Computational Biology Seminar Series

Computational Biology Seminar Series 2017

DATE, TIME & VENUE	SPEAKER	TITLE
Friday 3rd March 2017 - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Chris Ponting University of Edinburgh	"Decoding disease variation in the non-coding genome"
Thursday 23rd March 2017 - 1pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Francois Graner MSC, University Paris	"From cell dynamics to epithelial tissue patterning: movements and forces during fly metamorphosis"
Friday 31st March 2017 - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Guido Sanguinetti University of Edinburgh	"Using machine learning to address challenges in high-throughput biology"
Friday 21st April 2017 - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Mark Sansom University of Oxford
Friday 12th May 2017 - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Raluca Eftimie University of Dundee
Friday 9th June 2017 - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Phillip Stansfeld University of Oxford
Friday 8 September - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Matteo Cavaliere University of Edinburgh	Rise and Fall of Cooperation: Theoretical and Synthetic Models
Friday 29 September - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Xavier Trepat IBEC	Physical forces driving migration, division and folding of epithelial sheets
Friday 24 November - 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Omer Dushek Oxford University	Phenotypic analysis of T cell responses
Friday 8 December - 11am Murray Seminar Rooms	Dr Alexander Fletcher University of Sheffield	Quantitative approaches to studying epithelial morphogenesis
Wednesday 13 December - 11 am Murray Seminar Rooms	Dr Davis McCarthy EMBL-EBI Cambridge	Single-cell genomics: where are we now and where are we going?
Friday 15 December - 11 am Murray Seminar Rooms	Francesco Gineli University of Aberdeen

Computational Biology Seminar Series 2016

Date, time & venue	Speaker	Title
Monday 18th January 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Andre Brown Imperial College London	"Syntax in C. elegans locomotion"
Monday 1st February 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Peter Bond Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR Singapore	"Insights into the Immunological Recognition of Lipids"
Monday 15th February 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Richard Smith-Unna University of Cambridge	"Getting the most out of RNA-seq data"
Monday 22nd February 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Tyler Reddy University of Oxford	"Veni, Vidi, Voronoi: Attacking Viruses With Spherical Voronoi Diagrams"
Monday 29th February 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Rhoda J Hawkins University of Sheffield	"Modelling active droplets and cell motility"
Monday 7th March 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Jennifer Schwarz Syracuse University, New York	"Interplay between morphology and mechanics in biological systems: From cerebral cortex folding to endocytosis in yeast to mechanical regulation of transcription"
Monday 21st March 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Ewa Paluch University College London	"Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviours"
Tuesday 22nd March 2016 1 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Kevin Chalut University of Cambridge	"Mechanical signalling in pluripotency"
Monday 18th April 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Milos Knezevic University of Oxford	"Pore emptying transition during nucleation in hydrophobic nanopores"
Monday 25th April 2016 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dirk Gillespie Rush University, Chicago	"Local Control of Intracellular Calcium Release in Cardiac Muscle"
Monday 16th May 2016 2 pm WTB Seminar Rooms	Professor Rob Coalson University of Pittsburgh, USA	"A Simple Polymer Brush Model of the Nuclear Pore Complex"
Friday 7th October 2016 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Ben F Luisi University of Cambridge	"Assembly and operation of bacterial multidrug efflux pumps"
Thursday 3rd November 2016 10am Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Gunnar Schroeder Forschungszentrum, Jülich	"Protein Structure and Dynamics from Single-particle Cryo-EM Data"
Friday 11th November 2016 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Shiladitya Banerjee University College London	"Design and mechanics of contractile actin networks, bundles and droplets"
Friday 18th November 2016 11am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Francois Nedelec EMBL, Heidelberg	"Two Examples of Cytoskeletal Mechanics"
Wednesday 23rd November 2016 4pm Murray Seminar Room	Dr Paddy Brock University of Glasgow	"The epidemiology of zoonotic malaria (Plasmodium knowlesi) in South East Asia"
Friday 25th November 2016 12pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Chandra Verma Bioinformatics Institute A* Singapore	"Design of novel peptidic reagents/therapeutics"
Thursday 1st December 2016 3pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor David T. Jones Francis Crick Institute & UCL	"Predicting Protein Structure and Protein-Protein Interactions using Amino Acid Coevolution and Machine Learning"

Computational Biology Seminar Series 2015

Date, time & venue	Speaker	Title
Monday 12th January 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Rosalind Allen University of Edinburgh	"How does bacterial growth state affect the efficacy of antibiotic treatment?"
Monday 30th March 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr John Mitchell University of St Andrews	"Quantum Chemical and Machine Learning Calculations of the Intrinsic Aqueous Solubility of Druglike Molecules"
Monday 18th May 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Daniel Seeliger Boehringer Ingelheim	"Emerging technologies in computational drug discovery and optimization"
Monday 15th June 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Vasa Curcin King's College London	"Using data provenance to embed reproducibility in the research process"
Monday 22nd June 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Edina Rosta King's College London	"Asymmetric activation of RAF Kinase Dimers"
Monday 29th June 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Michelle Scott University of Sherbrooke, Canada	"The expanding landscape of snoRNAs: a tale of deep-sequencing"
Tuesday 15th September 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Yaouen Fily Brandeis University, Massachusetts	"Migrating in a Curved Environment"
Thursday 1st October 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Amit Das NCBS, Bangalore	"Phase segregation of passive molecules in an active fluid: Implication for molecular segregation at the cell surface"
Monday 19th October 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Ben Leimkuhler University of Edinburgh	"Enhanced sampling of molecular systems using extended dynamics"
Wednesday 21st October 2015 10 am Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Rob Finn EBI, Cambridge	"Navigating the protein universe in real time"
Monday 16th November 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Guillaume Salbreux Crick Institute, London	"Physics of tissue morphogenesis"
Monday 14th December 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Antreas Kalli University of Oxford	Membrane proteins and their interactions: Insights from multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations
Monday 21st December 2015 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Simon Hubbard University of Manchester	"Quantitative approaches to understanding translational control in yeast"

Computational & Systems Biology Seminar Series 2014

Date, time & venue	Speaker	Title
Monday 28th April 2014 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Silke Henkes University of Aberdeen	"Active matter at high density"
Monday 30th June 2014 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Argyris Politis University of Ulster	A hybrid strategy for structure deteremination of large protein complexes
Monday 28th July 2014 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Reiko Tanaka Imperial College London	Roles of balanced positive and negative feedbacks in inflammatory and infectious diseases
Monday 10th November 2014 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Yanlan Mao University College London	"Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control"
Monday 17th November 2014 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Dr Teuta Pilizota University of Edinburgh	"Origins of bacterial growth rate changes at high external osmolarities"

Computational & Systems Biology Seminar Series 2013

Date, time & venue

Speaker

Title

Monday 11th March 2013
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Professor Vincent Danos
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

"Energy as Syntax"

Monday 24th June 2013
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Professor Julian Gough
Depart. of Computer Science
University of Bristol

"Predicting the functional outcomes of genomic variation"

Monday 29th July 2013
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Dr Anton Enright
EMBL
Cambridge

"Understanding the roles of regulatory RNAs (micro, piwi and Inc) through computation and experiment"

Monday 26th August 2013
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Dr Sarah Teichmann
EMBL
Cambridge

"From protein interactions to gene expression distributions"

Monday 30th September 13
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Dr Johannes Soeding
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

“New methods for protein sequence searching, structure and function prediction”

Monday 28th October 2013
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Professor Martin Vingron
Max Planck Institute
Germany

“Computational approaches in epigenetic regulation”

Monday 25th November 2013
2 pm
Small Lecture Theatre

Professor Rob Russell
University of Heidelberg

“Analysis and prediction of how protein modifications and mutations impact on the interactome"

Systems Biology Seminar Series 2012
Date, time & venue	Speaker	Title
Monday 30th January 2012 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Martin Howard Depart. of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich	"Dissecting quantitative epigenetic silencing through mathematical modelling and experiments"
Monday 26th March 2012 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Benjamin Simons St John’s College, Cambridge	"Strategies of stem cell fate in adult tissues"
Monday 30th April 2012 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Hans Meinhardt Max Plank Institute, Tubingen	"Models of biological pattern formation: from elementary steps to the generation of the primary body axes"
Monday 28th May 2012 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Bela Novak Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Depart. of Biochemistry, Oxford University	"Systems-level feedbacks in cell cycle controls"
Monday 29th October 2012 2 pm Small Lecture Theatre	Professor Frank Jülicher Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany	"Dynamic organization of epithelia"

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