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Past Seminars

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Winter 2024

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 9

Konrad Kording
(UPenn)
Sponsored by QLS

Machine learning for causal inference

Jan. 16
Ìý

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 ofÌýHuman MEG/EEG signalsÌýwith the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Neural Modeling Software

Jan. 30

QLS Research DayÌý
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) No Seminar

Mar. 12

Alton Russell
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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

ErinÌýDickie
(CAMH)
Sponsored by QLS
Transdiagnostic neuroimaging to understand mental health across the lifespan

Apr.9

Guillaume Butler-Laporte
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS
"Population Omicsâ€, complex traits and drug targets

Fall 2023

Date Speaker Topic

Sept. 12

Charles S. Peskin
(NYU)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Control of Cell Volume with Space-Charge Layers and Bulk Electroneutrality

Sept. 19

Steven Prescott
(University of Toronto)
Co-Sponsored by CAMBAM &Ìýthe Alan Edwards Center for Research on Pain

Neural coding strategies and the importance of excitability
Sept. 26

Elena Kuzmin
(Concordia University)
Sponsored by QLS

Evolution of chromosome arm aberrations in breast cancer through genetic network rewiring
Oct. 3 Carsen Stringer
(Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Sponsored in CAMBAM
Making sense of large-scale neural and behavioral data
Oct. 10 No Seminar (Reading Week) TBD
Oct. 17

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis
(University of Pittsburgh)
Sponsored by QLS

Systems Approaches to Decipher the Molecular Mechanisms of Evolutionary Innovation
Oct. 24

Simon Levin
(Princeton University)
Sponsored by QLS

Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems:ÌýScaling, collective phenomena and governance
Oct. 31 Eric Pedersen
(Concordia University)
Sponsored by QLS
How do we define a patch? Deriving subpopulation structure from movement models using random-walk-based distance metrics

Nov. 7

Tarik Gouhier
(Northeastern University)
Sponsored by QLS
Quantitative Dissonance

Nov. 14

Ariel Rokem
(University of Washington)
Sponsored by QLS

Opportunities and challenges for studying human brain connections in the era of brain observatories

Nov. 21

Jonathan Rubin
(University of Pittsburgh)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Qualitative inverse problems: Mapping from limited data to properties of dynamics and parameter values for ODE models
Nov. 28

Adrienne Fairhall
(University of Washington)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

From neural nets to movement in Hydra

Dec. 5

Angela Yu
(UCSD)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Computational Modeling of Human Face Processing

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

Winter 2023

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 10

Daniela Witten
(University of Washington)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Single-cell Ï㽶ÊÓƵ-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 (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS
Mapping of trabecular bone anisotropy in 3D: a tool to decipher the loading history of bones using microCT

Fall 2022

Date Speaker Topic

Sep. 13

Naeha Subramanian
(University of Washington)
Sponsored by QLS

Innate immunity at the interface of host defense and immune disease

Sep. 20

Michael Frank
(Stanford)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Bigger data about smaller people: Studying language learning at scale

Sep. 27

Amy Goldberg
(Duke University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Evolutionary perspectives on malaria: humans, primates, and the parasites we share

Oct. 4

Michael Baym
(Harvard University)
Sponsored by QLS

What other factors select on antibiotic resistance?

Oct. 11

Reading Week

Reading Week

​Oct. 18

Satrajit Ghosh
(MIT)
Sponsored by QLS

Unpacking the Speech Chain: A window of scientific and technological opportunities

Oct. 26
(Wednesday)

Fabian Theis
(Helmholtz)
Sponsored by QLS

Learning Single Cell Atlases

Nov. 1

Peter Harrison
(Cambridge)
Sponsored by CAMBAM
Timbre and consonance

Nov. 8

James Faeder
(University of Pittsburgh)
Sponsored by CAMBAM
Computational Modeling of Intracellular Dynamics

Nov. 15

Sara Zapata-Marin
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Understanding the spatio-temporal distribution of pollen in Toronto

Nov. 22

Laura Pollock
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS
Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity
Nov. 29

John Murray
(Yale University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Learning and Generalization through Neural Representations

Dec. 6

Amber Smith
(University of Tennessee)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Modeling the Dynamics of Viral-Bacterial Coinfection

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

Winter 2022

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 11

Jun Ding
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Decoding cellular dynamics from single-cell data for more effective cell fate manipulation

Jan. 18

Pouya Bashivan
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Artificial neural networks in visual neuroscience: towards a quantitative explanation of visual object recognition in the brain

Jan. 25

Gary Bader
(University of Toronto)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

How is cell diversity generated during development?

Feb. 1

Becca Asquith
(Imperial College London)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Immune cell dynamics and human health

Feb. 8

Caroline Colijn
(Simon Fraser University)
Sponsored by QLS
Genomic Epidemiology in SARS-CoV-2: new tools and challenges

​Feb. 15

Laura Pollock
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Rescheduled to Mar. 29.ÌýPromise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity

Feb. 22

Josh McDermott
(MIT)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning

Mar. 1

Reading Week No Seminar

Mar. 8

Lucien Weiss
(Polytechnique Montreal)
Sponsored by QLS
Capturing cell-population dynamics at subcellular resolution in flow

Mar. 15

Maria Vera-Ugalde
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Imaging single mÏ㽶ÊÓƵ molecules to investigate neuronal protein homeostasis

Mar. 22

Antoine Allard
(University of Laval)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Contact Network Epidemiology: Heterogeneity and Stochasticity of Disease Spread
Mar. 29

Laura Pollock
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Promise and pitfalls in predicting biodiversity

Apr. 5

Allison Shaw
(University of Minnesota)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Parasites, animal migration, and how perspective shapes science

Apr.12

Sam Gershman
(Harvard University)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

The riddle of dopamine

Apr. 19

SueYeon Chung
(Columbia University)
Sponsored by QLS

Structure, Function, and Learning in Distributed Neuronal Networks

Apr. 26

Naeha Subramanian
(University of Washington)
Sponsored by QLS
TBD

May 3

Herve Abdi
(University of Texas at Dallas)
Sponsored by Ludmer

Mega-Meta with covSTATIS: or How to Perform Multivariate Factor Meta-Analysis

May 17

Lluis Quintana-Murci
(Institut Pasteur)
Sponsored by QLS

From Neanderthals to COVID-19: genetic and evolutionary sources of immune response variation in humans

Fall 2021

Date Speaker Topic

Sep. 7

Taj Azarian
(University of Central Florida)
Sponsored by QLS

Meaningful use of pathogen genomic data: Tracking bacterial mobile elements using published sequences

Sep. 14

Marlene Cohen
(University of Pittsburgh)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Topological insights into the neural basis of flexible behavior

Sep. 21

Dani Bassett
(University of Pennsylvania)
Sponsored by Ludmer Centre

The brain's structural connectome is organized to support efficient control of state transitions

Sep. 28

Matthew Stephens
(University of Chicago)
Sponsored by QLS

A simple new approach to variable selection in regression, with application to genetic fine-mapping

Oct. 5

Marc Timme
(Dresden)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Model-free inference of network structural features from observed dynamics

Oct. 12

Katia Koelle
(Emory University)
Sponsored by QLS

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 evolution at multiple scales, with implications for viral spread

Oct. 19

Emma Teeling
(University College Dublin)
Sponsored by QLS

The genomic basis of bats' extended longevity and tolerant immunity: Why should society care?

Oct. 26

Lai-Sang Young
(New York University)
Sponsored by QLS

Dynamics in a model of primate visual cortex

Nov. 2

Stacey Finley
(University of Southern California)
Sponsored by QLS

Mechanistic modeling of immune cell activation in cancer

Nov. 9

Dana Pe'er
(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Sponsored by QLS

Causes and Consequences of Plasticity in Cancer and Development

Nov. 16

Julie Hussin
(University ofÌýMontreal)
Sponsored by QLS

A sex-specific evolutionary interaction betweenÌýADCY9ÌýandÌýCETP

Nov. 23

Chris Klausmeier
(Michigan State University)
Sponsored by QLS

Trait-based eco-evolutionary theory

Nov. 30

Ben Goult
(University of Kent)
Sponsored by QLS

The MeshCODE theory – does our brain store memories in a binary format?

Dec. 7

Pedro Peres-Neto
(Concordia University)
Sponsored by QLS

Spatial pattern detection in genetic and ecological data

Dec. 14

Guillaume Lajoie
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Top-down optimization recovers biological coding principles of single-neuron adaptation in RNNs

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

Winter 2021

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 12

Vladimir Reinharz
(UQAM)
Sponsored by QLS

Conservation of structural long-range modules in Ï㽶ÊÓƵs

Jan. 19

Paul Francois
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS
Ìý

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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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

Fall 2020

Date Speaker Topic

Sep. 8

TBD

TBD

Sep. 15

Arvind Kumar
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Emergence and control of spatiotemporal sequences of neuronal activity in biological neuronal networks

Sep. 22

Thomas Bury
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Bifurcations in the era of big data: applications in cardiology and ecology

Sep. 29

Sebastien Lemieux
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by QLS

Challenges and opportunities for biomarker discovery when applying machine learning techniques to large Ï㽶ÊÓƵ-Seq cohorts

Oct. 6

Jesse Shapiro
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Pangenome evolution on human time scales

Oct. 13

Tatjana Tchumatchenko
(Max Planck)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Statistical laws of protein motion in neuronal dendritic trees

Oct. 20

Jian Tang
(HEC Montreal)
Sponsored by QLS
Graph Representation Learning and Applications to Drug Discovery

Oct. 27

Candice Odgers
(UC Irvine)
Sponsored by MiCM

The shifting science of screen time, social media use, and adolescent development

Nov. 3

Patricia Silveira
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by Ludmer

Nov. 10

Roger Peng
(Johns Hopkins University)
Sponsored by MiCM

Lessons in Disaster: How Can We Learn From Data Analysis Failures?

Nov. 17

Claire Brown
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

Lipoma Preferred Partner (LPP) Regulates Breast Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion

Nov. 24

Please note: This talk will
be held at 12:30pm

Martin Lindquist
(Johns Hopkins University)
Sponsored by MiCM

Principal Directions of Mediation

Dec. 1

Adrian Serohijos
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by QLS

High-resolution lineage tracking reveals coupling between intra-species and community-level population dynamics during bacterial colonization of the mouse gut

Dec. 8

Justin Marleau
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

Elements of an ecology of material conditions

ÌýQLS would like to thank Dr. Mathieu Blanchette, Dr. Suresh Krishna, Dr. Anmar Khadra, Dr. Celia Greenwood, Lindsay Dayton, and Joanne Clark for their help with organizing the seminars.

Winter 2020

Date 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"Ìý

Jan. 28

Jesper Sjostrom
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

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

Mar. 24

Claire Brown
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
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

Fall 2019

Date Speaker Topic

Sep. 10

Brian LeungÌý
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by QLS

"Predictive socio-ecological models for invasive species and sustainability"

Sep. 17

Sara Mostafavi
(University of British Columbia)
Sponsored by the Ludmer Centre

"Combining genomics data to predict function of the non-coding genome"

Sep. 24

Erik Cook
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Predicting visually-guided behavior from fluctuations and correlations in neural activity"

Oct. 1

Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal
(University of Laval)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Machine-learning-assisted microscopy : from smart scanning approaches to the generation of synthetic super-resolution images"

Oct. 8

Quaid Morris
(University of Toronto)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Human somatic evolution: cancer and otherwise"

Oct. 15

Rahul Satija
(NY Genome)
Sponsored by QLS

"Integrated analysis of single-cell data across technologies and modalities"

Oct. 22

Karen Kopciuk
(University of Calgary)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Learning from data"

Oct. 29

Saurabh Sinha
(Urbana-Champaign)
Sponsored by QLS

"Transcriptional mechanisms of phenotypic variation from multi-omics data"

Nov. 5

Jaya Satagopan
(Rutgers)
Sponsored by QLS

"Evaluation of interactions in clinical and molecular epidemiology studies"

Nov. 12

Rumi Chunara
(New York University)
Sponsored by MiCM

"Data and machine learning in population and public health"

Nov. 19

Michael Mackey
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Biology, Mathematics & Physics: Interactions and Interdependence"

Nov. 26

Morgan Craig
(University of Montreal)
Sponsored by CAMBAM

"Quantitative approaches addressing intratumour heterogeneity and its impact on therapeutic outcomes"

QLS would like to thank Dr. Mathieu Blanchette, Dr. Erik Cook, Dr. Celia Greenwood, Lindsay Dayton, and Joanne Clark for their help with organizing the seminars.Ìý

Winter 2019

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 8

Ed Bullmore
(Cambridge University)

"Slow connectome dynamics during adolescence and genetic risks for schizophrenia"

Jan. 15

Sabrina Leslie
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Deconstructing biology with simple single-molecule imaging: Controlling conformation, confinement, and concentration"

Jan. 22

Pierre-Andre Menard
(Computer Research Institute of Montreal)

"Natural language processing in the medical field: CRIM’S projects and tools"

Jan. 29

Matt van der Meer
(Dartmouth)

"Oscillations as an organizing principle for understanding information processing in the rodent ventral striatum"

Feb. 5

Mathieu Lavallee
(University of Ottawa)

"Getting more out of mass spectrometry-based proteomics using supervised learning approaches and on-the-fly data analysis"

Feb. 12

Gil McVean
(Oxford University)

"Mapping the structure of genetic risk for common disease in the UK Biobank"

​Feb. 19

Nicolas Moitessier
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Computational methods in drug discovery – can computers truly assist medicinal chemists?"

Feb. 26

Sidhartha Goyal
(University of Toronto)

"How adaptive immunity constrains the composition and fate of large bacterial populations"

Mar. 5

Anita Layton
(University of Waterloo)

"Cardiovascular benefits and potential side effects of SGLT2 inhibitors, a new class of anti-hyperglyceamic drugs"

Mar. 12

Ma'n Zawati
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Rise of the Planet of the Apps: Ethical and Legal Considerations of mhealth Apps in Medical Research"

Mar. 19

Shawn Brown
(MCIN, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"CBRAIN, a platform for accomplishing science on advanced research computing"

Mar. 26

Bratislav Misic
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"The Connected Brain"

Apr. 2

Jean Francois Ethier
(University of Sherbrooke)

"PARS3, an infrastructure to support data access activities in context of learning health systems"

Apr. 9

Bryan Grenfell
(Princeton University)

"Spatio-temporal dynamics of childhood infectious disease: predictability and the impact of vaccination"

Apr.16

Adrianne Jenner
(University of Sydney)

"A Hybrid Mathematical Approach to Improve Chemotherapy Implant Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer"

Apr. 23

Nigam Shah
(Stanford University)

"Good machine learning for better healthcare"

Apr. 30

Anmar Khadra
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Understanding cellular polarity and adhesion dynamics involved in cell motility using spatiotemporal models"

Fall 2018

Date Speaker Topic

Sep. 11

Hinke Osinga
​(University of Auckland)

"When slow meets global: geometric insights from numerics"

Sep. 18

Frank Harrell
(Vanderbilt University)

"Musings on statistical models vs. machine learning in health research"

Sep. 25

Dominique Gravel
(Université de Sherbrooke)

"Predicting the architecture of biodiversity"

Oct. 2

Jackie Vogel
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Born that way: The role of initial state in the formation, stability and function of the mitotic spindle"

Oct. 9

Dannie Durand
​(Carnegie Mellon University)

"Evolutionary rewiring of a bacterial signaling pathway"

Oct. 16

Eric Cytrynbaum
(University of British Columbia)

"Control of growth in plant cells through kinetic and mechanical microtubule organization"

Oct. 23

Josee Dupuis
​(Boston University)

"Ancestry attracts, but love is blind: Evaluation of structured mating"Ìý

Oct. 30

Alan EvansÌý
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Modelling of connectivity in normal and disordered brains"

Nov. 6

Leslie Loew
(University of Connecticut)

"The interplay of structural and cellular biophysics controls clustering of multivalent molecules"

Nov. 13

Sylvain Baillet
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"The predictive machine: neural network architectures for brain perceptual inference"

Nov. 20

Hamed Najafabadi
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"Ï㽶ÊÓƵ stability, the uncharted territory of gene regulation"

Nov. 27

Conor Liston
(Weill Cornell Medicine)

"Resting-state connectivity biomarkers define neurophysiological subtypes of depression"

Dec. 4

Anna Goldenberg
(University of Toronto)

"Developing machine learning models for phenotype prediction vs disease mechanism detection. A play in 3 acts."

Dec. 11

Erica Moodie
(Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

"SMART studies: An Evidence-Based approach to Precision Medicine"

ÌýQLS would like to thank Dr. Mathieu Blanchette, Dr. Erik Cook, Dr. Celia Greenwood, Lindsay Dayton, and Joanne Clark for their help with organizing the seminars.

Winter 2018

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 11

Fred Guichard
(Biology, McGill)

Meta-ecosystem theories: species that matter for the cycling of matter

Jan. 18

Simon Gravel
(Human Genetics, McGill)

Genomics like it’s 1960: revisiting classical models with modern data

Jan. 25

Felicia Magpantay
(Math & Stats, Queen’s University)

Some challenges in modeling imperfect vaccines

Feb. 1

Laurent Potvin-Trottier
(Biology and Physics, Concordia University)

Engineering precise synthetic circuits and what it can teach us about biology

Feb. 8

Dave Stephens
(Math & Stats, McGill)

Phylogenetic and Phylodynamic analysis of HIV infection in Montreal

Feb. 15

Gregoire Altan-Bonnet
(National Cancer Institute, NIH)

Modeling how cytokine communications regulate the phenotypic variabilityÌýof immune cells across spatio-temporal scales

Feb. 22

Douglas Richardson
(Center for Biological Imaging, Harvard)

Measuring endosomal pH beyond the diffraction limit

Mar. 1

Paul Wiseman
(Chemistry & Physics, McGill)

Cellular cartography: Mapping protein transport and interactions in living cells with fluorescence imaging & fluctuation analysis

Mar. 15

Anmar Khadra
(Physiology, McGill)

Excitability in Cerebellar Stellate Cells: From Latency to Runup

Mar. 22

Jonathan Marchini
(Statistics, University of Oxford)

Brain imaging genetics in the UK Biobank

Mar. 29

Nicole Li-Jessen
(Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill)

Agent-based models of vocal fold trauma and repair

Apr. 5

Brian Ingalls
(Applied Math, University of Waterloo)

Synthetic biology approaches to suppression of antibiotic resistance: toward model-based design

Apr. 12

Fred Adler
(Math, University of Utah)

Using ecological models in biomedicine

Apr. 19

Erik Cook
(Physiology, McGill)

What causes a neuron to spike?

Apr. 26

Kevin Hall
(Nat.ÌýInst.Ìýof Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH)

The calculus of calories: Mathematical modeling of human body weight dynamics

May 3

Peter Grutter
(Physics, McGill)

Atomic Force Microscopy for the Life Sciences: Quantifying forces

ÌýQLS would like to thank Dr. Erik CookÌýfor his help with organizing the seminars.

Fall 2017

Date Speaker Topic

07-Sep

Dr. Celia Greenwood (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Mendelian randomization in the presence of pleiotropy.

14-Sep

Dr. Yoram Vodovotz (University of Pittsburgh)

Integrating Data-Driven and Mechanistic Computational Models of Inflammation: A Roadmap for Translational Systems Biology.

21-Sep

Dr. Stephanie Weber (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Assembly and function of membraneless organelles.

28-Sep

Dr. David Rocke (University of California, Davis)Ìý

Excess False Positives in Negative-Binomial Based Analysis of Data from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ-Seq Experiments.

05-Oct

Dr. Alex Mogilner (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)

Theoretical and experimental analyses of cell motility initiation and turning

12-Oct

Dr. Dirk Bucher (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Neuromodulation shapes motor output at all levels of neural processing

19-Oct

Dr. Guillaume Bourque (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Scalable methods for genomic and epigenomic data analyses

26-Oct

Dr. Leon Glass (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Tipping points, critical transitions, and bifurcations: Can we predict the future?

02-Nov

Dr. Sivabal Sivaloganathan (University of Waterloo)

The Mathematical & Computational Modelling of some Problems in Clinical Medicine

09-Nov

Dr. Gregor Fussmann (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Adaptive and non-adaptive dynamics

16-Nov

Dr. Adam Hendricks (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Microtubule associated proteins and bundling direct intracellular traffickingÌý

23-Nov

Dr. Michael Guevara (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)

Regularity of beating of small clusters of embryonic chick ventricular cardiomyocytes: experiment and stochastic model

30-Nov

Dr. Fahima Nekka (University of Montreal)

Mathematical Challenges in the Pharmacokinetics of Biologics: Review, Contributions and Perspectives

07-Dec

Dr. Lydia Bourouiba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Transmission: from experiments to modeling

14-Dec

Dr. Patrick Boyle (Johns Hopkins University)

New Frontiers in Cardiac Arrhythmia Research: The Emergent Power of Computational Modelling

ÌýQLS would like to thank Dr. Anmar Khadra for his help with organizing the seminars.

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