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International Biometric Society - British Region
200th Ordinary Meeting and 2002 Summer Meeting
Visit to Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
(Following the Fisher Memorial Lecture)
The 200th Ordinary Meeting and Summer Meeting of the Region will be held on
Thursday 27th June 2002, starting at 10.30am and finishing by 3.30pm, at the
Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh (address: Roslin Institute, Roslin,
Midlothian EH25 9PS).
This meeting has been arranged to immediately follow the Fisher Memorial
Lecture, details of which are also given below. Advance registration for
both meetings is essential (entry to the Fisher Memorial Lecture is by
ticket only).
Details of both meetings follow, and a registration form is available on the
British Region web site (under Future Meetings):
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~rab/biometrics/british.html
The cost of registration for the meeting at the Roslin Institute is £10 for
International Biometric Society members, and £25 for non-members. Please
note that the number attending the meeting will be limited to 50 people. The
closing date for registration for the meeting is Friday 14th June.
For any queries concerning either part of this meeting please first contact
Dave Waddington at the Roslin Institute (email [log in to unmask],
telephone 0131-527-4458) or Andrew Carothers (email
[log in to unmask], phone 0131-467-8432)
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XXIVth Fisher Memorial Lecture
Wednesday 26th June, 2002 at 5.30pm (tea served from 5pm)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh
The XXIVth Fisher Memorial Lecture will be given by Dr Oliver Mayo, CSIRO
Livestock Industries, Australia. Dr Mayo is a geneticist and biometrician
who has published widely in the fields of human genetics, animal and
plant breeding, and evolution. As a student he was stimulated by personal
contact with Fisher who came to lodge at the Mayo family home when he
emigrated to Australia.
The Realisation of Fisher's Research Programme
To talk of Fisher's work in terms of a "research programme" may seem
anachronistic, yet there were clear directions that he sketched out early
and pursued consistently, whatever particular major problems he might have
been engaged on solving at any one time. An outline of this programme will
be proposed. When Fisher came to live in Australia in 1959, one of his
reasons for relocation was that colleagues, old and new, young and old, were
tilling fields that he had opened up for cultivation. The talk will focus
on a number of people who worked in these fields, and the direction in which
their work took Fisher's concepts. These fields, or plots, will include
field experimentation, inference, linkage analysis, and
self-incompatibility.
200th Ordinary Meeting and Summer Meeting
The meeting will feature talks from staff of the Roslin Institute's
Department of Genetics and Biometry, a look at the Institute's microarray
laboratory and, circumstances permitting, a tour to see some of the
Institute's notable livestock. The Roslin Institute and its precursors have
been at the forefront of breeding and genetics of domestic livestock for 40
years.
The full programme for the day is:
10:30 Registration and coffee
11:00 Welcome
11:10 Steve Bishop - Genetic epidemiology models
11:40 Anthea Springett - Genetic diversity and disease resistance
12:10 Site tour and lunch
14:00 Chris Haley - Mapping quantitative trait loci
14:30 John Woolliams - The unified theory of genetic gain and inbreeding
15:10 Closing remarks, tea and departure
Please note the part of the tour to see the livestock will involve a walk of
about 10 minutes each way, which can be exposed in bad weather, so that you
are advised to bring weatherproof clothing and sensible shoes.
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