11th RA Fisher Centre Meeting

11th RA Fisher Centre Meeting

By Alex Warwick Vestrocy, Nick Luscombe & Christophe Dessimoz

Date and time

Thursday, June 22, 2017 · 10am - 1pm GMT+1

Location

UCL

UCL Roberts Engineering Building Malet Place London WC1E 7JE United Kingdom

Description

The goal of this meeting is to bring together UCL and Crick Institute research groups active in Computational Biology research. This 11th 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: Liam Shaw (UCL GEE/UGI), Punch to the gut: modelling the effect of antibiotics on the gut microbiome
10:25 - 10:45: Tetsuya J. Kobayashi (University of Tokyo / UCL), Quantitative characterization and comparison of T cell receptor repertoires based on dimension-reduction approach
10.45 - 11:05: David Gfeller (University of Lausanne), Deciphering Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) motifs across HLA peptidome improves neo-antigen predictions and reveals novel properties of HLA molecules

11:05-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-11:35: Tom Watkins (Crick Institute), Tracking evolution in non-small cell lung cancer
11:35-11:55: Christophe Dessimoz (UCL GEE/CS), Comparing and integrating genomes via fine-grained orthology

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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