Provisional Course Schedule
Sunday 03-05-06 | |||
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16.00 | 19.00 | Welcome Reception, Boulder Creek Living Room | |
Monday 03-06-06 | |||
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, Hermine Maes |
13.30 | 14.00 | Path analysis | Danielle Dick, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
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 |
16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, Boulder Creek Living Room | |
Tuesday 03-07-06 | |||
9.00 | 10.30 | Biometrical Genetics | Manuel Ferreira, Stacey Cherny |
11.00 | 12:30 | Categorical data / Selection | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Kate Morley |
13.30 | 15.00 | Heterogeneity (sex) | Danielle Posthuma, Hermine Maes |
15.30 | 16.00 | Heterogeneity (sex and age) | Hermine Maes, Danielle Posthuma |
16:00 | 17:00 | Continuous Heterogeneity | Danielle Dick, Sarah Medland |
17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, Boulder Creek Living Room | |
Wednesday 03-08-06 | |||
9.00 | 10.30 | Multivariate genetic analysis | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Danielle Posthuma |
11.00 | 12.00 | Genetic and environmental covariances | Danielle Posthuma |
13.00 | 14.30 | Phenotypic factor analysis | Dorret Boomsma, Danielle Dick |
15.00 | 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 03-09-06 | |||
9.00 | 10.30 | Multiple raters and sibling effects | Nathan Gillespie, John Hewitt |
11.00 | 12.30 | Extended sibships | Danielle Posthuma, Kate Morley |
13.30 | 15.00 | Missing data theory | Mike Neale, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
15.30 | 16.45 | Developmental models | Danielle Dick, Sarah Medland |
16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
Friday 03-10-06 | |||
9.00 | 10.30 | Power, sample size and simulation | Ben Neale, Manuel Ferreira |
11.00 | 12.30 | Introduction to QTL mapping | Manuel Ferreira, Sarah Medland |
13.30 | 14.30 | QTL linkage analysis in Mx | Sarah Medland, Stacey Cherny, Ben Neale |
14.30 | 15.00 | Association analysis | Ben Neale, Danielle Dick |
15.30 | 16.30 | QTL Studies: The Past, Present, and Future | Nick Martin |
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, Manuel Ferreira, Kate Morley
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Michael Neale (Academic Director), Hermine Maes, Sarah Medland, Nathan
Gillespie
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric & Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Danielle Dick
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
Fruhling Rijsdijk, Benjamin Neale
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom
Dorret Boomsma, 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