MRC CAITE

• Centre staff
• Advisory committee
• Affiliate members
• Collaborators
• Grants
• Outputs
• Seminars
  • 2011 Seminars
  • 2010 Seminars
  • 2009 Seminars
  • 2008 Seminars
  • 2012 Seminars
• Workshops and large research meetings
• External meetings that CAiTE staff have contributed to organising
• CAiTE Monthly Meetings
• CAiTE PhD Opportunities
• Public Engagement
• GEoCoDE
• Consortia

External resources

• MRC website
• Organisations and cohorts we work with

2008 Seminars

• 2 April: Professor James Robins, Harvard School of Public Health - 'Direct and indirect effects'.
• 3 April: Professor James Robins, Harvard School of Public Health - 'Estimation and extrapolation of optimal treatment and testing strategies'.
• 20 May: Professor Dongfeng Gu, Chair of Epidemiology, Medical Genetics and Medicine at the Fuwai Hospital and Cardiovascular Research Institute in Beijing, China - 'An overview of epidemiology and genetic epidemiology in China'.
• 3 June: Dr Fredrik Karpe from the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism - 'Recruit-by-genotype to investigate complex intermediary phenotypes for diabetes and cardiovascular risk genes'.
• 4 June: Dr Felix Burden from the Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT - 'Prevention of premature death from coronary heart disease (CHD) in men: the Deadly Trio project'.
• 5 June: Julie Marsh from the Laboratory for Genetic Epidemiology, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research - 'The relationship between inter-uterine growth trajectories and the FTO genetic polymorphism'.
• 19 June: Dr Brendan Keating, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania - 'Concept, design and implementation of a gene-centric 50K SNP array for CVD studies: peering into gene-phenotype relationships in >200,000 individuals'.
• 17 July: Michael Meaney from McGill University - 'Maternal care alters neuroendocrine function through epigenetic programming of gene expression: Does mom really know best?'
• 12 September: Steven Walker of the ALMAC group.  
• 9 September: Dr Hugh Montgomery from the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London - 'Genetics and athletic performance'.
• 15 October: Dr Paul Brennan from the International Agency for Research on Cancer - 'Lessons from candidate gene and genome-wide studies of lung cancer'.
• 2 December: Dr Richard Anney from the Institute of Molecular Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin - 'Genome-wide association studies in childhood psychiatric disorders'.
• 15 December: Dr Ewan Birney from the European Bioinformatics Institute - 'Molecular genetics meets big biology'.
• 16 December: Prof John Whittaker from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - 'Meta-analysis of genetic association studies with different sets of marker from summary data'.