QLS Seminar Series Fall 2021

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.

For recordings of the 2021-22 seminars please visit the QLS YouTube Page.

Fall 2021	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 of Montreal) Sponsored by QLS	A sex-specific evolutionary interaction between ADCY9 and CETP
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.

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