TorBUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month from September through April. Research presentations from bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives.
Meetings for 2025-2026 will be held in-person at CCBR Black Room (limited capacity), and virtually via Zoom at 3:00 pm and are FREE and OPEN to all.
Join via Zoom| 3:00pm – 3:05pm | Introduction |
| 3:05pm – 3:20pm | Trainee Presentation |
| 3:20pm – 4:00pm | Guest Speaker Presentation |
| 4:00pm – 5:00pm | TorBUG Social, CCBR White room (limited capacity) |
2025-2026 Season
Next Talk: November 26, 2025
Join via Zoom3:00-3:05pm – Introduction
3:05 – 4:05pm – Trainee Presentations:
Andres Melani De La Hoz, Courtot Lab, Department of Medical BioPhysics – An LLM supported approach to Knowledge Graph construction for clinical applications
Farnoosh Abbas-Aghababazadeh, Haibe-Kains Lab, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre – Biomarkers in Precision Cancer Immunotherapy: Decentralized and Bias-Aware
Nuo Xu, Department of Physiology, Tripathy Lab, Long-read proteogenomic atlas of human neuronal differentiation reveals isoform diversity informing neurodevelopmental risk mechanisms
Sara Pour, Hughes Lab, Department of Molecular Genetics. – Sequence Features and the Hidden Grammar of mRNA 3′ End Choice.
Yifan Wu, Provart Lab, Department of Cell & Systems Biology – Benchmarking AlphaFold on Heterodimeric Complex Modeling in Arabidopsis thaliana for High-Throughput Variant Effect Prediction.
4:00-5:00pm – Social in-person in CCBR, White Room.
Upcoming Events 2025-2026
- September 24, 2025 – Dr. Mor Nitzan, Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- October 29, 2025 – Career Fireside Chat – Michelle Brazas & Jacob Fine
- November 26, 2025 – Trainee Speaker Rounds
- January 28, 2026 – Trainee Speaker Rounds
- Spring events to be announced soon.