[Lisa_seminaires] [TeaTalk] Talk by Professor Brendan Frey on 'Using Machine Learning to Detect and Treat Genetic Disease'

Junyoung Chung elecegg at gmail.com
Ven 20 Jan 10:10:43 EST 2017


Hi everyone!

This is a gentle reminder that we have a tea talk today! **AA6214**
**13:30-14:30PM**
The talk will be given by Professor Brendan Frey.

Title : Using Machine Learning to Detect and Treat Genetic Disease
You can check all the details from my previous email.

Best,
--Junyoung

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> we will have our first tea talk on this Friday.
> Please NOTE that this tea talk is scheduled at **13:30-14:30** in
> **AA6214**.
> We are in a transition process of moving the tea talk time slot from
> 11:00-1200 to 13:30-14:30.
>
> Professor Brendan Frey from U of T will tell us about his work on applying
> machine learning to detect and treat genetic disease. If anyone is
> interested in meeting with Brendan, please tell Dima or me, we will host a
> short meeting after his talk.
>
> Who   : Professor Brendan Frey
> When : 20/1/2017 13:30-14:30
> Where: AA6214
>
> Title: Using Machine Learning to Detect and Treat Genetic Disease
>
> Abstract:
>
> Diseases and corresponding treatments often have to do with genetic
> modifications, such as changing a T to a G at a particular location within
> DNA. In 2015, my University of Toronto group spun out a startup, Deep
> Genomics, which is using machine learning to model how these changes impact
> cellular processes involved in disease, such as cancer and neurological
> disorders. For example, to train our splicing model, we are using 9661
> different datasets, each with a number of training cases that varies from 8
> million to 220 million. In this talk, I'll describe some of the machine
> learning challenges that, if solved, will completely change the field of
> medicine, save hundreds of thousands of lives, and improve the quality of
> life for hundreds of millions of people.
>
> Biography:
>
> Brendan Frey is the CEO and Co-Founder of Deep Genomics and a Professor in
> Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He has made
> fundamental contributions in the areas of machine learning and genome
> biology, and is widely known for his work on using machine learning to
> understand how genetic variation leads to disease. Dr. Frey has received
> numerous distinctions and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a
> Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a John
> C. Polanyi Fellow. He recently co-founded a University of Toronto spinoff,
> Deep Genomics, which is using machine learning to bring about a new
> approach to genomic medicine. Dr. Frey has consulted for several industrial
> research and development laboratories in Canada, the United States and
> England, and has served on the Technical Advisory Board of Microsoft
> Research. His former students and postdoctoral fellows include professors,
> industrial researchers and developers at universities and industrial
> laboratories from across Canada, the United States and Europe.
>
> Best,
> --Junyoung
>
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