Provisional Course Schedule
| Sunday 02-29-04 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.00 | 19.00 | Welcome Reception, The Century Room | |
| Monday 03-01-04 | |||
| 9.00 | 9.15 | Introduction and welcome | John Hewitt |
| 9.15 | 10.00 | Causes of human variation | Nick Martin |
| 10.00 | 10.30 | Introducing the computer system | Jeff Lessem |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Summarizing variation & Matrix algebra / Intro to Mx | 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 | Univariate ACE model | Nick Martin, Hermine Maes, Meike Bartels |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| 17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, The Century Room | |
| Tuesday 03-02-04 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.20 | Biometrical Genetics | Shaun Purcell |
| 10.20 | 10.30 | Question time | Peter Visscher |
| 11.00 | 12:30 | Categorical data / Selection | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Caroline Van Baal |
| 13.30 | 15.00 | Heterogeneity (genders) | Hermine Maes, Danielle Posthuma, Meike Bartels |
| 15.30 | 16.00 | Heterogeneity (genders) continued | Hermine Maes, Danielle Posthuma, Meike Bartels |
| 16:00 | 17:00 | Continuous Heterogeneity | Shaun Purcell |
| Wednesday 03-03-04 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.15 | Multivariate genetic analysis | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Shaun Purcell |
| 10.15 | 12.00 | Genetic and environmental covariances | Danielle Posthuma, Meike Bartels |
| 12.00 | 12.30 | Phenotypic factor analysis | Caroline van Baal |
| 13.30 | 14.00 | Phenotypic factor analysis | Caroline van Baal |
| 14.00 | 16.45 | Genetic and environmental factor analysis examples | Nick Martin, Hermine Maes |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| 17.30 | 19.00 | Wine & cheese reception at IBG | IBG & the Science Directorate of the APA |
| Thursday 03-04-04 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Multiple raters and sibling effects | Meike Bartels, John Hewitt |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Power and sample size | Ben Neale, Shaun Purcell |
| 13.30 | 15.00 | Developmental models | David Evans, Sarah Medland |
| 15.30 | 16.45 | Missing data theory | Mike Neale, Pak Sham, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| Friday 03-05-04 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Extended sibships | Danielle Posthuma, Meike Bartels |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Introduction to QTL mapping | Peter Visscher |
| 13.30 | 14.30 | QTL linkage analysis in Mx | David Evans, Stacey Cherny, Ben Neale |
| 14.30 | 15.00 | Association analysis | Shaun Purcell, David Evans |
| 15.30 | 16.30 | QTL Studies: The Past, Present, and Future | Peter Visscher |
| 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
Nick Martin, David Evans
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Michael Neale (Academic Director), Hermine Maes
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric & Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrew Heath
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
Pak Sham, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Benjamin Neale
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom
Shaun Purcell
Whitehead Institute
Caroline van Baal, Danielle Posthuma, Meike Bartels
Dept of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stacey Cherny
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Gonçalo Abecasis
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan