| Thursday 27th March 2008 |
| 11.30 | Registration desk open, poster boards available. |
| 12.00 | Lunch and posters |
| 13.00 | Welcome |
| Session 1, Microarrays |
| 13.10 | Martino Barenco, UCL | Hidden activity transcription profile identification using microarray data and transcript turnover rates |
| 13.30 | Salih Tuna, University of Sheffield | Precision and inference in microarray studies |
| 13.50 | Paola Rancoita, IDSIA, Switzerland | An improved Bayesian method for DNA copy number estimation |
| 14.10 | Richard Bourgon, EBI, Cambridge | Recombination rate and hotspot inference for high-density marker data |
| 14.30 | Coffee and posters |
| Session 2, Phylogenetics and Post Genomic Data Integration |
| 15.30 | Oliver Ratmann, Imperial College | Evolutionary Inference from large-scale interaction network data with likelihood-free methods |
| 15.50 | Alex Mantzaris, BIOSS | Detecting recombination in the felsenstein zone |
| 16.10 | Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow | Coupled clustering of mRNA and protein profiles |
| 16.30 | Kamil Erguler, Imperial College | Noisy gene expression: Stochastic modelling of metabolism |
| Main poster session followed by conference dinner |
| Friday 28th March 2008 |
| Session 3 - Sequence Analysis |
| 09.00 | David Wild, University of Warwick | Protein fold recognition using Bayesian information retrieval |
| 09.20 | Rene te Boekhorst, University of Hertfordshire | Discrimination of regulatory DNA by SVM on the basis of over- and under-represented motifs |
| 09.40 | David Irons, University of Sheffield | Identifying functional modules in genetic regulatory systems |
| 10.00 | Irina Abnizova, MRC-BSU | Computational finding of functional regulatory SNPs |
| 10.20 | Coffee and posters |
| Session 4 - Network Inference |
| 11.00 | Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield | MMG: a probabilistic tool to identify submodules of metabolic pathways |
| 11.20 | Sophie Lebre, Imperial College | Inferring time-dependent networks from system biology time course data with reversible jump MCMC |
| 11.40 | Samantha Lycett, University of Edinburgh | Using Bayesian graphical models to investigate the relationship between variable H5N1 sites in avian hosts |
| 12.00 | Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick | Priors, pathways, proteins: structural inference in cancer systems biology |
| 12.20 | Lunch and posters |
| Session 5 - Systems Modelling |
| 14.00 | Tina Toni, Imperial College | Approximate Bayesian computation scheme for statistical inference and model selection in dynamical systems |
| 14.20 | Tianhai Tian, University of Glasgow | Mathematical modelling of Ras nanocluster formations on the plasma membrane |
| 14.40 | Eric Bullinger, University of Strathclyde | TNF-α
induced Apoptopic and Anti-apoptopic Signalling: A Systems Biology
approach combining dynamic and quantitative expriments with
mathematical modelling |
| 15.00 | Andreas Ruttor, TU Berlin | Inference for biochemical reaction systems based on weak noise approximation |