NorthernBUG 14
- Date: 28 March 2025
- Location: Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Huddersfield
- Hosts: Jarek Bryk
General
THE organising committee for nothernBUG14 is Dr Jarek Bryk (nBUG part), Dr Martin Carr (YUEG part), Dr Maria Pala and Ophelia Forbes with members of the students’ Bioscience Society. Emails should be directed to Jarek at j.bryk@hud.ac.uk.
This time we are trying something new - nBUG14 will be held jointly with a revival of the Yorkshire Universities Evolutionary Group (YUEG) meeting, the latter taking place for the first time since 2019! The order of the day will remain unchanged, except that there will be two parallel talks sessions, each more focused on the audience for nBUG or YUEG. During registration, you will have an option of choosing which group you fell more affiliated with (or both, as we suspect that many participants will be in the middle of the nBUG/YUEG Venn diagram).
The meeting will take place in the Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Huddersfield, in the Joseph Priestley building South, room JPSG/18 (ground floor, room number 18). The university campus is located within a 10 min walk from the Huddersfield train station on the TransPennine Railway line. We already have two excellent speakers of the day, but the details of their talks will be announced later.
Agenda
The most recent agenda file with abstracts is available to download here.
If you have a suggestion you’d like us (or organisers of the next meeting) to take on board, let us know!
| Time | Speaker | Presentation | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Registration + tea/coffee | Room JPSG/31 | |
| 10:30 | Welcome | Room JPSG/18 | |
| 10:35-11:15 | Dr Marina Soares Da Silva, The Crick | Modern science from old bones: challenges and applications of ancient genomics | |
| 11:20-12:00 | Dr George Foody, UK Biobank | Introduction to UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | Room JPSG/31 | |
| 13:00-14:15 | Clothilde Annabelle Francois, Rebecca Gullick-Shibata and Gagan Vishaya, University of York | New Ara-BOX-cis v2 trained on a single nucleus RNA-seq atlas across eight plant developmental stages | PGR |
| 13:00-14:15 | Surabhi Ranavat, University of York | Genomic signatures of inbreeding in a threatened African timber tree species, Pericopsis elata (Fabaceae) | Postdoc |
| 13:00-14:15 | Martin Carr, University of Huddersfield | Selection on both tRNA and mRNA facilitated efficient and accurate protein translation in ancestral eukaryotes | PI |
| 13:00-14:15 | Rowan Green, University of Manchester | Environmental effects on mutagenesis in microbial populations | Postdoc |
| 13:00-14:15 | Aggie Turlo, University of Manchester | Practical challenges in breath metabolome analysis | Postdoc |
| 14:15-14:25 | Oxford Nanopore sponsor talk | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Tea/coffee break + poster session | Poster session is long as we have quite a few posters | Room JPSG/31 |
| 16:00-17:15 | Andrew Mason, University of York | Biologically-informed machine learning identifies a new clinically-actionable bladder cancer subgroup | PI |
| 16:00-17:15 | Syed Murtuza Baker, University of Manchester | Challenges and approaches to spatial transcriptomics analysis | PI |
| 16:00-17:15 | Mingkai Wang, University of Bradford | Predicting thermostable properties of proteins | PGR |
| 16:00-17:15 | Ophelia Forbes, University of Huddersfield | Computational analysis of human protein atlas antibody intensities in healthy and cancerous tissues | UG |
| 16:00-17:15 | Dave Lunt, University of Hull | Bioinformatics at Hull: tales from the real world | PI |
| 17:15-17:30 | Closing remarks + pub session | Warehouse, 200m from the meeting building :-) |
Speakers
Dr Marina Soares Da Silva is a postdoctoral researcher in the Ancient Genomics Group at The Crick, where she develops interdisciplinary research at the intersection of genetics, archaeology and history. She uses ancient DNA recovered from skeletal remains from diverse archaeological contexts to study the genetics of past human populations in Britain.
Dr George Foody is a Senior Bioinformatician at the UK Biobank, where he is responsible for developing pipelines and processes procedures for data transformation, quality control and delivery for large-scale -omic datasets. He mainly works with genomics files for the ~500,000 participants, which includes overcoming challenges of working at such a large scale as this comprises the majority of UK Biobank’s 30Pb.
Registration
Registration is now closed.
Location:
Queensgate, Huddersfield