Today was the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute Annual Symposium. A day of talks by investigators across Cambridge, it gave a nice slice of quite different kinds of research being done here.

The highlight of the day for me was Duncan Odom's talk on conservation of transcriptional regulation. He talked about older work of conservation of regulation between human and mouse, about more recent work on a mouse with a human chromosome, as well as plans to extend the comparative approach to a range of mammals - cool stuff.

Also, Sarah Teichmann talked about evolution of homo- and heterodimers, and Máté Lengyel discussed computational models of learning (Bayesian model selection and Markov Decision Process, and showed experiments comparing them to human learning.