Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, Seattle, 2009

Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, Seattle, 2009 - General Information

The 2009 Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics will be held in the South Campus Center of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. June 15 - July 1, 2009.

A map showing this location is can be found here.

The Institute consists of a series of two-and-a-half day workshops designed to introduce geneticists to modern methods of statistical analysis and to introduce statisticians to the statistical challenges posed by modern genetic data. Prerequisites are minimal, and the modular nature of the Institute enables participants to design a program best suited to their backgrounds and interests. Most participants take two or three modules.

Individuals attending the Institute will receive certificates of course completion in recognition of their participation.

In 2009 there will be three concurrent Institutes in Seattle and a European Institute in Liège, Belgium. Details about the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling for Infectious Diseases in Seattle, June 15-July 1; the Summer Institute in Public Health Genomics in Seattle, June 22-26; and the European Institute in Statistical Genetics in Liège, August 31-September 9, are available online via the Summer Institutes website: http://www.biostat.washington.edu/suminst. Registration for all four Institutes is available only online via each Institute’s website. Links to the individual Institutes are listed via the Summer Institutes website: http://www.biostat.washington.edu/suminst.

Lords debate systematics and taxonomy report

26 March 2009

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, Chairman of the Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee on Systematics and Taxonomy, opened the debate on 25 March in the Grand Committee of the House of Lords, on the report by the Committee and the Government's response to the report.

• Lords Hansard: Systematics and Taxonomy (S&TC Reports)
• Report: Systematics and Taxonomy: Follow-up
• Report: Systematics and Taxonomy Follow-up: Government Response
• Parliament News: Committee reassert call for systematic biology support
• House of Lords Science and Technology Committee

Lords Select Committee reports are generally discussed either on the floor of the House (in the Chamber) or in Grand Committee. Any Member of the Lords can take part and a minister responds for the Government. The debate usually takes place once the Government has formally responded to the committee's recommendations.

PhD position in Systematics and Evolution (ancient DNA) at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University

STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY announces a PhD position in Systematics and Evolution (ancient DNA) at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University (placed at the Molecular Systematics Laboratory, the Swedish Museum of Natural History).
Project title: Genetic consequences of environmental change on the evolution and demography of arctic species.

Final date for applications: May 4, 2009.
Further information on the web:
Stockholm University: http://www.su.se

MSL: http://www.nrm.se/en/menu/researchandcollections/departments/molecularsystematics
The Department of Zoology: http://www.zoologi.su.se
A link to the announcement is available here:
http://www.zoologi.su.se/en/lediga-e.php

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