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Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

Secure a place at this year’s Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute on Wednesday 15 May 2019 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

This one-day event reflects the strength and diversity of research in computational biology, taken broadly, both within Cambridge University and beyond.

Final programme [pdf version]:

[ 8.30 - 9.00 Coffee ] 

9.00 - 9.40 David Shorthouse (MRC Cancer Unit)

Computational Methods Reveal Functional Roles for Ion Channels in Cancer 

9.40 - 10.20 Diana Fusco (Physics) How space constrains evolution: insights from microbial colonies 

[ 10.20 - 10.50 Tea + Posters ]  

10.50 - 11.30 Michael Imbeault (Genetics) KRAB zinc finger proteins, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks 

11.30 - 12.10 Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) @esdalmaijer Using machine-learning to map the complex interplay between cognition, mental health, attitude, socio-economic status, and educational outcomes in a large sample of children aged 7-9

12.10 - 12.30 Marilou Boddé (Genetics) Constructing allele frequency landscapes using the elastic net approach

12.30 - 12.50 Alexs Sazonov (Wellcome Sanger Institute) The Genetics of IBD: From Susceptibility to Drug Response and Patient Outcome

[ 12.50 - 13.35 Lunch + Posters ]

13.35 - 13.55 Naomi Penfold (ASAPbio) @npscience from @ASAPbio_ Preprints in Computational Biology – where are we at and what's next?  [slides]

13.55 - 14.15 Daniel Herranz (Chronomics) @danieliasmh Adventures of a PhD student as a start-up founder: the Chronomics story 

14.15 - 15.15 Keynote: Rich Turner (Engineering) Extending the frontiers of deep learning using probabilistic modelling [slides]

[ 15.15 - 15.45 Tea + Posters ] 

15.45 - 16.25 Neil Dalchau (Microsoft Research) @ndalchau Programming DNA circuits

16.25 - 17.05 Erik Garrison (UCSC) @erikgarrison Untangling the pangenome

[ 17.05 - 18.00 Drinks ]

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