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: September 25, 2024

4:00-5:00 – Main Event in-person at CCBR, Black room (limited capacity) and on Zoom
Trainee Speaker: Ameer Sarwar,  Gillis-Moses Labs, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto
Title: Cross-expression analysis reveals patterns of coordinated gene expression in spatial transcriptomics.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Max Shafer, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto
Title: Sleeping through the apocalypse: how temporal activity patterns shape speciation and extinction across species.

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 Chinkina, Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• February 26, 2025 – Olivia Wilkins, 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