First Workshop: 2-3 Apr 2009

2 April (Stochastic Modelling in Biology)

Venue: Room LG19 Michael Sadler Building

Programme       (See Programme with abstracts)

• 10:30-11:00 Ernesto Estrada (University of Strathclyde)

  Communicability and Community Structure in Complex Network

• 11:00-11:30 coffee
• 11:30-12:00 Alexey Zaikin (UCL)

  Reverse engineering of proteasomal translocation rates

• 12:00-12:30 Shev MacNamara (University of Queensland/University of Oxford)

  Stochastic modeling of T Cell Homeostasis for Two Competing Clonotypes via the Master Equation

• 12:30-2:00 lunch
• 2:00-2:30 Andrew Phillips (Microsoft, Cambridge)

  A Visual Programming Language for Biology

• 2:30-3:00 Damian Clancy (University of Liverpool)

  The effect of waning immunity on long-term behaviour of infection spread

• 3:00-4:00 Elisabeth Hultgren Hörnquist (Orebro University, Sweden) and Andreas Jansson (University of Skovde, Sweden)

  Experimental and human ulcerative colitis

3 April (Immunology day)

Venue: MALL, School of Mathematics

• 10:00-10:30
• 10:30-11:00 Anastasia Sobolewski (IFR, BBSRC)

  Bioimaging strategies to investigate microbial- immune- epithelial- cell interactions in the gut

• 11:00-11:30 coffee
• 11:30-12:00 Claudio Nicoletti (IFR, BBSRC)

  Dendritic cells in the gut: to sample or to exclude?

• 12:00-12:30 Tim Elliott (University of Southampton)

  A multidisciplinary approach to studying immunodominance

• 12:30-2:00 lunch
• 2:00-2:30 Alberto Vidal-Diez (VLA, DEFRA)

  Application of Bayesian hierarchical mixture models to evaluate and optimize scrapie surveillance in Great Britain

• 2:30-3:00 Martin Turner (Babraham Institute, BBSRC)

  Selection, Suicide and Survival: common aspects of lymphocyte development

• 3:00-3:30 Geoff Butcher (Babraham Institute, BBSRC)

  The GIMAP/IAN GTPases and Lymphocyte Survival