QLS Seminar Series Winter 2021

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.

Winter 2020	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 12	Vladimir Reinharz (UQAM) Sponsored by QLS	Conservation of structural long-range modules in RNAs
Jan. 19	Paul Francois (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping
Jan. 26	Corina Tarnita (Princeton University) Sponsored by QLS	Self-organization and robustness in biological systems
Feb. 2	Benjamin Haibe-Kains (University of Toronto) Sponsored by MiCM	Platforms to improve computational reproducibility in biomedical research
Feb. 9	David Albers (University of Colorado) Sponsored by QLS	Measuring behavior across scales
Feb. 16	Gordon Berman (Emory University) Sponsored by QLS	Measuring behavior across scales
Feb. 23	Sahir Bhatnagar (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Variable selection methods in high-dimensional genetic data
Mar. 2	Reading Week	No Seminar
Mar. 9	Albert Goldbeter (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Sponsored by CAMBAM	From circadian clock mechanism to sleep disorders and jet lag: Insights from a computational approach
Mar. 16	Victoria Booth (University of Michigan) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Dynamics and bifurcations of sleep-wake behavior
Mar. 23	Daniel Alexander (UCL) Sponsored by QLS	Model-based imaging and image-based modelling
Mar. 30	Cristina Savin (NYU) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Structured neural variability and its roles in neural computation
Apr. 6	Jonathan Michaels (UWO) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Combining deep learning and primate electrophysiology to understand reach and grasp control
Apr.13	Anne-Louise Leutenegger (Inserm NeuroDiderot) Sponsored by QLS	Genomic inbreeding and its contribution to the study of human diseases
Apr. 20	Arjun Krishnaswamy (McGill University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Molecular cues for the assembly and function of retinal circuits
Apr. 27	Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Next generation neural field modelling
May 4	Lluis Quintana-Murci (Institut Pasteur) Sponsored by QLS	Human Immunology through the Lens of Evolutionary Genetics
May 11	Maryam Shanechi (USC) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Dynamical modeling, decoding, and control of multiscale brain networks: from motor to mood

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