Mathematical Genetics and Bioinformatics Groups

Seminar Programme 2009: Hilary Term

Contact Simon Myers: myers@stats.ox.ac.uk for more information

WEEK1: Tuesday January 20^th		16:30
	Rahul Satija	Statistics, Oxford
	"Studying gene regulation with statistical alignment"
WEEK2: Tuesday January 27^th		16:30
	Bartu Ahiska	Statistics, Oxford
	“SCRAPS: Reference-free tool for identifying variation in metagenomic short-read data"
WEEK3: Tuesday February 3^rd		16:30
	Chris Yau	Statistics, Oxford
	"Statistical methods for the identification of copy number alterations in heterogeneous tumours "
WEEK4: Tuesday February 10^th		16:30
	Kirk Lohmueller	Cornell University, NY
	"Understanding human demography, and its implications for deleterious polymorphisms"
WEEK5: Tuesday February 17^th		16:30
	Goncalo Abecasis	University of Michigan, MI
	"Taking advantage of relatedness in genomewide association and resequencing studies"
WEEK6: Tuesday February 24^th		16:30
	Gerton Lunter	WTCHG, Oxford
	"The role of selection in genomic patterns of human heterozygosity"
WEEK7: Tuesday March 3^rd		16:30
	Andres Ruiz-Linares	University College, London
	"Genetic diversity in the Americas: Native origins and recent population admixture"
WEEK8: Tuesday March 10^th(NO SEMINAR)		16:30
	Daniel Zivkovic (SEMINAR CANCELLED)	Koln University, Germany
	“Advances and limitations in disentangling demographic and adaptive forces"

Seminars are in the Henry Wellcome Building of Gene Function (3rd floor seminar room).

Or in the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research (level 30 seminar room).

Buildings are numbered 24 and 34 respectively on this map: www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/science_area.html

Speakers from previous terms:

HT2008