Past Events

Upper-level ontologies provide the basis for domain ontologies enabling reuse by providing consistent and common terms, as well as an organizational structure. However, upper-level ontologies only provide very high-level terms which requires significant work before a domain expert can define any domain terminology. Mid-level ontologies build off of upper-level ontologies by providing terms and axioms that are common across many domain-level ontologies to help produce ontologies faster and easier.

Nominations for the SOCS Teaching Award are now open. Click the link below to access the nomination form. 

Title: Privacy Sensitive Environment Decomposition for Hypertree Agent Organization Construction by Abdulrahman Alshememry Advisor: Dr. Yang Xiang Advisory Committee: Dr. Charlie Obimbo Abstract: 

Brought to you by the School of Computer Science, the School of Engineering, and sponsored by Dell EMC, Guelph Hacks for Mental Health is a 36-hour hackathon/design jam that will challenge undergraduate and graduate students to design tools to support positive mental health on campus.  More details, rules, and specific challenges will be released in the coming weeks.

In this talk, Dr. Pena-Castillo will discuss her work on deciphering transcriptional regulation. Specifically, how pathway analysis is applied to find out which biological processes are regulated by a given transcription factor, and how she is computationally identifying and characterizing bacterial non-coding RNAs from RNA-seq data.

Title: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Evaluation and a Novel Transition Site Model with New Encoding Schemes Abstract:

Join Dr. Daniel Gillis and Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs (Department of Integrative Biology) to learn more about the innovative Ideas Congress (ICON) Transdisciplinary Classroom. ICON returns in Fall 2017. 

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition for graduate students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in three minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges. The challenge is to present complex research in an engaging, accessible and compelling way using only one slide. The 2017 competition will begin with seven college heats starting March 1. Participants will compete within their college to advance to the University of Guelph 3MT finals.

Title: Data Integration from Mulitple Historical Sources to Study Canadian Casualties of WW1 Abstract:

A collaborative effort between the University of Guelph, University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College , Partnerships for Employment (P4E) was created in 1994 to better serve our students, alumni and employers through a sponsorship of annual Career Fairs and Job Fairs.