Student Conference on Mathematical

Foundations in Bioinformatics

MatBio 2017

King’s College London, UK

September 14, 2017

The students of the Algorithms & Bioinformatics group at King’s College London invite research students to submit abstracts to present their work at the second

International Student Conference on Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics, sponsored by the Department of Informatics at King’s College London and the

London Mathematical Society.

Aims:

The aim of this Conference is to enable communication between early stage pioneers in the field and showcase applications of combinatorics, statistics and

general mathematical principles to solving problems in Bioinformatics. It is expected this will inspire professional networking, collaboration and future advancements in

the careers of the postgraduates involved; and it will also promote the sharing and development of methods and approaches to problem solving.

Venue:

MatBio 2017 will take place in King’s College London, situated in the heart of London: Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House Building

Scope:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

 Sequence analysis

 Sequence alignment

 Genome assembly

 Genome rearrangement

 Genome evolution

 Gene identification/annotation

 Interaction (protein-protein, gene-protein etc.) network graph algorithms

Structure:

Each session of this one-day conference will feature an invited talk followed by oral presentations by students. Breaks will provide the opportunity to network; lunch will

be hosted in a local restaurant. Students will be awarded for exceptional presentations.

Invited Speakers:

Stilianos Arhondakis, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

Talk: Compositional strategies for the exploitation of the transcriptome during biological processes/conditions using RNA-seq technology

Knut Reinert, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Talk: Engineering meets algorithms

Giovanna Rosone, Department of Informatics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Talk: TBA

Prudence Wong, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK

Talk: TBA

Submissions:

We invite students to submit abstracts to be considered for oral presentation by 14 July 2017, using this form: Abstract Submission.

Special Issue:

Following the conference, selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers to a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae.

Registration:

Registration is free; please sign up using the following form: Registration Form.

Travel Support:

Travel support can be provided upon acceptance of a successful application, please apply using the following form: Travel Support.

Deadlines:

Abstract Submission: July 14, 2017

Travel Support application: July 25, 2017

Registration: August 15, 2017

Steering Committee:

 Costas S. Iliopoulos

 Fatima Vayani

Organising Committee:

 Hayam Alamro

 Mai Alzamel (co-Chair)

 Lorraine Ayad

 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos (co-Chair)

 Costas S. Iliopoulos

 Ritu Kundu

 Chang Liu

 Solon P. Pissis

 Steven Watts

Questions and Further Information:

mai.alzamel@kcl.ac.uk

panagiotis.charalampopoulos@kcl.ac.uk

Webpage:

Matbio 2017