Past Seminars

Winter 2025

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 7	Re Mansbach (Concordia University) Sponsored by QLS	Learning from Life: Lessons from ML and Biophysical Simulations
January 14 听	Alex Diaz-Papkovich (Brown University) Sponsored by QLS	Low-dimensional representations of high-dimensional biobank data
January 21	Kanaka Rajan (Harvard University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Brain-Wide Compositionality and Learning Dynamics in Biological Agents
January 28	Chris Bauch (Waterloo听University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Dynamical regimes and tipping points in coupled social-ecological systems
February 4	QLS Research Day	QLS Research Day
February 11	Daniel Streicker (University of Glasgow) Sponsored by QLS	Interventions to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats: promises and pitfalls
February 18	Kevin Thurley (University of Bonn) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Modeling cell-cell interaction networks and diffusion-limited cytokine signaling in T cell populations
February 25	Chris听Eliasmith (University of Waterloo) Sponsored by CAMBAM	The algebra of cognition
March 4	No Seminar	Reading Week
March 11	Ivette Perfecto (University of Michigan) Sponsored by QLS	Ants play rock, paper, scissors: implications of intransitivities in competitive ant communities
March 18	Timothy Brady (UCSD) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Visual memory as a window into the nature of mental representations
March 25	Wiktor Mlynarski (University of Munich) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Building a theory of sensory coding for active behavior
April 1	Ilker Yildirim (Yale University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Reverse-engineering cognitive and neural representations with multilevel computational theories
April 8	Guillaume Blanchet (Universit茅听de Sherbrooke) Sponsored by QLS	Using commonly gathered data to estimate metacommunity models
April 15	Mark Lewis (University of Victoria) Sponsored by CAMBAM	One equation helps solve three paradoxes in the spatial ecology of predators and prey
April 22	Peter Mucha (Dartmouth College) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Community Detection in Networks: Pruning and Picking Parameters
April 29	Selin Jessa (Stanford University) Sponsored by QLS	Dissecting gene regulation syntax using glass-box machine learning

Fall 2024

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 10	Jason Bramburger (Concordia University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Data-driven system analysis using polynomial optimization and the Koopman operator
September 17 听	Satoshi Yoshiji (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	Leveraging genomics, proteomics, and other omics for drug target discovery in cardiometabolic diseases and complex traits: Toward better clinical care
September 24	Yelena Simine (黑料社) Sponsored by CAMBAM	New Approaches to Computational Simulation of Amorphous Materials
October 1	Qihuang Zhang (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	From Spatial Coordinates to Gene Discovery: Methodological Explorations in Spatial Transcriptomics
October 8	Nandita Garud (UCLA) Sponsored by QLS	Inference of demography and selection from human gut commensal microbiota
鈥婳ctober 15	No Seminar	Reading Week
October 22	Niklas Brake (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	An orchestra out of rhythm: aperiodic EEG and the 1/f spectral trend
October 29	Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova (Exeter) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Saddle-Node Separatrix-Loops and Neuronal Network Dynamics
November 5	Marc D McKee (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	3D imaging and quantification of synthetic and natural biomineralization systems: Growing and analyzing biorocks
November 12	Priya Moorjani (Berkeley University) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Reconstructing Evolutionary History and Processes: Insights from Analysis of Present-day and Ancient Genomes
November 19	Eve Donnelly (Cornell University) Sponsored by QLS	The paradox of fragile but dense bones in Type 2 diabetes
November 26	Patrick Desrosiers (U.Laval/CERVO) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Graph and geometry-based approaches for cellular-level analysis of structure and function in neuronal networks
December 3	Catie Chang (Vanderbilt) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Tracking time-resolved brain states with functional neuroimaging
December 10	Serguei Saavedra (MIT) Sponsored by QLS	The feasibility principle in community ecology

Winter 2024

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 9	Konrad Kording (UPenn) Sponsored by QLS	Machine learning for causal inference
Jan. 16 听	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 of听Human MEG/EEG signals听with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Neural Modeling Software
Jan. 30	QLS Research Day听 Keynote Speaker: Josee Dupuis (黑料社)	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
鈥婩eb. 13	Christian Landry (Universit茅 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 (黑料社) 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	Erin听Dickie (CAMH) Sponsored by QLS	Transdiagnostic neuroimaging to understand mental health across the lifespan
Apr.9	Guillaume Butler-Laporte (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	"Population Omics鈥�, 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 &听the 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:听Scaling, 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

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 10	Daniela Witten (University of Washington) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Single-cell RNA-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 (黑料社) 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
鈥婩eb. 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 (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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鈥檚 Disease
Apr. 25	Natalie Reznikov (黑料社) 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
鈥婳ct. 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 (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	Understanding the spatio-temporal distribution of pollen in Toronto
Nov. 22	Laura Pollock (黑料社) 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

Winter 2022

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 11	Jun Ding (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	Decoding cellular dynamics from single-cell data for more effective cell fate manipulation
Jan. 18	Pouya Bashivan (黑料社) 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
鈥婩eb. 15	Laura Pollock (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	Rescheduled to Mar. 29.听Promise 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 (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	Imaging single mRNA 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 (黑料社) 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 of听Montreal) Sponsored by QLS	A sex-specific evolutionary interaction between听ADCY9听and听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 鈥� 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.听

Winter 2021

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 12	Vladimir Reinharz (UQAM) Sponsored by QLS	Conservation of structural long-range modules in RNAs
Jan. 19	Paul Francois (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS 听	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
鈥婩eb. 16	Gordon Berman (Emory University) Sponsored by QLS	Measuring behavior across scales
Feb. 23	Sahir Bhatnagar (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	Variable selection methods in high-dimensional genetic data
Mar. 2	Reading Week	No Seminar
Mar. 9	Albert Goldbeter (Universit茅 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 (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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 RNA-Seq cohorts
Oct. 6	Jesse Shapiro (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Elements of an ecology of material conditions

听QLS 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"听
Jan. 28	Jesper Sjostrom (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	"Translational neuroimaging strategies to better understand the pathways towards neurodegenerative disorders: human and mouse MRI studies"
鈥婩eb. 18	Claire Guerrier (Universit茅 C么te 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 (黑料社) Sponsored by QLS	"Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping and machine learning"
Mar. 24	Claire Brown (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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 Leung听 (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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 (黑料社) 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.听

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 (黑料社)	"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鈥橲 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"
鈥婩eb. 19	Nicolas Moitessier (黑料社)	"Computational methods in drug discovery 鈥� 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 (黑料社)	"Rise of the Planet of the Apps: Ethical and Legal Considerations of mhealth Apps in Medical Research"
Mar. 19	Shawn Brown (MCIN, 黑料社)	"CBRAIN, a platform for accomplishing science on advanced research computing"
Mar. 26	Bratislav Misic (黑料社)	"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 (黑料社)	"Understanding cellular polarity and adhesion dynamics involved in cell motility using spatiotemporal models"

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Topic
Sep. 11	Hinke Osinga 鈥�(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 (Universit茅 de Sherbrooke)	"Predicting the architecture of biodiversity"
Oct. 2	Jackie Vogel (黑料社)	"Born that way: The role of initial state in the formation, stability and function of the mitotic spindle"
Oct. 9	Dannie Durand 鈥�(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 鈥�(Boston University)	"Ancestry attracts, but love is blind: Evaluation of structured mating"听
Oct. 30	Alan Evans听 (黑料社)	"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 (黑料社)	"The predictive machine: neural network architectures for brain perceptual inference"
Nov. 20	Hamed Najafabadi (黑料社)	"RNA 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 (黑料社)	"SMART studies: An Evidence-Based approach to Precision Medicine"

听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.

Winter 2018

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 11	Fred Guichard (Biology, 黑料社)	Meta-ecosystem theories: species that matter for the cycling of matter
Jan. 18	Simon Gravel (Human Genetics, 黑料社)	Genomics like it鈥檚 1960: revisiting classical models with modern data
Jan. 25	Felicia Magpantay (Math & Stats, Queen鈥檚 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, 黑料社)	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 variability听of 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, 黑料社)	Cellular cartography: Mapping protein transport and interactions in living cells with fluorescence imaging & fluctuation analysis
Mar. 15	Anmar Khadra (Physiology, 黑料社)	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, 黑料社)	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, 黑料社)	What causes a neuron to spike?
Apr. 26	Kevin Hall (Nat.听Inst.听of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH)	The calculus of calories: Mathematical modeling of human body weight dynamics
May 3	Peter Grutter (Physics, 黑料社)	Atomic Force Microscopy for the Life Sciences: Quantifying forces

听QLS would like to thank Dr. Erik Cook听for his help with organizing the seminars.

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Topic
07-Sep	Dr. Celia Greenwood (黑料社)	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 (黑料社)	Assembly and function of membraneless organelles.
28-Sep	Dr. David Rocke (University of California, Davis)听	Excess False Positives in Negative-Binomial Based Analysis of Data from RNA-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 (黑料社)	Scalable methods for genomic and epigenomic data analyses
26-Oct	Dr. Leon Glass (黑料社)	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 (黑料社)	Adaptive and non-adaptive dynamics
16-Nov	Dr. Adam Hendricks (黑料社)	Microtubule associated proteins and bundling direct intracellular trafficking听
23-Nov	Dr. Michael Guevara (黑料社)	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

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

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