TorBUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month from September through April. Research presentations from bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives.

Meetings for 2024-2025 will be held in-person at CCBR Black Room (limited capacity), and virtually via Zoom at 4:00 pm and are FREE and OPEN to all.

Join via Zoom
4:00pm – 4:05pmIntroduction
4:05pm – 4:20pmTrainee Presentation
4:20pm – 5:00pmGuest Speaker Presentation
5:00pm – 6:00pmTorBUG Social, CCBR White room (limited capacity)

2024-2025 Season

Next Talk: January 29, 2024

Join via Zoom

4:00-5:00 – Main Event in-person at CCBR, Black room (limited capacity) and on Zoom
Trainee Speaker: Ami Sangster, Moses Lab, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto.
Title: Defining and visualizing independently functioning regions in proteins using embeddings from a large language model expression in spatial transcriptomics.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Maria Chikina, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Title: Towards interpretable sequence to function models.

5:00-6:00 – In-person social in White Room (limited capacity).

Upcoming Speakers 2024-2025

  • September 25, 2024 – Max Shafer, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto
  • October 30, 2024 – Tallulah Andrews, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario
  • November 27, 2024 – Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM), University Health Network
  • January 29, 2025 – Maria Chikina, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • February 26, 2025 – Olivia Wilkins, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba
  • March 26, 2025 – Nilah Ioannidis, Assistant Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Center for Computational Biology at UC Berkeley
  • April 30, 2025 – Shraddha Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto

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