Epigenetics & Mathematics:
French-Norwegian AURORA Brainstorming workshop
Berlin, 28-31 Oct 2015
The idea of the workshop is to bring together scientists from the field of mathematics and epigenetics, to discuss open questions and to find answers.
Wednesday 28 Oct:
Arrival
Afternoon session (2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
Christoph GRUNAU (Prof.) Keynote: "Current challenges and highlights in Epigenetics"
Presentation of the research topics / labs
Dinner
Thursday 29 Oct:
Morning session - DNA methylation (10h00 - 13h00)
Jan BULLA (Prof.) NO: "Statistical modeling of DNA methylation patterns by means of distributions of CpG o / e ratios"
Anne-Cécile RIBOU (Ph.D.) FR: "ROS and DNA methylation"
Benoit ALIAGA (M.Sc.) FR: "How to correlate the prediction of DNA methylation with experimental data: a statistical approach."
Virginia LACAL (M.Sc.) NO: "Bayesian Networks, Local Gaussian Correlation and Kernel Density Estimation"
Christoph GRUNAU (Prof.) FR: "The problem of comparison of> 2 samples in next-sequencing approaches"
Lunch
Afternoon session (2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
Brainstorming / Round Table
Dinner
Friday Oct 30:
Morning session - Advanced statistical and mathematical methods in biology (10h00 - 13h00)
Cristian CHAPARRO (Ph.D.) FR "Searching for genome 'contaminants' in Massive Sequencing reads"
Oana SEREA (Prof.) FR "Optimal control in Biology"
Ingo BULLA (Ph.D.) D: "Evolution of HIV"
Antonello MARUOTTI (Prof.) IT: "Model-based time-varying clustering of multivariate longitudinal data with covariates and outliers"
Francesco LAGONA (Prof.) IT: "Latent time-varying factors in longitudinal analysis: a linear mixed hidden Markov model for heart rates"
David ROQUIS (M.Sc.) FR: "Identification of differences between genome-wide histone modifications profiles
Lunch
Afternoon session (2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
Brainstorming / Round Table
Conclusion and Outlook
Dinner
contact: Jan Bulla (Norway) and Christoph Grunau (France)
