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News and Events

Read here about news, announcements, updates, breakthroughs, exciting events and activities related to our lab. Details on future events will be posted as they become available.

Join us each year in our fundraising efforts by participating or supporting our team, in the annual ride and marathon events, for cancer research.

 

Annual events & ongoing projects

Ride to Conquer Cancer

The Toronto to Niagara Annual Ride to Conquer Cancer
This is an epic cycling event to raise money benefiting Princess Margaret Hospital for cancer research. Our team called the "IBM-OCI-Roche Integrative Discovery Team", and we raised over $250K since 2008. Please join us when we ride again for the 5th time in 2012, or consider supporting the fund-raisers.
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Ride 2011

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The Montreal to Quebec City Ride to Conquer Cancer

This is an annual Ride supporting Segal Cancer Centre at Jewish General Hopsital in Montreal that Team Ian participated in since 2010. Specifically, this ride is to support memory of a promising cancer informatics researcher whose life ended too early - Ian Lawson Van Toch.

Ian Lawson Van Toch Seminar Series

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Annual Seminar Series in Computational Biology
Keep a tab on lectures held annually on various topics in Computational Biology. Past lectures on the topics "Interactome Networks" and "Short-RNAs and organism specific aspects of process regulation" were very insightful.
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Help Conquer Cancer Project on World Community Grid

Help Conquer Cancer Project on the World Community Grid
This is our own ongoing project on the World Community Grid. You can support Cancer research by signing up your idle computer power on www.worldcommunitygrid.org and supporting "Help Conquer Cancer". Donate the time your computer is turned on, but is idle, to this or other projects that benefit humanity.
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Upcoming events

ISMB 2011 Vienna - July 14 to 19

 

News at a glance

ISMB 2010 presented the third Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper to Keren Yizhak.

 

Ride to Conquer Cancer - June 2010Ride to Conquer Cancer - June 2011
Thank you all for generous donations, which despite the troubling economy made our fund-raising a big success. Our IBM-OCI-Roche Integrative Discovery Team in 2010 raised $45,711.50 and over 5,400 riders raised over $17 million for cancer research at the Princess Margaret Hospital.

Team Ian in Quebec Ride raised almost $60K over the last two years.
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Current job openings

Post Doctoral Fellow in Systems Biology
We are seeking a post doctoral fellow in systems biology to join our multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate is expected to extend and apply data mining methods and graph theory to integrative analysis of genomic and proteomic high-throughput data related to cancer research.
Details...