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Our lineup of talks, keynotes, posters, and networking for 2026.
Published
August 28, 2026
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Schedule
Schedule
Time
Event
Author
Title
10:00-10:10
Welcome
10:10-11:10
Keynote 1
Dr Ralitsa Madsen
Biological computation: lessons from cell signalling in health and disease
11:10-11:50
Coffee + Posters
11:50-12:10
Talk
Ilaria Di Fazio
Investigating Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Cytometry as a Patient Stratification Tool in Childhood Central Nervous System Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
12:10-12:30
Talk
Emily Davison
Using Scalable Bayesian Phylogenetic Models to Predict Plant Responses to Climate Change
12:30-12:50
Talk
Stephen Fox
Central Active Research Data Storage (CARDS): Developing a Sustainable Institutional Platform for Research Data at the University of Glasgow
12:50-13:50
Lunch
13:50-14:10
Talk
Dom Thompson
Distinguishing Crohn’s Disease From Ulcerative Colitis Using Stool 16s rRNA Microbiome Signatures While Accounting For Clinical Confounders
14:10-14:30
Talk
Michael Black
Seeking Common Metabolic Pathways Beyond Sterol Metabolism Related To Amphotericin B Resistance In Leishmania
14:30-14:50
Talk
Haley Stone
VTT-Net: Learning Viral Tissue Tropism Using Graph Neural Networks
14:50-15:10
Talk
Roderic Page
Walking and talking to the tree of life
15:10-15:30
Coffee
15:30-15:50
Talk
Rubayet Alam
Prediction of antigenic evolution from a single virus sequence using an epistasis-aware protein language model approach
15:50-16:50
Keynote 2
Prof Chris Yau
Are We Needed Anymore? Has AI Made the Computational Biologist Obsolete?
16:50-17:00
Closing Remarks
17:00
End (and head to pub)