4th RA Fisher Centre Meeting

The goal of this meeting is to bring together UCL and Crick Institute research groups active in Computational Biology research. The meeting location alternates between UCL and LRI, with this next even taking place at UCL.

Schedule

Chadwick Building (directions), Ground Floor Open Space

12:30-1:30: Sandwich lunch & poster session (sponsored by eLife)

Pearson Lecture Theatre (directions)

1.30-1.45: Opening remarks
1.45-2.05: Judith Zaugg (EMBL Heidelberg), Long-range interactions mediate distal effects of genetic variation on chromatin activity and gene expression
2.05-2.25: Peter Van Loo (LRI/Crick), Molecular archaeology of cancer

2.30-2.45: Break

2.45-3.10: Pavithra Rallapalli (SMB), Estimation of positive selection in the coagulation genes in the light of their pathogenic mutations
3.10-3.30: Garrett Hellenthal (GEE), Inferring the ancestral history of human populations using haplotypes
3.30-3.50: Andy Oates (NIMR), A Doppler effect in embryonic patterning

3.50-4.00: Closing remarks

Chadwick Building (directions), Ground Floor Open Space

4.00-4.30: Coffee/tea

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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