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Winter Quarter 2020-21

Date	Time	Location		Paper
Fri Dec 11	3pm	Teams		Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
Fri Jan 8	3pm	Teams		Skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopy images via deep full resolution convolutional networks
Fri Jan 22	3pm	Teams		Deep learning-based methods for individual recognition in small birds
Fri Feb 5	3pm	Teams		TBD

Fall Quarter 2020-21

Theme - Machine Learning

Date	Time	Location		Paper
Tue Sep 15	4pm	Teams		Deep Learning for Biology.
Tue Sep 29	4pm	Teams		Inferring cellular networks using probabilistic graphical models.
Tue Oct 13	4pm	Teams		Supervised Machine Learning for Population Genetics: A New Paradigm.
Tue Oct 27	4pm	Teams		Predicting animal behaviour using deep learning: GPS data alone accurately predict diving in seabirds.

Spring Quarter 2019-20

Theme - Coronaviruses

Date	Time	Location		Paper
Mar 26	3pm	Zoom		The 2019‐new coronavirus epidemic: Evidence for virus evolution. Benvenuto et al. 2020. J Med Virology.
Apr 9	3pm	Zoom		SANTA-SIM: simulating viral sequence evolution dynamics under selection and recombination. Jariani et al. 2019. Virus Evolution.
Apr 23	3pm	Zoom		Molecular epidemiology, evolution and phylogeny of SARS coronavirus. Luk et al. 2019. Infection Genet and Evol.
May 7	3pm	Zoom		High reproduction number of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in nosocomial outbreaks: mathematical modelling in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. Choi et al. 2017. J Hospital Infection.

Winter Quarter 2019-20

Theme - The Baldwin Effect

Date	Time	Location		Paper
Thursday Dec 12th	9am	CSSE Conference Room (F230)		How Learning can Guide Evolution. Hinton & Nowlan. 1987. Complex Systems.
Thursday Jan 9th	9am	CSSE Conference Room		Organic Selection and Social Heredity: The Original Baldwin Effect Revisited. Le. 2019. Artificial Life Conference Proceesings.
Thursday Jan 23rd	9am	CSSE Conference Room		Building our own Baldwin model.
Thursday Feb 6th	9am	CSSE Conference Room		Extending our model.

Fall Quarter 2019-20

Date	Time	Location		Paper
Wednesday September 18	4pm	O169		Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean. Moreno-Estrada et al. 2016. PLoS Genetics.
Wednesday October 2	4pm	O169		A large multi-ethnic genome-wide association study identifies novel genetic loci for intraocular pressure. Choquet et al. 2018. Nature Comm.
Wednesday October 16	4pm	O169		Using evolutionary computation methods to support analytical models for the evolution and maintenance of conditional strategies in Chthamalus anisopoma. Townsend et al. 2005. GECCO Proceedings.
Wednesday October 30	4pm	O169		Mathematical modeling and computational prediction of cancer drug resistance. Sun & Hu. 2018. Briefings in Bioinformatics.