Institute for Behavioral Genetics First Friday Talks

January 2005

Thursday, January 13, 2005, 4:00, at MCDB, Room A2B70
Lon Cardon, Ph.D., Professor of Bioinformatics, Principal Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"The role of linkage disequilibrium in identifying complex trait genes in humans”
Cosponsored by IBG and MCD Biology

February, 2005

Friday, February 4, 4:00 IBG 120
Marie Banich, Ph.D., Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science and professor of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
"Neuroimaging of attentional control and its potential linkage to genetics”
Jointly sponsored by IBG and the Center for the Genetics of Antisocial Drug Dependence

March 2005

Friday, March 4, 4:00, IBG 120
Matthew Stephens, Ph.D., statistical geneticist with the University of Washington in Seattle, develops statistical methods to analyze human genetic data using haplotype mapping and tagging.

April 2005

Friday, April 1, 4:00, IBG 120
Kaare Christensen, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Medical Science, Professor of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark; and Senior Research Scientist (part time employment) at the Terry Sanford Institute, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
"Danish twin studies of aging: Why do we age so differently?"

May 2005

Friday, May 6, 4:00, IBG 120
Tatiana Foroud, Associate Professor, Departments of Medical & Molecular Genetics and of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
“Genetics of alcoholism and the COGA study”

 

4:00pm on Fridays
Please join us for refreshments at 3:45 P.M.

University of Colorado (East Campus)
Institute for Behavioral Genetics
1480 30th Street, Room 120
Boulder, CO 80303