Visiting Lecturer Series – Dr. Gary Bader

Mapping the Multiscale Human 

Lecture Takeaways

Generative models have the potential to help us understand how genomes encode phenotypes and biological functions. We consider the human genome as analogous to a ‘natural’ generative model encoding the full complexity of an individual, from cellular architecture to physiological functions. According to this perspective, generative models can provide a unified framework to model the human body across scales and to capture factors determining health and disease. This talk will cover example models of parts of the human body across spatial scales and time.

Biography

Gary Bader is a Professor at The Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto and an expert in Computational Biology. The Bader lab is developing computational methods and an ecosystem theory of tissue function that considers cell-cell interactions, cell growth, and cell internal mechanisms, such as pathways, reactions, and causal relationships, to help understand development, cancer and regenerative wound healing processes. See baderlab.org.

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