8th RA Fisher Centre Meeting
Date and time
Location
UCL
UCL Roberts Engineering Building Malet Place London WC1E 7JE United KingdomDescription
The goal of this meeting is to bring together UCL and Crick Institute research groups active in Computational Biology research. The meeting location alternates between UCL and LRI, with this next event taking place at UCL.
The meeting will take place in the Roberts Building 5th floor in lecture theatre 508. When passing the gates of the entrance move right to the elevators and take the lift to the 5th floor and follow the signs to the lecture theatre.
Provisional Schedule
9:45 - 9:50: Opening remarks
9:50 - 10:10: Dr. Ioanna Manolopoulou (Statistics): Bayesian modelling of motion trajectories using diffusion processes
10.10 - 10.30: Dr. Doug Speed (MRC Biostatistics Fellow): New advances in complex trait genetics
10:30 - 10:50: Prof. Benny Chain (Infection and Immunity): Learning the language of T cell repertoires
10:50-11:10: Coffee break
11:10-11:30: Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (CS): Feature Selection for Performance and Interpretability
11:30-11:50: Prof. Samuel Kaski (Aalto Unviersity and University of Helsinki): Drug sensitivity prediction from multiple data sources
11:50-12:00: Closing remarks
12:00-13:00: Lunch and Poster Session
About the Fisher Centre
The RA Fisher Centre for Computational Biology is an interdisciplinary centre of excellence for mathematical and computational analysis of the fast-growing data in genetics and biology.
More info: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ra-fisher-centre
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