Agenda for Thursday, August 8, 2024
Summerlee Science Complex Waasamowin (formerly the Atrium)
- 8:30 – 9 a.m.: Registration
Alexander Hall, Room 100
- 9 – 9:10 a.m.: Opening remarks
- 9:10 – 9:50 a.m.: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, Using machine learning to end brute force data acquisition in mass spectrometry-based proteomics
- 9:50 – 10:30 a.m.: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Asena Goren, Computational exploration of biological systems using optimization algorithms inspired by nature
- 10:30 – 11:10 a.m.: Break (refreshments provided in the Summerlee Science Complex Waasamowin)
- 11:10 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.: Presentations by current and former University of Guelph Bioinformatics and Biotechnology graduate students
- Carmen Machado Vides, Master of Biotechnology alumnus, Addressing coffee challenges with biotechnology knowhow
- Maysa Niazy, PhD in Bioinformatics candidate, Towards High-Throughput Microbial Diversity Analysis: Investigating the relationship between vaginal microbiota dynamics and reproductive success in sows
- Michael Dubé, PhD in Bioinformatics candidate, Iterating towards an evolutionary pattern search for weakly conserved biological sequences
- Jeff Hulley, Master of Bioinformatics alumnus, World Wide Bioinformatics Web
Summerlee Science Complex Waasamowin (formerly the Atrium)
- 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
- 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.: Poster session with posters by our Master of Bioinformatics and Master of Biotechnology students
- 4 – 4:10 p.m.: Presentation of poster awards
- 3 – 5 p.m.: Networking with refreshments and cashless bar (debit accepted)
Please see the Location & Parking webpage for information about the locations indicated above.