Annual General Meeting and Presidential Address 2008

James Carpenter

Please note the change of venue for the AGM and presidential address (now Rothschild Lecture Theatre, St Mary's Campus, Imperial College, London) which will form part of the November meeting of the Southern England Genetic Epidemiology Group (SEGEG).

Admission is free to all members of the Society, and in addition there will be a free sandwich lunch for members see registration details at the end of this article.

Programme

• 1:15-1.30pm Sandwich lunch for IBS-BIR members attending AGM
  (Rothschild meeting room, adjacent to Lecture Theatre)
• 1:30-1.50pm AGM of IBS-BIR
• 2:00-2.50pm IBS-BIR Presidential address: David Balding, Imperial College London
  Kinship-based linear mixed models for population association
• 2:50-3.30pm Chris Holmes (University of Oxford)
  Analysing copy-number-variation from genome-wide SNP arrays, calling algorithms and tests of association
• 3:30-4.00pm Tea/Coffee break
• 4:00-4.30pm Cathryn Lewis (King's College London)
  Risk estimation: application to Crohn's disease
• 4:30-5.10pm Antonis Antoniou (University of Cambridge)
  Risk prediction models for familial breast cancer
• 5:10-5.30pm David Clayton (University of Cambridge)
  Discussion
• 5.30pm Close

Admission is free but advance registration is required. Please e-mail Jane Okwesa (j.okwesa@imperial.ac.uk) giving your name, Institution/Company name (if any) and e-mail address. Please also state if you are a member of IBS-BIR wishing to come for lunch (lunch is free but we need numbers for catering purposes). Closing date for registration: Friday 21st November.

Directions to St Mary's medical school are at www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/contacts/campuses/stmarys/ Details of how to find the Rothschild LT within the building, will be e-mailed to participants.