Provisional Course Schedule
| Sunday 03-02-08 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.00 | 19.00 | Welcome Reception, Boulder Creek Living Room | |
| Monday 03-03-08 | |||
| 9.00 | 9.15 | Introduction and welcome | John Hewitt |
| 9.15 | 10.00 | Causes of human variation | Dorret Boomsma |
| 10.00 | 10.30 | Introducing the computer system | Jeff Lessem |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Likelihood, Matrix algebra | Mike Neale, David Evans |
| 13.30 | 14.00 | Path analysis | Danielle Dick, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
| 14.00 | 15.00 | Mx and modeling 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 03-04-08 | |||
| 8.00 | 9.00 | Optional Mx Review | Sarah Medland |
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Biometrical Genetics | Manuel Ferreira, Stacey Cherny |
| 11.00 | 12:30 | Categorical data & Selected samples | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Kate Morley |
| 13.30 | 15.00 | Testing for Heterogeneity (sex) | Sarah Medland Hermine Maes |
| 15.30 | 17.00 | Moderating means & covariances | Dorret Boomsma, Nick Martin |
| 17.30 | 19.00 | Reception, Boulder Creek Living Room | |
| Wednesday 03-05-08 | |||
| 8.00 | 9.00 | Optional Matrix Algebra / Other Review | Sarah Medland |
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Phenotypic factor analysis & IRT | Gitta Lubke, Irene Rebollo |
| 11.00 | 12.00 | Multivariate & genetic analysis | Kate Morley, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
| 13.00 | 14.00 | Genetic and environmental covariances | Irene Rebollo Nathan Gillespie |
| 14.30 | 16.45 | Genetic and environmental factor analysis examples | Nick Martin, Hermine Maes |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| Thursday 03-06-08 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Developmental models | Nathan Gillespie, Dorret Boomsma |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Growth curves | Gitta Lubke, Irene Rebollo, Mike Neale |
| 13.30 | 15.00 | Introduction to R | Will Valdar, Matt Keller |
| 15.30 | 16.45 | Power & sample size | Ben Neale, Manuel Ferreira |
| 16.45 | 17.00 | Question time | Faculty |
| Friday 03-07-08 | |||
| 9.00 | 10.30 | Issues and assumptions in genetic epidemiology | Matt Keller, Sarah Medland, Hermine Maes |
| 11.00 | 12.30 | Genetic dominance and extended pedigrees | Irene Rebollo, Matt Keller |
| 13.30 | 14.30 | QTL linkage analysis in Mx | Sarah Medland, Stacey Cherny, Ben Neale |
| 14.30 | 15.00 | Association analysis | David Evans, Ben Neale |
| 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, Matt Keller
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Nick Martin
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Michael Neale (Academic Director), Hermine Maes, Sarah Medland, Nathan
Gillespie, Danielle Dick
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric & Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Gitta Lubke
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
Kate Morley
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic
Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
David Evans
Department of Social Medicine,
University of Bristol
Fruhling Rijsdijk, Benjamin Neale
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom
Dorret Boomsma, Irene Rebollo
Dept of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stacey Cherny
Department of Psychiatry and Genome Research Center, University of Hong Kong
Will Valdar
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Manuel Ferreira
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School