Fwd: TOMORROW 11:00AM April 25th (Tue) MBB Special Seminar - Dr. Allen Day

[Bruno Grande]

Hello SFU Omics, 

Many of you indicated in a past Doodle poll that you would be interested in a session with Dr. Allen Day as well as his seminar. Both are happening tomorrow. 

• Session with Trainees: SSB 7109 at 9:30 AM with coffee and light snacks. 
• Seminar: Shrum C9000 at 11:00 AM

Everyone is welcome to join the seminar. We have limited space for the session with trainees, so please sign up to confirm your interest. We can probably only fit 12-15 people in the room. We currently have a few spots left. 

⟶ Sign up for session with trainees: http://doodle.com/poll/7tcqm7vtd9fe57iy

Cheers, 

Bruno

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Bruno Grande

Co-organizer | SciProg.ca Study Group

PhD Candidate  |  Computational Biology

Morin Lab  |  Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry 

Simon Fraser University  |  Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Academic Profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4621-1589

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Date: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:25 PM
Subject: TOMORROW 11:00AM April 25th (Tue) MBB Special Seminar - Dr. Allen Day
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Hello,

Our next talk may be of an interest to Computer Science or Engineering people.  If you know someone who may be interested or study/work in these areas, please invite them.

The keynote speaker for the MBB Graduate Colloquium, Dr. Allen Day, will present at 11AM tomorrow, April 25th, in C9000.  Dr. Day is based in Seattle, and is a science advocate for Google Cloud.  

His talk title is "Deep Learning Applications in Genomics".  In this presentation, he will review how advances in a machine learning tool called artificial neural networks are impacting genomics research and applications.

Poster Link:

http://www.sfu.ca/mbbarchive/Documents/SeminarPoster/SeminarPoster-Day.pdf

He will be hosted by Dr. Jack Chen.

Please forward this information to your e-mail lists, if applicable.  

As usual, please bring your own mugs.  

Thank you,

Nagisa

Nagisa Inoue
Chair's Secretary, MBB
778-782-7024