GRAPHICAL MODELS AND GENETIC APPLICATIONS

WARWICK 15-17 April, 2009

Organisers: Jim Smith, Nuala Sheehan and John Aston

Wednesday 15 April

12.00 - 14.00 Registration and Buffet Lunch - Concourse of the Maths Building

14.00 - 14.10 Welcome and Arrangements

14.10 - 15.10 Pedigree Reconstruction (Thore Egeland & Nuala Sheehan)

15.10 - 15.40 How far back can we go? Examples and conclusions (Oivind Skare)

15.40 - 16.10 Refreshments - Concourse of the Maths Building 

16.10 - 17.00 Phylogenetic Approaches to Relationship Estimation (Jotun Hein)

17.00 - 17.30 Contributed talk (tba)

17.30 - 19.15 Poster session (plus wine and nibbles) - Concourse of the Maths Building

19.00 - 20.30 Dinner - Rootes Hall

Thursday 16 April

9.00 - 10.00 Graphical Models for Genetic Identification Problems (Steffen Lauritzen)

10.00 - 10.30 Contributed talk (tba)

10.30 - 11.00 Refreshments - Concourse of the Maths Building

11.00 - 11.55 Graphical Models for Causal Inference using Mendelian Randomisation (Vanessa Didelez)

11.55 - 12.45 Identifying direct and indirect effects (Sara Geneletti)

12.45 - 14.00 Buffet lunch - Concourse of the Maths Building

14.00 - 14.55 Learning and Estimating Different Graphs (Thomas Richardson)

14.55 - 15.45 Eliciting, learning and Estimating Chain Event Graphs (Jim Smith)

15.45 - 16.15 Refreshments - Concourse of the Maths Building

16.15 - 17.00 A logical way to find high probability pedigrees (James Cussens)

17.00 - 17.45 Learning a Large Pedigree from some 'Nice' Data (Robert Cowell)

17.45 - 18.30 tba (Robert Puch-Solis)

19.00 Workshop Dinner - Main Campus

Friday 17 April

9.00 - 10.00 Graphical Models for Gene Mapping (Dan Geiger)

10.00 - 10.45 High throughput sequence assembly (Simon Heath)

10.45 - 11.15 Refreshments - Concourse of the Maths Building

11.15 - 12.05 Structural equation modelling of immune rseponse (Lorenz Wernisch)

12.05 - 13.00 Transcriptional modules in A. thaliana stress responses: an application of Bayesian data fusion (David Wild)

13.00 - 13.15 Conclusions and Discussions

13.15 - 14.00 Buffet lunch - Concourse of the Maths Building