cistalk - Fwd: Computational Biology Seminar today (05/14)
Hui Chen
Hello,
Professor Tony Wilson from Biology is hosting a seminar that might be of interest of you. Please see the attached flyer.
Time: Thursday, May 14, 2026 12:30 pm
Location: 113NE
Speaker: Isaac Overcast, Associate Research Scientist, Ecology,
Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
Title: Predicting the response of biodiversity to global change with eco-evolutionary models and machine learning.
Abstract: Understanding how ecosystems respond to global change is the defining challenge for biodiversity science. However, we still have only a basic understanding of the ecological and evolutionary processes that generate, maintain, and sustain biodiversity, or how these are linked to environmental change. In case studies from my research, I will demonstrate how machine learning models can be combined with unified biodiversity models and remotely sensed environmental data to infer biodiversity processes from regional-scale genetic patterns. I will also highlight how the same approach generalizes across systems, from plant and animal communities to microbiomes, where high-throughput sequencing produces similarly rich, high-dimensional data. Ultimately, the objective of this work is to develop predictive models that integrate transdisciplinary computational models with multidimensional biodiversity data, with the goal of transforming our understanding of how biodiversity will respond in our ever-changing world.
| Subject: | Computational Biology Seminar today (05/14) |
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| Date: | Thu, 14 May 2026 08:46:06 -0400 |
| From: | Tony Wilson <TWi...@brooklyn.cuny.edu> |
| To: | Hui Chen <Hui....@brooklyn.cuny.edu> |
Hui,
I wanted to pass along a seminar that could be of interest to folks in Computer Science. I’m hosting Isaac Overcast for today’s Biology seminar (12:30-1:30pm in 113NE) – see attached flyer. Isaac is a computational biologist from Columbia University who uses remote sensing data and machine learning algorithms to track changes in biodiversity over time. If faculty or students are interested in these fields, this could be a good opportunity to see an interesting application of these tools in biology. Please feel free to share the flyer with anyone who may be interested.
All the best,
Tony
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Tony Wilson
Professor, Evolutionary Biology
Department of Biology
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11210
United States
1-718-951-5000 x6953
http://evolution.brooklyn.cuny.edu
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