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Western Bioinformatics Research Seminar Series
- Time and date, 11:00 am -12:00pm (Toronto ET), Thursday/February 26, 2026,
- Zoom link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/99860754417
Presentation Title
The Code of Survival: Machine Learning Deciphers How Life Thrives in Extreme Conditions
Speaker
Gurjit Randhawa
School of Computer Science, University of Guelph
Learning objectives:
- Understand how extreme environments (temperature, pH, radiation) shape genome-wide compositional patterns in microbes.
- Learn how alignment-free, k-mer–based machine learning detects genomic signatures beyond traditional sequence alignment.
- Explore evidence of cross-domain genomic convergence between bacteria and archaea driven by shared environmental pressures.
- Discover how interpretable AI reveals codon usage biases and adaptive signals underlying survival in extreme conditions.