The usual duration is two hours, split as follows: long talk (45 minutes), 30 minutes of socializing with snacks and drinks, short talk (30 minutes).
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May 2020 - Meilahti
Time and place: Monday 11th of May, 15.15-17.00, via Zoom
- Kimmo Kaski (Aalto University): "Deep Learning Fundus Image Analysis for Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema Grading"
- Dmitrii Bychkov (University of Helsinki): "Deep Learning Identifies Morphological Features in Breast Cancer Predictive of Cancer ERBB2 Status and Trastuzumab Treatment Efficacy"
April 2020 - Kumpula
Time and place: Monday 20th of April, 14.15-16, via Zoom
- Erik Garrison (University of California): "Graphical pangenomics in the time of COVID19"
- Paul Medvedev (Pennsylvania State University): "Representation of k-mer sets using spectrum-preserving string sets"
March 2020 - Viikki
Time and place: Monday 23rd of March, 13.15-14.00, via Zoom Join URL: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/917518924
- Leo Lahti (University of Turku): "Dynamical models of human microbiome variation"
February 17, 2020 - Meilahti
Time and place: 15.15-17.00, Biomedicum 1, Seminar room 1-2
- Leena Salmela (Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki): Optical mapping data: from raw data to genome assembly (15.15-16.00)
- Kimmo Palin (Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki): Human genome analysis with long reads from nanopore sequencing (16.30-17.00)
January 20, 2020 - Kumpula
Time and place: 14.15 - 16.00, Exactum D122
- Brendan Mumey (Gianforte School of Computing, Montana State University): Inexact Flows for RNA Transcript Assembly and Finding Pangenomic Haplotype Blocks (14.15 - 15.00)
- Jarno Alanko (Department of Computer Science, UH): Themisto: Practical pseudoalignment for metapangenomics in small space (15.30 - 16.00)
December 16, 2019 - Viikki
Time and place: Monday 16th of December, 14-16, Biocenter 2, 2nd floor room 2012, Viikki.
- Ari Löytynoja (Institute of Biotechnology, UH): Too large to detect? Analyses of template switch mutations using short-read data (14.15 - 15.00)
- Tommi Mäklin (Department of Computer Science, UH): Bacterial lineage identification from plate sweep sequencing data (15.30 - 16.00)
ADDITIONAL SHORT MEETING: December 2, 2019 - Kumpula
Time and place: 14.15 - 14.45, Exactum C222. This is a 30-minute presentation with a strong Computer Science focus.
- Edin Husić (London School of Economics): Reconstructing perfect phylogenies via branchings in DAGs (14.15 - 14.45)
November 18, 2019 - Meilahti
Time and place: 15.15 - 17.00, Biomedicum 1, Seminar room 3
- Chris Illingworth (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge): The bioinformatics of short-read viral sequence data
- Jing Tang (Faculty of Medicine, UH): Making sense of functional precision medicine with mathematical and statistical models
October 21, 2019 - Kumpula
Time and place: 14.15 - 16.00, Exactum, B222
- Kristoffer Sahlin (Department of Computer Science, UH): Computational methods for analysis of genome and transcriptome sequencing data (14.15 - 15.00)
- Esa Pitkänen (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland): Modeling somatic mutagenesis in cancer with deep neural networks (15.30 - 16.00)
Future events
June 2020 - Viikki
Time and place: TBD
If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact the local organizers in one of the campuses: