Programme, March 26, 2010

 

9.00-10.00

Registration and poster viewing

10.00-10.05

Welcome; Yudi Pawitan

10.05-12.05

Session 1
Genetic epidemiology and high-throughput data analyses

10.05-10.35

Bianca di Stavola
"Familial and socio-economic influences on foetal growth across three generations: the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational study, Sweden, 1915-2002"

10.35-11.05

Jonathan Marchini
"Genotype Imputation and the 1000 Genomes Project."

11.05-11.35

Wolfgang Huber
“Differential expression analysis for sequence count data.”

11.35-12.05

Juni Palmgren
“Is it all about prediction?”

12.05-13.00

Lunch

13.00-14.30

Session 2
Design of epidemiologic and clinical studies

13.00-13.30

Örnulf Borgan
“Case-control studies: an overview from a methodological perspective.”

13.30-14.00

Els Goetghebeur
“The hopes and hazards with instrumental variables for causal inference from observational data: of Pharmaco-epi and Mendelian randomization.”

14.00-14.30

Marie Reilly
“Designing new case-control studies that re-use existing data.”

14.30-15.30

Break; Coffee & poster viewing

15.30-16.30

Session 3
High-throughput data

15.30-16.00

Simon Tavaré
"Approximate Bayesian Computation and the evolution of tumours."

16.00-16.30

Yudi Pawitan
“Statistical perspectives on the key ideas in high-throughput data analyses.”

16.30-17.30

Mingel at Nobel Forum

18.00-

Dinner