Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology

Hewlett Packard Laboratories

24 June 2008

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General information

The Bath and Bristol area is home to a number of high quality research groups in biology, mathematical and computational biology, biologically-inspired computation, artificial intelligence and robotics.  This year, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories is pleased to host the fourth meeting of the regional Mathematics, Computation and Biology Network.

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• The MathCompBio mailing list.

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This year's keynote speaker: Chrisantha Fernando

Schedule 

Time	Speaker	Title
9:00-9:25	Arrival and light breakfast
9:25-9:30	Steve Cayzer	Welcome
9:30-10:30	Chrisantha Fernando	Keynote: Is there a neurome?
10:30-10:50	Coffee Break
10:50-12:30 15 minute talks, 5 minute discussion James Marshall, chair	Organisation and Learning in Social Systems
	John McNamara	The importance of individual differences in the interaction between animals
	Marios Richards	The Limitations of the Baldwin Effect
	Ana Sendova-Franks	Collective Protection by Individuals Expediting or Delaying Resource Transmission
	Miranda Mowbray	BitTorrent and Vampire Bats
	AJ Ganesh	A model for infection spread on graphs
12:30-1:30	Restaurant Lunch
1:30-3:10 15 minute talks, 5 minute discussion Larry Bull, chair	Information Processing and Decision Making in the Mammalian Brain
	David Leslie	Reinforcement learning with indefinite state signals
	Tobias Larsen	Optimal integration of biologically plausible decision making and reinforcement learning
	Pete Trimmer	Mammalian decision making
	Alejo Nevado Holgado	The study of the basal ganglia as a dynamical system and its relation with Parkinson's disease
	Martin Groen	Relevancy markers: a context free toolkit for task resolution
3:10-3:40	Coffee Break with refreshments
3:40-5:00 15 minute talks, 5 minute discussion Tim Kovacs, chair	Evolutionary information dynamics in genes and proteins
	A. Polynikis	How to model synthetic gene regulatory networks
	Martin Madera	Detecting distant homologies among protein sequences by comparison of profile hidden Markov models
	J Gough	The evolution of the protein repertoire
	Ben Jones	Investigating primitive nervous system transitions in models of simple organisms
5:00-6:00	Visit to Fox Den to continue discussions!
6:00ish-8:00ish	(optional) dinner also at Fox Den

Expected Attendees:

Steve Battle, Hewlett-Packard

M. di Bernardo, University of Bristol

Rafal Bogacz, University of Bristol

Dan Brickley 

James Brook, MRC National Institute for Medical Research

Larry Bull, UWE

Tom Cassey, University of Bristol

Ellen Clarke University of Bristol

Steve Cayzer, Hewlett-Packard

Simon Chiu, University of Bristol

Sean Collins, University of Bristol

Sam Dixon, University of Bristol

Chrisantha Fernando, MRC National Institute for Medical Research

Robert Fink, Hewlett-Packard

DE Flores Rodriguez, University of Bristol

Nick Fyson, University of Bristol  

AJ Ganesh , University of Bristol

Thomas Gorochowski,  University of Bristol

J Gough, University of Bristol

Martin Groen, University of Bristol

Alejo Nevado Holgado, University of Bristol  

Julian Holley, UWE

Ben Jones, University of Birmingham

Zoe Katsimitsoulia, MRC National Institute for Medical Research

Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol

Vasileios (Bill) Lampos,  University of Bristol.  

Rob Laister, UWE

Tobias Larsen, University of Bristol

David Leslie, University of Bristol

Casmir Ludwig, University of Bristol

Martin Madera, University of Bristol

Alex Malins, University of Bristol  

James Marshall, University of Bristol

John McNamara, University of Bristol

Brian Monahan, Hewlett-Packard

Miranda Mowbray, Hewlett-Packard

Chris Muscelle, University of Bristol  

Jan Noyes, University of Bristol

Angela Onslow, Bristol University

A. Polynikis, University of Bristol

Oli Purcell, University of Bristol

Owen Rackham, University of Bristol  

Marios Richards, University of Bath

Tom Richardson, University of Bristol

Katy Robinson, University of Bristol  

Ana Sendova-Franks, UWE

Zahid Shareef, UWE

Michalis Smyrnakis, University of Bristol

Sebastian Spiegler, University of Bristol

Chris Stone, UWE

Tim Swift, UWE

Pete Trimmer, University of Bristol

Thomas Vincent, University of Bristol  

Registered but unable to attend

Joanna Bryson, University of Bath

Nigel Franks, University of Bristol

S.J. Hogan, University of Bristol

Roly Perera, Birmingham University

Jim Smith, UWE

Nathalie Stroeymeyt, University of Bristol

Tom Wilcox, University of Bristol

Benjamin Wulf, University of Bristol

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