NorthernBUG 2

General

The Sheffield Bioinformatics Core are excited to host the 2nd NorthernBUG meeting at The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience on Friday September 14th 2018.

Agenda

Time Speaker Presentation Information
12:00-13:00 All Lunch  
13:00-13:10 Mark Dunning Welcome and Introduction to Northern BUG  
13:10-13:20 Jacob Parker Investigation into the tissue specific pathology of the autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias Chair: Matt Parker
13:20-13:40 Jamie Ellingford Uncovering pathogenic non-coding genomic variation through the UK 100,000 genomes project  
13:40-13:50 Georgette Tanner Simulation of Heterogeneous Tumour Genomes with HeteroGenesis and In Silico Whole Exome Sequencing  
13:50-14:20 Niall Beard Elixr TeSS  
14:20-14:30 All Discussion: Establishing a Northern Training Network  
14:30-15:00 All Coffee  
15:00-15:20 Roy Chaudhuri TraDIS and Dr Who? Chair: Dennis Wang
15:20-15:30 Yura Grabovska Molecular sub-grouping of Malignant Rhabdoid Tumours  
15:30-16:00 Chris Yau Scalable Bayesian Boolean Tensor Factorisation for Single Cell Genomics  
16:00-16:30 All Discussion: Meeting format, next venue, addressing gender balance  
16:30-17:00 All Drinks The Francis Newton - Clarkehouse Road , Sheffield S10 2LA

Speakers

Invited

Scalable Bayesian Boolean Tensor Factorisation for Single Cell Genomics Abstract: Binary data are often treated as continuous measurements so that standard dimensionality reduction methods designed for continuous data can be applied. This results in ambiguous low-dimensional representations since the observations are binary but the reduced dimensional representation is continuous. An alternative in which the latent low-dimensional representation is itself binary maybe more desirable. We have developed a family of binary data dimensionality reduction techniques based on Boolean logic called Logical Factorisation Machines (LFMs). In this talk I will describe the family of LFMs, the properties that give rise to scalable computation and applications in single cell genomics for interpretable unravelling of latent expression pathways.

Accepted

Uncovering pathogenic non-coding genomic variation through the UK 100,000 genomes project

TraDIS and Dr Who?

Student

Investigation into the tissue specific pathology of the autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias

Simulation of Heterogeneous Tumour Genomes with HeteroGenesis and In Silico Whole Exome Sequencing

Molecular sub-grouping of Malignant Rhabdoid Tumours

Registration

Registration is now closed. Please contact bioinformatics-core@sheffield.ac.uk to check for spaces

Location:

SiTRAN, University of Sheffield, 385a Glossop Rd, Sheffield S10 2HQ