BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250504T224034EDT-7285kMZx8w@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250505T024034Z DESCRIPTION:2025 QLS Research Day – February 4 2025\n Jeanne Timmins Auditor ium\, Montreal Neurological Institute\, 3801 University\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n 8:30 - 9:00\n \n \n \n Coffee & Snacks\n (Poster Setup)\n\n  \n \n \n \n Jeanne Timm ins Foyer\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9:00 – 10:30\n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n \n \n \n Welcome\n \n  \n\n Fred Guichard\, QLS Program Director\n\n \n Keynote speaker\n\n \n Pedr o Peres-Neto (Concordia): Go big or go home: the need for larger and more sophisticated models to advance biodiversity science\n \n \n \n \n \n Jeanne Tim mins Auditorium\n \n \n \n \n  \n\n 10:30 – 11:00\n \n \n \n Break \n (Poster Setup) \n\n  \n \n \n \n Jeanne Timmins Foyer\n \n \n \n \n  \n\n 11:00 – 12:30\n \n \n \n Stude nt Presentations\n \n Ana Catarina Avila Vitorino (Leung Lab): Incorporating land use history and landscape structures improves predictability of Neot ropical forest regrowth\n\n \n Orsolya Lapohos (Fonseca & Emad Labs): Refini ng sequence-to-expression modelling with chromatin accessibility\n \n Adrien Osakwe (Sladek & Li Labs): Topic Modelling for Spatial Transcriptome Anal yses\n \n Chen-Yang Su (Yoshiji & Zhou Labs): Multi-ancestry proteome-phenom e-wide Mendelian randomization offers a comprehensive protein-disease atla s and potential therapeutic targets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jeanne Timmins Audito rium\n \n \n \n \n \n 12:30 – 14:30 \n \n \n \n Lunch & Poster Session\n\n Mariana Ca rmona Baez (Schmidt Lab): Directional effects in latent structures of dise ase mapping models\n \n Jake Harvey (Guichard Lab): Synthesizing Trophic and Non-Trophic Ecology with Higher-Order Interactions\n \n Fritz Jalandoni (Kh adra Lab): Decoding Decision-Making Networks in the Mouse Brain: A Functio nal Connectivity Approach\n \n Erica Kleinbrink (Greenwood Lab): Imputation across HLA/MHC Alleles using Machine Learning-based Simulation Methods Sho ws High Concordance with HLA/MHC Typing in Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes\n \n M egan Ng (Murai & Siddiqi Lab): Alterations of astrocytic nanostructure in Alzheimer's model mice\n \n Lucas Philipp (Weber Lab): 3D Electron Microscop y of Dinoflagellate Chromosomes Across Many Species\n \n Benjamin Rudski (Re znikov Lab): VectoRose: A new tool for analysing 3D anisotropic structures \n \n Xiuhui Yang (Ding Lab): scGeneRhythm: Using Wavelet Transformation and Neural Networks to Revolutionize Gene Cluster and Biomarker Discovery thr ough Expression-Time-Frequency Patterns in Single-Cell Data\n \n Thomas Zhen g (Zhou & Richards Lab): Phenotype-Based Proteomic Imputation: Expanding P roteomics\n \n Yefeng Yang (Yoshiji Lab): Circulating Proteomic Signatures f or Improved Prediction and Understanding of Coronary Artery Disease Hetero geneity\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jeanne Timmins Foyer\n \n \n \n \n \n 14:30 – 15: 30\n \n \n  \n\n QUALSA “Resilience Hour”\n\n  \n \n \n \n Jeanne Timmins Auditoriu m\n \n \n \n \n \n 14:30 – 15:30\n \n \n \n PI Meeting\n \n \n \n QLS Conference Room\n \n \n \n\n DTSTART:20250204T140000Z DTEND:20250204T203000Z SUMMARY:QLS Research Day URL:/qls/channels/event/qls-research-day-362786 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR