Workshop on Computational Statistical Methods for Genomics and Systems Biology

April 18-22, 2011

Program
 

Monday, April 18, 2011
09:00 - 10:00
Registration and Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) M-415, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

Session - POPULATION GENETICS AND GENETIC EPI: PART I
Meeting room(s) : M-415, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

10:00 - 10:15
Welcoming addresses
10:15 - 11:15
Matthew Stephens
(University of Chicago)
A unified framework for testing multiple phenotypes for association with genetic variants
Abstract
11:15 - 12:00
Vincent Plagnol
(University College London)
Application of exome sequencing to map rare variants associated with celiac disease in multiplex families
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Peter Donnelly
(University of Oxford)
Evolution and recombination hotspots
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45
Mark Beaumont
(University of Bristol)
Likelihood-free approaches for Bayesian hierarchical models: applications in population genetics
Abstract
15:45 - 16:45
David Balding
(University College London)
Moderated Discussion

 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - POPULATION GENETICS AND GENETIC EPI: PART II
Meeting room(s) : M-415, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

09:00 - 10:00
Shelley B. Bull
(University of Toronto)
On the utility of some bootstrap methods in genome-wide studies
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15
Kenneth Rice
(University of Washington)
Why intuition fails in GWAS
Abstract
11:15 - 12:00
Mary Sara McPeek
(University of Chicago)
X-chromosome association analysis in case-control samples with related individuals
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Elizabeth A. Thompson
(University of Washington)
Conditional independence structures in the analysis of genetic data in pedigrees and populations
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45
Brad McNeney
(Simon Fraser University)
Sources of bias for estimators of gene-by-environment interaction from case-parent trio data
Abstract
15:45 - 16:45
Ellen Wijsman
(University of Washington )
Moderated Discussion

17:00 - 19:00
Poster Session & Wine and Cheese Reception
Room(s) Hall d’honneur, Pav. Roger-Gaudry

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - BAYESIAN METHODS IN GENOMICS
Meeting room(s) : M-415, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

09:00 - 10:00
Sylvia Richardson
(Imperial College London)
Sparse bayesian regression in genomics
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15
Jon Wakefield
(University of Washington)
A hierarchical approach to modeling allele-specific gene expression
Abstract
11:15 - 12:00
Mayetri Gupta
(Boston University)
Bayesian methods for prediction of nucleosome positioning in genomic DNA
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Christopher C. Holmes
(University of Oxford)
Bayesian hierarchical models for detecting structural aberrations in heterogeneous cancer samples using SNP genotyping data
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45
Donatello Telesca
(UCLA School of Public Health)
Modeling Pk/PGx data
Abstract
15:45 - 16:45
David A. Stephens
(McGill University)
Moderated Discussion

 

Thursday, April 21, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - EXPRESSION, GENOMIC ARRAYS AND METWORKS
Meeting room(s) : M-415, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

09:00 - 10:00
Christina Kendziorski
(University of Wisconsin Madison)
Gene expression as a response and a predictor: two case studies of complex disease genomics
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
Michael A. Newton
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Connecting experimental and functional genomic data
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Steve Horvath
(UCLA School of Public Health)
Is my network module preserved and reproducible?
Abstract
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Ingo Ruczinski
(Johns Hoplins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Assessing variants in the human genome
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30
Sandrine Dudoit
(UC Berkeley)
Moderated Discussion

 

Friday, April 22, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - COMPUTATIONNAL BIOLOGY AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Meeting room(s) : M-415, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

09:00 - 09:45
Laurent Excoffier
(University of Bern)
Detecting local adaptation from genome scans in populations with complex histories
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
Kun Liang
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Statistical challenges of ChIP-seq analysis
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45
Jennifer Bryan
(University of British Columbia)
Identifying gene-gene and gene-compound interactions though high-throughput phenotypic studies
Abstract
11:45 - 12:30
Mark R. Segal
(University of California, San Francisco)
Querying genomic databases: refining the connectivity map
Abstract

12:30 - 12:35
Closing remarks

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