2nd RA Fisher Centre Meeting
Event Information
Description
The goal of this meeting is to bring together UCL and Crick Institute research groups active in Computational Biology research. Following the successful first meeting, which took place 8 Nov 2013 at CRUK/LRI (Lincoln's Inn Fields), the 2nd event will take place at UCL on 17 Feb 2014.
Schedule
12:30-1:30: Pizza lunch & poster session (sponsored by eLife)
1.30-1.45: Opening remarks
1.45-2.05: Prof. Judith Mank, Expression change in a single gene, Angiopoeitin-1, underlies change in relative brain size and cognitive ability in fish
2.05-2.25: Dr. Florent Lassalle (Balloux lab), Reconstructing histories of genes in genomes to reveal ecological adaptations along bacterial cladogenesis.
2.30-2.45: Break
2.45-3.10: Christopher Monit (Goldstein lab), What makes HIV a Human Immunodeficiency Virus? Using phylogenetic mutation-selection models to characterise human-specific adaptation of HIV
3.10-3.30: Dr. Javier Herrero, Ancestry of single base pair variants in the human genome.
3.30-3.50: Dr. Domenico Cozzetto (Jones Lab), Precise disordered region predictions with annotated protein binding sites
3.50-4.00: Closing remarks
4.00-4.30: Coffee/tea
About the Fisher Centre
The RA Fisher Centre for Computational Biology is an interdisciplinary centre of excellence for mathematical and computational analysis of the fast-growing data in genetics and biology.
More info: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ra-fisher-centre
Sponsors
Photos of the last event (8 Nov 2013):
