Trans–NIH Workshop

Genome-wide Association: Analyze This!
The Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative

The Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, Maryland
August 4–5, 2008

 

Mark your calendar for August 4–5, 2008, and plan to attend Genome-wide Association Studies: Analyze This, to be held at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

The purpose of this workshop is to share and discuss statistical strategies to identify environmental components or covariates of disease and their interactions with genes in genome-wide association studies. The workshop is supported by the Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (GEI). GEI is a four-year NIH-wide program in the President’s budget to identify major genetic susceptibility factors for disease and to develop technologies for reliable and reproducible measurement of potential causative environmental exposures. Participants in this GEI workshop will listen to presentations and participate in discussions on issues pertaining to analysis of genome-wide association studies with a gene-environment interaction component. Additionally, a poster session will be held to facilitate interaction amongst investigators and their students/trainees.

This workshop will help to:

Identify analytical issues for genome-wide association studies

Identify unique issues to analyzing gene-environment interactions

Promote discussion among researchers performing genome-wide association

 

Workshop co-chairs:

Lon Cardon, Ph.D., Head of Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline

Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine (Section Chief - Genetic Medicine) and Human Genetics, University of Chicago

 

Confirmed speakers:

Chris Amos, Ph.D., University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Lon Cardon, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline

David V. Conti, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Patty S. Freedson, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Stacey Gabriel, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Federico Goodsaid, Ph.D., U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH

Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Eugene Houseman, Sc.D., University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Charles Lee, Ph.D., FACMG, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Yves A. Lussier, M.D., The University of Chicago

Teri Manolio, M.D., Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH

Christopher O'Donnell, M.D., M.P.H., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH

Michael Province, Ph.D., Washington University St. Louis

Noah A. Rosenberg, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School

Ingo Ruczinski, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Clarice Weinberg, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH

Brenda Weis, Ph.D., National Insitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/NIH

 

The Workshop Organizing Committee:

Dina N. Paltoo, Ph.D., M.P.H., Committee Chair, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH

Thomas Lehner, Ph.D., M.P.H., National Institute of Mental Health/NIH

Yin Yao, Ph.D., National Institute of Mental Health/NIH

Rebekah Rasooly, Ph.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH

Cashell Jaquish, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH

Gang Zheng, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH

 

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