Schedule

Thursday, March 29th

 11.30 Registration opens and poster set-up
 12.30-13.20 Buffet lunch and poster preview
 13.20-15.30 Opening Session: Phylogenetics 1
 13.20 Welcome
 13.30 Wolfgang Lehrach "Reversible jump MCMC for inference in phylogenetic factorial hidden Markov models" (abstract pdf)
 14.00 Samuel Blanquart "Modeling protein evolution with a non-stationary mixture of Markovian processes of substitution"(abstract pdf)
 14.30 Simon Whelan "Resampling strategies and tabu search in maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree estimation" (abstract pdf)
 15.00 Alexandros Stamatakis "Potential Algorithmic Solutions for Large-Scale Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny Estimation" (abstract pdf)
 15.30-16.00 Coffee and posters
 16.00-18.00 Networks and Systems 1
 16.00 Simon Lovell "Coevolution of Binding Partners in Protein Interaction Networks"(abstract pdf)
 16.30 Michael Stumpf "Statistical inferences from noisy and incomplete protein interaction network data"(abstract pdf)
 17.00 David Wild "Identifying protein complexes from high-throughput protein interaction screens"(abstract pdf)
 17.30 Tony Chiang "A directed graph analysis of protein interactions"(abstract pdf)
 18.00-19.00 Poster session
 20.00 Conference Dinner at the Yang Sing

Friday, March 30th

 08.30-10.30 Networks and Systems 2
 08.30 Adriano Werhli "Combining gene expression data and different sources of biological prior knowledge for inferring genetic regulatory networks with Bayesian networks"(abstract pdf)
 09.00 Vladislav Vyshemirsky "Bayesian Analysis of the ERK Signalling Pathway"(abstract pdf)
 09.30 Yi Zhang "An integrative machine learning approach to predicting dosR regulated genes in M. tuberculosis"(abstract pdf)
 10.00 Ian Jeffrey "Integrating transcription factor binding site information with gene expression datasets"(abstract pdf)
 10.30-11.00 Coffee and posters
 11.00-13.00 Microarrays and Functional Genomics
 11.00 Richard Bourgon "Fine mapping of meiotic recombination events in S. cerevisiae using high-density tiling microarrays and semi-supervised learning" (abstract pdf)
 11.30 John Marioni "Breaking the waves: improved detection of copy number variation from microarray-based comparative genomic hybridisation"(abstract pdf)
 12.00 Vini Pereira "Scale-free meta-analysis of microarrays and the relationship between gene expression and DNA sequence evolution"(abstract pdf)
 12.30 Allen Rodrigo "A novel statistical model to identify biomarkers in 2D proteomic gels"(abstract pdf)
 13.00-14.00 Buffet lunch and posters
 14.00-16.00 Phylogenetics 2
 14.00 Tim Massingham "Nonparametric likelihood tests of phylogenetic hypotheses"(abstract pdf)
 14.30 Ari Loytynoja "Errors in multiple sequence alignments are reduced by correct treatment of insertions"(abstract pdf)
 15.00 Andrea Fuehrer "A maximum-likelihood framework to infer gene duplication and deletion rates for gene families"(abstract pdf)
 15.30 Tanja Gesell "A phylogenetic definition of structure"(abstract pdf)

Last updated 17 April 2007