MathBioFest 2018

EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare

<IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/269459135/posterfinalv2optim.jpg">Join us to celebrate the Year of the Mathematical Biology. The workshop will offer a bird’s eye view of the achievements and challenges for mathematics in the life sciences. We will have a mix of thought-provoking broad audience talks and research presentations on cutting-edge topics at the interface of mathematics, biology and medicine.
Dates: 7-8 November 2018
Location: Imperial College is located just behind (south of) the Albert Hall in South Kensington. The nearest tube stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road on the District/Circle Line and High Street Kensington on the Circle Line. South Kensington and Gloucester Road are also on the Piccadilly Line which goes directly to Heathrow Airport. Travel information may be found here: <A HREF="http://www.imperial.ac.uk/visit/campuses/south-kensington/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.imperial.ac.uk/visit/campuses/south-kensington/</A>    
The event will be held in the following venues:
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7th November: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate (number 13 on the campus map)
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8th November: Council Room, 170 Queen’s Gate (number 24 on the campus map)
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Campus map may be found here: <A HREF="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/visit/public/SouthKensingtonCampus.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/visit/public/SouthKensingtonCampus.pdf</A>
Programme:
Day 1 
Date: 7th November 
Location: Huxley Building, Clore Lecture Hall
14:00 – 14:30 Arrival, registration and coffee
14:30 – 14:45 Introduction (Diego Oyarzún, Jose Carrillo, Mauricio Barahona)
14:45 – 15:45  Alfonso Martínez-Arias (University of Cambridge) 
The ideal and the possible: a matter of genes, cells and numbers
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Mark Chaplain (University of St Andrews) 
A mathematical framework for modelling the metastatic spread of cancer
17:00 – 18:00 Reception

Day 2 
Date: 8th November
Location: 170 Queen’s Gate, Council Room
09:45 – 10:15 Arrival and coffee 
10:15 – 11:00 Becca Asquith (Imperial College London)  
KIRs, Immune cell dynamics &amp; Control of Chronic Viral Infection
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15 Andrew King (Swansea University) 
Sociality, heterogeneity, organisation and leadership in animal societies. 
12:15 – 13:00 Ann Babtie (Imperial College London) 
Inferring gene regulatory networks from single cell data
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:00 Tom Bell (Imperial College London) 
Ecology and evolution of inter-specific interactions 
in bacterial communities
15:00 – 15:45 Karen Page (University College London)
Mathematical modelling of the vertebrate neural tube
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15 Philip Maini (University of Oxford) 
Does mathematics have anything to do with biology?
17:15 – 17:30 Concluding remarks (Diego Oyarzún) 
 
If you have problems registering for the event please contact Anna Radomska at a.radomska@imperial.ac.uk

Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus

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