Marc-André Legault

Assistant prof at @pharm_umontreal and @CR_CHUSJ. Genetic epi, causal inference and ML.

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@OzvanBocher @UBO_UnivBrest @EleZeggini @GeninEmmanuelle Congratulations! 🥳

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@jasonhartford @csmcr @valence_ai Congrats!!

[Emmanuelle Genin @GeninEmmanuelle]

Tenure track position opening in Brest, France, in statistical genomics !
Come and join us to work with our team at UMR1078 on the development of multiomics data analysis. https://t.co/6kGNxUSPRv

[Dan Roy @roydanroy]

McGill is cancelling job searches due to tuition cuts by Quebec government on all English language universities. Dreadful decision by government having bad effects already.

[Dr. Chloé Sarnowski, Ph.D. @SarnowskiChloe]

2023 IGES Annual Meeting starts in 9 days! 🧬

Take advantage of activities targeted for early career investigators:
- gathering during welcome reception, Nov 5
- mentoring lunch, Nov 6
- social hour, Nov 7

Please repost, share, advertise.

See you in Nashville!

@genepisociety

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@johnomix @DonnellyCentre @UofT Congrats! So well deserved 😊

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

Awesome thread about an IV study looking at shingles and dementia

[Pascal Geldsetzer @PGeldsetzer1]

Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!

We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!

Hear me out & see preprint: https://t.co/25f5XFQj8R
🧵1/

[Pascal Geldsetzer @PGeldsetzer1]

Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!

We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!

Hear me out & see preprint: https://t.co/25f5XFQj8R
🧵1/

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@chenyangsu @SciReports @SiruiZhou @EdgarEGK @BrentRichards19 Congrats!

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@landrychristian Quarto!

[Sumana Basu @sumanabasu21]

I'll be speaking tomorrow at @RealAAAI on the challenges of using Reinforcement Learning in Precision Drug Dosing. Joint work with Doina Precup,
@adri_romsor and @legaultmarc

When: 9th Feb, 11:15-12:30AM
Where: 202B

See you there!

#AAAI23 #AAAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@patrickaturley You guys already try to get called America for that reason

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@chiefmounir Le partage des données avec des chercheurs industriels et académiques ne se fait pas juste au QC (meilleur exemple positif est la UK Biobank) et nourrit les découvertes scientifiques. Il y a moyen de bien le faire.

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@epigenci @PWGTennant @michelnivard @peterrebeiro I agree with you. I'm just saying that the level of breakdown will depend on the magnitude of the violation of the assumption and with care + sensitivity analyses, we can do well with MR as with other epi methods. I'm not a fan of the MR sumstats everything either ;)

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@epigenci @PWGTennant @michelnivard @peterrebeiro Fair enough about MR practice. But I think that MR research is making very good progress on many issues.

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@PWGTennant @epigenci @michelnivard @peterrebeiro That's a pretty strong and dismissive statement. There's a lot of work going into developing better MR estimators and sensitivity analyses...

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@epigenci @michelnivard @PWGTennant @peterrebeiro Was this ever studied under realistic parameters in the context of MR?

[Marc-André Legault @legaultmarc]

@lukejostins It was the implied all statistical tests are matrix multiplications that I found amusing