Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester,

21 - 25 September 2015

organized by Max Zwiessele, Neil Lawrence, The Farr Institute, The NewMind Network, MLPM ITN Network,

hosted by Museum of Science and Industry,

Monday 21 September

8:45 - 9:00 Arrival and Registration

9:00 - 10:00 **Heritability-based Models for Prediction of Complex Traits, David Balding, University of Melbourne

10:00 - 11:00 Statistical Methods for Real-time Monitoring of Health Outcomes, Peter Diggle, University of Lancaster

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Tutorial: ‘Modeling Molecular Heterogeneity Between Individuals and Single Cells’, Oliver Stegle, EBI

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Lab Session: ‘Taking Confounding Variation into Account in Latent Variable Modeling in Single Cell Data’, Oliver Stegle and Max Zwiessele

15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 - 17:00 Peer Review and the NIPS Experiment, Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

Tuesday 22 September

9:00 - 10:00 Computational Decision Theory (Model Misspecification), Chris Holmes, University of Oxford

10:00 - 11:00 Probabilistic Modelling of ‘omic Time Course Data, Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Tutorial: ‘Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Single-cell Transcriptomics Data’, Catalina Vallejos, EBI and MRC Biostatistics Unit

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Lab Session: ‘Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Single-cell Transcriptomics Data’, Catalina Vallejos and Nils Eling, EBI and MRC Biostatistics Unit

15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 - 17:00 Deep Sequencing and Functional Genomics, Gunnar Rätsch, MSKCC New York

Wednesday 23 September

9:00 - 10:00 Gaussian Processes for Survival Analysis, Aki Vehtari, Aalto University

10:00 - 11:00 Mouse Models of Motor Neuron Disease (MND): Scientific and Ethical Aspects, Richard Mead, University of Sheffield

11:00 - 13:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Discovering Sub-groups of Disease with Model Based Machine Learning, Iain Buchan, University of Manchester

15:00 - 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 - 17:00 Presentation of ITN Projects, Discussion of Existing Results

Thursday 24 September

9:00 - 10:00 Stastical Significance in Biomarker Discovery, Karsten Borgwardt, ETH Zurich

10:00 - 11:00 Is Your Research Software Correct?, Mike Croucher, University of Sheffield

11:00 - 13:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Impact of Machine Learning on Personalised Health: Past, Present and Future, Marta Milo, University of Sheffield

15:00 - 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 - 17:00 Presentation of ITN Projects, Discussion of Existing Results

Friday 25 September

9:00 - 10:00 The Road from Bench to Bedside: Ethical Considerations to Animal Use in Preclinical Research, Marcelo Rivolta, University of Sheffield

10:00 - 11:00 The Law and the Ethics of Data, Jonathan Price, Doughty Street Chambers

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Truthiness in Genomics, Oliver Hofmann, University of Glasgow

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Translation and Personalised Medicine: Genome Medicine Meets Reality, Winston Hide, University of Sheffield

15:00 - 15:30 Guided Tour of Manchester Baby