LeedsOmics Research Symposium 2017 Program
LeedsOmics Research Symposium 2017 Program
May 5th 2017
8:45am - 9:15am: Registration and Poster hanging
9:15am: Welcome
9:30am: Dr Barry Causier
“Looking back at the evolutionary history of NMD: ancient origins of the SURF complex”
9:50am: Dr Suparna Mitra
“An overview on understanding drug induced microbiome perturbation in CDI cases”
10:10am: Rohit Thakur
“Clustering methods for melanoma tumours based on the whole transcriptome ”
10:30am: Raymond J. Moran
“Major genetic innovations in animal evolution: gene remodelling in the Metazoa”
**Coffee and Posters**
11:30am: Dr Eamonn Sheridan
“Mutations in GPAA1, encoding a GPI transamidase complex protein, cause developmental delay, epilepsy, and cerebellar hypoplasia”
11:50am: Joey Mark S. Diaz
“Copy Number Variation and Melanoma Survival”
12:10pm: Fatin N. Zainul Abidin
“Flexible model-based clustering of mixed binary and continuous data: application to genetic regulation and cancer”
**Lunch and Posters**
1:30pm: Plenary Speaker Dr Angela Brookes
**Prizes and Close**