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 |
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Jan. 10 |
Daniela Witten |
Single-cell RNA-sequencing data analysis without double-dipping |
Jan. 17 |
Zeyu Bian |
Penalized doubly-robust estimation of adaptive treatment strategies |
Jan. 24 |
Meghan Azad |
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 |
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Feb. 21 |
David Sussillo |
Neural dynamics shape task organization in multitask networks |
Feb. 28 |
Reading Week | No Seminar |
Mar. 7 |
Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
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Mar. 14 |
Alex Baldwin |
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Mar. 21 |
Sonia Kefi |
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Mar. 28 |
Lamin Juwara |
Mitigating the impact of data bias through synthetic data generators |
Apr. 4 |
Fiona Brinkman |
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 |
Leveraging Molecular and Clinical Data to Better Understand Alzheimer’s Disease |
Apr. 25 |
Natalie Reznikov (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS |
QLS would like to thank Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.