McGill Seminar Series in Quantitative Life Sciences and Medicine

QLS has joined the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) to offer weekly interdisciplinary seminars during the fall and winter terms.

Seminars are offered in a hybrid format on Tuesdays from 12-1pm EST.

Online: Zoom Link
In Person: 550 Sherbrooke, Room 189 (for directions, email communications.qls [at] mcgill.ca)

Seminar recordings are available on the QLS YouTube Page.

Winter 2024	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 9	Konrad Kording (UPenn) Sponsored by QLS	Machine learning for causal inference
Jan. 16	Andreas Buttenschoen (UMASS, Amherst) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Cell Entrainment in a Mechano-Chemical Model of Collective Cell Migration
Jan. 23	Stephanie Jones (Brown University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Interpreting the Mechanisms and Meaning of Human MEG/EEG signals with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Neural Modeling Software
Jan. 30	QLS Research Day Keynote Speaker: Josee Dupuis (McGill)	Multi-Cohort Statistical Approaches with Applications to Type 2 Diabetes
Feb. 6	Alex Diaz-Papkovich (Brown University) Sponsored by QLS	Topological analysis of high-dimensional human genetic data in biobanks
Feb. 13	Christian Landry (Université Laval) Sponsored by QLS	Navigating protein fitness landscapes in multiple dimensions
Feb. 20	Camille Maumet (INRIA) Sponsored by QLS	Towards reproducible neuroimaging across different analysis pipelines
Feb. 27	Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago) Sponsored by CAMBAM	How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing
Mar. 5	No Seminar	Reading Week
Mar. 12	Alton Russell (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Informing policies to mitigate iron deficiency in blood donors through public health data science
Mar. 19	Hanspeter Herzel (Institute for Theoretical Biology) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Oscillator theory meets biological rhythms
Mar. 26	Sridevi Sarma (Johns Hopkins University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Network Biomarkers for Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment: combining brain imaging data with systems modeling
Apr. 2	Erin Dickie (CAMH) Sponsored by QLS	Transdiagnostic neuroimaging to understand mental health across the lifespan
Apr.9	Guillaume Butler-Laporte (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Can genomics really improve management of human diseases?
Apr. 16	Julia Rohrer (University of Leipzig) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Directed Acyclic Graphs as a Tool to Reason about Causality
Apr. 23	Sirui Zhou (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	"Population Omics”, complex traits and drug targets

QLS thanks Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.

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