diff --git a/src/archive/2026/2026-02-19.md b/src/archive/2026/2026-02-19.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6144d7ba --- /dev/null +++ b/src/archive/2026/2026-02-19.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# Sep - Anne Condon + +!!! info "Event Details" + + **Date/Time:** + + Thursday, February 19th, 2026 :material-clock: 6:00pm - 8:00pm + + **Location:** + + :material-map-marker: **Location:** Vancouver General Hospital, Jimmy Pattison Pavilion South ([899 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pvM16Frig5VjA9e69)), 1891 Lecture Theatre + +/// html | div[class="bio"] + +![headshot](./images/anne-condon.jpg) + +/// html | div + +**Featured Speaker**: Dr. Anne Condon + +**Talk Title:** Some how’s and why’s of computing with DNA molecules + + + +**Affiliation:** + +Professor, Computer Science, The University of British Columbia + +/// + +/// + +**Bio:** + +Anne Condon is a Professor in Computer Science at UBC, where she has served as Department Head and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Science. Trained as a computer science theoretician, her current research interests are in biomolecular computation and computational prediction of RNA and DNA reaction kinetics. + +Anne received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from University College Cork, Ireland (1982), and her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Washington (1987). + +She is an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and recipient of the Computing Research Association's Habermann Award for her work on increasing the numbers and successes of women in computing research. + +**Abstract:** + +Principles of computing transcend silicon-based technologies. DNA and other biomolecules compactly store information, and nature has provided an incredible toolbox for processing this information in a test tube or a cell. How might we “compute” with biomolecules in innovative, robust, and efficient ways not found in nature? What might such +computations be useful for? Computational models of bio-computation at different levels of abstraction are helpful in tackling these questions and in guiding wet-lab DNA computations. + +In this overview talk we’ll describe such models, ranging from chemical reaction networks as a high-level programming language, to stochastic models of DNA kinetics that aim to predict how DNA strands fold, interact, and “compute” in a test tube. + +We’ll also touch on what makes the highly interdisciplinary field of bio-molecular computation intellectually stimulating and very fun to work in, despite, or perhaps because of, the lack of clear answers yet to the second question above. + +--- + +/// html | div[class="bio"] + +![headshot](./images/maxwell-douglas.png) + +/// html | div + +**Trainee Speaker:** Maxwell Douglas + +**Affiliation:** Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics, Park Lab, UBC & BC Cancer Research Centre + +**Talk Title**: Hunting for mediation in expression quantitative trait loci: a case-study using ovarian cancer + +/// + +/// diff --git a/src/archive/2026/images/anne-condon.jpg b/src/archive/2026/images/anne-condon.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a95adaa5 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/archive/2026/images/anne-condon.jpg differ diff --git a/src/archive/2026/images/maxwell-douglas.png b/src/archive/2026/images/maxwell-douglas.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..73081c12 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/archive/2026/images/maxwell-douglas.png differ diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index a67c26fc..9485c6bc 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ Visit our sister groups for bioinformatics events in Montreal ([MonBUG](https:// ## VanBUG Monthly Event {% - include-markdown "./archive/2025/2025-09-18.md" - start="# Sep - Ewan Gibb" + include-markdown "./archive/2026/2026-02-19.md" + start="# Feb - Anne Condon" %} diff --git a/src/schedule.md b/src/schedule.md index d3b35555..f11465a3 100644 --- a/src/schedule.md +++ b/src/schedule.md @@ -45,40 +45,40 @@ :material-clock: 6:00pm - 8:00pm - :material-map-marker: **Location:** Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre ([2775 Laurel St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bvXxcRMzUaC2cQkG7)), 1020 Lecture Theatre + :material-map-marker: **Location:** Vancouver General Hospital, Jimmy Pattison Pavilion South ([899 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pvM16Frig5VjA9e69)), 1891 Lecture Theatre - Featured Speaker: TBA + Featured Speaker: Iman Hajirasouliha - Trainee Speaker: TBA + Trainee Speaker: Mahdi Asmae - ### Feb 19th, 2026, Thursday :material-clock: 6:00pm - 8:00pm - :material-map-marker: **Location:** Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre ([2775 Laurel St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bvXxcRMzUaC2cQkG7)), 1020 Lecture Theatre + :material-map-marker: **Location:** Vancouver General Hospital, Jimmy Pattison Pavilion South ([899 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pvM16Frig5VjA9e69)), 1891 Lecture Theatre - Featured Speaker: TBA + Featured Speaker: Anne Condon - Trainee Speaker: TBA + Trainee Speaker: Maxwell Douglas - ### Mar 19th, 2026, Thursday :material-clock: 6:00pm - 8:00pm - :material-map-marker: **Location:** Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre ([2775 Laurel St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bvXxcRMzUaC2cQkG7)), 1020 Lecture Theatre + :material-map-marker: **Location:** Vancouver General Hospital, Jimmy Pattison Pavilion North ([899 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pvM16Frig5VjA9e69)), 141 TF - Featured Speaker: TBA + Featured Speaker: Emilia Lim - Trainee Speaker: TBA + Trainee Speaker: Asli Munzur - ### Apr 30th, 2026, Thursday :material-clock: 6:00pm - 8:00pm - :material-map-marker: **Location:** Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre ([2775 Laurel St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bvXxcRMzUaC2cQkG7)), 1020 Lecture Theatre + :material-map-marker: **Location:** Vancouver General Hospital, Jimmy Pattison Pavilion North ([899 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pvM16Frig5VjA9e69)), 141 TF - Featured Speaker: TBA + Featured Speaker: Dave Clark - Trainee Speaker: TBA + Trainee Speaker: Nairuz Elazzabi ///