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.)

1. Christoph GRUNAU (Prof.) Keynote: "Current challenges and highlights in Epigenetics"

2. Presentation of the research topics / labs

Dinner

Thursday 29 Oct:

Morning session - DNA methylation (10h00 - 13h00)

1. Jan BULLA (Prof.) NO: "Statistical modeling of DNA methylation patterns by means of distributions of CpG o / e ratios"

2. Anne-Cécile RIBOU (Ph.D.) FR: "ROS and DNA methylation"

3. Benoit  ALIAGA (M.Sc.) FR: "How to correlate the prediction of DNA methylation with experimental data: a statistical approach."

4. Virginia LACAL (M.Sc.) NO: "Bayesian Networks, Local Gaussian Correlation and Kernel Density Estimation"

5. 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)

1. Cristian CHAPARRO (Ph.D.) FR "Searching for genome 'contaminants' in Massive Sequencing reads"

2. Oana SEREA (Prof.) FR "Optimal control in Biology"

3. Ingo BULLA (Ph.D.) D: "Evolution of HIV"

4. Antonello MARUOTTI (Prof.) IT: "Model-based time-varying clustering of multivariate longitudinal data with covariates and outliers"

5. Francesco LAGONA (Prof.) IT: "Latent time-varying factors in longitudinal analysis: a linear mixed hidden Markov model for heart rates"

6. 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)