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2010 Workshop Schedule
The Workshop schedule is constantly changing, even during the course. Updates are made to fine tune content to the students' needs
Schedule
Sunday, February 28, 2010
16:00-18:00 | Reception at the Millennium Harvest House in the “Living Room” |
Monday, March 1, 2010
Time | Topic | Lecturers |
9:00-9:15 | Introduction and welcome | John Hewitt |
9:15-10:00 | Causes of human variation | Lindon Eaves, Dorret Boomsma |
10:00-10:30 | Introducing the computer system | Jeff Lessem, Stacey Cherny |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 | Introduction to R | Steve Boker, Matt Keller |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-14:00 | Path analysis | Danielle Dick, Fruhling Rijsdijk |
14:00-15:00 | OpenMx and modeling for twin data | Hermine Maes, Nick Martin |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-16:45 | Univariate ACE model | Nick Martin, Hermine Maes |
16:45-17:00 | Question time | Faculty |
17:30-19:00 | Reception at the Millennium Harvest House in the “Living Room” |
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
8:00-9:00 | Optional Review | Sarah Medland |
9:00-10:30 | Biometrical Genetics | Pak Sham, Manuel Ferreira, Stacey Cherny |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 | Likelihood, Matrix algebra | Manuel Ferreira, Mike Neale, Steve Boker |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-15:00 | Categorical data & Selected samples | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Meike Bartels |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-17:00 | Testing for Heterogeneity (sex) | Danielle Dick, Sarah Medland |
17:30-19:00 | Reception at the Millennium Harvest House in the “Living Room” |
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
8:00-9:00 | Optional Review | Sarah Medland |
9:00-10:30 | Phenotypic factor analysis & IRT | Marleen de Moor, Meike Bartels |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:00 | Multivariate & genetic analysis | Danielle Posthuma, Meike Bartels |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
13:00-14:00 | Multivariate practical | Meike Bartels, Danielle Posthuma |
14:00-14:30 | Coffee Break |
14:30-16:45 | Genetic and environmental factor analysis examples | Hermine Maes, Nick Martin |
16:45-17:00 | Question time | Faculty |
Thursday, March 4, 2010
8:00-9:00 | Optional Review | Sarah Medland |
9:00-10:30 | Moderating means & covariances | Dorret Boomsma, Marleen de Moor |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 | Developmental models | Nathan Gillespie, Lindon Eaves |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-15:00 | Growth curves | Mike Neale, Irene Rebollo |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-16:45 | Power & sample size | Ben Neale, Manuel Ferreira |
16:45-17:00 | Question time | Faculty |
Friday, March 5, 2010
9:00-10:30 | Issues and assumptions in genetic epidemiology | Matt Keller, Sarah Medland, Hermine Maes |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:30 | Comorbidity | Fruhling Rijsdijk, Mike Neale |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-15:00 | Association Teaser | David Evans, Ben Neale, Sarah Medland |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-16:30 | QTL Studies: The Past, Present, and Future | Nick Martin, Dorret Boomsma |
18:30-22:00 | Party at the Hewitt's House |
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