C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2024
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 9.45am to 5.00pm
Organiser: Cambridge centre for data-driven discovery
Location: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA
We warmly invite you to the C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2024!
This event is open to everyone in the Computational Biology Community.
Registration
(Registration will close at 23:59 on Tuesday 7th May.)
Participants: register here
Speakers and Chairs: register here
Programme
09.45-10.15 Registration and arrival refreshments
10.15-10.20 Welcome Mike Boemo (Pathology)
Session 1 - Chair: Mike Boemo (Pathology)
- 10.20-10.40 Robin Burns Unravelling the evolution and fidelity of centromeres (Plant Sciences)
- 10.40-11.00 Casper Siu Inference of spatial population structure from long shared haplotypes (Genetics)
- 11.00-11.20 Henry North Genomic monitoring of an invasive agricultural pest (Zoology)
- 11.20-12.20 Keynote: Helen Byrne (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)
12.20-13.00 Lunch
Session 2 - Chair: Aylwyn Scally (Genetics)
- 13.00 - 13.40 Kyriacos Leptos (DAMTP)
- 13.40 - 14.20 Zeyu Gao Measurable Multi-Instance Learning for Cancer Classification and Spatial Quantification (Oncology)
- 14.20 - 15.00 Siddhartha Kar Integrating germline and somatic genomics to understand cancer development and progression (Early Cancer Institute)
15.00-15.20 Break with refreshments
Session 3 - Chair: Shutong Ye (Pathology)
- 15.20 - 16.00 Katy Brown Identifying and characterising RNA viruses in large sequencing databases (Pathology)
- 16.00 - 16.20 Raquel Manzano Garcia (Cancer Research UK)
- 16.20-17.00 Alex Cagan Ultra-accurate sequencing methods to study somatic evolution across the tree of life (Genetics)
17.00-17.40 Drinks reception
Organised by C2D3 Computational Biology (formerly the CCBI)
Speaker's Biographies:
- Keynote: Helen Byrne University of Oxford
- Katy Brown
- Alex Cagan
- Zeyu Gao
- Siddhartha Kar
- Kyriacos Leptos
- Raquel Manzano Garcia
- Henry North
Read more about C2D3 Computational Biology here