McGill Seminar Series in Quantitative Life Sciences and Medicine

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.

Zoom Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86855481591

For recordings of the seminars please visit the QLS YouTube Page.

Winter 2023	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 10	Daniela Witten (University of Washington) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Single-cell RNA-sequencing data analysis without double-dipping
Jan. 17	Zeyu Bian (University of Miami) Sponsored by QLS	Penalized doubly-robust estimation of adaptive treatment strategies
Jan. 24	Meghan Azad (University of Manitoba) Sponsored by QLS	Milk, Microbes and Models: Studying Human Milk and the Infant Microbiome as a Biological System
Jan. 31	QLS Research Day	QLS Research Day Keynote Speaker: Leon Glass (McGill University) Tipping points, critical transitions and bifurcations in physiology: Can we predict the onset of pathological dynamics?
Feb. 7	Daniel Fortin (Laval University) Sponsored by QLS	The use of ecological theory to predict animal distribution in changing environments
Feb. 14	Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Follow your nose: The dynamics of olfactory-guided search
Feb. 21	David Sussillo (Stanford University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Neural dynamics shape task organization in multitask networks
Feb. 28	Reading Week	No Seminar
Mar. 7	Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Brain-computer interfaces for basic science
Mar. 14	Alex Baldwin (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Models of contrast summation in human vision
Mar. 21	Sonia Kefi (University of Montpellier) Sponsored by QLS	The multiplexity of ecological communities
Mar. 28	Lamin Juwara (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Mitigating the impact of data bias through synthetic data generators
Apr. 4	Fiona Brinkman (Simon Fraser University) Sponsored by QLS	Disrupting disease, while promoting health: Bacterial Bioinformatics Battles
Apr.11	Troy Day (Queen's University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	The Epidemiology and Economics of Physical Distancing during Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Apr. 18	Marina Sirota (UCSF) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Leveraging Molecular and Clinical Data to Better Understand Alzheimer’s Disease
Apr. 25	Natalie Reznikov (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS	Mapping of trabecular bone anisotropy in 3D: a tool to decipher the loading history of bones using microCT

QLS would like to thank Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.

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