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  • Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting/ Réuni on canadienne sur la génétique humaine et la gén étique statistique

    Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting April 29 - May 2, 2012 White Oaks Conference Centre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

     

     

    Deadline for abstracts: Friday March 16, 2012

     

    Registration deadline: March 16, 2012 – or earlier should the meeting reach capacity

     

    Registration: epigen1.mcgill-cihr-ig.ca

     

     

    The Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Genetics (CIHR-IG), in collaboration with the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation (CGCF), is pleased to sponsor the first

  • Erasmus Winter Programme 2012 | Introduction to Clinical and Public Health Genomics

    Erasmus Winter Programme 2012 | Introduction to Clinical and Public Health Genomics

     

    This one week course Introduction to Clinical and Public Health Genomics will be given by prof.

  • Biennial conference on “Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis” May 30-June 1, 2012

    Biennial conference on “Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis” May 30-June 1, 2012

    conference on “Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis”, which will take place in Belgium (Liège) from May 30 – June 1, 2012.

    This conference aims to bring together a group of interdisciplinary scientists (backgrounds include statistics, statistical genetics, biomedicine, bioinformatics, genetics, medicine, bioinformatics, pharmacogenetics, systems biology), while creating a stimulating environment to establish synergetic collabor

  • Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP)

    The National Cancer Institute’s Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) is seeking Program Directors for its Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch (CTEB), its Host Susceptibility Factors Branch (HSFB), and the Office of the Associate Director (OAD).  EGRP anticipates hiring four Program Directors.  More details are available at <http://epi.grants.cancer.gov/jobs/director.html>http://epi.grants.cancer.gov/jobs/director.html.
     

  • Advanced Gene Mapping Course, The Rockefeller University, New York, Monday through Friday, January 16-20, 2012

    Advanced Gene Mapping Course 
    The Rockefeller University, New York 
    Monday through Friday, January 16-20, 2012 

    The course emphasis is analysis of complex human disease traits; concentrating on methods to detect rare and common variant associations. The course will include theory as well as practical exercises.  The exercises will be carried out using a variety of computer programs including R, PLINK, PSEQ, MACH, RarePower, Polyphen-2.  TOPICS include: Analysis of whole genome association studies; analysis of rare variants

  • NHGRI-funded 1st Annual Short Course on Next Generation Sequencing: Technology & Statistical Methods on December 13 - 16, 2011

    The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Section on Statistical Genetics is pleased to announce our NHGRI-funded 1st Annual Short Course on Next Generation Sequencing:  Technology & Statistical Methods on December 13 - 16, 2011 to be held at UAB in Birmingham, AL and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, AL.

     

    Next-generation sequencing technology is impacting almost all aspects of biomedical research. This technology generates an unprecedented wealth of data that demands novel analysis strategies.

  • International Congress on Personalized Medicine: Up Close and Personalized (UPCP 2012)

    International Congress on Personalized Medicine: Up Close and Personalized (UPCP 2012),

    February 2-5, 2012, Florence, Italy

     

    The main focus of the Up Close and Personalized Congress is to examine the essential clinical, genomic, proteomic, metabolomic, pharmacogenomic and biomarker data necessary to predict, prevent and treat major medical conditions concerning metabolism (diabetes and obesity), cardiovascular complications and cancer.

  • 2011 PQG Conference- Quantitative Issues in Genomic Medicine

    Event Type: 2011 PQG Conference


     

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    Quantitative Issues in Genomic Medicine

     

     

    Hosted By: The Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard School of Public Health



     

  • 6th Course in Statistical Genetic Analysis of Complex Phenotypes (Bologna, Italy)

    The course is intended for researchers directly involved in the statistical analysis of complex traits and disorders, and will primarily address the methods and applications of genetic association and linkage studies. It will consist of general lectures followed by hands-on computer-based workshops. It is an intermediate level course and some knowledge of genetics and statistics is a prerequisite.

  • 2010 FBAT/PBAT Family-Based Association Test Workshop: Using SNP chip and CNV data to family-based GWAS and more

    Course date

    May 10th, 2010 (Refresh Mini Course, This is an optional and free event for those who need to learn basic concepts of Family study. It requires pre-registration.)

    May 11th, and 12th, 2010 (FBAT/PBAT Family-Based Association Test Workshop)

     

    Course Schedule (See below table)


    Location

    Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • The 5th Conference of Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe (CELSE 2010)

    13 - 15 October 2010, Paphos, Cyprus

    We would like to invite you to the 5th Conference of Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe (CELSE 2010) scheduled to be held from 13th to 15th October 2010 in Paphos, Cyprus.