Modern Statistics for Interdisciplinary
Omics and Big Data
[All times are UK BST]
Monday 28 June: Omics + Epidemiology
[ Session chairs: Arianna Landini and Azra Frkatović ]
09.00 – 09.15 | Introduction, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat |
09.15 – 09.30 | Official opening: Kurt Langfeld, Head of School of Mathematics |
09.30 – 10.15 | Cornelia van Duijn (keynote speaker) “Multi-omics studies in complex diseases” |
10.15 – 10.45 | Renee Ruhaak (invited speaker) “The challenging journey of biomarker translation targeting unmet clinical needs” |
10.45 – 11.00 | Break |
11.00 – 11.15 | Introduction to posters, John Kent |
11.15 – 12.00 | Poster session 1
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12.00 – 12.30 | Lunch |
12.30 – 13.15 | Poster session 2
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13.15 – 13.45 | Lucija Klarić (invited speaker) “Molecular Mechanisms from Omics Data: Applications in Glycomics” |
13.45 – 15.00 | Contributed talks – Session 1 [Moderator: Frances Williams]
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15.00 – 15.15 | Break |
15.15 – 17.15 | IMforFUTURE meeting (closed) PhD students Leeds (closed) |
Tuesday 29 June: Omics + Methods + Bioinformatics
[ Session chairs: Morning – Luisa Cutillo and Seppo Virtanen;
Afternoon – Annah Muli and Zhujie Gu ]
09.00 – 09.15 | Introduction, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat |
09.15 – 10.00 | Janice Scealy (keynote speaker) “Score matching for microbiome compositional data” |
10.00 – 10.30 | Peter Jupp (invited speaker) “Statistics of crystallographic orientations” [ NO SOCIAL MEDIA ] |
10.30 – 10.45 | Break |
10.45 – 11.15 | John Kent (invited speaker) “Flexible and tractable models for directional statistics” |
11.15 – 11.45 | Thomas Hamelryck (invited speaker) “Deep probabilistic programming for protein structure prediction” |
11.45 – 12.15 | Ian Dryden (invited speaker) “Manifold valued data analysis of samples of networks” |
12.15 – 12.45 | Kanti Mardia “LASR Workshops and my Journey to Statistics on Manifolds” |
12.45 – 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 – 14.15 | Hongzhe Li (keynote speaker) “Interrogating the Gut Microbiome: Estimation of Bacterial Growth Rates and Prediction of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters” |
14.15 – 14.30 | Break |
14.30 – 15.45 | Contributed talks – Session 2 [Moderator: Charles Taylor]
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15.45 – 16.30 | Poster session 3 + break
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16.30 – 17.30 | Mindfulness session, Kitty Wheater Dr Kitty Wheater is a mindfulness practitioner, social and medical anthropologist and writer. Her research focuses on embodiment and ethics in mindfulness-based interventions, and she is broadly interested in the anthropology of medicine and religion. Dr Wheater will discuss why online meetings can be more tiring and draining than in-person meetings, a phenomenon known as ‘Zoom fatigue’. She then will guide participants through mindfulness exercises to cope with the new online meeting routine established by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Wednesday 30 June: Big Data + the Future
[ Session chairs: Ruheyan Nuermaimaiti and Minzhen Xie ]
09.40 | Welcome |
09.45 – 10.15 | Said el Bouhaddani (invited speaker) “Statistical integration of multiple omics datasets with probabilistic PLS methods” |
10.15 – 10.45 | Break |
10.45 – 11.15 | Linda Chaba (invited speaker) “A machine learning based approach to cancer classification using RNA-Seq data” |
11.15 – 12.30 | Contributed talks – Session 3 [Moderator: Hae-Won Uh]
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12.30 – 12.45 | Closing remarks |
12.45 – 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 – 16.30 | Short course on omics, Said el Bouhaddani and Zhujie Gu |