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Event

QLS Research Day

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 09:00to15:30

2025 QLS Research Day – February 4 2025
Jeanne Timmins Auditorium, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University

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8:30 - 9:00


Coffee & Snacks
(Poster Setup)

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Jeanne Timmins Foyer




9:00 – 10:30

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Welcome

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Fred Guichard, QLS Program Director


Keynote speaker


Pedro Peres-Neto (Concordia): Go big or go home: the need for larger and more sophisticated models to advance biodiversity science




Jeanne Timmins Auditorium

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10:30 – 11:00


Break
(Poster Setup)

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Jeanne Timmins Foyer

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11:00 – 12:30


Student Presentations

Ana Catarina Avila Vitorino (Leung Lab): Incorporating land use history and landscape structures improves predictability of Neotropical forest regrowth


Orsolya Lapohos (Fonseca & Emad Labs): Refining sequence-to-expression modelling with chromatin accessibility

Adrien Osakwe (Sladek & Li Labs): Topic Modelling for Spatial Transcriptome Analyses

Chen-Yang Su (Yoshiji & Zhou Labs): Multi-ancestry proteome-phenome-wide Mendelian randomization offers a comprehensive protein-disease atlas and potential therapeutic targets







Jeanne Timmins Auditorium


12:30 – 14:30


Lunch & Poster Session

Mariana Carmona Baez (Schmidt Lab): Directional effects in latent structures of disease mapping models

Jake Harvey (Guichard Lab): Synthesizing Trophic and Non-Trophic Ecology with Higher-Order Interactions

Fritz Jalandoni (Khadra Lab): Decoding Decision-Making Networks in the Mouse Brain: A Functional Connectivity Approach

Erica Kleinbrink (Greenwood Lab): Imputation across HLA/MHC Alleles using Machine Learning-based Simulation Methods Shows High Concordance with HLA/MHC Typing in Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes

Megan Ng (Murai & Siddiqi Lab):ÌýAlterations of astrocytic nanostructure in Alzheimer's model mice

Lucas Philipp (Weber Lab): 3D Electron Microscopy of Dinoflagellate Chromosomes Across Many Species

Benjamin Rudski (Reznikov Lab): VectoRose: A new tool for analysing 3D anisotropic structures

Xiuhui Yang (Ding Lab): scGeneRhythm: Using Wavelet Transformation and Neural Networks to Revolutionize Gene Cluster and Biomarker Discovery through Expression-Time-Frequency Patterns in Single-Cell Data

Thomas Zheng (Zhou & Richards Lab): Phenotype-Based Proteomic Imputation: Expanding Proteomics

Yefeng Yang (Yoshiji Lab): Circulating Proteomic Signatures for Improved Prediction and Understanding of Coronary Artery Disease Heterogeneity










Jeanne Timmins Foyer


14:30 – 15:30

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QUALSA “Resilience Hourâ€

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Jeanne Timmins Auditorium


14:30 – 15:30


PI Meeting


QLS Conference Room

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