Abstract

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.

Registration and full programme here:

http://bit.ly/2019ccbi

Confirmed speakers:

• Neil Dalchau (Microsoft Research) Programming DNA circuits
• Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 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
• Diana Fusco (Physics) How space constrains evolution: insights from microbial colonies
• Erik Garrison (UCSC) Untangling the pangenome
• Daniel Herranz (Chronomics) Adventures of a PhD student as a start-up founder: the Chronomics story
• Michael Imbeault (Genetics) KRAB zinc finger proteins, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks
• Naomi Penfold (ASAPbio) Preprints in Computational Biology – where are we at and what’s next?
• David Shorthouse (MRC Cancer Unit) Computational Methods Reveal Functional Roles for Ion Channels in Cancer
• Keynote: Rich Turner (Engineering) Extending the frontiers of deep learning using probabilistic modelling

Plus talks from two members of the Wellcome Trust Mathematical Genomics and Medicine PhD programme.

• Coffee from 8.30
• Lunch
• Drinks ~17.05-18.00