The Graduate and Postgraduate Poster Day is an opportunity for both students and faculty members working in computational biology and related fields to meet and share ideas.
Special seminars are also listed below. Be sure to check the website again for updates!
Upcoming event(-s)
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Please stay tuned!
Past events
- 2015 (Jan 13): Fourth Graduate and Postgraduate Poster Day in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, hosted by the Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; keynote speaker: Dr. Lincoln Stein, Director of the Informatics and Bio-computing Program and Senior Principal Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, and Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto. Winners of the poster competition: (1) Caitlyn Vlasschaert (uOttawa, BIO); (2) Caitlyn Vlasschaert (uOttawa, BIO) and (3) Parameswaran Ramachandran (OHRI).
- 2013 (Oct 17): Third Graduate and Postgraduate Poster Day in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, hosted by the Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; keynote speaker: Professor Andrew Emili from the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (CCBR), University of Toronto.
- 2012 (Oct 26): Second Graduate and Postgraduate Poster Day in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, hosted by the Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; keynote speaker: Prof. Igor Jurisica, Professor in Departments of Computer Science and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Senior Scientist in Ontario Cancer Institute and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Integrative Cancer Informatics. The winners of the poster competition are (1) Yubing Liu (uOttawa, BMI); (2) Mohamed Ghadie (OHRI/uOttawa, EECS) and (3) Eric Kuebler (uOttawa, PSY).
- 2011 (Nov 14): Bioinformatics Special Seminar: Dr. Nicolas Rodrigue (Agriculture Canada): "Recent advances in population-genetic inspired codon substitution models".
- 2011 (Nov 7): Bioinformatics Special Seminar: Dr. Nicolas Lartillot (University of Montreal): "Reconstructing rates, traits and dates. Towards integrated models of macroevolution".
- 2011: First Graduate and Postgraduate Poster Day in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, hosted by the Ottawa Institute of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
- 2009: Second Bioinformatics Symposium (Program); the plenary session was given by Dr. Hervé Philippe, a world-renowned expert in phylogenomics at the Université de Montréal: "Resolving the phylogeny and divergence time of animals: more data or better methods?".
- 2008: First Bioinformatics Symposium (Program).
