Programme
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| Sunday 17th June | |
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14.00 – 19.30 |
Registration Open and Evening Mixer |
| Monday 18th June | |
08.00 – 19.30 |
Registration Open |
09.00 – 09.05 |
Welcome from Bill Hill |
09.05 - 10.40 |
The genetic architecture of quantitative traits |
09.05 – 09.20 |
Introduction: The quantitative genetics landscape in 2012 |
09.20 – 10.00 |
O-1 From Galton to GWAS (and beyond): what have we learned about quantitative traits in human populations? |
10.00 - 10.40 |
O-2 Uniting the world's maize germplasm diversity for trait dissection and accelerated breeding |
10.40 – 11.10 |
Tea/Coffee |
11.10 – 11.40 |
The genetic architecture of quantitative traits O-3 An improved method for heritability estimation provides insights into the genetic architecture of epilepsy |
11.40 – 12.40 |
Genetics Society Mendel Lecture |
12.40 – 13.40 |
Lunch |
13.40 - 15.20 |
Evolutionary quantitative genetics |
13.40 – 14.20 |
O-5 Evolution of genetic variance under selection |
14.20 – 14.40 |
O-6 Plants in heterogeneous environments: determining when phenotypic plasticity is adaptive |
14.40 – 15.00 |
O-7 Discovery of cryptic genetic variation in C. elegans embryogenesis |
15.00 – 15.20 |
O-8 Genomic comparisons between selected and relaxed chicken lines |
15.20 – 15.50 |
Tea/Coffee |
15.50 - 17.20 |
Evolutionary quantitative genetics |
15.50 – 16.30 |
O-9 Gene interactions underlying the evolution of complex traits |
16.30 – 17.00 |
O-10 What, me natural? Patterns of selection in wild systems and their theoretical implications |
17.00 – 17.20 |
O-11 The deceit of monogamy: Quantitative genetic insights into the evolutionary ecology of polyandry in the wild |
17.30 – 19.30 |
Poster Session |
| Tuesday 19th June | |
08.00 – 19.30 |
Registration Open |
09.00 - 10.40 |
Variation in the genome |
09.00 – 09.40 |
O-12 Causes and consequences of new mutations |
09.40 – 10.00 |
O-13 The role of genetic variations on gene expression and splicing in multiple regions of control human post-mortem brain tissue |
10.00 – 10.20: |
O-14 Population genetics revealed by enormous structural variations discovered by population-scale sequencing |
10.20 – 10.40 |
O-15 Variation in transcription factor binding among humans |
10.40 – 11.10 |
Tea/Coffee |
11.10 - 12.40 |
Variation in the genome |
11.10 – 11.50 |
O-16 Mapping the epigenetic basis of complex traits in Arabidopsis |
11.50 – 12.20 |
O-17 The role of tandem repeats in mRNA and protein expression homeostasis |
12.20 – 12.40 |
O-18 Dissecting the contribution of regulatory sequence variation to quantitative haematological traits using maps of open chromatin in primary human blood cells |
12.40 – 13.40 |
Lunch/Exhibition/Poster viewing |
13.40 - 15.20 |
Advances from numerical methods |
13.40 – 14.20 |
O-19 Statistical methods for the genetic analysis of arbitrarily structured populations |
14.20 – 14.40 |
O-20 CLIP Test: a new fast and simple method to distinguish between linked or pleiotropic quantitative trait loci in linkage disequilibrium analysis |
14.40 – 15.00 |
O-21 Sparse factor models for estimating the genetic architecture of gene expression traits |
15.00 – 15.20 |
O-22 Big data, small cost – combining low-pass genome sequencing with long-range phasing and haplotype library imputation to create more powerful data for genomic prediction in plants and animals |
15.20 – 15.50 |
Tea/Coffee |
15.50 - 17.20 |
Advances from numerical methods |
15.50 – 16.30 |
O-23 Haplotype phasing using next- generation sequencing reads |
16.30 – 17.00
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O-24 Whole-genome prediction of human complex traits using data from related and unrelated individuals |
17.00 – 17.20 |
O-25 Relaxing the genetic model to identify quantitative trait loci having heterogeneous effects |
17.20 – 19.30 |
Poster Session |
| Wednesday 20th June | |
08.00 – 18.00 |
Registration Open |
09.00 - 10.40 |
Technical advances and emerging areas |
09.00 – 09.40 |
O-26 Whole genome phasing and diploid variant annotations |
09.40 – 10.00 |
O-27 Low depth, whole genome sequencing of Dai population demonstrates superiority over use of whole genome genotyping arrays in uncovering population structure, demographic history, selective pressures and phenotype associations in non-european populations |
10.00 – 10.20 |
O-28 The relationship between binary disease status and underlying heterogeneity in susceptibility and infectivity |
10.20 – 10.40 |
O-29 How do hosts shape their microbial communities? |
10.40 – 11.10 |
Tea/Coffee |
11.10 - 12.40 |
Technical advances and emerging areas |
11.10 – 11.50 |
O-30 Quantitative association genetics of high dimensional cellular traits: extending beyond expression QTLs |
11.50 – 12.20 |
O-31 Systems biology of genetic variation in Drosophila: InR/TOR |
12.20 – 12.40 |
O-32 Whole genome sequence analysis of a large Scottish family with bipolar disorder |
Wednesday PM |
Genetics society postgraduate symposium Free for arranging associated symposia |
| Thursday 21st June | |
08.00 – 17.30 |
Registration Open |
09.00 - 10.40 |
Bridging the genotype-phenotype gap |
09.00 – 09.40 |
O-33 Bridging the genotype-phenotype gap: lessons from Drosophila |
09.40 – 10.00 |
O-34 Heterosis as a systemic property emerging from the non-linearity of the genotype-phenotype relationship: evidence from metabolic models and test-tube genetics |
10.00 – 10.20 |
O-35 Discovering early and late regulators of haematopoiesis through large-scale genomic analyses |
10.20 – 10.40 |
O-36 A sexual ornament in chickens is determined by pleiotropic alleles at HAO1 and BMP2, selected during domestication |
10.40 – 11.10 |
Tea/Coffee |
11.10 - 12.40 |
Bridging the genotype-phenotype gap |
11.10 – 11.50 |
O-37 Diamonds in the dirt: biological and translational insights into type 2 diabetes from large-scale genetic studies |
11.50 – 12.20 |
O-38 The biologic relevance of eQTLs: a genome wide confirmation of eQTLs using two types of inbred populations in C. Elegans |
12.20 – 12.40 |
O-39 Quantitative genetics of Drosophila life span |
12.40 - 13.40 |
Lunch/Exhibition/Poster viewing |
13.40 - 15.20 |
The genetic architecture of quantitative traits 2 |
13.40 – 14.20 |
The Genetics Society Balfour Lecture |
14.20 – 14.40 |
O-41 GWAS: 2D, or not 2D: that is the question |
14.40 – 15.00 |
O-42 Knowledge-driven analysis identified a gene-gene interaction affecting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in multi-ethnic populations |
15.00 – 15.20 |
O-43The genetic architecture of quantitative traits: lessons from biochemical markers for disease |
15.20 – 15.50 |
Tea/Coffee |
15.50 - 17.20 |
The genetic architecture of quantitative traits 2 |
15.50 – 16.30: |
O-44 From Castle to the Collaborative Cross: evolution of the mouse in quantitative genetics research |
16.30 – 17.00 |
O-45 Genetic architecture and evolution of quantitative traits |
17.00 – 17.20 |
O-46 The quantitative genetics of phenotypic robustness |
| Friday 22nd June | |
08.00 – 17.30 |
Registration Open |
09.00 - 10.40 |
Interactions among individuals and with the environment |
09.00 – 09.40 |
O-47 Studying the genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis |
09.40 – 10.00 |
O-48 Novel methods of GWAS for mapping genes of complex traits and their applications in crop breeding |
10.00 – 10.20 |
O-49 Nonlinear genotype x environment interaction |
10.20 – 10.40 |
O-50 Applying quantitative genetics to epidemics and disease resistance: implications of dynamic and noisy data |
10.40 – 11.10 |
Tea/Coffee |
11.10 - 12.40 |
Interactions among individuals and with the environment |
11.10 – 11.50 |
O-51 The consequences of indirect genetic effects for heritable variation and response To selection |
11.50 – 12.20 |
O-52 The genetics of social dominance: does competition cause constraint? |
12.20 – 12.40 |
O-53 Simple and effective methods of addressing competitive effects in animal breeding programs |
12.40 – 13.40 |
Lunch/Exhibition/Poster viewing |
13.40 - 15.20 |
Genomic information in prediction |
13.40 – 14.20 |
O-54 Towards genomic prediction from genome sequence data and the 1000 bull genomes project |
14.20 – 14.40 |
O-55 Using whole genome sequence data to predict quantitative trait phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster |
14.40 – 15.00 |
O-56 Next generation breeding using genotyping-by-sequencing |
15.00 – 15.20 |
O-57 Genomic-BLUP decoded: a look into the black box |
15.20 – 15.50 |
Tea/Coffee |
15.50 - 17.30 |
Genomic information in prediction |
15.50 – 16.30 |
O-58 Predicting disease risk from marker genotypes under a polygenic model |
16.30 – 17.00 |
O-59 Genome-based prediction in highly structured plant populations |
17.00 – 17.20 |
O-60 Genomic prediction of colorectal cancer risk using GBLUP |
17.20 – 17.30 |
Close of Conference - Thanks |
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.