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 video recordings of previous seminars please visit here: QLS YouTube Page.
| Winter 2024 | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Jan. 9 |
Konrad Kording |
Machine learning for causal inference |
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Jan. 16 |
Andreas Buttenschoen |
Cell Entrainment in a Mechano-Chemical Model of Collective Cell Migration |
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Jan. 23 |
Stephanie Jones |
Interpreting the Mechanisms and Meaning of Human MEG/EEG signals with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Neural Modeling Software |
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Jan. 30 |
QLS Research Day |
Multi-Cohort Statistical Approaches with Applications to Type 2 Diabetes |
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Feb. 6 |
Alex Diaz-Papkovich (Brown University) Sponsored by QLS |
Topological analysis of high-dimensional human genetic data in biobanks |
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Feb. 13 |
Christian Landry (Université Laval) Sponsored by QLS |
Navigating protein fitness landscapes in multiple dimensions |
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Feb. 20 |
Camille Maumet (INRIA) Sponsored by QLS |
Towards reproducible neuroimaging across different analysis pipelines |
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Feb. 27 |
Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
How behavioral and evolutionary constraints sculpt early visual processing |
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Mar. 5 |
No Seminar (Reading Week) | No Seminar |
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Mar. 12 |
Alton Russell (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS |
Informing policies to mitigate iron deficiency in blood donors through public health data science |
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Mar. 19 |
Hanspeter Herzel (Institute for Theoretical Biology) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Oscillator theory meets biological rhythms |
| Mar. 26 |
Sridevi Sarma |
Network Biomarkers for Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment: combining brain imaging data with systems modeling |
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Apr. 2 |
Erin Dickie (CAMH) Sponsored by QLS |
Transdiagnostic neuroimaging to understand mental health across the lifespan |
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Apr.9 |
Guillaume Butler-Laporte |
Can genomics really improve management of human diseases? |
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Apr. 16 |
Julia Rohrer (University of Leipzig) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Directed Acyclic Graphs as a Tool to Reason about Causality |
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Apr. 23 |
Sirui Zhou (McGill University) Sponsored by QLS |
"Population Omics”, complex traits and drug targets |