University of Glasgow Computational Biology Conference 2022

Take part in talks, networking and learning about everything computational biology!
Published

September 1, 2022

Our 2022 Keynote Speakers

Schedule

Time event Name Title
Thursday
08:45-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Introduction Introduction from Professor Muffy Calder, Head of College of Science and Engineering
09:45-10:30 Keynote 1 David Robertson
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:22 Invited talk Carlijn Bogaardt Movenet: livestock movement networks, without data concerns.
11:22-11:45 Invited talk Matt Arnold Feed your model more protein: Novel features based on viral protein composition and predicted interactions improve and slimline models of viral zoonoses.
11:45-12:07 Invited talk Max Schroeder Two decades of elevated disease mortality risk following the main waves of influenza pandemics.
12:07-12:30 Invited talk Roderic Page Building the biodiversity knowledge graph.
12:30-13:30 Poster Session and Lunch
13:30-13:45 Introduction Professor Ana Basiri: Centre for Data Science and AI
13:45-14:30 Keynote 2 Simon Rogers Spec2Vec -- rethinking spectral similarity in metabolomics.
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:00-15:22 Invited talk Yanni Ji CellProfiler can draw: generating high-quality single-cell images using CellProfiler representations.
15:22-15:45 Invited talk Sarah Derby The shape of the problem: double strand break location in glioblastoma.
15:45-16:07 Invited talk Dan Liu Predict virus and host interactions based on pre-trained transformer model and attention-based multiple instances learning.
16:07-16:30 Invited talk Ross McBride Maximum matching algorithms for comprehensive LC/MS data acquisition.
16:30-16:45 Closing Remarks for Day 1
After ARC- Drinks at Oran Mor
Friday
09:30-10:15 Keynote 3 Mayetri Gupta
10:15-10:30 Hacky Hour, Single Cell Clinic and Bioinformatics drop-in update
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:22 Invited talk Calum Bentley-Abbot FISHtoFigure: A single molecule fluorescent in-situ hybridisation (Smfish) tool for the automated analysis of transcriptional activity in tissues.
11:22-11:45 Invited talk Debao Guan A New Active Contraction Model for Myocardium Using a Modified Hill Model.
11:45-12:07 Invited talk Andrew Gillen Finding drosophila genes of interest DIGITtally.
12:07-12:30 Invited talk Zaiqiao Meng Biomedical knowledge probing and infusing with pretrained language models.
12:30-13:30 Poster Session and Lunch
13:30-13:45 Comp Bio Society Update
13:45-14:30 Keynote 4 Tamir Chandra
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:00-15:22 Invited talk Colin Wood Spatial transcriptomics deconvolutes histological subtypes of colorectal cancer liver metastases.
15:22-15:45 Invited talk Jennifer McIntyre Unravelling the haplotypes from a heterogenous pool of DNA: the impact of using HiC data to help with a complex draft genome assembly for a worm of small size.
15:45-16:07 Invited talk Ke Yuan Signatures of evolutionary dynamics in human cancer.
16:07-16:30 Invited talk Alison MacFadyen Computational Biology for Interrogating Bacterial Genomes - What we can and cannot do.
16:30-16:45 Closing Remarks and Prize Announcements
After ARC- Drinks at the Curlers Rest