NorthernBUG 9
- Date: 16 June 2023
- Location: 502 Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool
- Hosts: Jamie Soul
General
The organising committee for nothernBUG9 is, in alphabetical order: Eva Caamano Gutierrez, Matthew Gemmell, Emily Johnson, Jamie Soul. Emails should be directed to Jamie at jamie.soul@liverpool.ac.uk
The meeting will take place on 16th June in TR4, 502 Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool. The building is located within a 15 min walk from the Liverpool Lime Street train station.
Agenda
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration opens and Tea/coffee | Registration available all day | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Liverpool CBF | Introduction to machine learning with tidymodels | Genomics application focused examples and to be recorded |
| 11:30-12:00 | Panel led discussion | Teaching in bioinformatics | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch break with posters | ||
| 13:00-13:15 | Welcome notes | ||
| 13:15-13:55 | Rachel Queen | Bioinformatic strategies for analysing single cell and spatial transcriptomics | PI |
| 13:55-14:15 | Vlad Ungureanu | An integrative network approach to the stratification of muscle-invasive bladder cancer | PhD student |
| 14:15-14:35 | Suraj Verma | Genome-scale metabolic model and multi-omics data integration using machine learning for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. | PhD student |
| 14:35-14:45 | Poster Teaser Talks (1 min) | ||
| 14:45-15:30 | Coffee + poster session break | ||
| 15:30-15:50 | Jarek Bryk | maudr, an R package-to-be that enables simulation of an arbitrary number of datasets on inhibition kinetics of alcohol dehydrogenase | PI |
| 15:50-16:10 | Yun Wah Lam | Navigating the Human Protein Atlas to map the composition of extracellular matrix proteins in normal and cancer tissues | PI |
| 16:10-16:30 | Matthew Gemmell | Peanut Butter on the High seas or: How to create eukaryote genome assemblies like the Darwin Tree of Life Project | ECR |
| 16:30-17:00 | Prizes, closing discussion + networking | DoughBar (next to the train station) |
What to expect
NorthernBUG meetings are open to anyone interested in bioinformatics or its application in life science research. Meetings are free, and the host institution covers costs. Lunch is provided!
We’ve now selected talks and posters from submitted abstracts to finalise the agenda, but you can still register to attend.
Selected talks will be 15 mins with 5 mins of questions. Posters and talks will be judged and prizes will be awarded for the top scoring.
We may be able to offer a small bursary for those with caring responsibilities who would otherwise not be able attend the meeting carers award. Please contact the organisers for further details.
Registration
Resigration has now closed. Attendees will be sent
Location:
150 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool