MASAMB-2006
Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology
16th Annual meeting

10 & 11 April 2006
Conway Institute, University College Dublin

Ireland

 

 

 

Schedule of Events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, 10th April

 

 

 

11:30

 

Registration opens

 

 

12:30

 

Lunch (buffet style)

 

 

Preamble

 

13:20

 

Des Higgins
Welcome followed by some administrivia

 

 

Session 1 - Genomics

 

 

 

Chairman: John Brookfield

 

 

13:30

 

Ian Wilson

Approximate Likelihood Methods for Genomic Data from Structured Populations.

 

 

14:00

 

Benjamin P. Blackburne Alan J. Hay, Adele Steyn and Richard A. Goldstein

Changing patterns of selective pressure in Human Influenza H3

 

 

14:30

 

Alun Thomas

Towards linkage analysis with linkage disequilibrium.

 

 

15:00

 

R. Te Boekhorst, C. L. Nehaniv and I. Abnizova

Discriminating coding, non-coding and regulatory regions using rescaled range and detrended fluctuation analysis

 

 

15:30

 

Coffee/Tea break

 

 

Session 2 – Gene Expression I

 

 

 

Chairman: Wolfgang Huber

 

 

16:00

 

Max B. Cooper, Matthew Loose and John F.Y. Brookfield

Evolving Gene Networks - When Do Transcription Factors Bind Competitively?

 

 

16:30

 

Guido Sanguinetti, Magnus Rattray and Neil D. Lawrence

A probabilistic dynamical model for quantitative inference of the regulatory mechanism of transcription.

 

 

17:00

 

Luke Carravick, Colin Campbell, Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami

Probabilistic Graphical Models for Analysis of Microarray Data

 

 

17:30

 

Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami

Model Based Identification of Transcription Factor Regulatory Activity via Markov Chain Monte Carlo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19:30

 

Conference dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 11th April

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 3 – Phylogeny

 

 

 

Chairman: Martin Bishop

 

 

09:30

 

Wally Gilks, Tom Nye and Pietro Lio

Incorporating uncertainty in distance-matrix phylogenetics

 

 

10:00

 

Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade

Detecting conflicting phylogenetic signals in gene-sequence data - a Bayesian multiple topologies mixture model

 

 

10:30

 

Coffee break & posters

 

 

Session 4 – Networks

 

 

 

Chairman: Paul Verrier

 

 

11:00

 

Rainer Opgen-Rhein

Inferring genetic networks from genomic longitudinal data: a vector autoregressive process approach.

 

 

11:30

 

Adriano Werhli, Marco Grzegorczyk, Dirk Husmeier and Wolfgang Urfer

Comparative Evaluation of the Accuracy of Reverse Engineering Gene Regulatory Networks with various Machine Learning Methods

 

 

12:00

 

Wolfgang Lehrach and Dirk Husmeier

A regularised discrimative model fo the prediction of protein-peptide interactions

 

 

12:30

 

Lunch

 

 

Session 5 – Gene Expression II

 

 

 

Chairman: Des Higgins

 

 

13:30

 

Michael Rosskopf and Arndt von Haeseler

Testing the neutral evolution hypothesis for gene expression data

 

 

14:00

 

Irina Abnizova, Rene te Boekhorst, Brian Tom and Walter R. Gilks

Markov models for transcription binding site prediction

 

 

14:30

 

Andrew Teschendorff, Ali Nederi, Nuno Barbosa-Morais and Carlos Caldas

PACK, Profile Analysis using Clustering and Kurtosis to find major molecular classifiers in cancer.

 

 

15:00

 

Mark Dunning

Detecting regulatory element variants using BeadArrays

 

 

15:30

 

Close of Conference