June - Brian Wilhelm, Nicole Uwimana, Toby Hocking¶
Event Details
Date/Time:
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 16h00 - 18h00
Location:
Location: Main auditorium, IRCM
Schedule:
16h00 - 16h05 — Introduction and open floor to participants for questions, comments or announcements (Alain Bateman or Alexis Blanchet-Cohen)
16h05 - 16h45 — Brian Wilhelm, PhD (IRIC) — Using high-throughput technologies to understand the basic mechanisms of transcriptional regulation, and to study the mutations present in leukemia
16h45 - 17h05 — Snacks and beverages
17h05 - 17h30 — Nicole Uwimana (IRCM) — Identifying cryptic genes
17h30 - 18h00 — Toby Hocking, PhD (McGill) — What is the fastest way to find overlapping genomic regions?
Speaker: Brian Wilhelm, PhD
Affiliation: IRIC
Talk Title: Using high-throughput technologies to understand the basic mechanisms of transcriptional regulation, and to study the mutations present in leukemia
Abstract:
Brian Wilhelm, PhD, principal investigator at IRIC, will be presenting some of the bioinformatics challenges he faces in analyzing high-throughput genomic data, with the objective to better understand the basic mechanisms of transcription and the mutations in leukemia.
Speaker: Nicole Uwimana
Affiliation: IRCM
Talk Title: Identifying cryptic genes
Abstract:
Nicole Uwimana will be talking about her project to bioinformatically identify cryptic genes.
Speaker: Toby Hocking, PhD
Affiliation: McGill
Talk Title: What is the fastest way to find overlapping genomic regions?
Abstract:
Toby Hocking, PhD, "R programmer extraordinaire", will be presenting a comparative study of the fastest way to find overlapping genomic regions.
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