Mathematical Genetics and Bioinformatics Groups

Seminar Programme 2009/10: Hilary Term

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

 

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WEEK1: Tuesday January 19th

16:30

      

Laurent Duret

University of Lyon, France

 

"Recombination hotspots: the Achilles' heel of the human genome"


 

WEEK2: Tuesday January 26th

16:30

 

Daniel Wilson

WTCHG, Oxford

 

"Adaptive events in the evolution of Hominids and Drosophila"


 

WEEK3: Tuesday February 2nd

16:30

 

Kees Albers

Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK

 

"A probabilistic realignment approach for calling small insertions and deletions"


 

WEEK4: Tuesday February 9th

16:30

 

Jerome Kelleher

University of Edinburgh, UK

 

"Evolution in a spatial continuum: models and simulations"

 

WEEK5: Tuesday February 16th

16:30

 

Jordanna Tzenova Bell

WTCHG, Oxford

 

"DNA methylation associates with genetic and gene-expression variation"

 

WEEK6: Tuesday February 23rd

16:30

 

NO SEMINAR

 


 

WEEK7: Tuesday March 2nd

16:30

 

Matti Pirinen

WTCHG, Oxford

 

"Mixture models in GWAS"


 

WEEK8: Tuesday March 9th

16:30

 

Rune Lyngsoe

Department of Statistics, Oxford

 

"Two Stabs at Fast Analysis of SNP Data"


 


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

 

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

 

Buildings are numbered 26 and 34 respectively on this map: www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/science_area.html

 

Speakers from previous terms:

 

MT2008

 

HT2009

 

TT2009

 

MT2009