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September - Claudia Kleinman, Geneviève Boucher

Event Details

Date/Time:

Thursday, September 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)
16h05 - 16h45 — Claudia Kleinman, PhD (Lady Davis Institute) — Gene expression and RNA processing regulation in the human brain
16h45 - 17h05 — Snacks and beverages
17h05 - 17h30 — Geneviève Boucher (IRIC) — A machine learning approach for prognosis in leukemia using transcriptomics
17h30 - 18h00 — Emmanuel Noutahi (Université de Montréal) — Phylogenetic tree exploration and visualization made easy with ETE (postponed to the October meeting)

We're back from the summer break with three exciting presentations.

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Keynote Speaker: Dr Claudia Kleinman

Affiliation: Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research

Talk Title: Gene expression and RNA processing regulation in the human brain

Abstract:

Dr Claudia Kleinman, head of a bioinformatics laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, will be presenting her research on gene expression and RNA processing in the human brain.

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Speaker: Geneviève Boucher

Affiliation: IRIC bioinformatics core facility

Talk Title: A machine learning approach for prognosis in leukemia using transcriptomics

Abstract:

Geneviève Boucher, bioinformatics analyst at the IRIC bioinformatics core facility, will be presenting her research on machine learning approaches for prognosis in leukemia.