Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology

2nd June 2009

University of Bristol

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Programme

Abstract Submission

Registrations and Abstracts of less than 250 words should be submitted in plain text, via email to Tom Cassey by 15th May 2009. The organisers welcome abstracts for talks and posters (please indicate your preference if you have one).

Keynote Speakers

Andrew Pomiankowski, Professor of Genetics / Director of the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London.

Schedule

Session/Chair Time Speaker Title
Welcome 9:00 - 9:25 - Coffee
9:25 - 9:30 James Marshall Welcome from the organisers
Session: Ants
Chair: John McNamara
9:30 - 9:50 Elva Robinson Individual comparisons and collective decisions
9:50 - 10:10 Tom Richardson Record dynamics and social feedback in ants
10:10 - 10:30 Ana Sendova-Franks Movement patterns and social organisation: how ants move inside their nests
Break 10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee
Session: Keynote 1
Chair: James Marshall
11:00 - 12:00 Andrew Pomiankowski Mate preference in stalk-eyed flies: good genes or fertility benefits
Session: Neuroscience
Chair: Ana Sendova-Franks
12:00 - 12:20 Rafal Bogacz Do we have the Bayes theorem hardwired in our brains?
12:20 - 12:40 Alejo Nevado Analytical and computational analysis of basal ganglia's oscillatory behaviour in Parkinson's disease
12:40 - 13:00 Tom Cassey Optimal Sampling and Decision Making
Break 13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch & Posters
Session: Evolution
Chair: David Leslie
14:00 - 14:20 Marios Richards Compensating For Something - What's Missing From Epistasis?
14:20 - 14:40 Martin Madera Evolution of protein domain architectures
14:40 - 15:00 Konstantin Blyuss Mathematical modelling of immunological interaction of dengue serotypes
Break 15:00 - 15:30 - Coffee
Session: Applications
Chair: TBA
15:30 - 15:50 Richard Brereton Pattern Recognition for Metabolomic Profiling
15:50 - 16:10 David Gibson Computer Vision based Analysis of Moth Camouflage
16:10 - 16:30 Tom Gorochowski, Oliver Purcell, Petros Mina, and Stephen Reid Bacto-Builders
Discussion 16:30 - Wine Reception & Posters

Registered Attendees

Name Affiliation Abstract
Tom Cassey UoB-CS Optimal Sampling and Decision Making
James Marshall UoB-CS -
Andrew Pomiankowski UCL Mate preference in stalk-eyed flies: good genes or fertility benefits
Tim Kovacs UoB-CS -
Rafal Bogacz UoB-CS Do we have the Bayes theorem hardwired in our brains?
Pete Trimmer UoB-CS -
Tim Swift UWE -
Innes Cuthill UoB-Bio -
Jonathan Potts UoB-BCCS -
Tom Irving UoB-BCCS -
Matt McVicar UoB-BCCS -
David Leslie UoB-Maths -
Harriet Mills UoB-BCCS -
Sebastian Spiegler UoB-CS -
Elva Robinson UoB-Bio Individual comparisons and collective decisions
Richard Brereton UoB-Chemometrics Pattern Recognition for Metabolomic Profiling
Angela Onslow UoB-BCCS -
Ellie Whittaker UoB-Bio -
N Mohd Sharef UoB-EngMath -
Larry Bull UWE-CS -
Anca Popescu Bristol Robotics Lab -
Marios Richards Bath Compensating For Something - What's Missing From Epistasis?
Ana Sendova-Franks UWE-Maths and Stats Movement patterns and social organisation: how ants move inside their nests
Jane Hallett UoB-Bio Predictive Life Sciences (Poster)
Frank Marten UoB-EngMath Theoretical descriptions of EEG activity: Application to absence seizures(Poster)
Zahid Shareef UWE -
Sean Rands UoB-Vet -
Dave Gibson UoB-CS Computer Vision based Analysis of Moth Camouflage
Alejo Nevado UoB-CS Analytical and computational analysis of basal ganglia's oscillatory behaviour in Parkinson's disease
Martin Madera UoB-CS -
Konstantin Blyuss UoB-BCCS Mathematical modelling of immunological interaction of dengue serotypes
Tom Gorochowski UoB-BCCS Bacto-Builders
Oliver Purcell UoB-BCCS Bacto-Builders
Petros Mina UoB-BCCS Bacto-Builders
Stephen Reid UoB-BCCS Bacto-Builders
Mohit Adhikari UoB-EngMath Characterization of cortical response to deep brain stimulation of a thalamic nucleus: Modelling and Experiment(Poster)
Duncan Fowler ? -
Daniel Robert UoB-Bio -
A.J Ganesh UoB-Maths -
Tamuno Alfred UoB-Social Medicine -
Katy Turner UoB-Social Medicine -
John McNamara UoB-Maths -
Julian Holley ? -
John Hogan UoB-EngMaths -
Kostas Vasilakis UoB -
Richard Everitt UoB-Maths -
Kanet Wongravee UoB-Chemometrics -
Gavin Lloyd UoB-Chemometrics -
Mohd Jaafar UoB-Chemometrics -
Dong Li UoB-Chemometrics -
Tom Richardson UoB-Bio Record dynamics and social feedback in ants
Agnieszka Lemanska UoB-Chemometrics -
Chris Stone UWE-CS -
David Howard UWE-CS -
Jamie Walker UoB -
Ibrahim Yassen UoB-Chemometrics -
SF Sim UoB -
Sewa Abdullah UoB-Chemometrics -
Diana Ferreira UoB-Chemometrics -
Sila Kittiwachana UoB-Chemometrics -
Martin Serpell UWE -
Chris Musselle Bristol-BCCS -
Jonathan Grose Bristol-Philosophy -
Nicholas Minter Bristol-Earth Sciences -

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