13th RA Fisher Centre Meeting

13th RA Fisher Centre Meeting

By Alex Warwick Vestrocy, Nick Luscombe & Christophe Dessimoz

Date and time

Friday, February 16, 2018 · 10am - 1pm GMT

Location

University College London

Malley Place London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom

Description

The goal of this meeting is to bring together UCL and Crick Institute research groups active in Computational Biology research. This 13th meeting will take 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.


Preliminary Schedule (subject to change)

10:00 - 10:05: Introductory Remarks

10:05 - 10:25: Miho Ishida (UCL / ICH) : Investigating the effect of maternal folic acid intake on the transcriptome and methylome of a neural tube defect mouse model

10:25 - 10:45: Matthieu Muffato (European Bioinformatics Institute): Gene annotation and comparative analyses over hundreds of genomes in Ensembl

10.45 - 11:05: Henning Redestig (DuPont Industrial Biosciences): Accelerating the research learning cycle for faster optimization of industrial enzymes

11:05-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-11:35: Daniella Rabaiotti (UCL / IOZ): TBA

11:35-11:55: Lucy van Dorp (UCL / UGI) : Tracing the origin and spread of antimicrobial resistance in gram negative bacteria using whole genome sequencing

11:55-12:00: Closing remarks

12:00-13:00: Lunch & discussions


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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