08 Sep 2023
Genomics in Nigeria Healthcare system: Lessons learnt from research and clinical collaboration
Dr. Idowu Olawoye
Western University
22 Sep 2023
Forecasting flu epidemic size and type through analysis of viral genetic data
Dr. Manon Ragonnet-Cronin
University of Chicago
06 Oct 2023
Computational Frameworks Integrating Deep Learning and Statistical Models in Analyzing Single cell RNA Sequencing Data
Leann Lac
University of Manitoba
20 Oct 2023
Studying RNA post-translational regulation: from tissues to single cells
Dr. Hamed S. Najafabadi
McGill University
10 Nov 2023
Power of Inclusion: enhancing polygenic prediction with admixed individuals
Dr. Yosuke Tanigawa
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Nov 2023
Cell Location Recovery with CeLEry: a supervised deep-learning algorithm for discovering spatial origins in scRNA-seq
Dr. Qihuang Zhang
McGill University
08 Dec 2023
Including scale when analyzing high throughput sequencing datasets
Dr. Greg Gloor
Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Western University
15 Dec 2023
AI for antibiotic design
Dr. Jonathan Stokes
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
17 Jan 2024
The Specifics of Pan-Cancer Microbial Structure
Dr. Abraham Gihawi
Research Fellow, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
26 Jan 2024
Beyond GWAS: Massively parallel genome engineering to pinpoint causal variants and target genes
John Morris, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, New York Genome Center, Department of Biology, New York University
01 Feb 2024
Using Al to assist clinical decision-making in pathology and precision medicine
Zhi Huang, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
23 Feb 2024
HIV reservoir establishment and persistence in the Rakai cohort, Uganda
Dr. Edward Kankaka
Research Scientist, Rakai Health Sciences Program, Uganda; Junior Research Scientist, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda
08 Mar 2024
Entering the Platinum Age of Virus Discovery
Dr. Artem Babian
20 Mar 2024
Insights into brain disease etiology from genetic and genomic "big data"
Dr. Michael Wainberg
Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
20 Mar 2024
A proportionality index (PIP) as a measure of association of parts in compositional data
Dr. Juan José Egozcue
Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universidat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
19 Apr 2024
The Challenges in Performing Statistical Tests on Large-Scale Genomic Data Sets
Dr. Xuekui Zhang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria
10 May 2024
Machine Learning and Brain Epigenomes for Precision Medicine
Dr. Shraddha Pai
Ontario Institue for Cancer Research, University of Toronto
30 May 2024
Exploring the world of proviruses using bioinformatics, modelling and simulations
Dr. Amjad Khan
Western University, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
12 Sep 2024
Graph neural network architecture search and its applications in bioinformatics
Dr. Babatounde Moctard Oloulade
Western University, Department of Biochemistry
26 Sep 2024
Understanding the Genetics of Hematuria
Dr. Sarah A Gagliano Taliun
Département de médecine - Universite de Montreal
10 Oct 2024
Generative Models for Biomolecular Prediction, Dynamics, and Design
Bowen Jing and Hannes Stark
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
24 Oct 2024
Probabilistic Topic Modeling to Ascertain Tumour Microenvironments from a Million Single Cells
Dr. Yongjin Park
Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia
14 Nov 2024
Signals in the Cells: Multimodal and Contextualized Machine Learning Foundations for Therapeutics
Alejandro M Velez-Arce
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
25 Nov 2024
Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of emerging and established pathogens
Jeffrey Joy
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
02 Dec 2024
TBD
Jason Nomburg
UCSF / UC Berkley
17 Dec 2024
TBD
Jiarui Ding Ding
Department of Computer Science, UBC