[Lisa_seminaires] [Extra Tea Talk] Berton Earnshaw (Recursion Pharmaceuticals) Mon Aug 6 12PM AA3195

Michael Noukhovitch mnoukhov at gmail.com
Lun 6 Aou 10:52:48 EDT 2018


Reminder this is in 1 hour!

The food for lunch will probably be St Hubert.

Thanks,
Michael

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:53 PM Michael Noukhovitch <mnoukhov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Early next week we have an extra talk by *Berton Earnshaw*, Senior
> Director of Data Science Research at *Recursion Pharmaceuticals* giving a
> talk on *Monday August 6 2018* at *12pm - 1pm* in room *AA3195.* This
> will be a lunch talk and mingle with *food served!*
>
> Will this talk be streamed <https://mila.bluejeans.com/809027115/webrtc>?
> Yes
>
> Want to meet with Berton in the afternoon?
> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UVBVTVF0X25Nd09LfGRlZmF1bHR8ZWQ5MmNlYWMxODI4OWVkNmUzNGU3OTE4ZDExMGI0YTk
>
> Come for the food and machine learning, stay because the talk will be
> awesome.
> Michael
>
> *TITLE *Representation learning in human cellular biology
>
> *KEYWORDS* bioinformatics, representation learning
>
> *ABSTRACT*
> The automated labs at Recursion Pharmaceuticals currently run more than
> 100,000 experiments every week, and each experiment involves imaging the
> morphology of human cells under various biological and chemical
> perturbations. The resulting data set is the largest and most diverse of
> its kind, and is used to train networks that learn to predict which
> compounds treat which diseases, and why. In this talk, I will describe the
> challenges of learning on biological image sets, discuss some approaches we
> have taken to learning representations of these images, and describe how we
> use these representations to discover candidate treatments for disease.
>
> *BIO *
> Berton earned a PhD in math from the University of Utah in 2007, where he
> designed biophysical models of protein trafficking at synapses during
> episodes of learning and memory formation. In 2010, after two post-docs at
> Utah and Michigan State University spent developing the theory of
> non-autonomous master equations, Berton took some time off of academia and
> co-founded the call center software company Perfect Pitch where he led as
> CTO. In 2012 he joined the founding team of Red Brain Labs as Director of
> Operations and Data Science, where he worked to optimize call centers using
> machine learning and simulation. In 2014, Red Brain Labs was acquired by
> Savvysherpa where, as a Senior Scientist and Principal, Berton led various
> research projects applying machine learning to insurance claims and medical
> records with the goal of improving healthcare outcomes. In 2017, Berton
> joined Recursion Pharmaceuticals as Senior Director of Data Science
> Research, where he leads the research team in applying deep learning to
> millions of images of human cells in search of treatments for hundreds of
> diseases.
>
> *COMPANY BIO*
> At Recursion Pharmaceuticals, we have raised over $80M to apply machine
> learning to one of the most unique datasets in existence - tens of millions
> of images of cells under a huge number of biological and chemical
> perturbations, generated in our own labs - in order to find treatments for
> hundreds of diseases. Our long term mission is to decode biology to
> radically improve lives - we want to understand biology so well that we can
> fix most things that go wrong in our bodies.
>
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