Third Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics:
Statistical Genetics and Genomics

November 21 - 22, 2005
Seattle, Washington, USA

Speakers

Monday, November 21, 2005

Session #1 - Analysis of Population Genetic Data

  1. David R. Cox - keynote speaker
    Perlegen Sciences Inc.
    Statistical analysis of whole genome association studies of complex human trait

  2. Lon Cardon
    University of Oxford
    bioinformatics.well.ox.ac.uk/~lon/index.html
    Using genomic patterns of linkage disequilibrium to help locate complex disease genes

  3. David Clayton
    Cambridge University
    www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/clayton/
    Characterization of linkage disequilibrium and its implications for association studies

  4. David Altshuler
    Harvard Medical School
    www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/altschulerda.html
    Human genome sequence variation and the inherited basis of disease

  5. Jun Liu
    Harvard University
    www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/ 
    Bayesian models for haplotype inference and fine-mapping

  6. Robert Temple
    Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
    Use of genetic and proteomic information to select patients for trials            

Session #2 - Analysis of Family Based Genetic Data

  1. Elizabeth A. Thompson - keynote speaker
    University of Washington
    www.stat.washington.edu/thompson/
    Uncertainty in Inheritance: Assessing Evidence for Linkage

  2. Laura Almasy
    Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
    www.sfbr.org/pages/genetics_cv.php?u=55
    Identifying the Genetic Variants that Account for a Linkage Signal

  3. C. Augustine Kong
    deCODE genetics
    decode.com/main/view.jsp?branch=15829
    Recombination, Fertility, and Selection

  4. Robert Elston
    Case Western Reserve University
    epbiwww.cwru.edu/faculty/elston.html
    Genetic Association Tests Based on Family Data

  5. Stephanie Monks
    Oklahoma State University
    statistics.okstate.edu/people/faculty/monks/
    Genetic Inheritance of Gene Expression in Humans

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Session #3 - Analysis of Microarrays and Functional Genomic Data

  1. Wing Hung Wong - keynote speaker
    Stanford University
    www-stat.stanford.edu/people/faculty/wong/
    An approach to the study of cis-regulatory elements in mammalian genomes

  2. Terry Speed
    University of California, Berkeley
    stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/terry/Group/
    Gene expression over time: data, questions and partial answers

  3. Gary Churchill
    The Jackson Laboratory
    www.jax.org/staff/gary_churchill.html
    Modeling and inference in complex genetic systems

  4. Eric Schadt
    Merck-Rosetta
    www.rii.com/about/executives.html
    Forward genetics in reverse: novel methods to reconstruct genetic networks underlying complex human diseases

Session #4 - Analysis of Genome Sequences

  1. Philip Green
    University of Washington
    www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/green.htm
    Signal and noise in genome sequences

  2. Chris Burge
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    web.mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/burge.shtml
    Computational and experimental analysis of RNA splicing

  3. Simon Cawley
    Affymetrix
    Exploring the genome with exon and tiling arrays

Updated: 2/1/05