The Annual General Meeting and 201st Ordinary Meeting of the British Region
of the International Biometric Society will be held on THURSDAY 14TH
NOVEMBER at the ROTHAMSTED CONFERENCE CENTRE at ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH
(formerly IACR Rothamsted), Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, starting at
10:30.
Programme:
GM Crops:
Design and Analysis of the Farm-Scale Evaluations of Genetically Modified
Herbicide-Tolerant Crops (Peter Rothery, Suzanne Clark, Joe Perry)
Understanding the potential impact of GM crops on farmland birds (Andrew
Watkinson)
Young Biometricians:
Models for Yeast Prions (Diana Cole)
A Bayesian approach to assignment problems in population genetics (Kevin
Dawson, Khalid Belkhir)
Assessing uncertainty about parameter estimates with incomplete Repeated
ordinal data (Claudio Verzilli, James Carpenter)
Presidential Address:
Design of Experiments in Biometry: From Example to Theory and Back (Rosemary
Bailey)
The Registration fee for the meeting is £15 for IBS members and £30 for
non-members, and includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
Registration forms must be received by Monday November 4th.
Registration forms and further details can be obtained from the IBS British
Region web-site
at: http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~rab/biometrics/british.html
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