Tuesday 9 April
Dr Adebowale Adeyemo, Deputy Director of Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NIH
Title: “Doing Genetic Epidemiology Studies of Non-Communicable Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Tuesday 12 March
Dr Garrett Hellenthal, UCL Genetics Institute
Title: ‘Identifying and dating historical admixture events in humans using DNA’
Wednesday 13th February
Dr Frank Dudbridge, NCDE, LSHTM
Title: ‘Power and predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores’
Tuesday 4th December 2012
Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Title: Building better maps of genetic variation using de novo assembly: examples from human and microbial genomics
Tuesday 6th November
Dr Hariklia Eleftherohorinou, Imperial College London
Title: How to select gene and protein markers of disease as a diagnostic test: Case study on infectious diseases
Tuesday 29th May
Dr Chris Spencer and Dr. Matti Pirinen, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University
Title: Bayesian methods for modelling effect heterogeneity in genetic association studies
Monday 26 March March 2012
Dr Bobby PC Koeleman, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Title: ‘Genome and exome screens of epilepsy reveal a heterogeneous genetic architecture of disease’
Friday 16 March 2012
Dr Paul Hurd, Queen Mary, UoL
Title: ‘ChIPing away at the Epigenome’
Thursday 16 February 2012
Prof Teo Yik Yink, National University of Singapore
‘Global genetic studies and public health genomics in the 21st century’
Tuesday 13 December
Prof Melanie Newport, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
‘Host genetics and susceptibility to tuberculosis’
Friday 9 September 2011
Dr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
“From GWAS to function: applications to hematology and metabolism”
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Prof Aroon Hingorani, University College London
“Putting genomics into practice”
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Dr Antonis Antoniou, University of Cambridge
“Modelling genetic susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer: translating genetic research into clinical applications”
16 June 2011
First annual BCGES conference on the genetics of complex diseases
Dr David-Alexandre Trégouët, INSERM, Paris
“Advances in genetics of thrombotic disorders”
Prof Hugh Gurling, UCL
“Genetic susceptibility to bipolar and other pyschotic disorders: results from GWAS and future directions”
Prof George Davey Smith , University of Bristol
“Seven years of Mendelian randomization. What have we achieved?”
10 May 2011
Dr David Evans, University of Bristol
“Genome-wide association meta-analysis of Ankylosing Spondylitis identifies seven new loci, a tag SNP for HLA-B27, and a confirmed gene-gene interaction”
15 March 2011
Dr Andrew Teschendorff, University College London
“Surrogate variables and confounding factors in large-scale (epi)genomic studies”
9 February 2011
Dr Frank de Vocht, University of Manchester
“The use of Bayesian mixture models for the assessment of the genome, the exposome, and their interactions”
24 January 2011
Dr Mike Weale, Kings College London
“High altitude selection scans”
14 December 2010
Dr Don Conrad, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
“Origins and functional impact of human genetic variation: from de novo point mutations to common CNVs”
9 November 2010
Dr Maria de Iorio, School of Public Health, Imperial College
“Bayesian model of NMR spectra for the deconvolution and quantification of metabolites in complex biological mixtures”
12 October 2010
Prof Peter Holmans, University of Cardiff
“Pathway analysis of genomewide association data: statistical considerations”
2 August 2010
Prof Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago
“Association analysis for multivariate outcomes”
6 July 2010
Dr Elena Bochukova, University of Cambridge
“Copy number variation in severe early onset obesity”
4 May 2010
Prof Chris Holmes, University of Oxford
“Issues in robust Bayesian inference for functional genomics”
19 April 201
Dr Jeffrey Barrett, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
“Squeezing more out of GWAS: multiple phenotypes, multiple SNPs, multiple datasets”