Newcastle University

School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics

Programme

Monday 13th June

• 13.15-14.00: Arrival and registration.
• 14.00-14.05: Welcome.
• 14.05-15.45: Session 1. Chair: Richard Boys
  
  • 14.05-14.55: Pawel Paszek, University of Manchester, UK.
    Noise and feedback regulation in NF-κ Β signalling
  • 14.55-15.45: Dirk Husmeier, Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, UK.
    Modelling time-varying gene regulatory processes with probabilistic graphical models
• 15.45-16.10: Tea.
• 16.10-17.00: Session 2. Chair: Peter Avery
  
  • 16.10-17.00: Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK.
    Latent switching models of transcriptional regulation
• 17.00-18.00: Posters. Coordinator: Andrew Golightly
  
  • Andrew Golightly and Colin Gillespie, Newcastle University, UK.
    Bayesian inference for hybrid discrete-continuous stochastic kinetic models.
  • Daniel Henderson, Richard Boys and Darren Wilkinson, Newcastle University, UK.
    Bayesian calibration of a stochastic computer model of mitochondrial DNA population dynamics using multiple data sources.
  • Dorota Herman, Christopher M Thomas and Dov J Stekel, University of Birmingham, UK / University of Nottingham, UK.
    Bayesian inference and evolutionary optimization of negative and cooperative autoregulation of plasmid RK2.
  • Edmund Jones and Vanessa Didelez, University of Bristol, UK.
    Using trees or forests to model biomolecular networks.
  • Khaled Khanchouch, M.R. Hajlaoui and Hakan Kutucu, ISAJC, University of Tunis, Tunisia / INRAT, Tunisia / Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.
    Development of a computing model for resistance screening of Citrus limon cultivars infected by the causal agent of "Mal secco" Phoma tracheiphila.
  • Kevin J. Wilson and Malcolm Farrow, Strathclyde University, UK / Newcastle University, UK. Bayes linear kinematics in the design of experiments.

Tuesday 14th June

• 09.30-10.55: Session 3. Chair: Dirk Husmeier
  
  • 09.30-10.20: Daniel Henderson, Richard Boys*, Carole Proctor and Darren Wilkinson, Newcastle University, UK.
    Inference for a Stochastic Kinetic Model of p53 Oscillations
  • 10.20-10.55: James W. J. Anderson*, Joe Staines, Paula Tataru, Jotun Hein, Rune Lyngsø, Oxford University, UK / Aarhus University, Denmark.
    Evolving Stochastic Context-Free Grammars for RNA Secondary Structure.
• 10.55-11.15: Coffee.
• 11.15-12.55: Session 4. Chair: Darren Wilkinson
  
  • 11.15-12.05: Magnus Rattray*, Neil Lawrence, Antti Honkela, Michalis Titsias and James Hensman University of Sheffield, UK / University of Helsinki, Finland.
    Modeling gene expression time-series with Bayesian non-parametrics
  • 12.05-12.55: Michal Komorowski, Imperial College, London, UK.
    An Integrated Framework for the Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Dynamical Models of Chemical Reactions
• 12.55-13.55: Lunch.
  Buffet lunch provided.
• 13.55-15.35: Session 5. Chair: Heather Cordell
  
  • 13.55-14.45: David Balding, Doug Speed* and Vincent Plagnol, University College, London, UK.
    Kinship, heritability and genetic effect sizes
  • 14.45-15.20: Kristin Ayers, Newcastle University, UK.
    Association studies via penalized regression for common and rare variants
• 15.20-15.40: Tea.
• 15.40-16.30: Session 6. Chair: Malcolm Farrow
  
  • 15.40-16.30: Arnoldo Frigessi, Statistics for Innovation (sfi)², University of Oslo, Norway.
    The Genomic HyperBrowser: inferential genomics at the sequence level
• 16.30: Close.