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Our meeting this year includes approximately 50 researchers who each have
a unique “non-model” model system, or are using well-established model systems in new ways. This year has a particularly broad range of topics including models for marine systems, cancer, development and evolution. Emerging Model Systems. January
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WTF? March
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In response to covid-19, several of my students and colleagues at Concordia Department of
Biology prepared this primer into the literature of covid-19 for our students. Hopefully it assists you with exploring the disease. A primer into the covid-19 literature.
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As announced by Concordia, courses will remain in an on-line format this fall.
In repsonse to these covid-19-related measures, we have optmized
the deliver of our bioinformatics course for this format.
You can read more about it here
BIOL 480/510/630 Bioinformatics: Data Science for Biology. We have also modernized the structure the course to follow
closer the excellent on-line resource R for Data Science In essence, we will work within
the tidyverse to better advance students visualization and data analysis skills.
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It was a great pleasure to speak at the first
Canadian Fungal Network meeting Twitter: @CanFunNet.
A lot of great talks.
Mike spoke about drug tolerance in Candida albicans. The talk is available here.
Van spoke about a deep learning-based tool to recognize Candida albicans morphologies.
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Shawn Simpson successfully completed his MSc where he analyzed the microbiome of the Barbadian coral reef. The manuscript is currently available from the bioRxiv
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With Vincent Martin, Malcolm Whiteway and Agropur, we received funding from Genome Canada/Genome Quebec for a syntheic biology application entitled Bioprocess Development for Lactose Valorisation.
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Several members of the lab with Vanessa Dumeaux created a not-for-profit cooperative entitled SCIEL. The mandate of SCIEL is to bring deep learning-based single cell approaches to market.
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Samira Massahi successfully defended her MSc thesis.