Monday 22 March
11:00-12:00 Coffee &
Registration
12:00-13:30 Lunch at Wolfson Court
Session 1: Microarray analysis
Chair: Wally Gilks
14:00-14:15
John Kingman (Director, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)
Welcome
14:15-14:45 Anne-Mette Hein (Imperial College School of
Medicine)
A fully Bayesian method for estimating gene expression levels
from
Affymetrix GeneChip arrays
14:45-15:15 Juliane Schaefer (University of Munich)
A practical approach to inferring graphical models from
sparse
microarray data
15:15-15:45 David Wild (Keck Graduate Institute,
Claremont CA)
Classical & Bayesian approaches to reconstructing genetic
regulatory
networks with hidden factors
15:45-16:30 Tea & Poster Session 1
(Maria Anisimova, David Balding, Jacky Birrell, Anne-Laure Boulesteix,
Lachlan Coin, Thomas Down, Andrea Fuehrer, Tini Garske)
Session 2: Genetics
Chair: Alun Thomas
16:30-17:00
Taane Clark (University of Oxford)
Bayesian logistic regression using a perfect phylogeny
17:00-17:30 Paul Fearnhead (University of Lancaster)
Learning about fine-scale recombination rates from population
data
17:30-18:00 Christoph Lange (Harvard School of Public
Health)
On family-based association tests: a nonparametric test for
repeatedly
measured quantative traits .........
18:00-19:30 Wine & Beer Reception and Poster Session 1
19:30-20:30 Dinner at Wolfson Court
Tuesday 23 March
Session 3: Phylogeny 1
Chair: Nick Goldman
09:15-09:45
Ziheng Yang (University College London)
High posterior probabilities for trees
09:45-10:15 Vivek Gowri-Shankar (University of Manchester)
Base frequency parameters in statistical phylogenetic inference
10:15-11:00 Coffee & Poster Session 2
(Steffen Grossmann, Bernard Leong, Alex Lewin, Loukia Meligkotsidou,
Giuseppe Nicosia, Alun Thomas, Veronica Vinciotti, Darren Wilkinson)
Session 4: Phylogeny 2
Chair: Richard Durbin
11:00-11:30
Carolin Kosiol (EMBL-European Bioinformatics
Institute, Hinxton)
Protein sequence evolution: Markov or non-Markov?
11:30-12:00 Ari Loytynoja (EMBL-European Bioinformatics
Institute, Hinxton)
A hidden Markov model of evolution & structure for
multiple
sequence alignment
12:00-13:30 Group photograph, Lunch at Wolfson Court & Poster
Session 2
Session 5: Miscellaneous
Chair: Peter Avery
14:00-14:30
Thomas Nye (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
Analysing & predicting contacts between domains in
interacting
proteins
14:30-15:00 Gayle McEwen (MRC Rosalind Franklin
Centre, Hinxton)
Statistical methodologies for detecting non-coding RNAs in
vertebrate
genomes
15:00-15:30 Tea & depart