Newcastle University

School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics

Programme

Monday 2nd April

• 12.30-13.20: Arrival and registration, buffet provided.
• 13.20-15.30: Session I (Chair: Richard Boys)
  
  • 13.20-13.30: Welcome by Prof. Trevor Page, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle University.
  • 13.30-14.15: Tom Kirkwood, Newcastle University, UK.
    Stochasticity in biological systems: signals in the `noise'
  • 14.15-15.00: Lorenz Wernisch, Birkbeck College, London, UK.
    Probabilistic modelling of data on undirected graphs
  • 15.00-15.30: Yussanne Ma*, Michael P.H. Stumpf and Maria De Iorrio, Imperial College, London, UK.
    Bayesian partitioning of sequence data and identification of regulatory regions
• 15.30-16.00: Tea
• 16.00-18.00: Session II (Chair: Malcolm Farrow)
  
  • 16.00-16.45: Peter J. Green, Bristol University, UK.
    Colouring and breaking sticks, pairwise coincidence losses and clustering expression profiles
  • 16.45-17.30: Stéphane Robin, AgroParisTech / INRA, Paris, France.
    Assessing the exceptionality of network motifs
  • 17.30-18.00: Leanna L. House*, Durham University, UK, Merlise A. Clyde and Robert Wolpert, Duke University, USA.
    Mass spectrometry feature extraction for expression proteomic applications using a Lévy random fields model
• 18.00-19.00: Poster Session

Tuesday 3rd April

• 9.30-11.00: Session III (Chair: Richard Boys)
  
  • 9.30-10.15: Chris Holmes, Oxford University, UK.
    Objective Bayesian hidden Markov models for detecting regions of copy number variation in the human genome using SNP genotyping data
  • 10.15-11.00: Peter Müller*, Michele Guindani and Song Zhang, University of Texas, USA.
    The optimal discovery procedure and Bayesian decision rules
• 11.00-11.30: Coffee
• 11.30-13.00: Session IV (Chair: Heather Cordell)
  
  • 11.30-12.15: Michael P.H. Stumpf, Imperial College, London.
    Statistical inferences from noisy and incomplete protein interaction network data
  • 12.15-13.00: Ernst Wit, Lancaster University, UK.
    Modelling transcription activation using microarray data
• 13.00-14.00: Buffet Lunch.
• 14.00-15.00: Session V (Chair: Peter Avery)
  
  • 14.00-14.30: Egil Ferkingstad*, Arnoldo Frigessi, Oslo University, Norway, Gudmar Thorleifsson and Augustine Kong, deCode Genetics, Iceland.
    Covariate-modulated false discovery rates
  • 14.30-15.00: Andrew Golightly, Newcastle University, UK.
    Bayesian inference for systems biological models via a diffusion approximation
• 15.00-15.30: Tea.
• 15.30-16.15: Session VI (Chair: Peter Avery)
  
  • Wally Gilks, Leeds University, UK.
• 16.15: Close.