NorthernBUG 8

General

The organising committee for nothernBUG8 is, in alphabetical order: Toni Beevers, Dr Jarek Bryk, Dr Martin Carr, Dora Marcec, Dr Kirsty McLean and Dr Maria Pala. Emails should be directed to Jarek at j.bryk@hud.ac.uk.

The meeting will take place in the Department of Biological and Geographical 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.

Agenda

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Time Speaker Presentation Information
10:30 Registration + tea/coffee    
11:00-11:50 Dr Mark Ravinet, University of Nottingham Adventures in the genomics of non-model organisms: a how to (and how not to) guide  
12:00-13:00 Lunch break    
13:00-13:15 Welcome notes    
13:15-13:35 Amber Emmett Integrative ‘omics approach to identify gene-specific cis-Regulatory Elements Across Differentiation PhD student
13:35-13:55 Nazia Ahmed Understanding the Changes in Gene Regulation in Glioblastoma through Network Analysis PhD student
13:55-14:15 Merideth Freiheit Adaptive sequencing with Nanopore PhD student
14:15-14:35 Jarek Bryk Making your work with R a little bit smoother PI
14:35-14:45 Poster teaser talks Monika Gonka, Sarah Griffin, Helen Horkan, Andrew Mason + extra pitch from Ian Donaldson  
14:45-15:30 Coffee + poster session break    
15:30-15:50 Mathew Lowe Codon usage in Trichomonas vaginalis PhD student
15:50-16:10 Helen Horkan Leveraging Single Cell Sequencing to Investigate Genome Stability in an Immortal Animal PhD student
16:10-16:30 Alastair Droop A lightning introduction to Rust PI
16:30-17:00 Closing discussion + pub session Warehouse, 200m from the meeting building :-)  

Speakers

Invited

Dr Mark Ravinet, Assistant Professor of Adaptation to the Environment, University of Nottingham

Unfortunately, Dr Anna Lorenc will not be presenting during the conference due to a COVID-19 infection :-(

Registration

Registration form is closed!

Location:

Queensgate, Huddersfield