Mathematical Genetics and Bioinformatics Groups

Seminar Programme 2009: Trinity Term

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

 

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WEEK1: Tuesday April 28th

16:30

      

Guy Sella

Hebrew University, Israel

 

"Genomic signatures of adaptation in Drosophila"


 

WEEK2: Tuesday May 5th

16:30

 

NO SEMINAR

 

 

 

 

WEEK3: Tuesday May 12th

16:30

 

Nick Jones

Physics, Oxford

 

"The (mixed) value of protein interaction networks "


 

WEEK4: Tuesday May 19th

16:30

 

Xavier Didelot

Warwick University, UK

 

"Inference of bacterial evolution by approximation of the ancestral recombination graph"


 

WEEK5: Tuesday May 26th

16:30

 

Sharon Browning

University of Auckland, NZ

 

“High resolution detection of identity by descent”

 

WEEK6: Tuesday June 2nd

16:30

 

Niall Cardin

Statistics, Oxford

 

"Genotyping Copy Number Variants and Detecting Phenotype Associations"


 

WEEK7: Tuesday June 9th

16:30

 

Chris Spencer

WTCHG, Oxford

 

"More things to do with GWAS"


 

WEEK8: Tuesday June 16th

16:30

 

Chris Tyler-Smith

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge

 

"Insights into mutation and selection in humans from next-gen sequence 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