Benjamin Haibe-Kains presents “Inference and validation of large-scale causal gene regulatory networks from transcriptomic data” in the Workshop on Models for Oncogenesis, Clonality and Tumor Progression at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, USA
Deena Gendoo presents a poster entitled “Comprehensive Assessment of the Genetic Landscape of Matched Primary and Xenograft Models for Pancreatic Cancer” at the Frontiers in Translational Research: Ex-vivo Models of Human Disease SGC Symposium, Canada
Benjamin Haibe-Kains presents “Bioinformatics challenges in meta-analysis of large-scale pharmacogenomic datasets” at the Sequencing Quality Control II Public Workshop at the NIH, USA
Ali Madani receives the prestigious Faculty of Medicine GSEF Merit Scholarship for International Students and the Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students
Benjamin Haibe-Kains talks about “Open data science for biomarker discovery in precision medicine” in the MLG & friends: trends and future in data science and bioinformatics workshop at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Benjamin Haibe-Kains gives 2 talks entitled “Reproducible research, algorithms, and data” and “PharmacoGx: Data Sharing and Research Reproducibility in Pharmacogenomics” at the BioC 2016: Where Software and Biology Connect conference at Stanford, USA
Dr. Haibe-Kains talks about data and code sharing for research reproducibility at the 5th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting
Gendoo, Safikhani, Manem, Sachem, Madani for oral and poster presentations at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics and the Canadian Computational Biology Conference 2016
Dr. Haibe-Kains hosts Dr. Joel Dudley (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, USA) for a TorBUG seminar.
Zhaleh Safikhani’ abstract has been selected for oral presentation at the Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences, Leuven, Belgium
Release of MM2S package version 1.0.5
Benjamin Haibe-Kains presents at the 17th MAQC Project Meeting: MAQC and JMAC Joint Workshop on Sequencing Quality Control Phase II (SEQC2). Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Haibe-Kains chairs the “Drug Discovery” break out session at the Personalized Cancer Medicine in 2016 conference, Toronto, Canada
Deena Gendoo, Zhaleh Safikhani, Venkata Manem and Ali Madani present a poster at the Personalized Cancer Medicine in 2016 conference, Toronto, Canada
Drs. Deena Gendoo, Zhaleh Safikhani and Venkata Manem present their poster at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Montreal
Dr. Zhaleh Safikhani received the 2015 Conference Travel Award from the UHN Office of Research Trainees
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has granted Dr. Haibe-Kains an New Investigator Award