Seminars
Department seminars, preliminary programme
Tuesday 30th June 2009
Remote kinship as a confounder in genetic epidemiology studies
Professor David Balding
Professor of Statistical Genetics
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Imperial College
12:45-14:00 - LG9 Keppel Street
Tuesday 2 June 2009
12:45-14:00 - to be confirmed
Monday 18th May
The Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium:
design, progess, and directions
Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine & Epidemiology
University of Washington, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
12:45-14:00 - LG7 Keppel Street
Tuesday 17th February 2009
Assessing whether a new risk marker improves individual level risk prediciton
Jonathan Bartlett (MSU)
Bedford Square 49/102, 1.00 - 2.15 p.m.
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Genome-wide association studies: the WTCCC and beyond
Dr Martin Farrall, Dept. Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford
12:45-14:00 (room to be confirmed)
Tuesday 7 October 2008
Overview and recent findings of EPIC
Professor Elio Riboli, Imperial College London
12:45-14:00 (room to be confirmed)
Tuesday 1 July 2008
And now, for something completely different!
Dr Kirsten Ward
and
Patterns of mortality in an island population of African descent, Tobago, West Indies, 1976-2005
Dr Mariam Molokhia
12:00-13:30 in the Lucas room
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Cancer survival in Switzerland
Dr Jean-Michel Lutz, Director, Geneva Cancer Registry, Switzerland
12:45-14:00 in the Bennett Room
Friday 16 May 2008
Tracking Disparity: Trends in ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in mortality in New Zealand, 1981-2004
Professor Tony Blakely, Health Inequalities Research Programme, University of Otago, New Zealand
12:45-14:00 in the Bennett Room
Tuesday 6 May 2008
Randomised controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation of low birth weight term Indian infants: effects on short term and longer term health
Dr Geeta Trilok-Kumar, Dr Suzanne Filteau and Dr Sanjay Kinra
12:45-14:00 in the Bennett room
