Conference: Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics in Modern Medicine

The conference 'Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics in Modern Medicine' organized as part of the All Ireland Initiative in Cancer Bioinformatics will take place at Queen's University in Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) on 1st and 2nd of March 2010.

With the advent of high-throughput techniques we are nowadays in a position to measure many aspects of molecular and cell biology. This enables a quantitative approach to study not only basic biological processes but also biomedical and medical questions. However, due to the novelty of these types of data methods for their efficient analysis, integration and interpretation need to be developed to cope with this challenge. Another complication stems from the need for a functional analysis implying a systems approach. For this reason approaches utilizing molecular interactions, e.g., network-based methods, represent promissing approachs for elucidating molecular information processing and ultimatly pathogenesis of Complex Diseases.

The conference aims to fostering quantitative research in Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Systems Biology, and Network Biology, with particular focus on disease-related problems like cancer, obesity or cardiovascular diseases.

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The program of the conference can be found here.

Monday (LOCATION: Great Hall):

09:50 - 09:30pm: Welcome by Dennis McCance
Director, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology Queen's University Belfast

Chair: Peter Hamilton, Queen's University Belfast

09:30 - 10:10am: 'Evolutionary Approaches to Stem Cell and Tumour Dynamics'
Simon Tavaré, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, UK

10:10 - 10:50am: 'Integrating "Omics" Data using Co-Inertia Analysis'
Des Higgins, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland

11:10 - 11:50am: 'A Global Map of Human Gene Expression'
Alvis Brazma, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK

11:50 - 12:20pm: 'Novel Data Integration Methods and their Application to Cancer Research'
Colin Campbell, Bristol University, UK

14:00 - 14:40pm: 'Network and State Space Models: Science and Science Fiction Approaches to Cell Fate Predictions'
John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, USA

14:40 - 15:20pm: 'Cancer Related Network Dynamics and Cellular Information Processing'
Rune Linding, The Institute of Cancer Research, Cell and Molecular Biology, London, UK

15:40 - 16:20pm: 'Quantitative Proteomics for Biomarker Discovery and Validation'
Stephen Pennington, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland

16:20 - 17:00pm: 'Signalling Networks in Cancer Subtypes'
Sach Mukherjee, Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick, UK

19:30pm: Speakers Dinner

Tuesday (LOCATION: CCRCB):

Chair: Andreas Albrecht, Queen's University Belfast

9:00 - 9:40am: 'Thermodynamics and Kinetics of RNA Secondary Structure'
Peter Clote, Boston College, USA

9:40 - 10:20am: 'Selected Algorithmic and Combinatorial Problems in the Analysis of Biological Data'
Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK

10:40 - 11:20am: 'Combining Large-Scale Evolutionary Analyses with Multiple Biological Data Sources to Predict Protein Function'
David Jones, University College London, UK

11:20 - 12:00pm: 'Model-Based Clustering of Gene Expression Data'
Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland

You can register for the conference here.
Questions regarding the registration? Please send an Email to Katie Orr.

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Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics in Modern Medicine
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Sponsored by DEL and the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB)
Queen's University Belfast, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Northern Ireland, UK (March 1-2, 2010)

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Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics in Modern Medicine International conference Sponsored by DEL and the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB) Queen's University Belfast, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Northern Ireland, UK (March 1-2, 2010)