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Winter 2020

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. Seminars featured by QLS are indicated in bold.

All seminars are held in the Montreal Neurological Institute, deGrandpre Communications Centre, from 12:00 to 1:00.

Winter 2020 Speaker Topic

Jan. 14

John Marko
(Northwestern University)
Sponsored by QLS

"Mechanics, topology and geometry of mammalian chromosomes and nuclei and their epigenetic modulation"

Jan. 21

Thomas Nichols
(Oxford University)
Sponsored by the Ludmer Centre

"Population Neuroimaging" 

Jan. 28

Jesper Sjostrom
(McGill University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Unconventional NMDA Receptor Signalling in Neocortical Plasticity."

Feb. 4

Eric Pedersen
(Concordia University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Quantifying rapid change in ecological communities"

Feb. 11

Mallar Chakravarty
(McGill University)
Sponsored by QLS

"Translational neuroimaging strategies to better understand the pathways towards neurodegenerative disorders: human and mouse MRI studies"

​Feb. 18

Claire Guerrier
(Université Côte d'Azur)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Modeling axon-myelin relationships: insights on signal propagation and modulation"

Feb. 25

Timothee Poisot
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Revisiting the link-species scaling relationship in ecological networks"

Mar. 3

Reading Week No Seminar

Mar. 10

Michael Baym
(Harvard University)
Sponsored by QLS

"Evolutionary Approaches to Antibiotic Resistance"

Mar. 17

Paul Francois
(McGill University)
Sponsored by QLS

"Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping and machine learning"

Mar. 24

Claire Brown
(McGill University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Lipoma Preferred Partner (LPP) Regulates Breast Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion"
Mar. 31

Adrian Serohijos
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Integrating protein biophysics and population dynamics to predict microbial evolution"

Apr. 7

Vladimir Reinharz
(UQAM)
Sponsored by QLS

TBD

Apr.14

Arjun Krishnaswamy
(McGill University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

TBD

Apr. 23
(Thursday)

Candice Odgers
(Duke University)
Sponsored by MiCM

TBD

Apr. 28

Roger Peng
(Johns Hopkins)
Sponsored by MiCM

TBD

 

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