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

2009 Seminars

• 19 Jan: Professor Gordon Lowe, Professor of Vascular Medicine, University of Glasgow - 'What can circulating biomarkers tell us about cardiovascular disease and death?'
• 3 February:  Dr James Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol - 'Modelling human gene function in Drosophila'.
• 10 February: Dr Frederick Peterssen, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford - 'Multivariate approaches for the analysis and visualisation of dense genotypic and phenotypic datasets: A practical demonstration using Gs2 and Evince'.
• 17 Feb: Dr Ellen Aadaard Nohr, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark - 'Weight gain in pregnancy: Does it matter and how should we guide? Epidemiological studies based on the Danish National Birth Cohort'.
• 24 February: Professor Alistair Poole, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol - 'Functional analysis of genes involved in platelet biology and thrombosis using mouse and zebrafish model systems'.
• 10 March: Professor Sir David Cox, Honorary Fellow, Nuffield College, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. 'Randomization'.
• 7 April: Dr Jonathan Wells, University College London - 'Metabolic capacity and metabolic load; an evolutionary perspective on the aietology of the metabolic syndrome'.
• 28 April: Dr Anna Murray, Lecturer in Human Genetics, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter - 'Frax/premature ovarian failure'.  This seminar will begin at 12.00.
• 12 May: Dr Duncan Baird, Department of Pathology, Cardiff University - 'Telomere dynamics'.
• 9 June: Professor Marc Schuckit, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego - 'Factors for alcoholism in adolescents: an update on the ALSPAC-UCSD Collaboration'.  This seminar will begin at 1.30.
• 19 June: Professor Els Goetghebeur, University of Ghent - 'On estimating the causal odds ratio using instrumental variables'. This seminar will begin at 1.00.
• 13 October: Dr Miranda Geelhoed, Generation R, Rotterdam - 'Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are associated with offspring blood pressure and adiposity measures: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children'.
• 27 October: Professor Chris Holmes, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford - 'Metabolomics and common complex disease'.
• 17 November: Dr Niels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, currently Visiting MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge - 'Analysis of time-to-pregnancy'.