September - Jérome Waldispühl¶
Event Details
Date/Time:
Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Location: Room PK-4610, President-Kennedy Pavillion, UQÀM (201, avenue du Président-Kennedy, Montréal, QC H2X 2J5)
Schedule:
17 h 30 — Student speaker
Speaker : Georgi Merhi
From : the lab of Jesse Shapiro, School of Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University.
Title : A genome in the lice-stack: metagenomic recovery of Bartonella quintana
Time : 12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A
Presentation: in English
17 h 45 — Main speaker
Speaker : Jérôme Waldispuhl
From : School of Computer Science at McGill University
Titre : Levelling up (meta)genomics research
Time : 40 min presentation + 10 min Q&A
Presentation: in English
18 h 35 — Networking event
Drinks and bites will be served.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Jérome Waldispühl
Affiliation: School of Computer Science at McGill University
Talk Title: Levelling up (meta)genomics research

Trainee Speaker: Georgi Merhi
Affiliation: the lab of Jesse Shapiro, School of Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University.
Talk Title: A genome in the lice-stack: metagenomic recovery of Bartonella quintana