Conference Themes
Programme/Themes
| Sunday 17th June | |
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| Sunday 17 June | Registration and evening mixer |
| Monday 18th June | |
| Monday AM | The genetic architecture of quantitative traits Chair: Bruce Walsh Peter Visscher: From Galton to GWAS (and beyond): what have we learned about quantitative traits in human populations? Ed Buckler: Uniting the world's maize germplasm diversity for trait dissection and accelerated breeding Chair Veronica van Heyningen Eric Lander: Genetics Society Mendel Lecture |
| Monday PM | Evolutionary quantitative genetics Chair: Derek Roff Mark Blows: Evolution of genetic variance under selection Patrick Phillips: Gene interactions underlying the evolution of complex traits Jarrod Hadfield: What, Me Natural? Patterns of selection in wild systems and their theoretical implications |
| Monday EVENING | Poster session |
| Tuesday 19th June | |
| Tuesday AM | Variation in the genome Chair: Greg Gibson Matt Hurles: Causes and consequences of new mutations Frank Johannes: Mapping the epigenetic basis of quantitative traits |
| Tuesday PM | Advances from numerical methods Chair: David Balding, John Storey: (title to be confirmed) Gustavo de los Campos: Whole-genome prediction of human complex traits using data from related and unrelated individuals Goncalo Abecasis: Computational analysis of thousands of human genomes: What do we need? |
| Tuesday EVENING | Poster session |
| Wednesday 20th June | |
| Wednesday AM | Opportunities from technological advances Chair: Bruce Weir Richard Durbin: Quantitative association genetics of high dimensional cellular traits: extending beyond expression QTLs Orjan Carlborg: Variance controlling genes and their role in the genetic architecture of complex traits Sergey Nuzhdin: Systems biology of genetic variation in Drosophila: InR/TOR |
| Wednesday PM | Free for arranging associated symposia Genetics Society postgraduate symposium |
| Thursday 21st June | |
| Thursday AM | Emerging areas Chair: Marie-Anne Felix Nik Shork: Whole genome phasing and diploid variant annotations Others to be arranged as they ‘emerge’ |
| Thursday PM | Bridging the genotype-phenotype gap Chair: Michel Georges Trudy Mackay: Systems genetics of quantitative traits in Drosophila Mark McCarthy: Diamonds in the dirt: biological and translational insights into type 2 diabetes from large-scale genetic studies. |
| Friday 22nd June | |
| Friday 22 AM | Interactions among the individuals and with the environment Chair: Mark Kirkpatrick Piter Bijma: The consequences of indirect genetic effects for heritable variation and response to selection Alastair Wilson: The genetics of social dominance: does competition cause constraint? Magnus Nordborg: Studying the genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis |
| Friday 22 PM | Genomic information in prediction Chair: Theo Meuwissen Ben Hayes: Towards genomic prediction from genome sequence data and the 1000 bull genomes project Chris-Carolin Schoen: Genome-based prediction in highly structured plant populations Pak Sham: (title to be confirmed) |
| Friday EVENING | Banquet at Dynamic Earth |
*On Wednesday afternoon a Genetics Society Postgraduate Conference will be held. (Email: Kay Boulton). There will be opportunities for small symposia to be arranged by participants on Wednesday afternoon or at lunchtimes/early evening.
Further details will be provided at a later date.
Posters will be on view in the area used for coffee/tea breaks and lunch and at the designated early evening sessions.