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Workshop on Genetic Epidemiological Methods for Dissection of Complex Human Traits

June 2nd - 11th, 2003
Kolkatta, India

A joint project of the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Population Genomics, TCG-ISI, With funding from the Fogarty International Center



Time
Lecturer
Topic
Links

June 2nd
9:30-10:30
Inauguration (Director, ISI; Director, IMM; Dan Weeks, Partha Majumder)
10:30-11:00
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-11:30 PM Inaugural Lecture ("What is a Complex Trait?") Video;
Slides
12:00-13:30
Student Presentations and Teacher-Student Interaction
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 EF Refresher Statistics - 1 Slides
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:00 NPB/PM Refresher Genetics - 1 Slides
18:00-18:30
Discussion

June 3rd
9:30-11:00 EF Refresher Statistics - 2 Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 SG/SRC Refresher Genetics - 2 Slides (SG)
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [Kunal Ray (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata): Exploiting Genome Databases for Understanding Complex Human Diseases] Video
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 LP Bioethics - 1 (General principles, Similarities and Differences in Ethical Guidelines) Slides
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:30 MB/DW Introduction to Linux/Unix & Computer Exercises on Unix Slides

June 4th
9:30-11:00 LP Bioethics - 2: Cross-cultural differences: Informed Consent, Privacy Confidentiality) Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 PM Case-control study design, Association measures, Relative risk & Odds-ratio, Sample size determination Slides
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [Susanta Roychoudhury (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata): Genetic Susceptibility to Common Cancers: A Model for Genetics of a Complex Trait]
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 MB/DW File format basics: Theory & Computer Exercises Slides
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-17:00 PM Indian National Bioethics Policy & Guidlines Slides
17:00-18:30 MB Study Designs: Simple and Complex Traits Slides

June 5th
9:30-11:00 PM Linkage: Basic concepts and Models Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 DW Genotype and Relationship error detection Slides
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [Bidyut Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): Animal Models for Human Cancer]
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 MB/DW Computer exercise on genotype and relationship error detection
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-17:00
Discussion
17:00-18:30 LP Bioethics - 3: Ethical issues in data and tissue archiving Slides

June 6th
9:30-11:00 EF Identity-by-descent: Concepts and Applications Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 EF Nonparametric linkage analysis Slides
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [Nitai P. Bhattacharyya (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata) Huntington's Disease: Complex nature of a simple disease - from linkage to possible vaccine]
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 MB/DW Computer Exercise on nonparametric linkage analysis
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:30
Discussion

June 7th
9:30-11:00 DW Parametric linkage analysis - 1
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 MB/DW Computer Exercises on parametric linkage analysis
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [Eleanor Feingold (University of Pittsburgh) Design and Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Studies] Video
Slides
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 DW Parametric linkage analysis - 2
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:30 MB/DW Computer Exercises on parametric linkage analysis

June 8th (rest and relaxation)

June 9th
9:30-11:00 MB/DW Lecture and computer exercises on power estimation and linkage analysis Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 PM Haplotypes, haplotype tracking in families, CVCD model and haplotype evolution Slides
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [G. Padmanaban (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore): The Genomes are in Place. Can we ask the right questions to handle malaria?] Video
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 MB/DW Computer exercises on haplotyping
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:30 MB/DW Lecture and computer exercises on case-control/genomic-control/population stratification

June 10th
9:30-11:00 SG Transmission-Disequilibrium Test (TDT) Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 SG Sib-TDT Slides
12:30-13:30
Panel Discussion [Chair: Barun Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) Complex Traits: Study Design, Environmental Correlates, Importance of Estimating Genotype-Environmental Interaction]
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 MB/DW Computer exercises on TDT
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:00 MB Quantitative traits: Statistical preliminaries Slides
18:00-18:30
Discussion

June 11th
9:30-11:00 SG QTL mapping Slides
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-12:30 MB/DW Computer Exercises on QTL mapping
12:30-13:30
Special Lecture [Ashis Mukherjee (CpG, Kolkata): Drug Discovery Today Ð A Multidisciplinary Treasure Hunt] Video
13:30-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 MB/DW Computer exercises on QTL mapping
16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-17:30
Valedictory Lecture [S.K. Brahmachari (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi): Complex Human Traits: The Road Ahead]
17:30-18:30
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