Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics (ICE-EM) winter School in “Mathematics and Computational Biology”

2006 Winter School inMathematical and Computational Biology

Hosted by

ARC Centre in Bioinformatics

and

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

The University of Queensland

26 – 30 June 2006

Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Australia

http://bioinformatics.org.au/ws06

Intended audience:

Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, andresearchers in mathematics, statistics, IT, CS or any area of sciencewho want to learn about current problems and opportunities incomputational bioscience.

Topics:

• Machine learning applied to sequence analysis

• Combinatorial optimisation in bioinformatics

• Evolutionary genomics

• Microarrays and analysis of microarray data

• The e-research / Grid paradigm

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Speakers include:

•Prof. Mark Borodovsky – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

•Dr Paul Horton – Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

•Dr Pablo Moscato – Newcastle Bioinformatics Initiative

•A/Prof. Andrew Roger – Dalhousie University, Canada

•Prof. Mike Hendy – Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Biology and Evolution

•Dr Charles Semple – University of Canterbury, NZ

•Dr Toni Reverter – CSIRO Livestock Industries

•Prof. Terry Speed – University of California Berkeley and WEHI

•Prof. Kim-Anh Do – MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

• Prof. David Abramson – Monash University

• Prof. Ah Chung Tsoi – Monash University

• Dr David Hansen – e-Health Research Centre

• A/Prof. Tin Wee Tan – National University of Singapore

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Monday: Machine learning applied to sequence analysis

•Prof. Mark Borodovsky – Sequence analysis using Markov models

•Dr Tim Bailey – Finding patterns in sequences

•Dr Paul Horton – Predicting subcellular localisation of proteins

•Dr Martin Frith – Identifying short proteins

•Prof. Mark Brodovsky – Workshop: GeneMark

Tuesday: Combinatorial optimisation in bioinformatics

• Dr Regina Berretta – Combinatorial models

• Dr Pablo Moscato – Classification methods for clinical data

• Dr Tim Bailey – Workshop: MEME

• Mr Paul Taylor – Workshop: MATLAB

• Dr James Cai – Workshop: MBEToolbox and PGEToolbox

Public lecture:

• A/Prof. Andrew Roger – The origin of eukaryotes

Wednesday: Evolutionary genomics

•Prof. Mike Hendy – Mathematical phylogenetics

•Dr Barbara Holland – Exploratory analysis of phylogenetic data

•Dr Michael Charleston – Concatenating sequence data

•Dr Charles Semple – Hybridisation networks

•Dr Alexei Drummond – Probabilistic models in phylogenetics

Thursday: Microarrays and analysis of microarray data

• Dr Sean Grimmond – Microarray technology

• Prof. Terry Speed – SNP genotyping

• Dr Liat Ben-Tovim Jones – Detecting differentially expressed genes

• Dr Toni Reverter – Differential expression and connectivity

• Prof. Kim-Anh Do – Microarray-based cancer prognosis

• Prof. Geoff McLachlan – Classification of microarray data

Friday: The e-research / Grid paradigm

•Prof. David Abramson – Grid computing

•Prof. Jane Hunter – Technologies for semantic integration

•Prof. Ah Chung Tsoi – e-Research

•Dr David Hansen – Networked services for e-health

•A/Prof. Tin Wee Tan – The future of the Internet

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