TorBUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month from September through April. Research presentations from bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives.
Meetings for 2023-2024 will be held in-person at CCBR Black (2023) and Red (2024) Room (limited capacity), and virtually via Zoom at 4:00 pm and are FREE and OPEN to all.
Join via Zoom| 4:00pm – 4:05pm | Introduction |
| 4:05pm – 4:20pm | Trainee Presentation |
| 4:20pm – 5:00pm | Guest Speaker Presentation |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm | TorBUG Social, CCBR Black room (limited capacity) |
2023-2024 Season
Next Talk: Spetember 27, 2023
Join via Zoom4:00-5:00 – Main Event in-person at CCBR, Black room (limited capacity) and on Zoom
Trainee Speaker: Ernest Namdar, PhD Candidate
Title: From radiomics to genomics: Multiclass Radiomics-based Models for Pediatric Low-Grade Neuroepithelial Tumors Molecular Subtype Identification Based on Open-Radiomics Protocol
Guest Speaker: Dr Artem Babaian
Title: The Platinum Age of Virus Discovery: Why the next 5 years will define the next 5 decades of virology
5:00-6:00 – In-person social in Black Room (limited capacity)
Upcoming Speakers 2022-2023
- September 27, 2023 – Artem Babaian, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
- October 25, 2023 – Carl de Boer, Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia
- November 29, 2023 – Dana Pe’er, Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
- January 31, 2024 – Philip Awadalla, Director of Computational Biology, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- February 22, 2024 – Josh Welch, Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School
- March 27, 2024 – Sara Mostafavi, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington College of Engineering
- April 24, 2024 – Mike Schatz, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University