The workshop, co-organised by the NC3Rs, SPS and Coventry University, aims to bring together researchers from academia, SMEs and the pharmaceutical industry to discuss how best to support and enable the use of human tissues in safety testing. The one-day workshop will be held in Coventry, UK on Wednesday 03 May 2017.
The workshop is part of a wider NC3Rs initiative to improve the predictive capacity and relevance of research models to human safety testing, and to implement human tissue as a replacement for animal models.
The programme consists of presentations, posters, exhibitors and networking opportunities. Researchers from academia and industry will speak in three sessions:
Elisa Passini is presenting a poster on: "Human-based in Silico Drug Trials Predict Drug Cardiotoxicity and Identify Sub-Populations at Higher Risk" and Cristian Trovato is presenting a poster entitled: “In Silico Population of human models to investigate drug cardiotoxicity in cardiac Purkinje cells”.
Kevin Burrage is Professor of Computational Mathematics at the QUT in Brisbane, Australia and he is a formerly Professor of Computational Systems Biology at the Department of Computer Science, from 2007-2015. He was made a Visiting Professor to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford from 2016 to 2019.
His current research interests are on the development of novel modelling and simulation approaches in Computational Biology to capture the underlying variability in dynamical processes and to characterise the heterogeneity in biological tissues through stochastic and nonlocal multiscale techniques.
If you are interested, please contact!
London Hopper is an annual 1-day event for researchers across the UK who are building a career in computing. UCL and BCS Academy organise the 13th London Hopper Colloquium on Thursday 25 May 2017 at the BCS headquarters in London. This is an opportunity to meet and network with other early career researchers in computing. This year women speakers talk about their work on building rehabilitation technologies, cybersecurity, simulations of the human heart, and infrastructure for smart cities.
Anna Muszkiewicz from the computational Cardiovascular Science group is an invited speaker, her talk is entitled "Simulations of the human heart shed light on mechanisms underpinning atrial fibrillation".
Booking is available via the BCS website here.
Blanca Rodriguez, keynote speaker, and Aurore Lyon attend the 4th Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference, on March 16th, 2017, at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, UK.
The Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference is an annual conference that aims to bring together junior and senior female computer scientists at Cambridge and Oxford, encourage collaboration through formal and informal discussion, and give a perfect opportunity for young researchers to present their research and get valuable feedback in a very open, friendly and informal environment.
Aurore Lyon was awarded the "Best Presentation Award", congratulations Aurore!
Martino Alessandrini is a visiting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow coming from the University of Bologna and he will be working with us until the end of July.
His research interests are on Medical image analysis and computational modelling, especially on the extraction of quantitative markers of cardiac function from medical images. He uses machine learning to classify abnormal shapes and motion patterns for improved stratification of cardiac disease. If you want to meet, please contact us!
The Horizon2020 Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine, CompBioMed, is hosting a free one-day event to showcase and discuss Cloud and High Performance Computing capabilities on Thursday 27th April 2017.
The day will involve presentations from our Core and Associate Partners, punctuated with discussions over tea and coffee, with lunch provided.
This meeting is intended to provide a forum for users from academia, industry and healthcare sectors to meet with open source software developers alongside independent software and hardware vendors, in order to determine what the best selection of capabilities is to meet their own needs. It will thereby help CompBioMed to define directions in which we would like to advance our users' interests.
If you are interested, please click here.
Prof. David Abramson, from the University of Queensland, visits the Department from March 13-24.
On Wednesday the 22nd of March at 1pm he presents his work on “Using Scientific Workflows for Science and Engineering Optimisation”.
The talk is on how Scientific Workflows can be used to model a wide range of science and engineering problems, and how these are often phrased as optimisation problems. Workflow engines provide an attractive programming environment for both specifying and executing the problems, and to introduce optimisation into these. This allows a user to not only model complex systems, but also ask what parameter values optimise the system using automatic search algorithms.
If you are interested on meeting him, please get in touch!
Blanca Rodriguez is an invited speaker presenting “Computational Cardiovascular Science and CMR - How to get the most out of our data” and Ana Minchole presents our research on “Distinct ECG phenotypes identified in HCM using a machine learning approach associate with clinical features and markers of arrhythmic risk” on the University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR) study day, Friday the 3rd of March.
The Medical Sciences Division and Department of Biomedical Services Oxford 3Rs Research Day will be held on Friday the 24th of February 10:00-17:00. It will cover advances in reduction, refinement and replacement of animals in research, and will feature both local and national speakers, including the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research. The event is supported by "Understanding Animal Research" and the NC3Rs.
Elisa Passini will give a talk on "In Silico Drug Trials Predict Drugs Cardiotoxicity and Identify Sub-Populations at Higher Risk"
Our team is going to present our latest research at the Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, Gordon Research Conference, February 5-10 in California. The posters are entitled:
"Whole atria mechanisms of inducibility and persistence of atrial arrhythmias by depletion of neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in human", Anna Muszkiewicz et al.
"Gain of function KCNQ1 G229D mutation can counteract action potential upstroke and impair conduction safety", Xin Zhou et al.
"Modulation of electrical function by cardiac tissue microstructure: Fractional diffusion frameworks for cardiac modelling and MRI analysis", Alfonso Bueno et al.
"Human-based in Silico Drug Trials Predict Drug Cardiotoxicity and Identify Sub-Populations at Higher Risk", Elisa Passini et al.
"Investigating the effect of anatomical variability on the ECG using MRI-based computer models of the human heart and torso", Ana Minchole et al.
Blanca Rodriguez will also give a presentation on Monday the 6th of February on "Experimentally Calibrated Population of Models Predicts and Explains Inter-Subject Variability"
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