The 2nd BioInference conference (https://bioinference.github.io/2023) is taking place at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford on the 8th-9th June 2023.

Launched in 2022, BioInference aims to bring together researchers from across statistics and mathematical modelling who work with biological systems, and from all career stages, to foster discussions between the two communities and to prompt collaborations.

If you would like to attend the event in-person (tickets limited and on a first come first served basis), the tickets cost £70 and can be purchased here: https://fixr.co/event/bioinference-2023-conference-tickets-341678825.

If you wish to attend the event online, the tickets cost £20 and can be purchased here: https://fixr.co/event/bioinference-2023-conference-tickets-531133874.

The conference will combine contributed talks and poster sessions. Our confirmed talk and poster presentations include:

Talks:

Jonas Arruda (University of Bonn) "An amortized approach to non-linear mixed-effects modeling based on neural density posterior estimation"
Sandor Beregi (Imperial College London) "Can we control an epidemic in real-time with noisy data?"
Richard Creswell (University of Oxford) "A Bayesian nonparametric method for detecting rapid changes in disease transmission"
Ritabrata Dutta (University of Warwick) "Inference of selection coefficients in multivariate Wright-Fisher: Generalized Bayesian Inference with Signature Kernel Score"
Richard Everitt (University of Warwick) "Rare event ABC-SMC^2"
Marina Evangelou (Imperial College London) "Unsupervised Learning approaches for Multi-OMICS data"
Constandina Koki (University of Warwick) "Bayesian computational analysis of cell division dynamics"
Elena Sabbioni (Politecnico di Torino) "A Bayesian approach for estimating RNA velocity"
Jaromir Sant (University of Oxford) "Inferring natural selection and allele age from allele frequency time series data via exact simulation"
Joseph Shuttleworth (University of Nottingham) "Training models with an ensemble of experimental designs to account for model discrepancy: quantifying uncertainty for predictive models of ion channel currents"
Robin Thompson (University of Warwick) "Inference of pathogen transmissibility during infectious disease outbreaks"
Juliette Unwin (Imperial College London) title TBC
Thijs van der Plas (University of Oxford) "Neural assemblies uncovered by generative modeling explain whole-brain activity statistics and reflect structural connectivity"
Darren Wilkinson (University of Durham) "Statistical emulation for individual-based models of microbial community dynamics"
Ruihua Zhang (University of Oxford) "Simulating weak attacks in a new duplication-divergence model with gene loss"

Posters:

Enrico Bibbona (Politecnico di Torino) "Estimating the ratio between the contagiousness of two viral strains"
Austin Brown (University of Warwick) "Geometric ergodicity of Gibbs samplers for Bayesian error-in-variable regression"
Alexander Browning (University of Oxford) "Modelling heterogenity with random parameters"
Raiha Browning (University of Warwick) "AMISforInfectiousDiseases: an R package to fit a transmission model to a prevalence map"
Alice Corbella (University of Warwick) “Inference of the case fatality risk at the beginning of an epidemic: a state-space model perspective and a robust particle filter”
Viktoria Brunner (University of Oxford) "Large-scale Identification of Compensatory Mutations in the RNA Polymerase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
Molly Cui (Kings College London) “Bayesian modelling and sequential learning of latent epidemic dynamics”
Adam Howes (Imperial College London) "Fast approximate Bayesian inference for small-area estimation of HIV indicators using the Naomi model"
Owen Jones (Cardiff University) "Estimating the virulence of managed parasite populations"
Felicia Magpantay (Queen's University at Kingston, Canada), "Challenges in modeling the transmission dynamics of childhood diseases"
Arnau Quera-Bofurall (University of Oxford) “Bayesian calibration of differentiable simulators”
Lutecia Servius (King's College London) "Comparing classification methods and their generalisability on antibody repertoire"
Maria Veretennikova (University of Oxford) "Circadian clock analysis for precision medicine"
Hiu Ching Yip (Politecnico di Torino) "Modelling lemurs' calls with nearest neighbour Gaussian process"

We are looking forward to seeing you at BioInference2023,

best,

Massimiliano on the behalf of the BioInference Organisers

Ioana Bouros (Oxford); Fergus Cooper (Oxford); Richard Creswell (Oxford); Aden Forrow (Maine); Ben Lambert (Exeter); Chon Lok Lei (Macau); Massimiliano Tamborrino (Warwick); Tom Thorne (Surrey)

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Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino

Associate Professor
Department of Statistics

University of Warwick

https://warwick.ac.uk/tamborrino