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Programme

09.45-10.15 Registration and arrival refreshments

10.15-10.20 Welcome Mike Boemo (Pathology)

Session 1 - Chair: Mike Boemo (Pathology)

• 10.20-10.40 Robin Burns Unravelling the evolution and fidelity of centromeres (Plant Sciences)
• 10.40-11.00 Casper Siu Inference of spatial population structure from long shared haplotypes (Genetics)
• 11.00-11.20 Henry North Genomic monitoring of an invasive agricultural pest (Zoology)
• 11.20-12.20 Keynote: Helen Byrne (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

12.20-13.00 Lunch

Session 2 - Chair: Aylwyn Scally (Genetics)

• 13.00 - 13.40 Kyriacos Leptos Chlamydomonas navigates towards light via a tuned adaptive flagellar photoresponse similar to its multicellular relatives (DAMTP)
• 13.40 - 14.20 Zeyu Gao Measurable Multi-Instance Learning for Cancer Classification and Spatial Quantification (Oncology)
• 14.20 - 15.00 Siddhartha Kar Integrating germline and somatic genomics to understand cancer development and progression (Early Cancer Institute)

15.00-15.20 Break with refreshments

Session 3 - Chair: Shutong Ye (Pathology)

• 15.20 - 16.00 Katy Brown Identifying and characterising RNA viruses in large sequencing databases (Pathology)
• 16.00 - 16.40 Alex Cagan Ultra-accurate sequencing methods to study somatic evolution across the tree of life (Genetics)
• 16.40 - 16:50 Ryan Daniels Accelerate Programme's AI Clinic (Computer Science)

16.50-17.30 Drinks reception

Organised by C2D3 Computational Biology (formerly the CCBI)

Speaker's Biographies: 

• Keynote: Helen Byrne University of Oxford
• Katy Brown
• Alex Cagan 
• Ryan Daniels
• Zeyu Gao
• Siddhartha Kar 
• Kyriacos Leptos 
• Henry North