centre

"Combining genomics data to predict function of the non-coding genome"

Sep. 24

Erik Cook
(McGill University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Predicting visually-guided behavior from fluctuations and correlations in neural activity"

Oct. 1

Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal
(University of Laval)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Machine-learning-assisted microscopy : from smart scanning approaches to the generation of synthetic super-resolution images"

Oct. 8

Quaid Morris
(University of Toronto)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Human somatic evolution: cancer and otherwise"

Oct. 15

Rahul Satija
(NY Genome)
Sponsored by QLS

"Integrated analysis of single-cell data across technologies and modalities"

Oct. 22

Karen Kopciuk
(University of Calgary)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Learning from data"

Oct. 29

Saurabh Sinha
(Urbana-Champaign)
Sponsored by QLS

"Transcriptional mechanisms of phenotypic variation from multi-omics data"

Nov. 5

Jaya Satagopan
(Rutgers)
Sponsored by QLS

"Evaluation of interactions in clinical and molecular epidemiology studies"

Nov. 12

Rumi Chunara
(New York University)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Data and machine learning in population and public health"

Nov. 19

Michael Mackey
(McGill University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Biology, Mathematics & Physics: Interactions and Interdependence"

Nov. 26

Morgan Craig
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Quantitative approaches addressing intratumour heterogeneity and its impact on therapeutic outcomes"

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.

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