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CTW: Recent Advances in Statistical Inference for Mathematical Biology: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, February 20
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-8:45am Breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:00-9:50am Douglas Bates: Inference in Mixed-Effects (and other) Models Through Profiling the Objective
9:50-10:40am Ed Ionides: Inference for partially observed stochastic dynamic systems
10:40-11:10am Break
11:10-12:00pm Nicolas Brunel: Estimation of ordinary differential equations with orthogonal conditions
12:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Sofia Olhede: Temporal inhomogeneity and dependence of brain networks
2:50-3:20pm Break
3:20-4:10pm Nigel Burroughs: Verification of a biophysical surface protein patternation model: MCMC analysis of dual fluorescence data
4:10-6:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
6:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, February 21
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Barbel Finkenstadt: Modeling and inference for gene expression time series data (an overview)
9:50-10:40am Dov Stekel: Inferring the gap between mechanism and phenotype in dynamical models of gene regulation
10:40-11:10am Break
11:10-12:00pm Hulin Wu: Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional ODE Models for Dynamic Gene Regulatory Networks
12:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Mark Transtrum: Sloppy Models, Information Geometry, and Data Fitting
2:50-3:40pm Ben Calderhead: Riemannian Manifolds and Statistical Models: The use of Differential Geometry in Probabilistic Modelling
3:40-4:10pm Break
4:10-5:00pm David Campbell: Incremental Mixture Important Sampling with Distributionally Relaxed Optimization and Application to Differential Equation Models
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, February 22
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am John Guckneheimer: Dynamical Models of Periodic Processes
9:50-10:40am Subhash Lele: Errors in variables models: Diagnosing parameter estimability and MCMC convergence using empirical characteristic functions
10:40-11:10am Break
11:10-12:00pm Tina Toni: Modeling and inference framework for studying noise and cell-to-cell variability in synthetic biology
12:00-12.50pm Clemens Kreutz: Likelihood-based observability analysis and confidence intervals for model predictions
1:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, February 23
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Carson Chow: Using Bayesian and MCMC approaches for parameter estimation and model evaluation in physiology
9:50-10:40am Andrew Golightly: Particle MCMC for Stochastic Kinetic Models
10:40-11:10am Break
11:10-12:00pm Dennis Prangle: Summary statistics for ABC model choice
12:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:50pm Colin Gillespie: Bayesian inference for generalized stochastic population growth models with application to aphids
2:50-3:40pm Richard Boys: Linking systems biology models to data: a stochastic kinetic model of p53 oscillations
3:40-4:10pm Break
4:10-5:00pm Vanja Dukic: Bayesian Modeling of Smoking Exposure During Pregnancy
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, February 24
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:50am Joe Tien: Parameter estimation for bursting neural models
9:50-10:20am Break
10:20-11:10am Christina Leslie: Inferring transcriptional and microRNA-mediated regulatory programs in cancer
11:40am One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)