Computational and Systems Biology

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

Dr Elizabeth Murchison. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development

Professor Bertie Göttgens, Department of Haematology.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Towards a molecular psychophysics of decision making in neuro-development and repair

Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Image analysis tools for cancer biology: how could we make it better?

Patrice Mascalchi. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute..

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Day

Professor Simon Tavaré and Dr Stephen Eglen.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genomics of transcription factor redundancy

Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Image Analysis for Cancer Research

Joana Grah, DAMTP.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

There is no medicine except in the light of models

Dr Pietro Lio, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Recognition and Assembly

Dr Peter J Bond, Bioinformatics Institute (BII) A*STAR, Singapore..

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Multi-scale studies on transcription factors

Dr Boris Adryan, Department of Genetics.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Collaborative research: funding available for collaborative research out of Science and Technology Funding Council areas.

STFC collaborative R&D funding

Free parking on Clerk Maxwell Road (2 minutes from the Cavendish). Parking closer very limited, please email organiser if needed.

Dr Vlad Skarda, STFC External Innovations.

TCM - Seminar Room (room 530), Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory..

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-13:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Biological Databases: More than just stamp collections.

Dr Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute..

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Using human genome variation to study history and cellular function

Dr Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

High-content microscopy: big-data biology goes spatio-temporal

Dr Anatole Chessel, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre..

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Whole-genome sequencing of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma

Dineika Chandrananda .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge..

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Targeting the brain tumour stem cell phenotype with small molecules

Heiko Wurdak (Leeds).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Population genetic models of evolution

Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting translation efficiency through lab evolution, genome engineering and inspection of the cancerous genome

Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann Institute, Israel).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling the transcriptional response to ER signalling in breast cancer cells

Magnus Rattray (Manchester).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Keynote Address - Using Hi-C to Determine 3-D Structures of Whole Genomes in Single Cells

Tim Stevens, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Rising stars 2 - Sequencing Applications in Health and Disease

Chaired by Jelena Aleksic, WT/MRC Stem Cell Institute.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 14:15-15:00

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 3 - Single Cell Sequencing

Led by Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), Boris Adryan (CSBC), Misha Kapushesky (Genestack).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 13:30-14:15

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Rising stars 1 - Data Analysis and Data Sharing Methods

Chaired by Richard Smith-Unna.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 11:45-12:30

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 2 - Long Read / New Technologies

Led by Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014)

CASIM VI: Discussion 1 - Local Computational Resources and Issues

Led by Misha Kapushesky (Genestack), Aylwyn Scally (Genetics), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

Monday 29 September 2014, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Discovery and allele frequency estimation of somatic twilight zone insertions and deletions

Alexander Schönhuth (CWI Amsterdam).

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 22 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Therapeutic landscape of cancer drivers

Nuria Lopez-Bigas.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 September 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Cancer Genome Atlas: oncogenic signature classes and the design of combinatorial therapy

Chris Sander (MSKCC).

CRUK CI Room 215.

Friday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variations in genetic and phenotypic diversity during breast cancer progression.

Vanessa Almendro (Harvard University).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Single molecule approaches for studying gene expression in intact mammalian tissues.

Shalev Itzkovitz (Weizmann Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Resistant Cancer Cell Line (RCCL) collection – cancer cell lines with acquired drug resistance as a pre-clinical and basic science model

Martin Michaelis (University of Kent).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 17 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Using time-resolved genetic data to study the evolution of drug resistance.

Ville Mustonen (Sanger Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Profiling the Subclonal Copy Number Architecture from Whole Genome Sequencing of Heterogeneous Tumours

Gavin Ha, BC Cancer Research Centre.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Systems biology of stem cell fate

Ben MacArthur (University of Southampton).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Incorporating Prior Biological Knowledge into Genetic Association Studies

David V. Conti (USC).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Measuring within-tumour diversity as a universal biomarker for cancer prognosis

Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary Univ London).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Physical constraints can encode bacterial promoter regulatory logic

Daphne Ezer (Department of Genetics).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Analysis of a large cancer gene screen in myelodysplastic syndromes

Moritz Gerstung (Sanger).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Colon CSCs are sensitized by HDACinhibitors in a FOXO-dependent fashion

Jan Paul Medema (Amsterdam Medical Center).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Platinum Genomes

Michael Eberle (Illumina).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Global microRNA level regulation of EGFR-driven cell-cycle protein network in breast cancer

Note unusual day and time!

Stefan Wiemann (DKFZ Heidelberg).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Room 009.

Tuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Petri nets as semi-quantitative modeling method to explore systems behavior of disease-related pathways

Ina Koch (Frankfurt University).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genome-wide association studies: Lessons from studying a large clinical cohort

Sven Bergmann (Lausanne).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution:

Room change: 215 instead of lecture theatre (outside guests will need visitor ID)

Dana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 29 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

various speakers.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 09:00-17:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring causal mediators from omics data in the context of genetic and environmental variations

Oliver Stegle (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

Dr. Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The logic and variation in genomic regulatory networks

Mikhail Spivakov (Babraham Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome sequencing of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

Elizabeth Murchison (Sanger) .

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding

Dr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Metabolic regulation of the stress response and the cancer cell's Warburg effect

Markus Ralser (University of Cambridge, Dept of Biochemistry).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Methodological Challenges in the Pursuit of the Tree of Life

Dr. Christophe Dessimoz, EMBL-EBI.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-wide approaches to study alternative splicing using RNA-seq data

Dr. Kathi Zarnack, London Research Institute and EMBL-EBI.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Afternoon

various.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of cellular networks: from interactions to phenotypes

Pedro Beltrao (EMBL-EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ecological niche modeling and infectious disease

Dr. Daniel Henk, University of Bath.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Circulating tumour DNA as a biomarker of genetics alterations in cancer

Florent Mouliere (IRCM U896 Inserm, Montpellier, France).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Integration of functional genomics and pathway information to elucidate deregulation of signal transduction and drugs' mode of action

Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution of post-translational networks

Dr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes

Please contact Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez if you wish to attend this talk as he will need to inform security

Doug Lauffenberger (MIT).

The Crick Auditorium, Wellcome Trust Campus, Hinxton.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-01:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Network biology of cancer

Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 September 2012, 10:30-11:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

From protein networks to disease mechanisms

Roded Sharan (Tel-Aviv University).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 10 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Characterising the evolutionary trajectories generating C4 photosynthesis through inference of phenotypic transition networks

Ben Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 06 July 2012, 13:00-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variational Methods in 3+Dimensional Biomedical Imaging

Martin Burger (Uni Münster).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The life histories of 21 breast cancers

Peter van Loo (Sanger Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Eighth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Various Speakers.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 09:00-17:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biological Image Analysis Made Easy

Note the unusual time: 11am not 4pm!

Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes

Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 14 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling stem cell differentiation on multiple scales

Tuesday, not Monday!

Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Center Munich).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences..

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Machine learning applications in genetic regulation and cancer

David Westhead (Leeds).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

ShrinkSeq: a flexible and powerful method for Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data

Note the time change: 2pm (not 4pm)

Mark van de Wiel (VU University Medical Center).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis

Sebastian Mueller.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of developmental gene expression programs

Itai Yanai (Technion).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling in systems genetics: computational approaches for discovering disease networks

Tom Michoel (FRIAS Freiburg).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Open Afternoon for the MPhil in Computational Biology

Various Speakers.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Model Based Target Identification from Expression Data

Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-Based Drug Discovery and Re-Purposing: a new golden age for DNA microarrays?

Dr. Francesco Iorio, EMBL-EBI.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Search for Organizing Principles in Cancer Systems Biology

Olaf Wolkenhauer (University of Rostock, www.sbi.uni-rostock.de).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Increased methylation variation across cancer types

Kasper Daniel Hansen (Johns Hopkins).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome

David Horn (LSHTM).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Multi-scale studies on Drosophila transcription factors

Boris Adryan (CCBI,Genetics).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi-based molecular computing for cancer cell detection

Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson (ETH Zurich BSSE).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation for evolution in a test tube

Professor Simon Tavare ( CCBI, CRI-CRUK, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

tba

Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring mechanisms of gene regulation from patterns of evolutionary divergence

Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

From batch effects and randomness to personalised stratified medicine

John Todd (CIMR).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression in mouse ES cells

Helle Jørgensen (University of Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

One Day Meeting - Seventh Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

CCBI Annual Symposium

Various speakers.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Thursday 29 September 2011, 09:30-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Adult stem cell fate: a laboratory for statistical physics

Ben Simons (University of Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Perturbation Biology of Cancer Cells

Chris Sander (MSKCC).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Phylogenetic Inference of Multidomain Evolution

Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Allele specific expression design using short read DNA sequencing and application to the genetics of autoimmune disorders

Vincent Plagnol (UCL).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CRUK computational biology day

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 April 2011, 09:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Do modules or pathways help predict breast cancer outcome?

Gunnar Klau (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 009.

Monday 04 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

From data to bench to bedside - prognostic markers and therapeutic targets in breast cancer

Gyan Bhanot (Rutgers).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Persistence and control of bTB in Great Britain

Andrew Conlan (Vet School).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests a risk management strategy for bacterial evolution

Nicholas Luscombe (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins: Regulation and Disease

Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Theoretical models of the development of the nervous system

Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

Various speakers associated with the course.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 14:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Using association-based genetics to understand basic biology

Ewan Birney (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical models of signaling networks and their application to disease

Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Integrative Network Biology and Cellular Information Processing

Rune Linding (ICR).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling epidemics: mixing patterns, changing behaviour, and swine flu

Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution and regulation of gene expression levels in mammals

John Marioni (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Decoding Genetic Switches in T Helper Cell Differentiation

Sarah Teichmann (LMB).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Executable Strategies for Cellular Decision Making

Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Europe).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Finding interesting clusters using Bayesian data fusion

Richard Savage (University of Warwick).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deconvolving the epigenome

Thomas Down (Gurdon Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Why is Genomics so unfashionable in Drug Discovery?

Quin Wills (SimuGen).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Why is genomics now unfashionable in drug discovery?

Quin Wills (SimuGen).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Transcriptional characterization of glioma stem cells using high-throughput tag sequencing

Paul Bertone (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolutionary Signatures of Strand Specific Mutagenic Processes

Paz Polak (MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Unexpected complex dynamics of cellular transcriptional response

Amit Zeisel (Weizmann Institute of Science).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Open

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 July 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Uncovering signaling differences between normal and transformed hepatocytes using cell-specific pathway models

Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 July 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Accelerated substitution rates in non-coding sequence: Gene duplication, transcription factor binding site turnover and biased gene conversion.

Dennis Kostka, Gladstone Institute, UCSF.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Friday 02 July 2010, 14:30-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A quantitative view of gene expression levels and epigenetic modifications

Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

ChIP-Seq in six Drosophila species reveals a highly similar binding landscape for the developmental transcription factor Twist.

Alexander Stark (IMP Vienna).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

From phenotypes to pathways: inferring genetic architecture from perturbation maps

Florian Markowetz ( Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Michele Vendruscolo ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 15:30-16:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Quantifiying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System

Frank Jiggins (Department of Genetics).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:30-15:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Hurles.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:00-14:30

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Gene Expression in Aneuupoid Drosophila

Brian Oliver (NIH).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 11:45-12:30

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

Paul Sternberg (Caltech).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 10:30-11:15

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

Gos Micklem, (CCBI, Genetics, CSBC).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 09:00-09:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dynamics of molecular clocks expose the lineage relations of cells

Shalev Itzkovitz (MIT).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Deep sequencing reveals differential expression of microRNAs in favorable versus unfavorable neuroblastoma

Sven Rahmann (TU Dortmund).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

A global map of human gene expression

Alvis Brazma (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Ultrasound elastography

Dr Graham Treece (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 11:15-11:45

One Day Meeting - 6th Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Title to be confirmed

Nicholas le Novere (EBI).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 09:30-10:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Learning the structure of graphical models with latent variables

Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Characterization of 1000 breast cancer genomes and transcriptomes

Dr Christina Curtis (University of Cambridge).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

"Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Industry"

Various speakers from GSK.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Monday 08 March 2010, 13:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Prof Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

Professor Simon Tavare and others.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 14:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Next generation computing for next generation sequencing

Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 15 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Analysing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in vivo by upgrading in vitro data based on mathematical modelling

Wilhelm Huisinga, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 01 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

New Approaches to Biomedical Data Modelling: An Introductory Tutorial

Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biochemical network reconstruction from data

Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Tumour/Normal Pair Analysis with the Illumina Genome Analyzer

Dirk Evers and Keira Cheetham (Illumina Cambridge Ltd.).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Towards a transcriptional taxonomy of in vitro stem cell preparations

Franz-Josef Müller (University of Kiel / The Scripps Research Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 07 September 2009, 16:00-17:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Analyzing the effect of noise on various models of Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle coupling

Alessandro Romanel, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecology

Ferenc Jordán, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory Approach

Matteo Cavaliere, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Executable Pathway to Biological Networks

Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networks

Phuong Nguyen, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systems

Sean Sedwards, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Drinks & Flip Chart Session

Organisers.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 2: Dark matter and the dark arts

Professor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 16:45-17:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Future Steps

Dr Gos Micklem.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 16:15-16:45

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 4: Counting and comparing

Workshop covers peak calling, segmentation , enrichment, differential expression, normalisation, transcriptomics, ChIPseq.

Dr Krys Kelly (Lead).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 15:15-16:15

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 3: Assembly / Structural variation

Workshop covers de novo assemblers, paired end data, integrating data from different technologies, structural variation.

Aylwyn Scally (Lead).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 13:30-14:45

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Lunch & Flip Chart Session

Lunch.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 2: Alignment

Workshop covers: Speed, sensitivity, alignment formats, repeats, SNPs, indels.

Mario Caccamo (Lead).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 1: Computational issues in ancient genomics

Dr Ed Green, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 10:15-11:00

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 1: Data Production

Workshop covers Primary pipeline processing: quality scores, multiplexing; Data management: metadata, data storage, data delivery.

Rory Stark (Lead).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 09:15-10:15

Cambridge Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day

Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Registration

Organisers.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 08:45-09:10

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological Systems

Hiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all?

Orkun Soyer, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Code Underlying Tissue-Regulated Splicing

Brendan Frey, University of Toronto.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 11 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Dynamics of cell cycle transitions

Attila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 April 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenX

Davide Prandi, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

A parallel perspective of the dynamics of biological reactive systems

Tommaso Mazza, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 April 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological Systems

Alida Palmisano, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 31 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathway

Adaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentration

Paola Lecca, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Evolutionary computation: optimization and inference

Michele Forlin, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Visual systems biology: design, understand, organize

Lorenzo Dematté, CoSBi.

Large public lecture room, Microsoft Research, Roger Needham Building, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Linked Oscillators in Circadian Biology

Dr. Alex Webb (Plant Sciences).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2009, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

Various speakers.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 14:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Better multiple sequence alignment by being phylogeny-aware, and better base calling from next-generation sequencers

Nick Goldman (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Pathogen Genome Sequencing at the Sanger Institute

Dr. Arnab Pain.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 15:00-16:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological Systems

Time changed

Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systems

Roberto Larcher, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Christmas Quiz

Canceled

Speakers to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

"Studying human variation from whole genome sequence data".

Richard Durbin, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

" The dynamics of parasite-mediated competition"

Olivier Restif, CIDC, The Veterinary School, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

Ivan Mura, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and Robustness

Radu Mardare, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

Speakers to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Kojiro Yano.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Type 1 Diabetes research, before and after association studies

Vincent Plagnol, CIMR, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics

Dr. Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

What makes cellular decisions irreversible?

Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford.

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

CoSBi Computational and Systems Biology Series

Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythm

Judit Zámborszky, CoSBi.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Title to be confirmed

Speakers to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative

Professor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative

registration is required for this event

Professor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Applications of physical science to biological systems: droplets and fragments

Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 15:30-16:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Materials for Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

Dr Ruth Cameron, Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory

Synthetic Biology

Dr David Summers, Department of Genetics.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system

Medical Engineering (registration is required for this event)

Professor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants

Synthetic Biology

Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Closing on closed-loop insulin delivery: Artificial Pancreas - where we are and where we go

Medical Engineering

Dr Roman Hovorka, Institute for Metabolic Sciences.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis

Synthetic Biology

Professor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare

Professor Mehdi Tavakoli, Health Technologies KTN.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:45-12:15

Horizon: Bioengineering

Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications

registration is required for this event

Dr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-11:45

Horizon: Bioengineering

Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines

Professor Steve Oliver, Centre for Systems Biology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 10:45-11:15

Computational and Systems Biology

RNA editing in plant organelles: Correlation between editing sites and protein three-dimensional structures

Ectopic seminar - N.B. in Biochemistry Department

Kei Yura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo).

Lecture Theatre, Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building (old building).

Tuesday 30 September 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Development tools for mobile devices

Alexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher).

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Uncovering design principles of bacterial biochemical networks and biofilm self-organization

Ectopic seminar - N.B. in Biochemistry Department

Oleg Igoshin (Rice University).

Seminar Room, Biochemistry Department (Sanger Building), Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations

MPhil Students.

Fletcher-Moulton Room at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road.

Wednesday 27 August 2008, 09:30-14:45

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations

MPhil Students.

Fletcher-Moulton Room at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road.

Tuesday 26 August 2008, 09:30-17:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Field Programmable Gate Arrays

POSTPHONED TO LATER IN THE YEAR

Speakers to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 July 2008, 17:30-19:30

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASI

Prof. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester.

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Workflow processing

Speakers to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 17:30-19:30

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Mouse Genome Informatics Database: Phenotypes and Phenotype Ontology

Prof. Janan Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory.

WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 12:20-12:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology

http://diseaseontology.sf.net/

Prof. Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University) & Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medicine).

WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:10-11:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

The OBO Foundry and PATO

Prof. Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge).

WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:50-11:10

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Ontologies for Biologists – The Promise and the Reality

Prof. Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge (and former joint head of EMBL-EBI).

WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:30-10:50

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Wellcome and Background to Meeting

Prof. Janet Thornton & Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI).

WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:15-10:30

Disease Ontologies and Information (EBI, Hinxton, 19th June 2008)

Registration and Tea/Coffee

There is no Registration Fee but pre-registration is requested.

WTCC, Hinxton.

Thursday 19 June 2008, 09:30-10:15

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Structural analysis of cellular networks

Prof. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich.

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Genomic Regulatory Network Models for Developing Blood Stem Cells

Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Haematology).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 16:25-17:10

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Mapping quantitative traits in mice and plants

Richard Mott (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 15:40-16:25

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Biological learning and memory from a theoretical perspective

Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 14:35-15:20

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Evolution of protein complexes and protein interaction networks

Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:50-14:35

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Biochemistry

Gabor Csanyi (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:05-12:50

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Collective Hydrodynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms

Tim Pedley (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 11:20-12:05

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Signals, Gradients and Cellular Architecture

Karen Lipkow (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre & Biochemistry Department).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 10:15-11:00

One Day Meeting: Fourth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Determinants of tissue-specific transcriptional regulation in a transplanted chromosome

Duncan Odom (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 09:30-10:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Provisional: Productivity Applications

tbc.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-19:30

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

FlyMine, InterMine and databases for biology.

Richard Smith, Flymine, Dept of Genetics.

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design

Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories.

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Functional Programming

Various Speakers.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 April 2008, 17:30-19:30

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Wolfgang Huber from the EBI will be talking on the vsn method.

Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus.

Lecture Room, Sanger Building, Biochemistry Department.

Monday 07 April 2008, 14:15-13:15

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networks

Dr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi.

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

SciComp minitalks

Meeting Room 4, CMS

tbc.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

A comparison of background correction methods for two-colour microarrays

Matt Ritchie (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

tba

Irene Papatheodorou (Cancer Research Institute) University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 15:00-16:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Using biological ontologies in databases: where do GO terms come from?

Susan Tweedie, Department of Genetics.

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars

Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecology

Dr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews.

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Python Tools for software development

Oliver Stegle (University of Cambridge).

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational methods to analyse large-scale and high-dimensional gene perturbation screens

Florian Markowetz (University of Princeton).

Lecture Theatre, CRI Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

A Programming Language for Biology

Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

Various.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-16:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

Druggable targets - the need for fresh thinking in neglected disease .

Dr. Tim Wells (Medicines for Malaria Venture).

Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 12:30-13:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

BindingDB

Prof. Michael Gilson (University of Maryland).

Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 12:00-12:30

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest

Paula de Matos (ChEBI Group, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 11:30-12:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

DrugBank2

Prof. David Wishart (University of Alberta).

Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 10:30-11:00

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

ChemoGenomics

Prof. Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee).

Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 10:00-10:30

Druggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008)

Introduction and Overview

Prof. Janet Thornton (Director, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

Room M203, Murray Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton.

Monday 04 February 2008, 09:30-10:00

Computational and Systems Biology

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Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 15:00-16:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Harnessing naturally randomized transcription to infer regulatory relationships among genes

Phil Charles, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics.

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 December 2007, 17:15-19:15

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

General Discussion Session

All.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 16:30-17:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells

Ron Weiss (Princeton).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 15:50-16:30

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0

Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:40-15:20

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Biological Engineering of Plant Systems

Jim Haseloff (Cambridge).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:00-14:40

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways

Caleb Bashor (UCSF).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 12:10-12:50

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits

Georg Seelig (Caltech).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 11:30-12:10

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Computational Design in Synthetic Biology

Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 10:20-11:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

The iGEM competition: Building with biology

James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:40-10:20

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)

Gos Micklem (Cambridge).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:05-09:40

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

The use of a power law global error model for the identification of differentially expressed genes in microarray data

Matthew Russell, Biochemistry Department.

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Richard Adams (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Complex relationships: modelling epidemics on human social networks

Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 17:15-19:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Approximate Bayesian Computation and the fossil record

Simon Tavare (DAMTP/Oncology).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Title to be confirmed

Vincent Plagnol (CIMR).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

A new type of stochastic dependence revealed in gene expression data.

Marcelo Segura, Biochemistry Department.

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 26 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics

Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 17:15-19:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics

Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Toxicogenomics - helping reshape drug discovery (?)

Quin Wills (Simugen Ltd.).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies.

Gregor McCombie (Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University).

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 28 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Joint EBI/ Cambridge University Research Symposium

Joint EBI/ Cambridge University Research Symposium

Multiple speakers from the EBI and across Cambridge University.

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Hall, Hinxton.

Friday 21 September 2007, 09:15-17:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 September 2007, 17:15-19:15

Genetics Department Seminar Series

Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins

ECTOPIC SEMINAR

Dr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan.

Bateson Room, Department of Genetics.

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Centering, scaling, and transformations: improving the biological information content of metabolomics data

Kian Kai Cheng (Biochemsitry Department, Uni of Cambridge).

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 31 August 2007, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 August 2007, 17:15-19:15

Bioinformatics jounal club for the -omics

Bootstrapping cluster analysis: assessing the reliability of conclusions

Jules Griffin ( Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

Meeting room 1 cambridge system biology centre.

Friday 27 July 2007, 14:00-15:00

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 July 2007, 17:15-19:15

Systems Biology

Individual variation identifies evolutionary patterns between species

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Worldwide distribution of human genetic diversity

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Francois Balloux, Department of Genetics.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Worldwide distribution of human phenotypic diversity

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

The systems biology of influenza

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Derek Smith, Department of Zoology.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Disease dynamics at different scales

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Julia Gog, Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Evolving mechanisms of pattern formation: Segmentation in arthropods

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Michael Akam, Department of Zoology.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Developmental and evolutionary dynamics of the gap gene system.

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Johannes Jaeger, Department of Zoology.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Disease in a changing landscape

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

A systems approach to understand the condition dependency of genetic interactions

Population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Balázs Papp, University of Manchester & BRC Szeged.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Systems Biology

Genomic approaches to speciation and fitness: old wines in new bottles

population and Evolutionary Approaches to Biological Systems 1 Day Symposium

Steve Oliver, University of Manchester & Department of Biochemistry.

Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 July 2007, 09:30-17:25

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational genomics of structural RNAs

CCBI Distinguished Seminar Series

Sean Eddy, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 July 2007, 16:30-17:30

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Report from Apple WWDC07

Speaker to be confirmed.

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15

SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge

Linux on the Playstation3

David Fox, JPY Ltd..

CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 June 2007, 17:15-19:15

Symposium on Computational Biology

DNA-binding computation at large and small scales

Dr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 15:10-16:00

Symposium on Computational Biology

Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulations

Dr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 14:20-15:10

Symposium on Computational Biology

Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolution

Dr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 13:30-14:20

Symposium on Computational Biology

Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteins

Dr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 11:40-12:30

Symposium on Computational Biology

The physics of protein folding

Dr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:50-11:40

Symposium on Computational Biology

Measuring and predicting complexity

Dr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 10:00-10:50

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

A human protein atlas

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Anja Persson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:45-17:30

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

The biology of common disease from a genome-wide perspective: susceptibility genes as nodes for pathways and systems

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

John Todd, The Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR).

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 16:00-16:45

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Genome regulation: a sequence-gazer's view.

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Thomas Down, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:45-15:30

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Andrew Fraser (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 14:00-14:45

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Lies, damn lies and metabolomics - statistical approaches for processing metabolomic data.

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 12:15-01:00

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Oscillators and sychronisation in circadian rhythms

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 11:30-12:15

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Epidemics on Networks

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 10:15-11:00

One Day Meeting - Third Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Modelling the hidden world of protein activities

Registration required via http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_07.php

Lorenz Wernisch, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 09:30-10:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Automated image analysis for high-throughput cell-based microscopy assays with R and Bioconductor

Dr. Oleg Sklyar, European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology

Professor Simon Tavare and Dr. Stephen Eglen.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 14:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The FlyMine/ InterMine Project

Gos Micklem, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling Epidemics

Pietro Lio, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Monkeys on Trees: A Bayesian Approach to Inferring Primate Divergence Times

Richard Wilkinson, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Identifying novel therapies for breast cancer using Independent Component Analysis

Andrew E Teschendorff (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data

All welcome and please feel free to join us for coffee and biscuits after the talk in the Pavilion G common room

Dr. Andy Lynch (Department of Oncology).

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

"Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data"

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Dr. Andy Lynch, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

MR5, DAMTP.

Monday 29 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Protein structure determination using NMR chemical shifts

Michele Vendruscolo.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 17 January 2007, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine Learning Methods for Uncovering cis-Regulatory Modules

Dr Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome Informatics at the Sanger Institute

Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Microarrays and molecular biology: beyond gene expression profiling

Dr. Paul Bertone, EBI.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Cell signalling and oscillations

Dr. Kojiro Kano, DAMTP and PDN, University of Cambridge.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

*ectopic seminar* Evidence for the existence of organism-specific regulatory elements that are linked to RNAi

* Ectopic Seminar at Genetics Department *

Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, U.S.A..

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution and dynamics of transcription factor repertoires

Sarah Teichmann (LMB).

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Linear Separability of Gene Expression Dataset

Dr. Benny Chor (University of Tel-Aviv).

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

DESCRIBING DRUG TOXICITY USING FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS AND THE MODEL-DRIVEN CLUSTERING OF GENE EXPRESSION BIOMARKERS. (HOW TO TURN YOUR MPHIL INTO A PAYCHEQUE)

Dr Quin Wills (CSO, Simugen Ltd).

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

High resolution models of genome regulatory events

This lecture is part of the Distinguished Seminar Series run by the CCBI.

Prof. David Gifford (MIT).

MR2, DAMTP.

Monday 09 October 2006, 16:30-17:30

Computational and Systems Biology

Describing drug toxicity using functional data analysis and the model-driven clustering of gene-expression bio-markers

Dr. Quin Wills SimuGen.

MR5, DAMTP.

Monday 11 September 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI 2nd Annual Symposium

http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_06.php.

MR2, DAMTP.

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 09:30-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Phase transitions in biopolymers: statistical mechanics of interacting loops

David Mukamel, The Weizmann Institute of Science.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 08 March 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Modelling equine influenza

James Woods, CIDC, Cambridge Veterinary School, University of Cambridge.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 01 March 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

To be confirmed

Daniel Wolpert.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 22 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

To be confirmed

Daniel Crowther.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 15 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Disease in a changing landscape

Professor Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 08 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

TBC

Prof. David Balding, Department of Epdemiology and Public Health, Imperial College.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 01 February 2006, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical Models of Tumour Dormancy

Dr Karen Page, Department of Computer Science, UCL.

MR5, DAMTP.

Wednesday 25 January 2006, 14:00-15:00