6th Course in Statistical Genetic Analysis of Complex Phenotypes

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DEADLINE FOR COURSE REGISTRATION IS JUNE 14th, 2010 (MAX. 40 PARTICIPANTS).

Registration fee: 600 euro + VAT 20% = 720 euro. The fee includes tuition, course material, lunch, coffee break and shuttle bus from Porta San Mamolo (meeting point) to the course venue and back. For info about accommodation, local transportation and other details please contact serena.greco@eurogene.org

For info about logistic details and accommodation please visit the following section: ACCOMMODATION INFO

The European Society of Human Genetics (www.eshg.org) offers 5 fellowships covering the registration fee. Applicants for fellowships should submit their request together with C.V. and a reference letter to esgm.fellowships@eshg.org (please put courses@eurogene.org in cc). Deadline for fellowships has expired (February 28, 2010).

ESHG fellowships have been assigned to:   

John Kemp (UK), Hariklia Eleftherorinou (UK), Divya Deepak Metha (Germany), Praveen Surendran (Ireland), Ci Song (Sweden).

This course offers European and Italian credits for Continuing Medical Education (CME). Credits will be assigned to physicians and biologists through the accreditation procedure carried out by Menarini International Foundation. The Italian Ministry of Health assigned n.21 CME credits for this course. European CME credits will be communicated in the next weeks.       

6th Course in Statistical Genetic Analysis of Complex Phenotypes
EuroMediterranean University Centre of Ronzano
Bologna (Italy), June 21-24, 2010

DIRECTOR: Marcella Devoto (Philadelphia, USA - Rome, Italy)

SPEAKERS:
 Lachlan Coin (London, UK), Fabrice Danjou (Cagliari, Italy), David Evans (Bristol, UK), Mario Falchi (London, UK), Paola Forabosco (Sassari, Italy), Harald Göring (San Antonio, USA), Claudia Specchia (Brescia, Italy)

Monday, June 21st

Morning session:

9:00: M.Devoto, Basics of genetic epidemiology

10:00: L. Coin, Basics of association studies

11:00: Coffee break

11:30: P. Forabosco, Workshop 1: Data format, error checking and quality control

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session:

14:00: D. Evans, Workshop 2: HapMap data and other online resources

15:30: Coffee break

16:00: C. Specchia, Workshop 3: Association studies (1): Candidate gene analysis

Tuesday, June 22nd

Morning session:

9:00: M. Devoto, Linkage analysis

10:00: D. Evans, Special issues in Genome Wide Association Studies

11:00: Coffee break

11:30: M. Devoto, Workshop 1: Linkage analysis

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session:

14:00: D. Evans, Workshop 2: Association studies (2): GWAS analysis

15:30: Coffee break

16:00: F. Danjou, Workshop 3: Association studies (3): GWAS results interpretation

Wednesday, June 23rd

Morning session:

9:00: H. Göring, Quantitative Trait Locus analysis

10:00: L. Coin, Analysis of Copy Number Variants

11:00: Coffee break

11:30: M. Falchi, Workshop 1: QTL analysis

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session:

14:00: L. Coin, Workshop 2: Copy Number Variants

15:30: Coffee break

16:00: P. Forabosco, Workshop 3: Power analysis in genetic studies

Thursday, June 24th

Morning session:

9:00: M. Falchi, Sequence data and analysis of rare variants

10:00: H. Göring, Integrative genomic approaches for complex trait gene discovery

11:00: Coffee break

11:30: Open session with questions from students

13:00: Lunch break

Departure after lunch