Schedule

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.

2024-2025 Season

Next Talk: February 26, 2025

4:00-5:00 – Main Event in-person at CCBR, Black room (limited capacity) and on Zoom
Trainee Speaker: Dr. Gergely Pap, Hoffman Lab, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN.
Title: Transcription factor binding site detection with a non-parametric nearest neighbors approach.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Shu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto.
Title: Inferring biochemical reaction network properties and dynamics from single-cell high-dimensional data.

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 – Sean Robertson, Wilkins Lab, Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba.
• March 26, 2025 – Shu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
• April 30, 2025 – Shraddha Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto