MASAMB-2005 |
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| PROGRAMME | |||||
| Monday 21st March | |||||
| 11:30 | Registration opens | ||||
| 12:30 | Lunch (buffet style) | ||||
| Preamble | |||||
| 13:20 | Paul Verrier Welcome followed by some administrivia |
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| session1 - Genomics | |||||
| Chairman: Chris Rawlings | |||||
| 13:30 | Pagel, M & Barker, D (Reading University) Discovering Functional Gene Links Using Phylogenetic-Statistical Analysis of Whole Genomes |
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| 14:00 | Whelan, S(EMBL) A new and effective heuristic for tree topology estimation in phylogenetics |
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| 14:30 | Lunter, GA & Hein, J (Bioinf. group, Dept. of Statistics, Oxford University) Indel events reveal the portion of the human genome under selection |
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| 15:00 | Zheng, C; Lenert, A; Sankoff, D (University of Ottawa, Canada) Rearrangements of partially ordered genomes |
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| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea break | ||||
| Session 2 - Genetics and Regulation | |||||
| Chairman: Nick Goldman | |||||
| 16:00 | Domedel-Puig, N & Wernisch, L (Birkbeck College, London) Bayesian model selection for the JAK/STAT5 signaling pathway |
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| 16:30 | Dawson, K J (Rothamsted Research) & Belkhir, K (Laboratoire Génome, Université de Montpellier, France) Bayesian reconstruction of full-sib and half-sib families |
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| 17:00 | Johnson, T (Edinburgh University) Disease gene mapping using DNA pools (View as pdf) |
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| 17:30 | Abnizova, I (MRC-BSU Cambridge);
Walter, K (MRC-BSU Cambridge); te Boekhorts, R (University of
Hertfordshire); Elgar, G (Rosalind Franklin Institute, Hinxton) &
Gilks, W (MRC-BSU Cambridge) Some statistical properties of regulatory DNA sequences, and their use in predicting regulatory regions in vertebrate genomes (View as pdf [1.5Mb]) |
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| Posters and Social Events | |||||
| 18:00 | Wine/Beer/Posters in Fowden Conference Centre | ||||
| 19:30 | Conference dinner | ||||
| 22:00 | Coach to hotel | ||||
| Tuesday 22nd March | |||||
| 09:30 | Coach from hotel | ||||
| Session 3 - Microarrays I | |||||
| Chairman: Wolfgang Huber | |||||
| 10:00 | Ibrahim, AEK; Thorne, NP; Baird, K; Barbosa-Morais, N; Collins, VP; Wyllie, AH; Arends, MJ & Brenton, JD (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre) Developing DNA methylation array technology |
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| 10:30 | Rattray, M (School of Computer
Science, Manchester University); Liu, X (School of Computer Science,
Manchester University); Sanguinetti, G (Department of Computer Science,
University of Sheffield); Milo, M (Department of Computer Science &
Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield) &
Lawrence, N (Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield) Novel probabilistic models for propagating uncertainty in microarray data analysis (View as pdf [3Mb]) |
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| 11:00 | Coffee break & posters | ||||
| Session 4 - Microarrays II | |||||
| Chairman: Martin Bishop | |||||
| 12:00 | Mayer, C-D (Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland) Detecting heteregenous variance-covariance structures in gene expression data (View as pdf [1.3Mb]) |
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| 12:30 | Strimmer, K & Boulesteix, A-L (Dept. of Statistics, University of Munich) Prediction of transcription factor regulation activities: integrating microarray and chip data with partial least squares |
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| 13:00 | Townsend, JP (University of Connecticut, USA) Bayesian analysis of gene expression levels (View as pdf [3.7Mb]) |
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| 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| Session 5 - Molecular evolution | |||||
| Chairman: Robin Thompson | |||||
| 14:00 | Meyer, I (European Bioinformatics Institute) Novel methods for studying RNA genes (View as pdf) |
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| 14:30 | Kosiol, C & Goldman, Nick (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute) An Empirical Codon Model (View as pdf [1Mb]) |
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| 15:00 | Anisimova, M & Gascuel, O (LIRMM, Universite Montpellier) Approximate likelihood ratio tests for tree branches |
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| 15:30 | Dale, D (University College London) Molecular heterochrony: a mixture model approach |
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| 16:00 | Coffee/tea break | ||||
| Departure | |||||
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