Provisional Course Schedule
| Sunday 03-03-02 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.00 | 19.00 | Welcome Reception, The Colorado Room | |
| Monday 03-04-02 | |||
| 9.00 | 9.15 | Introduction and welcome | John Hewitt |
| 9.15 | 10.00 | The causes of human variation | Nick Martin |
| 10.00 | 10.30 | Introducing the computer system | Jeff Lessem |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Summarizing variation & Matrix algebra | Mike Neale |
| 13.30 | 14.00 | Path analysis | Andrew Heath |
| 14.00 | 15.00 | A first path model for twin data | Hermine Maes, Nick Martin |
| 15.30 | 16.45 | Fitting the model to data | Nick Martin, Vrije Universiteit faculty |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| 17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, The Colorado Room | |
| Tuesday 03-05-02 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Biometrical Genetics | Pak Sham, Shaun Purcell |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Mx Scripts (multiple groups) | Hermine Maes, Vrije Universiteit faculty |
| 13.30 | 15:00 | Heterogeneity (genders, age groups) | Nick Martin, Vrije Universiteit faculty |
| 15:30 | 16:45 | Raw Data Analysis | Mike Neale, Shaun Purcell |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| 17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, The Colorado Room | |
| Wednesday 03-06-02 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Introduction to factor analysis: Phenotypic example | Dorret Boomsma, Caroline van Baal |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Multivariate genetic analysis: Introduction | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Shaun Purcell |
| 13.30 | 15.00 | Genetic and environmental covariances | Caroline van Baal, Nick Martin, Hermine Maes |
| 15.30 | 16.45 | Genetic and environmental factor analysis examples | Nick Martin, Hermine Maes |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| 17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, The Colorado Room | |
| Thursday 03-07-02 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Multiple raters and sibling effects | John Hewitt |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Power and sample size | Shaun Purcell, Danielle Posthuma |
| 13.30 | 15.00 | Categorical data | Andrew Heath, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
| 15.30 | 16.45 | Alternative multivariate models | Mike Neale, Pak Sham, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| 19.00 | 21.00 | University of Colorado 94th Distinguished Lecture Series, "From Anxiety to Cognitive Disabilities: Adventures in Gene Localization", Fiske Planetarium, reception to follow (shuttles provided) | John C. DeFries, University of Colorado, Department of Psychology & Institute for Behavioral Genetics |
| Friday 03-08-02 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Extended pedigrees | Dorret Boomsma, Danielle Posthuma |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Developmental models | Caroline van Baal, Mike Neale |
| 13.30 | 14.30 | Linkage analysis theory | Pak Sham, Gonçalo Abecasis |
| 14.30 | 15.00 | QTL linkage analysis in Mx | Lon Cardon, Stacey Cherny |
| 15.30 | 16.00 | Multivariate QTL linkage analysis | Lon Cardon, Stacey Cherny |
| 16.00 | 16.45 | Beyond Linkage: some current issues in QTL identification | Lon Cardon |
| 18.00 | Farewell Party (shuttles provided) | hosted by John & Christina Hewitt | |
Daily: 10.30-11.00 break; 12.30-13.30 break; 15.00-15.30 break
John Hewitt, Jeff Lessem
Institute for Behavioral Genetics
University of Colorado at Boulder
David Evans, Nick Martin
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Hermine Maes, Mike Neale (Academic Director)
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric & Behavioral Genetics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrew Heath
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis
Shaun Purcell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Pak Sham
Institute of Psychiatry
King's College London, United Kingdom
Caroline van Baal, Meike Bartels, Dorret Boomsma, Danielle Posthuma
Dept of Biological Psychology
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lon Cardon, Stacey Cherny
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Gonçalo Abecasis
Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan