October 11-12, 2007

Conference Center at Harvard Medical, Boston

The Department of Biostatistics of Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will host a two-day conference workshop on October 11-12 (Thursday- Friday), 2007, entitled "Emerging Design and Analysis Issues in Genomic Studies in Population Sciences".

The goal is to examine the interplay between emerging genomic technologies, population- based studies, and developing statistical and computational methods. This conference, supported by a grant from the NCI and NHLBI, seeks to engage statisticians, genomic epidemiologists and computational biologists in discussions of design, data, and analysis issues in the increasing number of genomic studies in the population sciences.

The conference will focus on three important areas and aims at in-depth discussions of major quantitative issues in these three areas:

• Genome-wide association studies
• Gene-environment interactions
• Emerging "omics" techniques in population sciences.

Each topic would consist of two parts: a session of three talks followed by a panel discussion session.

For questions regarding the scientific aspects of the conference, please email Xihong Lin at xlin@hsph.harvard.edu. For questions regarding the logistic aspects of the conference, please email Artemis Egloff at aegloff@hsph.harvard.edu.

Sponsors

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by a grant from the National Cancer Institute. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by the speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement the U.S. government.