The final programme for the Annual General Meeting and 195th Ordinary
Meeting of the British Region of the International Biometric Society is
attached.
Please note that if you have not yet registered for this meeting, but intend
to have lunch at the Royal Statistical Society during the meeting, then you
must contact the Secretary, Rose Gaines Das, by email ([log in to unmask]) as
soon as possible, and preferably by Thursday 18th November, to ensure that
lunch is ordered for you.
The registration fee (£15 for members, £25 for non-members) covers the cost
of morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
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International Biometric Society, British Region
Annual General Meeting and 195th Ordinary Meeting
One Day Autumn Meeting
Thursday 23rd November 2000
Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Programme
09:30 Registration, Coffee and Poster Set up
10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: Infections and Epidemiology (Chair: Tim
Cole)
David Dunn (MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London)
"Estimating HIV vertical transmission rate and paediatric AIDS incubation
period"
Tony Ades (MRC Health Services Research Collaboration, Bristol)
"Data linkage and data protection in anonymous HIV prevalence surveys"
Rowland Kao (Institute for Animal Health, Compton)
"Mathematical models in epidemiology - recommendations for a scrapie control
programme in the United Kingdom"
12:00 - 12:30 Annual General Meeting (for Biometric Society
Members)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch and Poster Session
1:30-2:30 Presidential address (Chair: Rosemary Bailey)
Tom Kirkwood (University of Newcastle)
"Biometry in the 21st century: opportunities and threats"
2:30-3:30 Session 2: Genomics (Chair: Robert Curnow)
Peter Visscher (University of Edinburgh)
"Mapping quantitative trait loci in simple and complex pedigrees"
Lon Cardon (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford)
"Mapping quantitative trait loci in humans using variance components
methods: advances and obstacles"
3:30-4:00 Presentation of Cedric Smith Poster Prize, Tea
4:00-5:00 Session 3: Population Models (Chair: Andrew Mead)
Dave Skirvin (Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne)
"Mites in a virtual world - models for biological control"
Jan Van Impe (Catholic University, Leuven)
"Modeling mixed microbial populations in foods"
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