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COMPUTATIONAL LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES NETWORK

SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

28^th June, 2012, London

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The CLMS Symposium is a one-day event showcasing the role of information technology, including computer and computational sciences, across the broad range of life and medical (basic and clinical) sciences. The diverse programme aims to highlight the breadth of multi-disciplinary research currently being undertaken in the fields of computational, life, and medical sciences and to illustrate the value of collaboration across these fields.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: 28 June 2012

Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm

Location: UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus, London, UK

Symposium website

REGISTRATION

Registration deadline: 15 June 2012

Registration form

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Instructions: Submissions must be based on one (or more) of the plenary or breakout session themes, and will be considered for oral presentation in one of the three plenary sessions, or for the poster session. When writing, please be aware that the target audience will be highly multidisciplinary. Abstracts should be no more than 750 words in length, including figure/table captions and references, and should contain no more than two figures. Please submit using the template provided, ensuring superscripts, equations, pagination etc. appear correctly to the reviewers. All figures and tables should be positioned in their proper place in relation to the text.

Poster prizes: There will be a poster competition judged by an expert panel, and the top three posters will receive prizes.

Deadline for submissions: 30 March 2012

Author notifications: 16 April 2012

Programme notification: end of April 2012

Submission form

PROGRAMME

Plenary Sessions

Keynote Address
Dr Ewan Birney, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute

Drug Design
Chair: Dr Catherine Tralau-Stewart, Drug Discovery Centre, Imperial College London
Speakers: Professor Jonathan Essex, Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems Research Group, University of Southampton;Professor David Selwood, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London

Motion Tracking
Chair: Professor Anthony Finkelstein, Faculty of Engineering Science, University College London
Speakers: Dr Julie Stebbins, Oxford Gait Laboratory, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; Professor Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, University College London

Immunology
Chair: Professor Deenan Pillay, Research Department of Infection, University College London
Speakers: Dr Neil Dalchau, Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research; Dr Darren Flower, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University

Breakout Sessions

Imaging, Modelling, and Physiology
Session Chair: Professor Jonathan Ashmore, The Ear Institute, University College London

Computing for Life, Medical, and Clinical Sciences
Session Chair: Professor Peter Coveney, Centre for Computational Science, University College London
Panellists: Professor Nicholas Luscombe, UCL Genetics Institute, University College London and Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Dr Steven Niederer, Department of Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, Dr Max Wilkinson, Research Data Services, University College London, Ms Clare Gryce, Research Computing Services, University College London

Neuroscience
Session Chair: Professor Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Panellists: Dr Tim Behrens, Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Professor Angus Silver, Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London

E-Health Management
Session Chair: Professor Dipak Kalra, Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, University College London
Panellists: Mr Peter Singleton, Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, University College London

For further programme details, please visit the symposium website.

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Dr Samantha Gan

Computational Life and Medical Sciences Network

University College London

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