Tuesday, 12 June 2012 from 14:00 to 18:30 (GMT)
Venue: John Snow LT (part A), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
To reserve your place please go here.
Programme:
| 14:00 – 14:05 | Dr Frank Dudbridge, LSHTM | Welcome |
| 14:05 – 14:45 | Dr Stephen Bentley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | Viewing bacterial evolution and transmission through their whole genome sequences |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Dr Lucy Weinert, UCL | The evolution of host jumps in Staphylococcus aureus |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Dr Richard Stabler, LSHTM | Genetic epidemiology of C. difficile |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Dr Fotios Drenos, UCL | Twenty-three unreported genetic associations with lipid phenotypes: a dense gene-centric meta-analysis in 66,240 individuals across 32 studies |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Tea & coffe break | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Dr Vincent Plagnol, UCL | Bayesian analysis of metagenomic data for the detection of rare viral infections |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Dr. Paula Dominguez-Salas, LSHTM | Epigenesis in humans: can maternal methyl-donor-deficient diets induce epigenetic alterations in their offspring? |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Dr Rein Houben | Genomic approaches to address outstanding questions on M.tuberculosis transmission – data and results from North Malawi |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | Prof Francois Balloux, UCL Genetics Institute | The role of genetic drift and natural selection in the current distribution of human genetic diversity |
| 17:15 – 18:30 | Wine reception |
Availability:
The event is free of charge but registration is required.
Cancellation policy:
Please contact Simona Wade (s.wade@ucl.ac.uk) if you need to cancel your place.